Archives: Projects

Commissioned as a centerfold for the January 2008 issue of Form Magazine, this spread features Liquid Sky, the studio’s winning entry for the 2007 MoMA Young Architects Program. Collaging installation photography over an Alberto Vargas pin-up and a do-it-yourself guide to building a model of the Mylar roof structure, it was distributed to all members of the Los Angeles American Institute of Architects.

Translucent tinted Mylar petals that resembled blossoming flowers of stained glass form a tensioned surface that reconfigures the horizon and immerses visitors in kaleidoscopic pattern of color created by filtered sunlight. Six structural towers support the canopy while providing discrete spaces at their base for relaxing and social interaction on community hammocks.

Designed for the window of Agnes b.’s SoHo store, this installation adapted the scissoring net structure of the studio’s P.S.1 Young Architects Program project into a vertical configuration, forming a large-scale chain-link fence between the street and the store interior. The 390 unique Mylar parts were cut by a computer-controlled system that simultaneously labeled each piece with the Agnes b. logo. A rotating series of posters by designers from around the world appeared weekly in collage, each new addition complementing or obscuring the last.

A canopy installation and event environment made from repurposed t-shirts woven into sports netting, this work formed a gateway through which museum patrons could walk. Garment-related fabrication techniques including patterning, sewing, folding, weaving, and draping were employed to create an ephemeral swirling kaleidoscopic structure.

Created during a workshop with students at the Kunstuniversität Linz, this tensile installation occupies a staircase in a building erected by the Third Reich during World War II. Sports netting and bulk quantities of recycled clothing and sheets form a delicately balanced network overhead, anchored by an enormous egg-shaped wad of clothing that diverts foot traffic on the stairs. Students passing through could walk around it or push it aside like a large punching bag, the egg functioning simultaneously as counterweight and obstacle.

Transforming the gallery into a traversable rolling landscape, this installation extends the casual social terrain of the campus into the gallery space. Visitors are invited to climb, slide, study, or linger within the undulating cardboard terrain, blurring the line between artwork and recreational environment.

A half-block-long wall structure curves like the human body and is constructed from 4,000 layers of corrugated cardboard. Peep-show display windows, inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s Etant Donnes, punctuate the wall with tightly framed compositions of live models wearing Frank Gehry’s jewelry line.

Hovering over a courtyard in the form of a vortex, this outdoor installation is constructed in tinted Mylar resembling stained glass and provides shade while creating a beckoning outdoor room for social interaction and contemplation. During the day, the canopy casts colored fractal light patterns onto the ground while an integrated ambient sound installation rumbles softly underfoot.