MIXER
Client: Henry Urbach Gallery
Project Type: Art Installation
Structural Consultant: ARUP
Completed: 2000
Acquired by: Guggenheim Museum Permanent Collection
Mixer transforms a steel cement mixer into a 21st century media cocoon suitable for lounging, viewing, and dreaming. Fitted with 12” monitors connected to a variety of audio/video inputs (surveillance cameras, satellite TV/DVD player, PlayStation 2), Mixer provides a plush, intimate environment animated by multiple channels of information and media. Pivoting on its central axis, Mixer offers, in the spirit of a DJ mixing booth, a space for one or few people to select, sample, and mix sound and imagery to suit individual fantasies.
Project Type: Art Installation
Structural Consultant: ARUP
Completed: 2000
Acquired by: Guggenheim Museum Permanent Collection
Mixer transforms a steel cement mixer into a 21st century media cocoon suitable for lounging, viewing, and dreaming. Fitted with 12” monitors connected to a variety of audio/video inputs (surveillance cameras, satellite TV/DVD player, PlayStation 2), Mixer provides a plush, intimate environment animated by multiple channels of information and media. Pivoting on its central axis, Mixer offers, in the spirit of a DJ mixing booth, a space for one or few people to select, sample, and mix sound and imagery to suit individual fantasies.
SINK-WALL
Client: Edizioni Press
Completed: 2000
Size: 8’6x6’x1’deep / each
Location: Chelsea, NYC
Consultants: Fabrication: UAF/Marc Ganzglass
Photography: Danny Bright
Two large pivoting panels are composed by assembling 12"-deep stainless steel kitchen sinks to serve as a Storage/Display/Divider System. Hinged on a central pivot, the panels are used to outline three different areas within the office of a publishing company - a conference room in the center with offices on either side. The SINK-WALLS rotate to divide or connect the spaces while they also function as storage and display units for the company’s publications. The back of each panel is coated with orange automotive high-gloss paint and finished with a layer of clear rubber. Air, light and visual connections are granted by the presence of the drainage holes located at the center of each stainless steel sinks.
Completed: 2000
Size: 8’6x6’x1’deep / each
Location: Chelsea, NYC
Consultants: Fabrication: UAF/Marc Ganzglass
Photography: Danny Bright
Two large pivoting panels are composed by assembling 12"-deep stainless steel kitchen sinks to serve as a Storage/Display/Divider System. Hinged on a central pivot, the panels are used to outline three different areas within the office of a publishing company - a conference room in the center with offices on either side. The SINK-WALLS rotate to divide or connect the spaces while they also function as storage and display units for the company’s publications. The back of each panel is coated with orange automotive high-gloss paint and finished with a layer of clear rubber. Air, light and visual connections are granted by the presence of the drainage holes located at the center of each stainless steel sinks.
COLORED ICED WALL
Client: The Snow Show (Commission)
Project Type: Art Installation
Completed: 2004
Location: Kemi, Finland
Ingredients: Water, red dye, 120cm x 270cm concrete forms, rebars, fluorescent tubes. Pick a very cold location (Lapland). Clear up a piece of land 35x10m. Build 2 parallel forms 25m long and 2.70m apart. Wait until the temperature drops to about –27°. Mix water with just enough dye to give it the right color (not too much or the walls will be opaque). Pour water-dye mix in 30cm-high layers from top of mold. Make sure each layer is completely frozen before you pour the next. Once you reach the top layer, lay rebars between the walls. Let top layer freeze w/ rebars in it. Take down mold. Retain some forms to display process. Once the forms are removed, use part of them to create a wandering path through the space between the walls. Stand the forms in-between the walls attaching their bottom to the ground and their top to the upper rebars. Starting at one end, place the forms parallel to the walls. As you proceed, start turning them randomly till they are perpendicular to the walls. Attach fluorescent tubes to some of the forms. Turn the lights on. Enjoy the space within the walls and their red glare.
Project Type: Art Installation
Completed: 2004
Location: Kemi, Finland
Ingredients: Water, red dye, 120cm x 270cm concrete forms, rebars, fluorescent tubes. Pick a very cold location (Lapland). Clear up a piece of land 35x10m. Build 2 parallel forms 25m long and 2.70m apart. Wait until the temperature drops to about –27°. Mix water with just enough dye to give it the right color (not too much or the walls will be opaque). Pour water-dye mix in 30cm-high layers from top of mold. Make sure each layer is completely frozen before you pour the next. Once you reach the top layer, lay rebars between the walls. Let top layer freeze w/ rebars in it. Take down mold. Retain some forms to display process. Once the forms are removed, use part of them to create a wandering path through the space between the walls. Stand the forms in-between the walls attaching their bottom to the ground and their top to the upper rebars. Starting at one end, place the forms parallel to the walls. As you proceed, start turning them randomly till they are perpendicular to the walls. Attach fluorescent tubes to some of the forms. Turn the lights on. Enjoy the space within the walls and their red glare.
LITE-GATE
Client: Tom Healy and Fred Hochberg (Commission)
Project Type: Art Installation
Completed: 2001
Location: NYC
An illumination and surveillance device marks the narrow corridor connecting two previously separate apartments. It recreates the experience of passing through a metal-detector, and acts as a luminous buffer between the outside world and the privacy of a home. Four clear resin panels are stacked and attached to the corridor’s walls, two on either side. The panels are cast using a plastic shipping pallet as the mold. Six neon tubes and one surveillance camera are embedded in the cast of each panel. They illuminate and survey the passage of people through the corridor as they enter the apartment. Images from the camera are displayed on four fl at-screen monitors affixed to the living room wall. The body passing through the corridor is broken up and recomposed in four views: lower left, upper left, lower right, upper right.
Project Type: Art Installation
Completed: 2001
Location: NYC
An illumination and surveillance device marks the narrow corridor connecting two previously separate apartments. It recreates the experience of passing through a metal-detector, and acts as a luminous buffer between the outside world and the privacy of a home. Four clear resin panels are stacked and attached to the corridor’s walls, two on either side. The panels are cast using a plastic shipping pallet as the mold. Six neon tubes and one surveillance camera are embedded in the cast of each panel. They illuminate and survey the passage of people through the corridor as they enter the apartment. Images from the camera are displayed on four fl at-screen monitors affixed to the living room wall. The body passing through the corridor is broken up and recomposed in four views: lower left, upper left, lower right, upper right.
INSPIRO-TAINER
Client: MoMA (Commission)
Project Type: Art Installation
Completion: 2001
Location: NYC
An airplane cargo container (LD3) is transformed into an individual workstation that blurs the boundaries between work/play, activity/relaxation, isolation/communication, meditation/entertainment. The container is conceived as a modular and moveable unit that can provide complete isolation or be combined to allow team work. Its top/front portion opens up to connect to more Inspiro-Tainers and create a meeting room. Inside, the container is fitted with a moveable seat and desk that allow the user’s body to go from a lounging/reclining position to an upright position. Both seat and top are operated by hydraulic pistons connected to two separate hydraulic pumps installed on the back of the container. The Inspiro-Tainer is an incubator for ideas. It is equipped with computer, flat screen monitor, stereo DVD/CD player, surround sound speakers, CD projector and retractable screen, reading lights and ventilation fans. All inside surfaces are lined with convoluted foam used both as padding and acoustic insulation. All technologies and mechanisms are operated by a touch screen panel through which the user can easily activate and select preferred configurations.
Project Type: Art Installation
Completion: 2001
Location: NYC
An airplane cargo container (LD3) is transformed into an individual workstation that blurs the boundaries between work/play, activity/relaxation, isolation/communication, meditation/entertainment. The container is conceived as a modular and moveable unit that can provide complete isolation or be combined to allow team work. Its top/front portion opens up to connect to more Inspiro-Tainers and create a meeting room. Inside, the container is fitted with a moveable seat and desk that allow the user’s body to go from a lounging/reclining position to an upright position. Both seat and top are operated by hydraulic pistons connected to two separate hydraulic pumps installed on the back of the container. The Inspiro-Tainer is an incubator for ideas. It is equipped with computer, flat screen monitor, stereo DVD/CD player, surround sound speakers, CD projector and retractable screen, reading lights and ventilation fans. All inside surfaces are lined with convoluted foam used both as padding and acoustic insulation. All technologies and mechanisms are operated by a touch screen panel through which the user can easily activate and select preferred configurations.
SOUND-CHANNEL
roject Type: Exhibition Design
Commission: Whitney Museum
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Size: 1,000SF
Design: 2001
Completion: 2001
Photography: Danny Bright
SOUND-CHANNEL is a listening "channel" in which visitors can relax by leaning against a diagonal foam wall while enjoying 25 different sound pieces selected for the BitStreams exhibit. Each piece is accessible on its own set of headphones connected to a dedicated CD player. The players are inserted in an exposed-metal-stud wall frame parallel to the leaning foam wall. 50 fluorescent tubes, wrapped in dark blue gels, are attached to this wall frame, which is wrapped with clear plastic tarp. The fluorescent tubes are activated by sensors that are obstructed when visitors lean against the foam wall. From outside the installation, within the exhibition lobby, visitors are partially visible as they lean and listen, creating a long row of bodies and gaps that, together with the rhythm of on/off fluorescent tubes, echo the sequence of ones and zeros that constitute a "bit stream." Fluorescent yellow tape on the floor leads visitors to marked listening stations.
Commission: Whitney Museum
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Size: 1,000SF
Design: 2001
Completion: 2001
Photography: Danny Bright
SOUND-CHANNEL is a listening "channel" in which visitors can relax by leaning against a diagonal foam wall while enjoying 25 different sound pieces selected for the BitStreams exhibit. Each piece is accessible on its own set of headphones connected to a dedicated CD player. The players are inserted in an exposed-metal-stud wall frame parallel to the leaning foam wall. 50 fluorescent tubes, wrapped in dark blue gels, are attached to this wall frame, which is wrapped with clear plastic tarp. The fluorescent tubes are activated by sensors that are obstructed when visitors lean against the foam wall. From outside the installation, within the exhibition lobby, visitors are partially visible as they lean and listen, creating a long row of bodies and gaps that, together with the rhythm of on/off fluorescent tubes, echo the sequence of ones and zeros that constitute a "bit stream." Fluorescent yellow tape on the floor leads visitors to marked listening stations.
FASHIONLAB 2000
Client: Fashionlab
Project Type: Installation: Fashion Exhibition
Location: Dumbo, Brooklyn
Size: 10,000 sqft
Completed: 2000
Photography: LOT-EK
Inside a vast warehouse floor, blue shrink-wrap is stretched between couples of columns in a diagonal random pattern. Fluorescent tubes, attached to the columns, diffuse a dense blue light through the colored shrink wrap. Fluorescent orange lines on the floor guide the visitor through the resulting labyrinth.
Project Type: Installation: Fashion Exhibition
Location: Dumbo, Brooklyn
Size: 10,000 sqft
Completed: 2000
Photography: LOT-EK
Inside a vast warehouse floor, blue shrink-wrap is stretched between couples of columns in a diagonal random pattern. Fluorescent tubes, attached to the columns, diffuse a dense blue light through the colored shrink wrap. Fluorescent orange lines on the floor guide the visitor through the resulting labyrinth.
LITE-SCAPES
Project Type: Light Fixtures
Design: 2002
Neon tubes cast in resin, using discarded vacuum form packaging as the mold, form the basis for a series of atmospheric light fixtures. The linear tubes penetrate and illuminate the resin, presenting the cast forms of each fixture as a unique object. Developed as a series, the neon tubes register a barcode-like pattern of light within the random forms. Details of each object are shown in positive relief against the resin. The LITE-SCAPES series was created especially for the Henry Urbach Architecture’s end-of-year show in 2001. The objects are currently in the permanent collection of SFMOMA, as well as owned by private collectors such as Fred Hochberg and Tom Healy, Sherri Wolf, and others.
Design: 2002
Neon tubes cast in resin, using discarded vacuum form packaging as the mold, form the basis for a series of atmospheric light fixtures. The linear tubes penetrate and illuminate the resin, presenting the cast forms of each fixture as a unique object. Developed as a series, the neon tubes register a barcode-like pattern of light within the random forms. Details of each object are shown in positive relief against the resin. The LITE-SCAPES series was created especially for the Henry Urbach Architecture’s end-of-year show in 2001. The objects are currently in the permanent collection of SFMOMA, as well as owned by private collectors such as Fred Hochberg and Tom Healy, Sherri Wolf, and others.
GREEN ENERGY PROJECT
Client: Interni Magazine
Project Type: Art Installation
Completed: Salone Mobile 2008
Location: Ca' Granda - Milan
This installation in the Ca Granda courtyard of the University of Milano is a green-energy Gel Bulb, a floating, glowing soft structure lit by LED and powered by solar panels. The bulb is a cube lifted off the ground, supported by a scaffold and attached to the historic building, a luminous intruder or parasite within the old courtyard. Entering from below, the experience of the viewer is through walking and touching the soft surfaces of the cube, completely lined with soft blue gel, and through the blue environment.
Project Type: Art Installation
Completed: Salone Mobile 2008
Location: Ca' Granda - Milan
This installation in the Ca Granda courtyard of the University of Milano is a green-energy Gel Bulb, a floating, glowing soft structure lit by LED and powered by solar panels. The bulb is a cube lifted off the ground, supported by a scaffold and attached to the historic building, a luminous intruder or parasite within the old courtyard. Entering from below, the experience of the viewer is through walking and touching the soft surfaces of the cube, completely lined with soft blue gel, and through the blue environment.
TV-TANK
Client: Deitch Projects & Henry Urbach Gallery
Project Type: Art Installation
Completion: 1998
Location: New York
Size: 1,000 SF
Photography: Paul Warchol
TV-TANK transforms a petroleum trailer tank into a set of floating section suitable for lounging and watching television. The 35 foot long aluminum tank is sliced into eight rings. Each module is lined with rubber tubing and equipped with 26” flat screen televisions. Viewers lounge in the privacy of single or double sections, while experiencing the once-hidden interior of the entire oil tank, animated by the flicker of t
Project Type: Art Installation
Completion: 1998
Location: New York
Size: 1,000 SF
Photography: Paul Warchol
TV-TANK transforms a petroleum trailer tank into a set of floating section suitable for lounging and watching television. The 35 foot long aluminum tank is sliced into eight rings. Each module is lined with rubber tubing and equipped with 26” flat screen televisions. Viewers lounge in the privacy of single or double sections, while experiencing the once-hidden interior of the entire oil tank, animated by the flicker of t
THEATRE FOR ONE
Client: Christine Jones
Building Type: Mobile Theater
Size: 30 SF
Completed: 2007
Exhibited in: Princeton University, Julliard School of Music, NYIT, Times Square
Photography: Danny Bright
Conceived by theater set designer Christine Jones and developed in its architecture form by LOT-EK, Theater for One is a theater for one actor and one audience member. Inspired by small one-to-one spaces - such as the confessional or the sex peep-booth - Theater for One explores the intense emotion of live theater through the direct and intimate one-to-one interaction of actor and audience. Theater for One uses the ‘road-box’ technology to configure a system where connected and detachable units form the theater black box, allowing for continuous transformability, interchangeability and expansion. The audience sitting area, referencing the iconography of baroque theaters and opera houses, is lined with red padded velvet and incorporates a peep-booth chair with stereo speakers and pay buttons. The actor unit is left raw to be transformed according to the play. Its background is a flexible plug-in system where different sets can be exchanged depending on the play requirements. A small plug-in box at the top holds lights and special effects, including rain and snow.
Building Type: Mobile Theater
Size: 30 SF
Completed: 2007
Exhibited in: Princeton University, Julliard School of Music, NYIT, Times Square
Photography: Danny Bright
Conceived by theater set designer Christine Jones and developed in its architecture form by LOT-EK, Theater for One is a theater for one actor and one audience member. Inspired by small one-to-one spaces - such as the confessional or the sex peep-booth - Theater for One explores the intense emotion of live theater through the direct and intimate one-to-one interaction of actor and audience. Theater for One uses the ‘road-box’ technology to configure a system where connected and detachable units form the theater black box, allowing for continuous transformability, interchangeability and expansion. The audience sitting area, referencing the iconography of baroque theaters and opera houses, is lined with red padded velvet and incorporates a peep-booth chair with stereo speakers and pay buttons. The actor unit is left raw to be transformed according to the play. Its background is a flexible plug-in system where different sets can be exchanged depending on the play requirements. A small plug-in box at the top holds lights and special effects, including rain and snow.