Looking Out Week 15 Madhura Kharche

This project is called Porosity and it experiments with surfaces that have random degrees of porosities in varying scales. The design is based on how recursive porosity employs mathematical strategies to generate infinitely complex patterns. The lightweight, self supporting structure is designed digitally and fabricated using CNC mills and laser cutters. The use of flat sheet material allows the designers to bend, shape, cut, or ship the material as they like. 

Looking Out Week 14 Madhura Kharche

The Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The building that it is situated in is an example of Brutalist Architecture. The concert hall was renovated by Diller Scofidio and Renfro and now has new interiors that use materials, technologies and equipment that best suit the showing of films, dances and other performances. 

Looking Out Week 13 Madhura Kharche

syn chron is a sculpture made by Carsten Nicolai in 2004. It is a sculpture that explores light, sound and architecture through its polygonal form. It has a translucent skin on some of its faces that allows the play of light and sound. Laser beams that are transmitted onto the surface of this shape heighten the experience of being in this structure. The structure truly plays on all the human senses to form a holistic architectural experience for visitors.

Looking Out Week 12 Madhura Kharche

Woodskin is a very dynamic design created as a submission made to open source design competition, Autoprogettazione 2.0. The designers were looking for a solution that would fulfill their need to create complex shapes, maybe even flexible walls or claddings. The idea was to have a skin that would adapt to any structure. This would allow designers to focus on the design of the structure because the cladding would perfectly fit it. The material is currently being used in different parts of the world as an innovative option for flexible walls or cladding.

Carter Nelson: Looking Out Week 15

This fabricated wood seating arrangement created by graduate students from Columbia is an interactive system inspired by Slinkies and reverberating see-saws. The final product dubbed Polymorphic uses CNC-cut plywood and a pivot and bolt system to accomplish its functional and aesthetic goals.

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Looking Out Week 11 Madhura Kharche

This design for a new cathedral in Strasbourg, France is a monumental one because of its scale and and the nature of its materials. The structure is made up of a series of unfolded concrete arches that create majestic volumes of light for the interior spaces. The floor plan of the building is an abstraction of traditional Gothic Cathedral, composed in the form of a Latin cross. The scale of the project heightens the massive nature of the building that comes from its heavy material.

Looking Out Week 10 Madhura Kharche

The Valley Performing Arts Center in Southern California's San Fernando Valley has theater spaces that fulfill visual and acoustic requirements of an ideal theater. The interior walls of these theater spaces have concave profiles that allow sound waved to bounce off of them in a way that optimizes the amplification of sound for the audience. The height of the ceiling and the materials in the interior further influence this acoustic quality of the theater.

Looking Out Week 9 Madhura Kharche

This is the Paris Concert Hall design. The building is designed with the goal of capturing views of the surrounding context in Paris and allowing people to experience various visual connections to this beautiful city. The relationship of the vertical circulation within this building to the increasingly interesting views of the Eiffel Tower was an important aspect for the designers. The fabrication of the shapes of the walls and their physical qualities has a great impact on how these would perform acoustically while a concert or performance is in session.

Looking Out Week 8 Madhura Kharche

This is the design for the Inverted Pyramid Museum. The main concept of the design is to have an inverted pyramid shaped structure that increases in size as it goes up, and clears out space on the main level for a park to grow. The gravity defying structure makes an interesting sight on account of its symmetry and glass exteriors that reflect the light onto the water basins around the architecture.

Danielle Lehmann: Looking Out Week 15

Organoid Technology has developed a new acoustic wall paneling system. The panels, about one and a half feet by three feet in size, are made from hemp and wood chips/scraps. These panels can be used on walls, on ceilings, for furniture and murals. The word "murals" was surprising for just a second, until I found the many different ways in which one could change the texture/waves in the panels and how one could add leaves or grasses to create an "artwork" piece rather than just a wall panel. This is a great way to create organic panels that function acoustically, aesthetically and environmentally.

Yasmeen Almuhanna: Looking Out, Week 15

Blue Frog Acoustic Lounge

Serie architects.

This project is not about acoustics per se, however the restaurant's layout consists of large cylindrical booths that stagger to afford uninterrupted views of the stage. The architects basically collapsed a theater, restaurant, bar and club in one space. 

 

Liz Dolinar: Looking Out Week 14

This is the interior of the Albert Reichmuth Wine Store in Zurich. It was designed by OOS Architects and is constructed from wooden transport crates that hold the wine bottles. The interior consists of 1500 of these crates which create a system for displaying and storing the wine and even seating for guests. The push and pull of the crates on the wall creates a very visually dynamic space, which engages visitors with the open display of products, as well as creating interesting conditions where the boxes continue on the ceiling and floor (to create seats/benches). The architects claim that the crates create a "cave-like environment," but I disagree. I think that the result of the blended architecture, furniture, and display case is playful, light, open, and engaging.