a place of making
The Malleablists (members of the Archiprix International team Malleable Manhattan, lead by Brandon Clifford) have been selected to present their manifesto at the Center for Architecture this Friday, June 8th at 4:30 pm. The Malleablists movement is dedicated to re-imagining the role of the architect in an ever changing society.
(top) rendering by Melanie Hammer | (bottom) detail by Rodrigo Rodrigo García González
This installation is an experiment into rapidly customizable and constructable making. CNC robotically hotwire cut foam building blocks are strung together with cables. These cables are tied off to a foundation and tensioned together to erect the enclosure.
Periscop: Foam Tower has been presented and published at Fabricate 2011 — a digital fabrication conference. ‘FABRICATE: Making Digital Architecture’ , is now available to the public.
The Ply Shelves have been nominated for a ‘Best of Year’ award with Interior Design Magazine. The nominee with the most votes wins the award. Feel free to cast your own vote and help us out, or pass this along to your friends if you like.
We hope you like the shelves. This is a collaboration with C.W. Keller Furniture
As part of the research for the Princeton Envelope Group, this envelope was developed in pursuit of an envelope as atmosphere. As opposed to considering the envelope as a hermetic seal, this facade breaths, conditions, and cleans. This specific prototype is for the American Apparel factory building in Los Angeles. Because of the client has an abundance of material and knowledge in fabric, this facade was designed to be fabricated in house, and cast in place with concrete. The thermal mass of this concrete (in conjunction with the designed geometry) cools the air during the warm days in LA.
A special thanks to Dave Pigram for his tutorial.
To see more visit the Atmosphere page.
Matter has been selected to present Periscope at the Input-Output Symposium. The symposium will be held at the Temple University Tyler School of Art on October 8 2010. In addition, both the Drawn Dress project and Periscope will be exhibited from October 6 — 16.
Periscope is the winning entry in the 10up international competition. The competition brief requested a temporary installation to act as signage for the Modern Atlanta Event that could be installed in 24 hours in a plot 10’x10’ and for less than $5,000. Matter in collaboration with Dave Pigram of Supermanoeuvre and Matt Johnson of SGH proposed to build a 50′ tall foam tower. The tower went up in only 6 hours with the aid of Tierson Boutte of Boutte Tree.
Robotic Fabrication support donated by the FabLab at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
For more information about Pericsope see the project page.
Periscope is nearing completion and will be erected in Atlanta May 28th.
A special thanks to the fabrication team for all of your hard work. — Maciej Kaczynski, Johanna Lobdell, Deniz McGee, and Kris Walters.
Periscope has been selected as the winning entry in the 10Up Competition. Fabrication (Robotic Hot-wire) has begun in preparation of the June 1st installation date. The proposed design is a 50 ft tall tower. Come join us for the opening ceremonies.
This project is a collaboration with Dave Pigram of Supermanoeuvre and Matthew Johnson of SGH. Thanks to Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning for fabrication support.
