Month: July 2015

In the Spring of 2015, Prof. Ford and I prepared two abstracts for the 2015 ACSA Fall Conference (themed “Between the Autonomous & Contingent Object”). The two abstracts were intended to take debating positions about the role of simulation in architecture, and both positions advanced the debate-style organization of the conference. One abstract was named “Simulating Paradoxes.” The other was named “Simulating Criticality.”

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I was an artist presented a few days ago at the Byrdcliffe Open Studios. It was a exciting, loving, and humbling experience.

The premise of my Byrdcliffe Fellowship, and my subsequent work, is that architectural documents are an invaluable resource for forming a cause-oriented non-profit organization. Specifically, architectural products can be used to build a Board of Directors, to advance fundraising objectives, to galvanize volunteers for the mission, and ultimately to win the support of a community.

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For the third time this month, we’ve set the alarm for 4:00 AM, and struck out into the night to catch sunrise atop Overlook Mountain. Most mornings clouds conspired to our East and the sun rose unannounced behind a purple curtain.

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Here’s a little peek at some of the Byrdcliffe-focused research. It is a video of the assembly of a construction model. I’m still tweaking the design of the artist studio… but this model studies how the building might first be fabricated in chuncks off site, and assembled quickly on prepared land. This work involves ideas started in collaborations with SHoP Architects (also introduced in my coursework of ARCH 476) and a close reading of the work of Kieran Timberlake (concerning prefabrication, assembly, trade sets, etc.).