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Architectural design; chipboard model @ 1:20 / 18"x24"x3"
A design for a community center serving a church of my own invention, based on virtually infinite scales of community. The building attempts to both merge with the landscape and express the confluence of multiple forces to form a wide variety of multi-purpose spaces for communal use. The site was situated between a new convention center, a new ice skating rink, a hotel, and a parking garage in downtown Springfield, Mo.
steel, plywood, amplifier, cables, speakers, music / dimensions vary
Placemats is a design and situational piece that allows participants to bring all their music to the dinner table as an additional social stimulant. Each place setting has an input to a mixer and amplifier as well as a 6-inch speaker facing them. All four inputs are mixed equally and participants are free to change the volume of their input on their device and no instructions are given as to how to manage the airtime each person gets.
Placemats explores music as social communication, as a major part of one's identity that normally might not be revealed until well into a relationship. Mp3 players now allow us to carry around, in a sense, our identities. How would people manage this additional form of communication in a somewhat formal situation with equality of output?
Placemats was installed in the dining area of the Cranbrook architecture studio and in the Forum Gallery and used by several groups of people. I cooked dinner for all groups and asked them to bring a music player of some sort. One group did not seem to enjoy the situation and found it to be a distraction, while most groups enjoyed the situation and found their own way to interface with the apparatus and each other.
click here to view a video of the first two Placemats participant groups
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| drawn studies |
2005-present |
Drawn design studies for mostly unrealized projects.
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Pencils, tie rod ends, sets screws, threaded rod, table, tape, paper; dimensions vary.
Prototype for a cart that attaches to standard bicycle and transforms into small performance platform. Steel, bicycle, wood; dimensions vary.
| Aalto transformation boxes |
2007 |
Collaboration with Yuji Hsiao; Series of nesting lasercut plywood boxes which morph from square on the outside to the classic Aalto vase shape on the inside.
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| travel drawings |
2001-present |
Drawings done primarily while traveling in Europe. The last two were done at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Various fabrics, dimensions vary.
| Knitting |
2008 - present |
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