Father teaches his son how to build a domeParadise is a shopping mall, performance (1994). Caraffa Museum, Argentina
CONTENTS
1) CRANBROOK FESTIVAL PROJECT
2) BAMBOO & FIBER
3) UNIT SYSTEMS
Globos: space tracingconvivial event (paper lanterns launching)Cordoba, Argentina (1998)
CRANBROOK FESTIVAL PROJECTCRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART (CAA)BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI (2004)
(with Harry Giles Structural Design)
For CAA Summer Music & Dance Festival.
STAGE CANOPY: demontable pop-up steel structure and translucent PVDF structural fabric.
study modelstudy model (clay)
Pavillions shape generated by butt-joining curved panels.
Sponsor’s Pavillionsfull scale study
Argentinian weaversworking on curved panels
Festival structures also include sponsor’s pavillions (brellas) made from recycled PET soda battles, with demountable internal steel frame (13’ dia.), woven by rural community in Argentina.
Argentinean Partners : Copacabana Weavers and architects Pablo Capita-nelli, Diego Dragotto and Alejandro Romanutti.
Papel Prensa (on-going).Social technology project Rosario & Cordoba, Argentina
Proposal for the development and empowering of a disfran-chised urban community of informal paper scavengers .
Partners: “La Constructora” Coop. Avina Foundation
(next page)paper panel profi le studies
Papel Prensa project
Barrio Toba. Rosario, Argentina
(previous page)Connector studies
PrototypesBamboo Frame House (with lap connectors)
Nothe: this research to be integrated with Papel Pren-sa (see previous spread).
Pheasantry Garden Competition, Prague (1997)(w/Dagmar Frinta)Details
Pheasantry Garden Competition, Prague (1997)(w/Dagmar Frinta)Paving plan
Masonry Units, full scale prototypesMenilmontant Apartment Building
Paris (1996)
Garden Court ElevationMenilmontant Apartment Building, Paris (1996)
Masonry units, full scale prototypesHigh School & Community College ProposalBushwick, Brooklyn (1992)
Masonry units, full scale prototypesHousing ProposalComillas, Spain (1997)
Masonry Unit, full scale prototypeTosco Brick landscape proposalEKWC, The Netherlands (2000)
Study Model (field)Tosco Brick landscape proposalEKWC, The Netherlands (2000)
Study model/collageTosco Brick landscape proposal
Conceptual planTosco Brick landscape proposal
Temporary structure.Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan (1997)Collaborators: Cranbrook Arch. Deparment students
performanceParadise is a shopping mall (1994)
Caraffa Museum, Argentina
PrototypeDome with tapered bricks (1996)
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