TORUS UP/DOWN

Location: Westchester, NY

Client: ArtsWestchester (competition)

Program: Art Installation

Materials: Stainless steel tubing, mill-finish aluminum sheet

Year: 2016

An installation proposed in collaboration with artist and mathematician London Tsai for the Westchester, NY City Center Mall, Torus Up/Down interrogates the mathematical description of a torus by slicing it into distinct topological phases. The installation incorporated a lightweight stainless steel framework clad in shaped mill-finish aluminum.

STRATEGIES FOR IMAGINING DISTANT STARS

Location: Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYC

Client: Williamsburg Art Nexus (WaX)

Materials: Cardboard, Mylar

Year: 2003

Strategies for Imagining Distant Stars was a site-specific installation exploring the nature of distant light, the quality of light as rays of light approach parallel to each other. It consisted of a single lamp and a 10ft-diameter cardboard and mylar reflector.

BUBBLE CANOPY

Location: Queens, NYC

Client: Socrates Sculpture Park (competition)

Materials: Sunbrella fabric, CNC-formed stainless steel wire, aluminum tubing

Program: Installation

For the Socrates Sculpture Park’s 2017 Folly competition, we proposed a configurable, modular umbrella that could be zipped together into clusters to produce larger covered areas. Rather than the traditional delicate umbrella, we explored making our umbrella out stainless wire formed with a CNC wire-bender into a continuous spiral.

SUKKAH CITY

Location: New York City, various

Client: Sukkah City (competition)

Materials: Epoxy, wood

Program: Installation

For the inaugural “Sukkah City” competition, which asked designers to create a temporary sukkah, or traditional enclosure for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, for installation in locations around New York City, we proposed a lightweight wood-epoxy composite framework which could be used in two configurations. The vertical mode created an intimate dining space for two people; the horizontal mode provides bench seating and space for a group. The frame is built using a lightweight boatbuilding technique called “strip building”, in which thin strips of cedar are glued together over a form. When covered in a thin layer of fiberglass, the frame becomes a lightweight composite. This framework is covered with S’chach, or loose branches traditionally used to cover the sukkah.