Them portfolio research

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 PROJECT

Vestaconvivial event (communal cooking)Michigan (2001)

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.

BAMBOO & FIBER

Collapsible Dome (2003)

Prototype (2003)Bamboo grid shell structure

Pin-wheel connectorsBamboo grid shell structure

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).

UNIT SYSTEMS

A personal history of brickon-going research

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

PrototypeGate for Scripps Park, Detroit (1994)

SketchGate for Scripps Park , Detroit (1994)

performanceParadise is a shopping mall (1994)

Caraffa Museum, Argentina

PrototypeDome with tapered bricks (1996)

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