http://www.nathanrich.org nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:28:05 +0000 http://www.nathanrich.org en http://nathanrich.org/Dataposts http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Dataposts Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:28:05 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1760119 with Nicholas McDermott and Ben Smoot Dataposts was our entry to the WPA 2.0 design compeition. check out our work in the Select Design Proposals http://nathanrich.org/Brooklyn-Infill http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Brooklyn-Infill Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:49:46 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1741236 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1741236/11.04.26_facade.gif" width="670" height="402" width_o="2048" height_o="1229" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1741236/11.04.26_facade_o.gif" data-mid="9128103" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1741236/11.07.17_Strong Place Drawing.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1741236/11.07.17_Strong Place Drawing_o.jpg" data-mid="8566675" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1741236/11.04.25_Boston Mansard.jpg" width="670" height="1120" width_o="1952" height_o="3264" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1741236/11.04.25_Boston Mansard_o.jpg" data-mid="8565620" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1741236/11.05.23_gowanus bridge.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1741236/11.05.23_gowanus bridge_o.jpg" data-mid="8565635" border="0" align="left"/> http://nathanrich.org/Objects http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Objects Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:10:56 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1653127 http://nathanrich.org/Foliated-Screen http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Foliated-Screen Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:31:21 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1652966 The screen is made from 3-axis CNC milled cedar boards set in front of a 3’ x 12’ window. The boards are layed out with a spacing pattern that is echoed in the fencing and roof eaves, harmonizing the screen with other parts of the house. Cuts in the boards collectively resemble silhouetted branches of the Silver Maple tree in the backyard, reinforcing the importance of this tree to the overall design concept. The screen faces South and protects a double height space inside the house from solar overheating. When hit with direct light, the screen casts shadows throughout the interior space.<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/screen sketch july 2006.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="2048" height_o="1640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/screen sketch july 2006_o.jpg" data-mid="8566978" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/IMG_6688.JPG" width="670" height="397" width_o="2048" height_o="1214" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/IMG_6688_o.JPG" data-mid="8562578" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/SCREEN DRAWINGS.jpg" width="670" height="563" width_o="2048" height_o="1723" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/SCREEN DRAWINGS_o.jpg" data-mid="8567157" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/model shot.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/model shot_o.jpg" data-mid="8566849" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/IMG_5156.JPG" width="670" height="1005" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/IMG_5156_o.JPG" data-mid="8562555" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/IMG_6617.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/IMG_6617_o.JPG" data-mid="8562575" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/screen night shot.jpg" width="670" height="859" width_o="2048" height_o="2628" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/screen night shot_o.jpg" data-mid="8562657" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/shadows.jpg" width="670" height="493" width_o="2048" height_o="1508" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1652966/shadows_o.jpg" data-mid="8566856" border="0" align="left"/> http://nathanrich.org/Jue-Dui-Tiao-Zhan http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Jue-Dui-Tiao-Zhan Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:55:57 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1652345 " "" " http://nathanrich.org/Enforme-Wall http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Enforme-Wall Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:29:56 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1633302 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/deformation sketches.jpg" width="670" height="274" width_o="1440" height_o="591" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/deformation sketches_o.jpg" data-mid="8402097" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/study models 2.jpg" width="670" height="570" width_o="2048" height_o="1745" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/study models 2_o.jpg" data-mid="8402533" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/wall-deformations-board_web.gif" width="670" height="297" width_o="2048" height_o="909" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/wall-deformations-board_web_o.gif" data-mid="8596084" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/axons-two-states.gif" width="670" height="447" width_o="2048" height_o="1369" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/axons-two-states_o.gif" data-mid="8596042" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/shoe wall model_wide.jpg" width="670" height="510" width_o="1296" height_o="988" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1633302/shoe wall model_wide_o.jpg" data-mid="8402208" border="0" align="left"/> The wall is a series of hinged boxes, suspended along steel cables. Shoe boxes fit into the hinged boxes, preventing them from collapsing and forming a consistent, gridded wall that when full is always the same. As shoes are sold, however, the wall begins to collapse. Boxes collapse into each other forming infinite combinations of triangles and hexagons. The full wall is rational, consistent, and stable. The process of commerce causes instability and unpredictable forms. http://nathanrich.org/Made-in-Brooklyn-Bridges-for-Local-Artisans-and-Industry http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Made-in-Brooklyn-Bridges-for-Local-Artisans-and-Industry Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:55:29 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1627479 Miriam and I are runners up in the Gowanus Lowline Competition. See our proposal on the Competition Website and at Inhabitat and at the SET Gallery until Oct 1. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627479/final bridge render.jpg" width="670" height="457" width_o="1440" height_o="984" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627479/final bridge render_o.jpg" data-mid="10500004" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627479/BRIDGE RENDER.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627479/BRIDGE RENDER_o.jpg" data-mid="10500020" border="0" align="left"/> Formerly a hub for Brooklyn's maritime and commercial shipping activity, industry around the Gowanus Canal has shifted focus in the past decade. Buildings once housing tanneries, mills and gas refineries have been appropriated by lively and creative Brooklyners: artists, craftsmen, and designers whose work responds to a surging desire for locally produced, hand crafted goods. It is fitting that these new artisans are collecting around the canal - a piece of infrastructure that was built to enable commerce. And although the neighborhood's abundant manufacturing space and convenient location continue to serve this purpose, the canal itself has become an impediment to it. The Gowanus at current is at the terminus of a series of dead end streets sandwiched between two vibrant neighborhoods -- Park Slope to the East, and Carroll Gardens to the West. Both neighborhoods are anchored by busy, North/South commercial streets: 5th and 7th avenues, Smith Street, and Court Street. By establishing East/West connections through the Gowanus, we knit together the major thoroughfares of Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, bridging these two neighborhoods with new commercial spines. In addition to providing avenues for traffic and pedestrians, these bridges have densely layered program that reflects existing commercial streets but that is specific to the industrial nature of the Gowanus. They therefore act as carriers of the commercial fabric of the North/South spines through the manufacturing district around the canal. The result is a hybrid structure, designed specifically for 'Made in Brooklyn' commerce. The bridge takes on multiple scales and meanings: - Bridging neighborhoods through commercial streets while maintaining and fostering the growth of new local industries. - Bridging different building types through row house transfiguration: embedding flexibility to adapt to new program and spatial needs over time. - Bridging production and commerce; a manufacturing past and a commercial present. - Bridging different landscapes; the city street above and the green pathway below that traces the canal's edge. Brooklyners are proud of their brownstone-lined streets and the fruits of their creativity. A premium on "Made in Brooklyn" goods is a quickly growing trend. This proposal creates a unique urban condition that enables manufacturing and commerce to coexist. The result is a hybrid structure that both enlivens life around the canal and stitches together disparate neighborhoods, respecting its industrial past while envisioning a continually evolving future. http://nathanrich.org/Dialogue-Center http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Dialogue-Center Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:52:46 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1627681 http://nathanrich.org/Slow-Painting http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/Slow-Painting Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:33:16 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1627587 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Water_3.jpg" width="670" height="660" width_o="1722" height_o="1698" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Water_3_o.jpg" data-mid="7978678" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Water 1.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Water 1_o.jpg" data-mid="7978667" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Scan159.jpg" width="670" height="333" width_o="1372" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Scan159_o.jpg" data-mid="7978658" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Scan158.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="790" height_o="790" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Scan158_o.jpg" data-mid="7978653" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Scan157.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="796" height_o="796" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Scan157_o.jpg" data-mid="7978647" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/kites2web.jpg" width="648" height="322" width_o="648" height_o="322" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/kites2web_o.jpg" data-mid="7978638" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/gary birds.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="1394" height_o="1394" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/gary birds_o.jpg" data-mid="8006657" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Amman.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="859" height_o="859" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627587/Amman_o.jpg" data-mid="8006802" border="0" align="left"/> http://nathanrich.org/SEZ-Airport http://nathanrich.org/following/nathanrich.org/SEZ-Airport Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:20:57 +0000 nathan rich architecture, artworks, and writing 1627574 Yale School of Architecture Design Studio in Delhi, India Coordinated by Chris Sharples Project co-author Marc Newman <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/FINAL SITE_PLAN_thumb.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="1639" height_o="1639" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/FINAL SITE_PLAN_thumb_o.jpg" data-mid="7978604" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/full_rendering.jpg" width="670" height="270" width_o="2048" height_o="827" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/full_rendering_o.jpg" data-mid="8401632" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/3 SEZ PLANS with AXO_small.jpg" width="670" height="559" width_o="2048" height_o="1709" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/3 SEZ PLANS with AXO_small_o.jpg" data-mid="8400888" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/sketch-model-plan.gif" width="670" height="459" width_o="1732" height_o="1188" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/sketch-model-plan_o.gif" data-mid="8596413" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/whole-model-vertical.gif" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1152" height_o="1728" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/whole-model-vertical_o.gif" data-mid="8596419" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/model-perspective.gif" width="670" height="446" width_o="1728" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/123742/1627574/model-perspective_o.gif" data-mid="8596458" border="0" align="left"/> What is the role of the airport in contemporary Indian economic development? One of the central phenomena of India's growth has been the Special Economic Zone - essentially tax-free customs-free plots of land that multinational corporations use for a range of functions, from manufacturing, to management, to creating company towns. 195 SEZs currently exist in India and 300 more were planned until the Federal Government reacted to public protest on Feb 12, 2008 by banning the seizure of any new lands for SEZs. We propose consolidating the space that would have been utilized for SEZs on our site. This collapses the typically disparate processes of manufacture, management, shipping, purchasing and travel to a single site, necessitating extreme density. Since airports and SEZs have mutually supportive infrastructural systems, we believe this program mix could support a super dense hub of business, shipping and travel activity. To achieve this extreme density, our project engages the architectural tradition of the superstructure. Constant’s New Babylon, The Italian Futurists, The Japanese Metabolists, and the various superstructure proposals of the 1970’s, all utilize section and structural armature to generate new kinds of programmatic adjacency and urban density. We believe the programmatic complexity of the Special Economic Zone coupled with the massive pace of Indian development highlights a new potential for these projects in this particular context. We therefore utilize similar architectural strategies to engage a contemporary economic phenomenon, generating an entirely new typology – one that could be economically and environmentally productive, and experientially unique.