Shanghai. Research into Organic Design - Imre Makovecz. Architect Los Angeles California Residential and Commercial Arch. Playing the Building | An Installation by David Byrne. Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features—metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building’s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds.
Click here to read an interview between David Byrne and Anne Pasternak Playing the Building was originally comissioned in 2005 by Färgfabriken, Stockholm. Open Architecture Network. Through a study of the tradition of rebuilding after natural disaster, the Fill_Frame house seeks to challenge the typologies of temporary, transitional, and permanent housing. By merging the three into one seamless process of reconstruction, a community can adapt from natural disasters to a permanent village in a faster, more efficient manner. The title Fill_Frame developed from the idea that the majority of the design would be based on creating a structural frame which would be assembled using a variety of prefabricated components. The majority of the needed materials, however, would be natural materials that could be found locally and used as infill to be inserted into the basic prefabricated frame, thus forming completed units.
In the case of a need for immediate temporary housing, the structural frame system makes it possible to assemble the units quickly with prefabricated pieces. Studio Web Page: Muf architects and artists: homepage. Reluct.com. Chronos Chromos Concrete. Massive Change: The Future of Global Design. Bruce Mau Design Inc. Stew design workshop. Lynch / Eisinger / Design.