Peace and Quiet
Identity and Environmental Graphics for 'Peace & Quiet', a civic 'dialogue station' in Times Square, where veterans and civilians can engage in poignant conversation.
Times Square, arguably one of the world’s great public intersections, has an estimated 500,000 people passing through it everyday. It seemed an ideal circumstance to initiate and inform a poignant exchange of ideas between citizens, perhaps will intimacy in an instance of its opposite.
Peace & Quiet is a temporary dialogue station where veterans and civilians—two wide ranging demographic groups, whose paths increasingly do not cross—can openly engage each other in meaningful conversation. It is a tranquil place to meet, share stories, leave a note, shake hands—a veteran-civilian exchange, in person. Beyond politics, stereotype or judgement; bridging the often unnecessary gap. It is scheduled for installation on the north end of Times Square this coming November, in time for Veteran's Day.
Located far opposite the US Army recruiting station—the possible commencement point for arduous and dangerous journeys—the dialogue station will engage the women and men of the armed services in their roles within civilian life. Abstractly interpreted, the stations are intertwined portals, bracketing experiences the vast majority only hear of in the news; events at the forefront of our national identity and economy, and yet too often remote or misunderstood to those who do not, or dare not, enter these situations directly.
Concept & Architecture:
Matter Practice Architecture
Photo Credit:
Ka-Man Tse and TS Webcam
Environmental Graphics & Identity by VosBrenner
http://www.matterpractice.net/ongoing/peace--quiet/2/
2013 / architecture / Matter Practice / environmental / New York City / participation / Exhibition
Stay Foreign, Exhibition
Stay Foreign is a conceptual journey initiated by VosBrenner aiming to merge and offer new perspectives from abroad artists living within the Netherlands. This physically manifested itself for the first time this summer 2012 with an exhibition held in Slaakhuys. Here we invited two international architecture photographers to transform the hallway of Slaakhuys that was and currently still is under construction.
During the opening of our studio space and the Kunstroute, Crooswijk / Kralingen the space inhabited Freedomland by Denis Guzzo and Facades by Muge Yilmaz. For more information specific to this exhibition please see the link to the homepage. For more information regarding the future plans of Stay Foreign you'll have to be a bit more patient.
Photography by Denis Guzzo
2013 / architecture / environmental / international / non-profit / Rotterdam / photography / self-initiated / Exhibition
Tolerance: Deviances and Reconciliations
For more than thirty years, Pamphlet Architecture has continually advanced polemics and sparked dialogue within the discipline in a way that no other small publication has been able to replicate.
In collaboration with Matter Practice Architecture we produced this proposal PA. Its thesis considers Tolerance across a range of interpretations, arguably not entirely dissimilar from each other: as a space/place created to accommodate the unknown, the unpredictable, the un-prescribed; as perceived in the act of producing architecture, from representation through craft in construction; as a limen between one state and another, determined as neither—slippages in perception where the experience/appearance of things deviates from the apperception of things; as material reconciliation (the detail, the joint); and social tolerance—reconciliations between seemingly incotible circumstances, minding and mining the gap.
2012 / / architecture / Matter Practice / editorial design / environmental / New York City / urbanism
Cyclifier.org
Identity developed for cyclifier.org- an online community of enterpreneurs, companies, designers, architects and everybody else who is interested in or contributes to innovations that contribute to local exchange and production. The site allows you to post items at various scales within the reuse-topic. All examples of small commodities, furniture, interiors, buildings and reuse on urban scale are welcomed.
The identity functions as a visual extension of the flow analysis charts which are an integral part of the cyclifier concept.
2012 / architecture / Identity / Rotterdam / participation / sustainability / website
Warm Up Cool Down
A proposed identity and environmental graphics designed to accompany Matter Practice's architectural proposal for the PS1 Young Architecture Project.
2011 / architecture / Matter Practice / customized-font / New York City / international / Exhibition
Greg Yang Design
Greg Yang Design is a multifunctional architecture office. Greg‘s office produces work that is simple, elegant, clean and sophisticated. The identity consists of three incomplete isometric cubes, when the forms are collapsed onto each other they form a complete cube.
Designed at MGMT. Design
Freehouse
Wonderland 2009 is the latest collection of fashion designer Marga Weimans, it is based on and arose in the Afrikaanderwijk. The in early 2009 presented haute couture collection in Paris presents elements of the neighborhood like typical architectural structures.
Also fragments derived from distinctive interiors, traditional decorations from the Afrikaandermarket and other available fabrics and jewelry are included in her collection.
Design made at Roger Teeuwen Ontwerper's
NPSF - Expo
New Practices San Francisco 2009 is the West Coasts premiere of the American Institute of Architecture New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition. The budget for this exhibition was minimal, we sourced materials with local building supply stores and asked them to donate the materials. The display system we created was made of metal peg board with a series of custom made clips and rope.
Exhibition design: Matter Practice
2009 / architecture / Matter Practice / environmental / New York City / interiour / Exhibition
NPSF - Print
Newspaper print of the selected architecture studios of New Practices San Francisco including their portfolios and interviews that where also selected for the same titled exhibition.
2009 / San Francisco / architecture / Matter Practice / environmental / interiour / newsprint / Printed Matter
Reading Matter
Produced in conjunction with a lecture and exhibition of Matter’s work. Reading Matter displayed small models and media loops of their projects throughout a flexible wall system. We developed for this exhibition a label system comprised of metal adhesive strips with embossed typography. Reflective neon signage was designed to accompany the color scheme of the installation.
2009 / architecture / Matter Practice / environmental / New York City / interiour / Exhibition
Modern Shoestring
This book is based on the idea that innovative and cutting edge architecture does not have to cost a fortune. 18 projects are highlighted from world renowned architects.
Written by Susanna Sirefman and designed for Monacelli Press
Dimensions: 22.5x25.5cm
Page count: 160
Designed at MGMT. Design
2008 / architecture / New York City / Book / sustainability
Layered Urbanism
This book includes the projects of the advanced studios of:
Gregg Pasquarelli in “Versioning—6.0,” Galia Solomonoff in
“Brooklyn Civic Space,” and Mario Gooden in “Global Topologies.” Interviews with the architects and their studio strategies provide insight into the pedagogical approach of the three practitioner-educators.
Dimensions: 21&29.5cm
Page count: 144pages
Designed at MGMT. Design
2007 / architecture / educational-institution / New York City / Book / urbanism
Architecture for Humanity
A purposed identity system for the re-branding of Architecture for Humanity.
Wilton Library
Donor signage and room labels for the Wilton Library located in Connecticut. The building was originally designed by Elliot Noise.
Designed at Tsang Seymour Design
2006 / architecture / educational-institution / environmental / Exhibition
Design for the Other 90%
This publication for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum showcased sustainable technology designed to help people in impoverished areas of the world. It was published as part of the exhibition.
Dimensions: 21.5x&27.5 cm
Page count: 144
Designed at Tsang Seymour Design
2006 / architecture / environmental / New York City / furniture design / Book / sustainability
Design for the Other 90%
Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted; in fact, nearly half do not have regular access to food, clean water, or shelter. Design for the Other 90% explores a growing movement among designers to design low-cost solutions.
Designed at Tsang Seymour Design
2006 / architecture / environmental / furniture design / interiour / sustainability / textiles / Exhibition
Design Life Now
The National Design Triennial is an ongoing exhibition series at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial seeks out innovative work from across the fields of product design, architecture, furniture, film, graphics, new technologies, animation, science, medicine and fashion.
Designed at Tsang Seymour Design
Exhibition Exhibition Design: Matter Architecture
Practice Font/Triennial Logo Design (The Clash and The Clash Sans): COMA Amsterdam/New York
Lighting Design: Marcus Doshi
http://triennial.cooperhewitt.org
2006 / architecture / Matter Practice / environmental / New York City / interiour / Exhibition
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