Robots, Energy, Weather. Victoria Meyers architect, founding partner of hanrahan Meyers architects, presents Robots, Energy and Weather, and explains how concepts from robotics, biomorphic designs that incorporate energy, and weather sensitive design has impacted her practice with Thomas Hanrahan. Projects presented include DWi-P, Digital Water i-Pavilion, hMa's first digitally interactive buiding, deisgned with an electrostatic film in the building's 600-foot-long facade, where the public can 'play' composer Michael J. Schumacher's composition: WaTER. DWi-P is in Battery Park City, across from the World Trade Center Memorial site. hMa are also the Master Plan architects for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood. In that capacity, hMa overviewed the development of the most green, high-rise neighborhood in the world.

1. CHANGE
R - E - W
Energy
Robots Weather
NYC
GLOBAL
WARMING
SUSTAINABLE
DESIGN
CINCINNATI

2. science historian George Dyson

3. Food Urbanism
New York City, New York
Battery Park City North Neighborhood
Ecological Urbanism

4. How social networks and
the web / Google Earth are
changing concepts about :
- Design,
- Urban Design,
- Dwelling and
- The City

5. Battery Park City North Neighborhood,
New York City
Community Spaces + Retail Spaces = Social Network

6. Battery Park City :
Energy Conservation as
Theme Park
Energy Conservation as Theme Park : Buildings use heat
pumps, high-efficiency condensing boilers, micro turbine
co-generation, photovoltaic panels, geo-thermal wells,
wind turbines and extensive insulation and air/vapor
barriers

7. Battery Park City as part of a larger social
Network of green spaces in Manhattan
Green roofs : 80% of the roofs are planted and open to public use

8. “Woven Fabric” diagram : green roofs + green landscapes

9. Isometric view of BPC’s green roofs and parks
system
Bloomberg’s PlaNYC

10. PlaNYC BPC – North End Avenue

11. Irish Hunger Memorial : A piece of Ireland in NYC Dublin City Development plan : ‘Green City’

12. Irish Hunger Memorial Green = The New International Style

13. Landscape / city / food / architecture Merge

14. Weather Internet
Change
Urban Design
Architecture
Space
Change Form
Internet
Space
Architecture
Urban Design
==

15. Ancient Architecture
Contemporary
Architecture
Sustainable /
Green Design
=
Vitruvius Weather

16. hMa projects with porosity :
1) Battery Park City Master Plan :
Woven Fabric
2) Pratt Pavilion :
Visceral Space

17. 3) Holley Loft :
No Space
4) DWi-P :
Porous Edge

18. 5) Won Dharma Center:
Absolute Zero
6) Pearson Sculpture
On (In) Landscape

19. Woven Fabric
Battery Park City Master Plan : ‘Woven Fabric’

20. Battery Park City ca. 1960

21. isometric massing study first massing model

22. Isometric diagram showing green roofs and
green landscapes
green
roofs

23. Diagram showing park spaces Diagram showing woven fabric of the cities’
buildings and parks

24. North End Avenue dog park

25. North End Avenue : A green street

26. Nelson A. Rockefeller Park

27. Irish Hunger Memorial

28. Irish Hunger Memorial

29. Teardrop Park

30. Teardrop Park

32. aerial view of Teardrop Park showing green roofs and heliostats
heliostats

33. view of glass wall;
ballfields to the right
bird’s eye view of ballfields and ballfield terrace

34. ballfield terrace park benches for sitting and watching
Occupiable Green Roof / Public plaza

35. ramp to ballfield terrace

36. ‘Tribute in Light’

37. Pratt Pavilion : Visceral Space

38. DeKalb Avenue : ‘Buildings Face Out – Not In’ New Master Plan: ‘Buildings Face Campus’

39. Public Face : New Design Center Original Condition

40. the public face of new Pratt Design Center

41. New Campus Entry Original entry 2004

42. Entry Ramp

43. new entry vestibule original site of entry vestibule

44. new entry vestibule : stair to gallery

45. MATERIALITY
STAINLESS STEEL
MATERIALITY
COR-TEN

46. Menashe Kadishman’s “Suspended” at Storm King
Art Center

47. Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass at LACMA

48. EDGES: second floor gallery space

49. view from second floor
gallery
courtyard

50. Pratt campus view courtyard

51. VISCERAL SPACE
PRATT PAVILION:
SUSPENDED VESSEL

52. today
1999
Holley Loft : NO space

53. wood rooms floated in white Robert Lazzarini sculpture:
wood floated in white

54. 2 boxes float in white
Development Concept :
DIAGRAM
2 boxes

61. Light lines

62. LIGHT

63. ANAMORPHIC BOX

72. DWi-P : Porous Edge
DWi-P

73. DWi-P Entry / Green Roof (Ballfield Terrace) / SCAPE Landscape architects

74. Bird’s eye view : Ballfield Terrace
Occupiable Green Roof / Public plaza

75. View of Ballfield Terrace from
Teardrop Park
entry

76. view from Ballfield Terrace entry to
teardrop park
Entry to Ballfield Terrace

77. Entry : Ballfield Terrace

78. Central stair / central courtyard

79. Central stair “Finger” – toward Ballfield

80. View of Terrace from North

81. The egg Central terrace

82. Ramps and stairs connecting to Warren Street – North side

83. View from Warren Street to Terrace

84. North side ramp at Warren Street

85. Stair up from south side of Dwi-P Terrace at Murray Street

86. Ramp up from Murray Street to Dwi-P green roof south side

87. Entry lobby

88. Ballfield Level - Plan

89. Ballfield level lobby
Ballfield Level

90. Fitness area Corridor looking north

91. Pool (WaTER)

92. Gym

93. The Glass Wall

94. PRECEDENT STUDY
PROCESS : DUCHAMP : FRAMED GLASS

95. PHYSICS WRITTEN ON GLASS

96. MUSIC & GLASS
ARCHITECT / COMPOSER COLLABORATION

97. Sample at site early WaTER score

98. MUSICAL SCORE WaTER

99. The Glass Wall

100. Glass wall

101. North Courtyard Central Courtyard

102. South Courtyard

104. ARCHITECTS DESIGN MUSIC

105. TABLE WATERFALL

106. Green Diagram

107. =
ABSOLUTE ZERO
GEOMETRY
+
NO SPACE
IN THE LANDSCAPE
Won Dharma Center : Absolute Zero

108. A POROUS
COURTYARD INNER
MEMBRANE
WON DHARMA CENTER

109. Robert Smithson : Spiral Jetty Michael Van Valkenburgh
Associates : Tidal Pool
SPIRAL = OPEN (POROUS) FORM

110. David von Schlegell -
Storm King Art Center
Meditation Space marked by a floating Rectangular Roof

111. Dynamic Open Spirals / vs / Stasis beneath a Rectangular Roof

112. THE SITE : The starting point “Ground Zero”
Meditation Administration

113. Plans – Through the landscape

114. Meditation : Roof Plane // a space for introspection

115. A spiral path defines a journey from mundane (cafeteria) to spiritual practice

117. Spirit World
A “chord” that
connects World to
Spirit

118. Cafeteria

119. Meditation
Live

120. Open Spirals : movement diagrams

121. Fractal Roofs Spiral Plans
+ =
Dynamic
(Mundane)
Space

123. 2 visiting residences connect A dynamic connection through site // paths

124. DIAGRAM : Wood Screens
Trees + Screened Buildings = Infinite Bleed of Edge

125. Meditation Hall + Wood Screens // Buildings = Site

127. Residence Halls + Screened Porches // Buildings = Site

128. Porches blend wood buildings to Site

132. Custom Wood Furniture - Site comes Inside // Zero Carbon Footprint Diagram

133. NY Art friends : Bruce Pearson (painter)
hMa Artist/ Architect Collaboration
Bruce Pearson Sculpture : Text On (In) Landscape

134. Pearson / hMa Sculpture collaboration : “Contains Real Hard Won Insight”
‘On / In’ Landscape : Text + Urban Field = disruption in the cellular dialogue

135. Sculpture as Urban Intervention:
Pedestrian Circulation // Urban Gallery for Artistic Communication

136. Future: A Porous Edge: Buildings become Landscape

137. Future: A Porous edge :
Materiality Reality

138. ‘Designing with Light’
2006
hMa RESEARCH
‘Shape of Sound’
2013
Dwi-P LightScore
Architecture + Natural Phenomena