BLUR BUILDING - Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Swiss Expo Pavilion, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland 2002 (built)
The Blur Building was a temporary exposition structure comprised of a vast tensegrity steel structure and a network of 35,000 mist producing water nozzles to create the effect of a large cloud hovering over a lake. Inside the cloud, visitors would wander the football field size deck and emerge on the Angel Bar above, where they could sample water sourced from all around the world.
Project Role: conceptual design and development, construction drawings, project administration
BRAIN COAT - Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Prototype developed for Blur Building
The Braincoat was proposal for a smart raincoat outfitted with proximity-activated communication technologies to enable visitors to interact with each other within the dense visual fog of the Blur Building.
Project Role: conceptual design and development, diagrams and illustrations
EYEBEAM MUSEUM - Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Chelsea, New York, 2004
Eyebeam was the competition winning entry for a new museum of art and technology, featuring an undulating ribbon enfolding galleries and production studios such that both types of spaces would intertwine.
Project Role: design development, digital modeling, isometric diagrams, design & fabrication of 1/8th inch scale model (model is part of permanent architecture collection at MOMA)
FACSIMILE - Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Permanent Art Installation, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, 2004
Facsimile features a large 27ft x 16ft video screen suspended from a slowly moving armature on the roof of the Moscone Convention Center, which scans the glass facade with a camera view of the interior. Intermittently, the live feed is swapped out with a series of prerecorded narrative sequences of a lobby, an office space, and a hotel.
Project Role: storyboard, scene layout, 3D set extension, test animations, offline composting
FACSIMILE - Diller Scofidio + Renfro
video narratives: office and hotel
TRAVELOGUES - Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Permanent Art Installation, JFK Airport Terminal 4, New York, 2001
Travelogues contains a series of short travel narratives told through 33 back-lit lenticular screens along 1800 linear feet of corridors in the airport terminal. Each panel holds one second of embedded animation, activated by the one-directional movement of the viewer. Shown here is the ‘Prosthetic Traveler’ series about a woman obsessed with bodily prosthetics who recalls a moment on the Eiffel Tower from her trip.
Project Role: storyboard, suitcase props and layout, film set production assistant, compositing tests
JOSAI SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT - Studio SUMO
Saitama-ken, Japan, 2006 (built)
This 70,000 square foot building is an award winning design for the Josai University campus, with classrooms, offices, a cafe, and a media lounge that has become a popular hangout for students.
Project Role: conceptual design, drawing documents, landscape design, interior design
MIZUTA MUSEUM OF ART - Studio SUMO
Saitama-ken, Japan, 2010 (under construction)
This 6,200 square ft museum will combine a dark and light space, each housing different types of exhibits. These two galleries are contained in one cantilevered volume that sits above a multi-function event space encased in glass.
Project Role: concept design, site and feasibility studies, 3-D modeling and rendering
NEW NEW YORK 2 - Studio SUMO
Exhibit Design for Architectural League at the Urban Center, NY 2001
NNY2 exhibited six new and noteworthy local architectural projects through sketches, models, construction drawings, material samples, and final construction images. The exhibit was conceived as an abstracted model of Manhattan island, and locator maps encouraged visitors to extend their tours to the actual buildings in person.
Project Role: concept design, 3-D modeling, installation assistance
MINiMAX - Studio SUMO
Commisioned project for Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing, Field Museum Exhibit, Chicago, 2005
MINiMAX is a mobile house prototype comprised of a self-structured, mass-produced outer shell and prefabricated domestic components that can be stacked and rearranged to provide customized living spaces.
Project Role: concept design, component design and research, 3-D modeling, perspective renderings
LAPEO - David Huang
La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain 2004
Sited at the Roque de los Muchachos Observation Point, La Palma Energy Observatory is a visitor center for the astronomy and eco-tourist communities. LAPEO houses a museum, cafe, and hotel, which are organized around a winding promenade that wraps around and through a primitive cubic volume. The high performance building skin that envelopes the cube is comprised of clear glass, transclucent glass, and photovoltaic panels that mediate the atmospheric conditions of the site, simultaneously enabling and hindering observation.
all work completed by David Huang
SEAPLANE TERMINAL+MUSEUM - David Huang
Pier 41, Hudson River, NY 1998
This project takes inspiration from vintage sea planes, combining formal tropes with the programmatic functions of the building. The roof takes the form of an airplane wing, suspended over the various spaces and unifying the disparate parts into a coherent whole.
all work completed by David Huang
SEAPLANE TERMINAL+MUSEUM - David Huang
axonometric view of building components
SEAPLANE TERMINAL+MUSEUM - David Huang
seaplane compositional studies
BATH/CHESS WALL - David Huang
Seipp Memorial Prize Student Comopetition, 2nd Place, 1998
This wall fragment mediates two seemingly incompatible activities, bathing and chess playing, by materializing the rituals inherent in these respective activities. For bathing, the wall acts as a barrier between public and private, wet and dry, and as a bodily prosthetic extension. For chess playing, the wall transforms into a physical screen between opponents, demarcating the implicit boundary at the center line of a chess board. Actions on one side of the wall reverberate on the other side.
all work completed by David Huang
