For my most recent studio/folio project I was looking at light filtration/quality and one of the projects that I stumbled upon was this. Something about this project was really appealing to me. Here light has been used to reflect colour into a space...something about Holl's use of form and the spatial qualities of his buildings is really nice. IN CONCLUSION, STEVEN HOLL IS A BOSS.
STEVEN HOLL
D.E. SHAW & CO. OFFICES
New York, NY, United States, 1991-1992
PROGRAM: reception area, offices, conference rooms, and trading area for digital trading company
CLIENT: DE Shaw
SIZE: 10,561 sf
STATUS: completed
New York, NY, United States, 1991-1992
PROGRAM: reception area, offices, conference rooms, and trading area for digital trading company
CLIENT: DE Shaw
SIZE: 10,561 sf
STATUS: completed
The top two floors of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper are the site of an experimental project exploring the phenomena of spatial color reflection or "projected color". D.E. Shaw & Co., a financial trading firm works with the miniscule drift of prices for financial instruments measured over short intervals of time. This curious and intangible business program has a parallel in the design concept of the interior. The metal framing and sheet - rock with skim - coat plaster was carved and notched at precise points around the central 31 - foot cube of space at the entry. Color has been applied to the back or bottom surfaces of these notches, invisible to the viewer within the space. Natural and artificial lights project this color back into the space around walls and fissures.
'Holl first shaped architecture to give substance to light in the unlikely confines of an office interior within an anonymous New York City office building, the headquarters for D.E. Shaw. Apertures with layered, back-painted surrounds split daylight into its constituent colors and refracted it into glowing beams'.
-James S. Russell, Architectural Record, January, 2001
-James S. Russell, Architectural Record, January, 2001
I also LOVE this one.
HERNING MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Herning, Denmark, 2005-Sep 9, 2009
PROGRAM: temporary exhibition galleries, 150 seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, restaurant, media library and administrative offices
CLIENT: Herning Center of the Arts
SIZE: 5600 sm
STATUS: completed
The Herning Center of the Arts unites, for the first time, three distinct cultural institutions: the Herning Art Museum, the MidWest Ensemble and the Socle du Monde. The new Center is intended to be an innovative forum combining visual art and music. The design fuses landscape and architecture in a one-level building that will include permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, a 150-seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, a restaurant, a media library, administrative offices and an active landscape. The design for the center aims at "building the site". In transforming the flat field, a new 40,000 sf. landscape of grass mounds and pools conceals all the parking and service areas while shaping inspiring bermed landscape spaces focused on reflecting pools positioned in the south sun. Herning's prominent relationship with textiles and art formed the inspiration for the design concept. Steven Holl states: 'Part of the current art collection is housed in an old shirt factory in Herning. This 1960s building was designed in the form of a shirt collar and is across the street from the site. It was the interaction between the factory owner and Arte Povera artists such as Piero Manzoni that enabled such a special collection of art to exist in Herning." A fabric theme is carried throughout the project from the shape of the building which resembles a collection of shirtsleeves viewed from above, through the wall finishes. Fabric tarps were inserted into the formwork to yield a fabric texture to the buildings exterior walls of white concrete.
"Steven Holl's newest museum building is a complex spatial composition in harmony with its location, inspired by the art inside and replete with references to textiles. […] Embedded in a newly formed topography, the museum is married with its setting: the four "arms" of the structure spread out into the surroundings, while grass-covered berms extend the building's geometry, connecting architecture and landscape. A walk around the structure reveals surprising changes in view, sight line, and arrangement. Its sculptural quality is intensified by the play of light and shadow. ... What has been created here is a sculptural architecture rich in metaphor, which nevertheless cedes pre-eminence to the showroom exhibits."
-Claudia Fuchs, Detail
-Claudia Fuchs, Detail
Hope you enjoyed viewing these as much as I did.
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