Walking Moving Thinking - how architecture creates public space, pubic amenities, and urban places. Includes hMa's DWi-P, across from the World Trade Center Memorial site in NYC.

1. hMa Office:
Sketching, Doing, Thinking….
hMa

2. See
Hear
Haptic
Installation
Dubai
Howeler + Yoon

3. hMa: Infinity Chapel Sound Seminar, UC
Sound / Light

4. S O uN d
hMa: WaveLine
Image of Sound Waves

5. hMa :
Infinity Chapel:
Stair to Mezzaninez:
Light
Diagram: Light Wave
Light

6. Ash 4Ways :
hMa Project where Ash is
presented in 4 different
formats:
1clear finish ash floor
2free-form ash counters
3white painted + sand-blasted
4white painted, acid dipped,
sand-blasted
A chemistry experiment:
space modulated by materials,
by color, by light, + by sound
E = mc2 :
Einstein’s equation –
mass/ energy equivalency
Mass / Materiality

7. ARCHITECTURE IS ENERGY WAVES
ABOVE : 3 – PART THOUGHT DIAGRAM :
Sound, Light, and Materiality
3-Part
Thought
Diagram

8. Above: Hacker-Maker Building
Section/ Perspective : 10,000 s.f. floor
plate, open plan/ Hacker-Maker
building
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Left: Cincinnati roadway crosses
railroad tracks, downtown Cincinnati:
Western Viaduct.
Visual studies/ drawn analyses of sound
conditions; recorded site sounds
Right: Studio Project
TEACH
Below: Sound Seminar
site section
Sound Urbanism

9. Energy / Weather
Fabricated Weather:
Harry Partch:
‘Sound Clouds’
Repurposed glass bowls
From nuclear lab equipment
John Cage :
‘lecture on the weather’

10. Larry Bell:
Glass Series : Glass Cube -
Glass as a Medium to transmit Light
Dan Flavin:
Richmond Hall
DeMenil Collection
Houston, Tx –
colors Mix to form ‘White Light’
Energy /
Materiality / Art

11. Left:
hMa : Won Buddhist Retreat
Zero Carbon Footprint:
Absolute Zero
Right:
hMa: Battery Park City Master Plan
Zero Carbon Footprint
100% LEED Certified Construction
Landscape :
Green Urbanism
Green Streets
Zero

12. Left to Right:
Stephen Vitiello - @ Mass MOCA
Alvin Lucier - ‘I am sitting in a room’
Michael Schumacher score - Shape of Sound
Sound

13. 20th Century Giants:
John Cage / Alvin Lucier
Cage: Thought Diagram
Lucier: Music on a Long Thin Wire

14. Max Neuhaus in Times Square :
Sound Piece below Subway Grates
hMa - Infinity Chapel
framing Natural Forces to
make architecture ‘visible’
Ideas Framed

15. Silence

16. Color
Partch :
Chromelodeon
hMa: Queens
Museum of Art:
Plan Concept sketch

17. ROY.G.BIV
Mitch Gruz:
Spring 2014
Richmond Hall

18. hMa: LIGHT

19. Teach :
Sound Urbanism
2014 – Cincinnati Sound Sections

20. Mathematics
Silicon Valley House:
Anamorphically Flattened
Space

21. hMa Projects:
1) Light:
Infinity Chapel
2) Sound:
DWi-P

22. 3) Materiality:
Won Buddhist Retreat
4) Energy
WaveLine:

23. 5) Mathematics / Zero
Battery Park City Master Plan
6) Works in Process
NYC Public Libraries
Pratt Dorm

24. L
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25. INFINITY CHAPEL GREENWICH VILLAGE NYC
North
South
SITE:
GREENWICH
VILLAGE

26. PROCESS
Thru-Floor Light
Connectors
CURVED GEOMETRIES

27. FORM: GEOMETRY OF SPACE DEFORMED BY LIGHT
Spirit
Sanctuary
World

28. Precedents :
Ronchamp : Curved Space
Thickened walls w/random
punched holes – a process

29. Light Path : Word
LIGHT PATH:
Garden to street
Horizontal Path of Light
Random punched holes
Use a ‘stochastic’ method of
placement - in the floor &
Chapel East Wall

30. LIGHT PATH : View to MacDougal Street - Reading Room –
10th Chruch of Christ Scientist

32. Design process : development of Skylights

33. spirit
world
sanctuary
FORM: plan
Chapel -
spheres
of influence

34. FORM: section
CIRCLES: Completion of
circle @ Chapel – cerebral
expansion of space
-- EXPANSION --
no perimeters = infinity
‘music of the spheres’
left: hMa Sculpture collaboration

35. Construction

36. left: Infinity Chapel
below: Sunday School
Chapel skylights SS below

37. Chapel: a floating stage

38. Vija Celmins: Pencil on Paper
Infinity Chapel: Ceiling

40. Light

41. Infinity Chapel - View to MacDougal Street :
Light

46. Meridian @
Sta. Maria degli Angeli
Complex Geometry / Light

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48. above: glass façade: DWi-P // below: WTC Memorial WaterWall

49. DWi-P / Interactive Wall faces Ballfield
Interactive Wall sits in front of Program Areas
hMa created a park (Ballfields Terrace) and a 550-foot long Art Wall (WaTER)
These two elements sit over, and in front of - programmed areas :
hMa’s Battery Park City Community Center

50. using
cellphones
to ‘play’ the
glass wall

52. Watching Ballfields through the
DWi-P WaTER score
Score by Michael J. Schumacher

53. Frit Pattern =
WaTER score
Michael J. Schumacher
Composer
3-part thought diagram:
Sound/ Light/ Materiality

54. WaterFall Table
DWiP façade :
WaTER

55. DWi-P Pools

56. Circular Sound field

58. DWi-P : a green roof // a Battery Park City Park:
Ballfields Terrace Park
Warren – Murray Passage
Ramp
Stair
Ballfields
North End Avenue
StairRamp
Stair
Stair
Ramp
Ballfields Terrace
DWi-P Entry
PoolsGym

59. DWi-P : ENTRY

61. DWi-P SECTION: Building split section : Entry @ North End Avenue level
Program areas @ Ballfields level

62. DWi-P:
Walk
Move
Think
A series of stairs,
ramps, and walkways
interlaced between
layers of glass,
granite, +steel;
sometimes inside //
sometimes outside

63. Eadweard Muybridge
Movement studies led
to modern motion
pictures
right: Le Corbusier
Ramps and Stairs –
movement as
architecture

64. Building that peels itself apart @ its edges. Left to right above:
Walkway (in front of glass); ramp (behind glass); stair behind granite
planter)

73. Ballfield Level - Plan
Warren – Murray Passage
Pools
Fitness Room
Dance
Ballfields
Gym

74. Ballfield lobby Interior stair
From Ballfield to North End Avenue
Stair from Warren-Murray Passage to
Ballfields Terrace
sound, water, movement

76. Interior Corridor; Gym on right, Ballfields on left / Corridor parallels Warren Murray Passage

77. Pool / Stair to North End Avenue Lobby behind glass wall

78. Pool Room

80. Pool Room

81. Gym: Corridor and Ballfields visible through glass

82. DWi-P Ramp, Ballfields/ Freedom Tower
And World Trade Center Memorial
Pools in background

83. M
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Y Won Buddhist Retreat: Wood as Architecture

84. Won Buddhist Retreat - 700 acre site // Brownfield mitigation project
hMa - Site Master plan, and design for 5 buildings on the site
The buildings link together into a compound with Zero Carbon Footprint

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

86. meditate
administration
two public buildings

88. World
+ und
Sound
Sound
Silence
Bridge:
A “chord” that
connects World
to Spirit
Sound

89. meditation at dawn

90. Dine
Sound

91. 4 buildings with Fractal / Spiral Roof forms = Secular Space (Sound) –
2 visitors buildings; 1 Permanent Residents’ building
1 Spiritual Space (Meditation/ Silence)
visitors
permanent
residents
administration

92. Site Construction
Residence
buildings (3)
administration
meditation
Visitor’s
Residences

93. Site Plan: 700 acre site / 350 acres to be a permanent nature preserve
Building compound location @ area of Site Mining activities
Mitigation included removal of shale trails, installation of Organic soils,
Installation of Meadow plants + trees

94. Areas of Sound :
Meditation = Silence / Residential Buildings = Sound
Walking Paths = Nature

96. 3-part thought diagram:
Materiality, Sound, + Light
BRINGING TREES TO THE BUILDINGS

97. wood buildings with wood screens = disappearance

102. Wood Screen Frames
INFINITE BLEED OF EDGE

107. Meditation porch

108. ‘Dynamic Courtyards’ : movement diagrams
Silence void to Sound void =
Meditation / Dining
Permanent
Residents CourtyardOutdoor Courtyard
with Trees
Mountain view
Courtyard 2
forest
Mountain view
forest
Nature loop = Permanent Residents Courtyard
Courtyard 1
forest
Mountain view
Dine
Meditate
walking meditation loop = guest residence 1 + 2
RetreatWorld

109. visiting residences connect
Sound Spaces
A dynamic connection through site //
paths Sounds of Nature

116. E
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WaveLine

117. Front Elevation: building that is a roof // Roof form is based on Sound Waves

118. Ground Floor Plan
Building Massing and Elevation Study
Using a Wave form
To Generate Architecture
3-Part Thought Diagram
Sound/ Materiality/ Light

119. MODEL DIAGRAMS BASED ON COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF SPACE AS
WELL AS LARGE-SCALE PHYSICAL MODELS WITH SOUND
SIMULATIONS - YASUHISA TOYOTA, Sound Engineer (Disney Hall)

120. Context: Latimer Gardens Housing Complex, Queens, NY
below: WaveLine construction

121. site plan// site map

122. WaveLine roof studies : Form

124. Maximization of Sound Resonance// Use of
Acoustical Blanket / Curtain system to create
a fully ‘tunable’ space
right: Queens context –
Commercial loft buildings
from 1900’s

125. structural framing model
model from bird’s eye view

129. ARCHITECTURE IS ENERGY WAVES:
ARCHITECTURE CONNECTED TO NATURE : Energy Waves
BIO-MORPHICALLY / SCIENTIFICALLY
GENERATED STRUCTURES
FIT INTO ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AS HOLISITC ORGANISMS
NBIC : NANO - BIO - INFO - COGNO ARCHITECTURES
LA Philharmonic
Summer Pavilion
Ojai, CA.

130. M
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To build the Twin Towers
(twin = 2) NYCity had to dig out an
enormous area of dirt. This dirt
(ground) was deposited in the
Hudson River as landfill.
This landfill is built into the area
known as ‘Battery Park City’.
hMa are Master Plan Architects for
the Battery Park City Authority
For over twenty years.
Landfill - future Battery Park City
Landfill - future Battery Park City
Battery Park City Master Plan : North Neighborhood
Twin Towers

131. Site Location Plan // Site Isometric

132. If you are in NYC on September 11th, if you notice the ‘Tribute in Light’ to the Twin
Towers - the light that create the simulation of the Towers are located in
Battery Park City

133. Woven Fabric
Battery Park City Master Plan
‘Woven Fabric’ framed within Cartesian Grid
Orderliness determined by the Grid, Light, Views, and Nature
Orderliness also determined through Urban Planning
And changes to the previously existing Manhattan street grid

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

135. Battery Park City North Neighborhood Parks:
Walk North To South
Dog Park
To
Irish Hunger Memorial

136. North End Avenue: Dog Park / Dog Run

137. Dog Park - Median Strip within North End Avenue - Main organizing thoroughfare

139. ‘Diner en
Blanc’ –
Pop-up
dinner for
5,000
Nelson
Rockefeller
Park

142. Teardrop Park
hMa with Michael van Valkenburgh
Teardrop Park

143. Teardrop : Boulders from upstate NY

145. Strategy: Landscape on the Ground //
Landscape on the Roofs.
A Weave of Green through
The Cartesian grid

146. A park with a Woven Fabric

147. Heliostats –
Light

148. Heliostat Light

149. DWi-P glass / ballfields
North End Place Walk
ballfields and ballfield terrace
DWi-P: Ballfields Terrace

151. DWi-P /
Ballfields Terrace/
Ramp from
Warren Street

152. ballfields terrace Ballfields Terrace // benches : view toward Manhattan
DWi-P / Ballfields Terrace / Green Roof / Public plaza

153. Ballfields

155. Irish Hunger Memorial

158. 9/11
Tribute in
Light

159. What’s
New

160. Undergraduate Residence Hall,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

162. Charleston Library,
Staten Island, NY

164. NYC Community Library,
Manhattan – Courtyard Scheme

166. ‘Designing with Light’
2006
‘Shape of Sound’
2014
Dwi-P LightScore
Architecture + Natural Phenomena