Behind the Scenes of an Architectural Experiment at MoMA! · Apr 17, 04:27 PM
From the article Behind the Scenes of an Architectural Experiment by Jane Garmy that appeared in today’s NY TIMES:
“In preparation for “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling,” a show on prefabricated housing that opens July 20, the Museum of Modern Art is letting the public in on the action. The museum has set up a Web site (momahomedelivery.org) that allows visitors to follow the process as five architectural teams create houses to be installed in outdoor space west of the museum’s main building. Every week until the show opens, each team will present progress reports, with photos, drawings and video clips of its efforts to make, ship and assemble the structures.”
Cellophane House (upper left), MoMA building site (far right)
From to the Installation Journal:
The Home Delivery Installation Journal offers a “behind the scenes” look into the entire process of creating and erecting prefabricated architecture. As part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, which will be on view at The Museum of Modern Art from July 20 to October 20, 2008, the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design selected five architects to display full-scale prefabricated houses in the outdoor space to the west of the Museum’s main building. The five firms and individuals chosen to participate have agreed to contribute weekly progress updates to the Web site several months in advance of the exhibition, demonstrating how the processes of design, fabrication, shipping, and assembly unfold to create five finished homes in time for the exhibition’s public opening.
The five architects were each assigned a day of the week: KieranTimberlake Associates, the subject of our upcoming (June) publication Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture will contribute a weekly progress update on the onsite construction of their Cellophane House on Mondays.
From to the Installation Journal:
Loblolly House is an offsite fabricated, single family dwelling that inaugurates a new, more efficient way of building through the use of building information modeling (BIM) and integrated component assemblies. The thousands of parts that make up a typical house were collapsed into a few dozen “elements” that were simply attached to an industrial aluminum frame on location. KieranTimberlake’s Cellophane House brings together two of KieranTimberlake’s research projects, SmartWrap™ (2003) and Loblolly House (2006).
Loblolly House is situated on idyllic Taylors Island, off the coast of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.
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