LATEST
IDNY Presentation – GE Showroom, Wed July 27
Updated 08/04: Images and video from the IDNY Meetup, sponsored by Designer Pages are now available. Thanks to all who attended. – Michael will present recent work and research from the office at the IDNY New York City Architecture and Design Meetup, at the GE Showroom – 150 East 58th Street on Wednesday, July 2
PROJECTS
Plaza Apartment
Brooklyn, New York. Completed 2010. A nursery-library-home office-storage solution for a professional couple and their newborn baby in Brooklyn. An existing one-bedroom apartment is reconfigured to create a new interior nursery/bedroom. As an interior room, the space is partitioned using storage components and sliding panel
PRODUCTS
Water Extraction Prototype
Normal Projects is providing art direction, design, and brand identity and market research to a startup engaged in developing a product that extracts and purifies water from the air for residential, commercial, and developing world and disaster applications. We’re excited about the potential of this technology and are
RESEARCH
Lagoon Archipelagos
A proposal for a lagoon infrastructure for San Francisco Bay. A new reinforcing infrastructure of geo-textile tubes and levees lays the groundwork for a semi-rigid regional management and regulatory network within the projected flood zone. As the water line advances, displaced land types are redistributed within the network
WRITING
Signal Space on Urban Omnibus
Signal Space, an article by Michael Chen, with maps and visualizations by Michael and Justin Snider and exploring the mobile telecommunications of New York City and its architectural and urban design implications is featured on The Architectural League’s website, Urban Omnibus.