Category: Up to $150,000 in construction costs (category one)
This complex, experimental bent steel tube structure actively
engages the neighborhood by providing a space for unscripted use and curated
performances.
Installed in the courtyard gallery of Materials & Applications,
this project is an experimental bent steel tube structure that explores the
craft of pipe bending, joining form, computational procedures, and fabrication
processes into a complex structure that assumes various postures and porosities
through looping and layering.
La Cage aux Folles actively engages the
neighborhood by opening the courtyard to the sidewalk as a pocket park, albeit
a small one. In this way, the design team wanted the project to lay within the
traditions of both landscape architecture and urbanism.
Its engagement with the
street provided a space for both unscripted use and curated performances. La
Cage aux Folles has become a social condenser for the neighborhood and host to
many activities during its run, including a three-person dance performance and
a video animation of hummingbirds mid-flight—in slow motion—projected through
multiple scrims.
Additional information
Profile pipe bending: Paramount Roll and Forming
Fabricator: Ramirez Ironworks
Structural engineer: Anders Carlson
Paint supplier: Tnemec Paint
Jury
Jean Dufresne, AIA (Chair), Space Architects + Planners, Chicago
Richard Fernau, FAIA, Fernau + Hartman Architects, Berkeley, California
Joyce Hwang, AIA, Ants of the Prairie, Buffalo, New York
Jack Travis, FAIA, Jack Travis FAIA Architect, Bronx, New York
Kulapat Yantrasast, wHY Los Angeles, Culver City, California
Image credits
Nicolas Alan Cope
Nicolas Alan Cope
Nicolas Alan Cope
Nicolas Alan Cope
Nicolas Alan Cope
Stephen Linsley
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