Mid Term Review

Texas A&M University. October 22, 2012.

Jonah Rowen's Lecture

 

Jonah Rowen is an architect founder of Rowen Studio. He is an instructor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.

Jonah belongs to a cohort of young architects with an unbiased, load-free conscious, willing to revise and argue theoretical issues posed by Rowe, Rossi and Venturi and others, disseminating them to a new generation of architects.

Jonah is the editor of Project a new architecture theory publication, with the participation of very prominent critics and scholars, like Hernan Diaz Alonso, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Peter Eisenman, first issue due in November 2010.

Jonah is also an assistant editor working with Emmanuel Petit assembling a book of original essays by prominent architects reckoning with the legacy of Colin Rowe, a major intellectual influence on world architecture and urbanism century in city planning and urban design during the second half of the 20th Century.

He’s is also working on a collection of conversations, curated with Alfie Koetter, Daniel Markiewicz, and Emmett Zeifman, with leading young architects including Reinhold Martin and Kadambari Baxi, Pier Vittorio Aureli, and Jesse Reiser, regarding the possibilities for developing an architectural project today.

Before his appointment at SCI-ARC, Rowen worked at two prestigious New York design firms, Gage/Clemenceau and Esenman Architects.

Beautiful Skin.

SCAD Department of Architecture. Savannah, GA  Spring 2012.

A face lift to Saks Fifth Avenue Entrance Atlanta, GA.

Third Year Studio.

Critic: Jean Jaminet 

Motion Wall Proposal

Texas A&M University
Fabrication Seminar. Motion Studies SMA Technology. Department of Architecture and Aerospace Engineering.

Critics: Gabriel Esquivel and Darren Hartl

Preliminary proposal

Students: Lyly Huyen, Emily Knapp and Patrick Scott

"Digital Skins" Grasshopper Workshop

October 18, 19, 20, 21. 
25 hrs. total.

Taught by David Hernandez
Info: gabe@theoremas.com

Thursday  October 18. 5:30 pm. to 9:30 pm. 
Friday       October 19. 5:30 pm. to 9:30 pm.
Saturday   October 20. 9 am. to 6 pm.
Sunday     October 21. 10 am to 4 pm.

Langford A room 107.

Cost: $ 285.00

 To pay please use this link.

http://theoremas-gabe00fab.blogspot.com/2011/09/workshop-paymeny.html

KINK-Y FINAL

Prototypes Workshop. Tec of Monterrey. Estado de Mexico. June 2012.

This project started as a prototype about motion, the idea of passive motion through surface articulation and ornament, a concept that has been applied in architecture throughout different eras like Baroque and Art Noveau. However we wanted to include real motion through the activation of motors by the use of different sensors that read proximity and temperature. We worked with the department of Mechatronics from the Tec of Monterrey Campus Estado de Mexico. The idea of including automatization within the architectural surface as a way to deal with  a possibility for the future of architecture by integrating robotics to activate the performance as well as the sensations.

Kink-y becomes a machine of sensation like a full vibrator, just like Barbarella in the orgasmic machine, this project describes a new aesthetic possibility where the "Nude Goyan Maja" will give her body to a vibrating surface. Thus the name Kink-y which also deals with kinks as part of the ornamental sensibilities.

Kink-y is a massage bed as part of a steamy atmosphere that can be installed as part of the bathroom. Kink-y has a series of massage cushions that pulsate at different intensities when specific sensors located on the surface are activated. It also has some water spritzers like "eyelids" located on the surfaces as well, these eyelids help to cool the user from the steam.

The space space is described as an atmosphere where the ornament of the wall delaminates and becomes the performative surface. The space includes a type of "disco light" that is activated with sensors as well, this gives an effect of being underwater.

Critics:

Gabriel Esquivel

David Hernandez M.

Assistant:

Jorge Cruz

Mechatronic Consultants: 

Sergio Alcala, Lessly Sabido.

Students:

David Paredes

Paola Gutierrez

Laura Iturria

Ana Bello

Mariana Monroy

Andrea Martin

Alfredo Moron

Ernesto Valdivia

Xavier Pintor

Alma Aldana

Walter Castellanos

Violeta Vazquez

Pamela Lira

Raian Velasco

KINK-Y PROCESS

Original Model

Prototypes Workshop. Tec of Monterrey. Estado de Mexico. June 2012. 

Critics:

Gabriel Esquivel

David Hernandez M.

Assistant:

Jorge Cruz

Mechatronic Consultants: 

Sergio Alcala, Lessly Sabido.

Students:

David Paredes

Paola Gutierrez

Laura Iturria

Ana Bello

Mariana Monroy

Andrea Martin

Alfredo Moron

Ernesto Valdivia

Xavier Pintor

Alma Aldana

Walter Castellanos

Violeta Vazquez

Pamela Lira

Raian Velasco

Denisse Nava