Eva Jensen Design + Laufs Engineering Design's “Circle Shade - 2πR4” was announced today as the winning proposal for this year's Folly Function installation at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. This year's challenge asked entrants to design four portable and deployable canopy structures for flexible use throughout the Park.
In response, the Eva Jensen team used the circle to form their design, Circle Shade - 2πR4...
— Bustler
New York-based Eva Jensen Design is now among the Folly Function winners to design the summer installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. Recent winners include Hou de Sousa, IK Studio, and Austin+Mergold.
Learn more about Eva Jensen's winning design on Bustler.
I know it is a small budget, but at this point they'd do better buying some tarps from home depot and spray painting the Socrates Park logo on it.
This makes me so sad about the state of our profession.
I can't help but wonder if you guys hating on this understand the complexities of engineering and building an object to be used in the public realm? Something that needs to be robust enough to withstand abuse by idiots (who are legion), not fly away in a windstorm, not fall over and crush a kid, yet still look delicate and playful? Add on the attempt to make something *mobile*, able to be moved to other locations, and it's a significant amount of design work and fabrication on a very tight budget.
These canopies are cool. They're fun, savvy, provide a place to sit, define a district, create an image. Their slightly askew stance is accessible and cute and every component is well-scaled (compare Gehry's ominous Serpentine Pavilion for an example of whimsy done poorly).
Designing something simple is the. hardest. thing.
An object can be both simple and visually impactful. There are far too many architects out there who intentionally suppress or deemphasize visual impact as if it is some kind of vice. And those same architects are the ones who tend to fetishize the detail, even when the details aren't all that amazing. Industrial designers run circles around architects when it comes to detailing.
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I'm sorry, but that is just sad. Worse than a 1st year architecture student home depot project.
I think it's adorable! I like it.
I know it is a small budget, but at this point they'd do better buying some tarps from home depot and spray painting the Socrates Park logo on it.
This makes me so sad about the state of our profession.
Lol, is this an early April fools joke?
I can't help but wonder if you guys hating on this understand the complexities of engineering and building an object to be used in the public realm? Something that needs to be robust enough to withstand abuse by idiots (who are legion), not fly away in a windstorm, not fall over and crush a kid, yet still look delicate and playful? Add on the attempt to make something *mobile*, able to be moved to other locations, and it's a significant amount of design work and fabrication on a very tight budget.
These canopies are cool. They're fun, savvy, provide a place to sit, define a district, create an image. Their slightly askew stance is accessible and cute and every component is well-scaled (compare Gehry's ominous Serpentine Pavilion for an example of whimsy done poorly).
Designing something simple is the. hardest. thing.
An object can be both simple and visually impactful. There are far too many architects out there who intentionally suppress or deemphasize visual impact as if it is some kind of vice. And those same architects are the ones who tend to fetishize the detail, even when the details aren't all that amazing. Industrial designers run circles around architects when it comes to detailing.
3 1" aluminum poles set into 3 buckets is robust?
I was searching for Eva Jensen+Hustler, but this is pretty cool I guess. I'd sit under one of those wafers.
industrial designers details run circles around architects? and that's a featured comment...promoted by archinect staff... quite an opinion. You could just be critical of this project instead of putting the entire body of professionals down!
The scale of engineering implications, construction logistics, and life safety issues make the two disciplines pretty hard to compare mr davvid
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From our end, we will be using 3D printed filament fiber connections outdoors in LIC for the first time (glass/nylon/carbon fiber-based), with strength levels similar to aluminum, locally made in LIC.
Given the sloped & curved geometry, 3D printing has efficiency advantages over machined or casted conventional metal connectors, so it is a symbol of 21st century technical progress also, with opportunities to minimize transportation and maximize fully controlled shape & design (digital fabrication).
rivets - welds - bolts - 3D printed connection
We will perform systematic strength tests in Berlin this year and hope to contribute to the building industry with this new connection technology, soon readily available to all designers - this will have a big impact on our built environment to come, given free-form structures will be much more feasible, so we can finally go back to material- saving force-flow optimized shapes, that are no longer too costly to build.
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