Prefabricated, mass customizable row house on a typical chicago lot
Posable Street Furniture prototype installation
Artist's retreat and landscape design
K2 Architect's entry for the Grand Egyptian Museum competition
Ultra Compact house design on a flood plain
Competition poster and art-glass installation
Series of movies documenting Chicago street character
Project Manager: Matt Kupritz Collaborators: BEN TOAM
Installations are small-scale architectural projects. The are often sculptural, but large enough to affect the space that contains them. They can take the form of large scale furniture that modifies the usage of a space. Interior architecture could also be considered an installation.
Project Manager: Matt Kupritz Collaborators BEN TOAM Program: K2 Architects’ Little Black Pearl Workshop Project incorporates an internally lit translucent ‘pearl’ in the center atrium. The Submit graphic was printed on 3-form Varia Digital. The LBPW project called for a shining focal point above the atirum stairs. The Submit graphic was printed on 3-form Varia [...]
Conceptual Drawings Photos
Professor: Ken Isaacs Program: 800 s.f. House built on a flood plain in Mississippi. Design to accomodate flooding up to 6′. The House is built on piers, which circulation wraps around. The glass floor in the kitchen extends over the river, to engage the interior space in the surrounding environment. Medium: Ink on Mylar hand [...]
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Professor: Ken Isaacs Program: 800 s.f. House built on a flood plain in Mississippi. Design to accomodate flooding up to 6′. The House is built on piers, which circulation wraps around. The glass floor in the kitchen extends over the river, to engage the interior space in the surrounding environment. Model Photos
Professor: SARA DUNN Program: An 800 sq. ft. artist’s retreat, located within an urban park. The project was divided into 3, 60′x60′ sections, the first two of which were fully open to the public. the 3rd contains the artist’s retreat, along with a public area for viewing the artist’s studio, as well as a lookout [...]
Professor: Randy Jacobson Collaborators: Josh Myers Program: This project uses a watch and a camera to document the experience of traveling through a variety of neighborhoods in Chicago. Pictures were taken at a set interval along the path, and are paired with a timeline and a map. This system creates an inverted relationship between travel [...]
Professor: Ammar Elouini Collaborators: Ben Toam Description: Mass Customization in Digital Media: Prefabricated Row Houses, designed for a typical chicago lot (125′x25′). direct v. two ways of looking at a reversal. instead of space defining the rooms, the rooms have the power to define the space around them. interest is created where two or more [...]
Collaborators ADAM FREETLY | JUAN GUERRERO | BEN TOAM | PROF. CELINE PARMENTIER Description UIC Architecture Program, Undergraduate Digital Media Studio Spring Semester 2002. Design and construction of a street furniture prototype for mass production. Designed for CWC Wood Competition. Process Posable Street Furniture was initiated as a project that dealt only with wood [...]
01 GUERILLA ARCHITECTURE is an attack on the establishment. how do you find clients for street furniture that doubles as a homeless shelter? DO IT YOURSELF. Commandeer the side of a building. attach a prefabricated unit in the middle of the night. spray-paint an instruction template on the wall. keep somebody in a warm dry [...]
Project Lead MATT KUPRITZ Collaborators TIM BURD | ADAM FREETLY | JOSH MYERS | LYLE PORTZER | DAVID PINDEL | BEN TOAM Description K2 Architects Competition Entry for Grand Egyptian Museum Competition Summer 2002. Firmwide competition entry, museum campus design integrated with landscape design of equal magnitude. Rendered in an “overlit” style, to give the [...]
Professor: SARA DUNN Program: An 800 sq. ft. artist’s retreat, located within an urban park. The project was divided into 3, 60′x60′ sections, the first two of which were fully open to the public. the 3rd contains the artist’s retreat, along with a public area for viewing the artist’s studio, as well as a lookout [...]
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01 Line The choice of pathway. A chaotic system that allows the visitor freedom in navigation Rules are both broken and followed. The stairs govern the speed and rhythm of passage. By moving across stair systems, landings are created and passage granted deeper into the project. Materials define the game sensually (visual and auditory). Vision [...]
03 Retreat Photos
Submit Graphic Client: Matt Kupritz Collaborators BEN TOAM Brief: A design competition to be hosted by a local restaurant, and sponsored by an architecture firm. Design of competition brief (poster) and promotional postcard. Design completed and delivered, but competition never opened. Pearl Cladding Project Manager: Matt Kupritz Collaborators BEN TOAM Program: K2 Architects’ Little Black [...]
The title of the competition to play up the subserviant relationship implied in submitting work to be judged. The rendered graphic mirrors the varying densities of the city, one of the issues the competition intended to address. The deliverables were an 18×24 poster containing the competition brief, and a promotional postcard.
The LBPW project called for a shining focal point above the atirum stairs. The Submit graphic was printed on 3-form Varia Digital, and attached to an aluminum frame. The final installation is lit from within. After the image was rerendered and printed by 3-Form, it was necessary to use a water jet to cut the [...]
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