Roof Cuttings
2020
New York City
Installation (Completed)
Fabrication: Studio Kina
Photography: Jesse Whiles
Support by New York Restoration Project
We designed five community garden structures as a single exhibition for the Architectural League, installed across New York City’s five boroughs in Summer, 2020.
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The structures were planned for community gardens, which offer myriad lessons for designers—from their ethics (and aesthetics) of reuse and material assemblies to how they foster social collectives that promote discussion, compromise, and consensus.
For this exhibition, considered how to create a momentary atmosphere or interior with minimal elements. Each roof is made of greenhouse sheathing and aluminum siding reassembled into unobtrusive forms. To stand beneath it is like being under a tree, or some clouds. We imagine them forming a larger roof over the city—a covering made of small parts. Together their value shifts between the individual and the collective; the moment and the aggregate. These objects are ambiguous, and sit between furniture and architecture, roof and ground.
2020
New York City
Installation (Completed)
Fabrication: Studio Kina
Photography: Jesse Whiles
Support by New York Restoration Project
We designed five community garden structures as a single exhibition for the Architectural League, installed across New York City’s five boroughs in Summer, 2020.
The structures were planned for community gardens, which offer myriad lessons for designers—from their ethics (and aesthetics) of reuse and material assemblies to how they foster social collectives that promote discussion, compromise, and consensus.
For this exhibition, considered how to create a momentary atmosphere or interior with minimal elements. Each roof is made of greenhouse sheathing and aluminum siding reassembled into unobtrusive forms. To stand beneath it is like being under a tree, or some clouds. We imagine them forming a larger roof over the city—a covering made of small parts. Together their value shifts between the individual and the collective; the moment and the aggregate. These objects are ambiguous, and sit between furniture and architecture, roof and ground.