System Architects

System Architects https://systemarchitects.com System Architects Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:55:07 +0000 https://systemarchitects.com en Untitled page http://systemarchitects.com/Untitled-page Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:55:07 +0000 System Architects 454411 aA Shelter http://systemarchitects.com/aA-Shelter Wed, 13 Nov 2019 04:39:30 +0000 System Architects 347061 ‹ Selected Work<img width="1756" height="662" width_o="1756" height_o="662" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/dce1413cd5aeb8c47875fd07dd45f80c318295c0be905bc701b268f87344d4e8/system-architects-work-aAshelter-0.png" data-mid="814750" border="0" /> <img width="1000" height="1620" width_o="1000" height_o="1620" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/17fcc38d4481164760c5e44ddcf8ceccf84ba24e71a7f4f883b3f777bd8d059d/system-architects-work-aAshelter-1.jpg" data-mid="841055" border="0" /> aA Shelter is a 1600 sq. ft. interior space on the street level of a church building on the Upper West side of New York City. The church was established in 1830 to minister to the needs of the city's poor and homeless. This mission continues today. The room is multi-purpose; it’s used for gathering and dining (up to 100 people eat a sit down meal there at least once a week), as well as sleeping, social, medical and psychiatric services for the itinerant community. But it had become dilapidated. The homeless in New York City are constantly on the move and the architecture of the renovation sought to acknowledge and “write” their transience into the surfaces and structure of the space. <img width="1756" height="1170" width_o="1756" height_o="1170" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a30beaa3e6a1d4d476c50aba1ff0563031d5edc09025dbab5a563203fefe3a0c/system-architects-work-aAshelter-2.jpg" data-mid="814754" border="0" /> The space is laid out using an unfamiliar measuring system that places the homeless, visitors and shelter workers on an equal footing. As the space has very limited access to daylight, and no direct sun, the design fills the space with fluorescent light, paints the existing surfaces of the room white, then suspends a laser cut perforated ceiling below the light source. This has the effect of changing the light quality as people move around the room. The new ceiling, floor and walls are in a honey-butter color. <img width="1756" height="4181" width_o="1756" height_o="4181" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fc371cf7ac2beefc1bb1c569093730725991e3e0c7f09a4c8322416cd7948f0f/system-architects-work-aAshelter-3.jpg" data-mid="814755" border="0" /> The back wall is contoured and movable so that it can accommodate items that need to be stored behind it, while not blocking a window on the western wall. The geometry further relaxes the vertical so that visitors might lean up against it, sit on it, and move around it. A pattern of lines articulates the changing geometry on the wall, and these reverberate through the ceiling and floor until, at the entryway, they return to parallel. <img width="1000" height="1620" width_o="1000" height_o="1620" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e6b393eef2ce110dcb40ae61a37aa4daf3635b80015e1b1ced5c356cc21cb300/system-architects-work-aAshelter-9.jpg" data-mid="841059" border="0" /> aA Shelter is primarily built from construction-grade plywood finished in an industrial grade epoxy and is a contemporary version of an adjacent historic wood paneled room. Every piece of the new construction is a specific and different shape imprinted with information about what it should connect to, so that volunteers can assemble the pieces as they would a puzzle.  <img width="2336" height="3504" width_o="2336" height_o="3504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8cbe83cba24bb368c69a13d044f8c1bb073275d9de2b6e9cbe961e29f9204c3c/Shelter-Details-13-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="841056" border="0" /> <img width="1000" height="680" width_o="1000" height_o="680" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a776610c6521c110ededfb501668c95c805deba2adbfe2b6c61705dd97ec4c6d/image.png" data-mid="814762" border="0" /> The design used scripting and digital modeling to generate the forms, patterns, lines and details. Each piece of the floor, wall and ceiling was modeled for fabrication and drawn for assembly by the architects. A community of workers, ranging from high-end technologically-sophisticated fabricators to homeless men, came together to execute the design and create the room, many of them donating their time. <img width="1756" height="2636" width_o="1756" height_o="2636" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a5563a1b6c6b34ad22151eef14aee7a133c66a56047b016a87e3f809669935b5/image.png" data-mid="814759" border="0" /> When System was designing this project, it seemed to us that many lives were converging on this space in the city, and these lives were often lived without stable co-ordinates. So we developed a coherent geometry (without a grid), that used lines in a single continuous direction, meandering through a created topographic space. The pattern of these lines tell stories of the space and articulate the divisions within the material of the project. At the plane of the ceiling, the lines turn to perforations, diffusing the light across the space. The continuous change in the pattern affords a textural intensity to build up and subside, and we choreographed this to pre-figure an imagined use of the space. Each project detailed in this chapter similarly has its own textural creations rendered in light. <img width="1756" height="1984" width_o="1756" height_o="1984" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f903051ed7df28d2d0e479564086642c453ea5839cdb1baff820adad1448e680/system-architects-work-aAshelter-7.jpg" data-mid="814760" border="0" /> <img width="1756" height="2166" width_o="1756" height_o="2166" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b3c167f36420df13aa2c5e5fedf7d4549471d17c9cfc41aeb20303e402e45ea0/system-architects-work-aAshelter-8.jpg" data-mid="814761" border="0" /> LOCATIONUpper West Side, Manhattan, NY PROGRAM — SQUARE FOOTAGE1600 sq. ft. YEAR— Homepage         Information      Jeremy Edmiston  The Work        The Book         ‹ Selected Work aA Shelter is a 1600 sq. ft. interior space on the street level of a church building on the Upper West side of New York City. The church was... Fulcrum http://systemarchitects.com/Fulcrum Sat, 14 May 2016 01:25:16 +0000 System Architects 70167 ‹ Selected Work <img width="1400" height="396" width_o="1400" height_o="396" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/644fc5605f299bc95f83c957f3c818cf693d1dff5976cfe1ed7c443247c800fc/Header-Fulcrum.png" data-mid="58959" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1010" width_o="800" height_o="1010" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/dd85d3c84744e6396ffa739066d700da81a8363e7949ef9104d512ac9e2287aa/Fulcrum-duo-01c.jpg" data-mid="58965" border="0" /> Transformation through movement: with a single step on the stair, the counterweighted staircase gently drops down, extending to the garden. With one small movement, something large occurs.   Designed with Douglas Gauthier, Fulcrum Stair provided a client with a second-floor apartment access to the back garden. But it also serves to fuse structure with form. Structure is often thought of as the skeleton for form. But in the work of System Architects, form is no longer just shape, and structure is no longer just support: the roles are indistinguishable. Return to Projects <img width="800" height="1415" width_o="800" height_o="1415" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/30c0cdebfb07c87ffff4f87cd68d21cb199dd53e51f711d94f4122b814e11c2c/Fulcrum-diagram-800.gif" data-mid="58961" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="634" width_o="800" height_o="634" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f0c978606801778ccb4405aa421c0710c34186723cb3f2c5b0142ee7974fa690/FulcrumStair-03-sm.jpg" data-mid="58962" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1012" width_o="800" height_o="1012" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b5b4abed69bc3073b1dc08c1b007d2ca351f64d60371ad3c93c025542faa18ff/FulcrumStair-02-sm.jpg" data-mid="58963" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="635" width_o="800" height_o="635" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/74e0da270f1c7a3554e9021365182a45f7f23befe772cc063d895a48ab2fc60d/FulcrumStair-05-sm.jpg" data-mid="58964" border="0" /> LOCATION East Village, Manhattan, NY PROGRAM Translucent terrace with counter-weighted stair SQUARE FOOTAGE 300 sq. ft. YEAR 2003 Homepage         Information      Jeremy Edmiston  The Work        The Book         ‹ Selected Work Transformation through movement: with a single step on the stair, the counterweighted staircase gently drops down, extending to the garden. With... Chambers http://systemarchitects.com/Chambers Sat, 14 May 2016 01:24:06 +0000 System Architects 70164 ‹ Selected Work <img width="1400" height="306" width_o="1400" height_o="306" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/17631b016f1aaa80f26ab53e6ffc36d7e6cb7051166bccfefe5ac0da1bf32b15/Header-Chambers.png" data-mid="58949" border="0" /><img width="800" height="1422" width_o="800" height_o="1422" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9726e8dee5a48d9bfeefd6bc2deda30df18243bd43d4c597fc6662884829417d/Chambers-duo-01_2.jpg" data-mid="58958" border="0" /> Twisting surfaces are incredibly difficult to accomplish in construction, but System Architects’ innovative construction design makes building them not just possible, but quick and efficient. The curves in this space are highly complex, but subtle. Only when you get close do you recognize how much the space actually shifts. Unfamiliar but enticing, it’s made to be discovered. Perforated screens draw in natural light from the windows, producing a dappled effect like sun falling through high and low leaves of a forest — all in a New York apartment designed for a French client, in the heart of the city. Return to Projects <img width="800" height="556" width_o="800" height_o="556" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ceb298e0936c55721e25f356474211912a037351a798b4acc49a582557aa06e4/Chambers-edit-2b.jpg" data-mid="58952" border="0" /><img width="750" height="1000" width_o="750" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/152692aca7b2d428059df05ae6cbe1a3b92318049a0bdbe255ca5e777a8e2931/Chambers-duo-02.jpg" data-mid="58954" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1170" width_o="800" height_o="1170" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d5bb371c094f2da9d16e1671987e0ffe60d406ecb9aecc46b007221fa058409a/Chambers-edit-4b.png" data-mid="58950" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1707" width_o="800" height_o="1707" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/97ebe0dee86b34b258c2c5a66b97dfad263f636ae7076505b3ed1f534fbb92c6/Chambers-mono-06b.jpg" data-mid="58955" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1199" width_o="800" height_o="1199" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d8c67cd614c51e4cc9b0ae5f0cf4e9da6516ed55143f8c41c33a3d2116bf3279/Chambers-edit-3b.png" data-mid="58953" border="0" /><img width="800" height="363" width_o="800" height_o="363" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7bdb376d3fccb1610b59ae8ca65db13eae87b62602ddc47d4bad55a3c81d9daa/Chambers-drawing-02b.jpg" data-mid="58956" border="0" /> LOCATION Tribeca, Manhattan, NY   PROGRAM Apartment interior  SQUARE FOOTAGE 870 sq. ft.     YEAR 2009 Homepage         Information      Jeremy Edmiston  The Work        The Book         ‹ Selected Work Twisting surfaces are incredibly difficult to accomplish in construction, but System Architects’ innovative construction design makes building... Franklin http://systemarchitects.com/Franklin Sat, 14 May 2016 01:23:12 +0000 System Architects 70163 ‹ Selected Work <img width="1400" height="524" width_o="1400" height_o="524" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6479cc4b2c073e8945ad13d178e7d9932c6d96b0ef621d9953aa1c65681974f3/Header.png" data-mid="58946" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1422" width_o="800" height_o="1422" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/895bc66ea03be268e9b122f9c6fdc1b321a7c21bada0fa89e00ff14fcc36cdc0/187F-duo-02b-800.jpg" data-mid="795386" border="0" /> From a base of solid metal at street level, brick twists as it rises to meet the sky, where it plays and dances, cantilevering out into the street. The complex geometry of the façade is mirrored inside, in the domestic space, where an interior wall of twisted brick anchors the back of the house, its curves providing seating, shelving, and even a fireplace. <img width="512" height="750" width_o="512" height_o="750" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/bb08448ed91316d798488a70848e3d3f680ed7b217f98b3d56e97394e3edd9b6/image.png" data-mid="795397" border="0" /> Built over an existing three-story building, the new design gives the family within more living space, while adding fresh perspective on the street. The radical twists and folds of the façade are all accomplished with standard-sized bricks, materials characteristic of the historic neighborhood. The bold design was approved by the local Landmarks Preservation Commission in a rare unanimous vote. <img width="801" height="534" width_o="801" height_o="534" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c9da569cc72411028e91d99f632641f46e77149b3782f5440ada674b7d97a537/187F_exterior_Field-Condition_02_digital.jpg" data-mid="795391" border="0" /><img width="750" height="1125" width_o="750" height_o="1125" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/722d8071506137db6d30b17aee9d31d008ae6f1e8015e96505668276bdd67cbf/187F_exterior_Field-Condition_03_digital.jpg" data-mid="795388" border="0" /> <img width="1600" height="1068" width_o="1600" height_o="1068" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4318b742027c544c416af9a9c41e9376d9a76ddadae5e897c0211a7b420dde62/DSC_8640.jpg" data-mid="795393" border="0" /> <img width="750" height="1333" width_o="750" height_o="1333" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5307a618bc85b0116af185c4fd2bcf301c0d4539a75d144161ccb21d08c09740/187F_exterior_Field-Condition_04_digital.jpg" data-mid="795387" border="0" /> <img width="841" height="1040" width_o="841" height_o="1040" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/94f590e0d7f6b7a693f10af72b7b9f3c5f3609d61843cbd523fd01fe2a5ca3df/01_UNhistorictownHOUSE.jpg" data-mid="58948" border="0" /> <img width="1600" height="1068" width_o="1600" height_o="1068" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/60eee6cfc0ba672999e22284da52ffcd7d0f95bc92dfd9cd466a8937b6735e48/201802050108.jpg" data-mid="795394" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="674" width_o="800" height_o="674" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9e160f3621c95fd78e978763f4b2dd479afe4018f8cd353ed064d0ca2f856a0c/187F-Morph-frames-bw.gif" data-mid="58943" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1422" width_o="800" height_o="1422" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/37c1bdf5e67d33d676b81144e3cfe96ce2193606c4307da36bae7e6cad53d031/187F-duo-01b-800.jpg" data-mid="58942" border="0" /> <img width="1282" height="1709" width_o="1282" height_o="1709" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5e6734dc21db0df817f868e4323c4f759b34d079ccfa53a08d5086acc39e089c/20172194.jpg" data-mid="795395" border="0" /> <img width="1500" height="3273" width_o="1500" height_o="3273" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/bb8f1b4abd3223794315588079564b31718a76f7c6ddb55a7f3dced3287b12d0/187F_07.jpg" data-mid="58945" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1204" width_o="800" height_o="1204" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3058675539904f905044868157be3d431a710ea6a355946ce5e6d506b85da929/Franklin-brick-duo-02.jpg" data-mid="58947" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/92fd15828d1a9299e70baef971f7d90df5ffc79e0d2b9356ada870914de7f21d/187F_09a-square.jpg" data-mid="58944" border="0" /> LOCATIONTribeca, Manhattan, NY PROGRAM Residential addition + renovation SQUARE FOOTAGE3,750 sq. ft. YEAR2016 Homepage         Information      Jeremy Edmiston  The Work        The Book         ‹ Selected Work From a base of solid metal at street level, brick twists as it rises to meet the sky, where it plays and dances, cantilevering out into the... Burst http://systemarchitects.com/Burst Sat, 14 May 2016 01:21:58 +0000 System Architects 70162 ‹ Selected Work <img width="1400" height="396" width_o="1400" height_o="396" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/25d1c0d962ebe64aa8dbf9934d3f40d4459d6b20ec5f42942541196d8d486656/Header-Burst.png" data-mid="58931" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1415" width_o="800" height_o="1415" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9ae5953506ecd0263034ed5ab326eecbce5465861105fb5f28f04e52a9a87ff3/Burst008-duo-02b-800.jpg" data-mid="58941" border="0" /> The idea is simple: precision-cut materials fused into a structure full of both light and power. Developed with Douglas Gauthier, BURST* breaks new ground in prefabrication, using powerful computer models to create complex structures from kits of common materials. The open weave of the building welcomes cooling breezes, sun and shadow. But the delicate ribs are also incredibly strong: able to withstand floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Originally built as a beach house on the Australian coast, Burst*008 was also fully constructed as a feature in the MoMA exhibit, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, where it was visited by over 750,000 people. Return to Projects <img width="800" height="445" width_o="800" height_o="445" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5a17cf9302805e58b18d0b174a5623baefa12461619ff6b04781dce16b1fc209/Burst-MoMA-model-800.jpg" data-mid="58937" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1022" width_o="800" height_o="1022" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/30fcf27cfe1e52079708dada47c6f950b8ed288f90540b154ed0e27a9adb8ede/Burst003-footprint-variations.jpg" data-mid="58940" border="0" /><img width="800" height="1170" width_o="800" height_o="1170" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/42f581d6be55b8c1b1d1cc8e751018d81f4a8ac6f093aadf373867c51c25f4eb/BURST003-ribs-B.jpg" data-mid="58936" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="507" width_o="800" height_o="507" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/56cb290b18a2803c8646e2642d52082549561dcdd6e13c09e17cad8ebb58ecd6/Burst003-bones-B.jpg" data-mid="58939" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="1262" width_o="800" height_o="1262" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/10e7306862604465b3a007de55c2f7f439001c06cd63a5e04c948454b9260e79/Burst-MoMA-street-01c-800.jpg" data-mid="58938" border="0" /><img width="800" height="1016" width_o="800" height_o="1016" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1a7fc001addf926fbd01fa8268e2eb799e0ddcd2d3201c9a21b5dcf16fcbb900/Burst003-entry-2b.jpg" data-mid="58934" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b93da22296e2e0b5674ea2d7fc5f53f193c315dbdfb1e87fe610de66e3fa5830/Burst003-kitchen-B.jpg" data-mid="58935" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="640" width_o="800" height_o="640" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a4e72382320f979918b2de5b01348675e2aedf96a77eab98b3a63dc267d6066a/Burst003-bed-C.jpg" data-mid="58933" border="0" /> LOCATIONMuseum of Modern Art, New York PROGRAM Exterior ground-up installation for MoMA’s exhibit, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling SQUARE FOOTAGE 1,600  sq. ft. YEAR 2008 Homepage         Information      Jeremy Edmiston  The Work        The Book         ‹ Selected Work The idea is simple: precision-cut materials fused into a structure full of both light and power. Developed with Douglas Gauthier, BURST* breaks... Press http://systemarchitects.com/Press Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:05:08 +0000 System Architects 58621 Press System Architects has been written about by the following publications. DOMUSABITAREBAUWELT LOG ARCHITECTURAL RECORD LeFIGARO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE NEW YORK TIMES THE FINANCIAL TIMES THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS VANITY FAIR TIME MAGAZINE Press System Architects has been written about by the following publications. DOMUSABITAREBAUWELT LOG ARCHITECTURAL RECORD LeFIGARO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE NEW... Jesse http://systemarchitects.com/Jesse Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:49:23 +0000 System Architects 58154 Jesse WilsonCreative Director As creative director at System Architects, Wilson brings an energetic and collaborative drive to the studio’s creative process. jesse@systemarchitects.com+1 805 450 0769124 West 30th Street #319New York, NY 10001 Return Home       Information       The Book          Jesse WilsonCreative Director As creative director at System Architects, Wilson brings an energetic and collaborative drive to the studio’s creative process. ... The Book http://systemarchitects.com/The-Book Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:31:03 +0000 System Architects 57915 Info Archive http://systemarchitects.com/Info-Archive Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:30:34 +0000 System Architects 57914 ContactSystem Architects124 West 30th Street #319New York, NY 10001 system@systemarchitects.com +1 212 625 0005 AboutSystem System Architects is a New York architecture practice led by Jeremy Edmiston. The studio’s fascination with complex geometry has produced some of contemporary architecture’s most striking designs. System is also a world leader in digital technology and construction, producing customized projects at high speed and with low cost. The result: complex designs usually reserved for institutions, available to private clients. AWARDSThe work of System has been awarded by the American Institute of Architects, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Architizer, the Architectural League of New York, Architectural Record, and the Museum of Modern Art, which commissioned and fully constructed a prefab house designed by System on museum grounds.   PRESSSystem has been featured in Domus, Abitare, Bauwelt, Log, Architectural Record, LeFigaro, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, and Time Magazine. Homepage          Jeremy Edmiston   The Work         The Book         ContactSystem Architects124 West 30th Street #319New York, NY 10001 system@systemarchitects.com +1 212 625 0005 AboutSystem System Architects is a New York...