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April 5th, 2013
PROJECT S'MORE: New installation at the M&A courtyard space opens to the public Saturday, May 25th.
Los Angeles, CA – Opening SATURDAY MAY 25th at Materials & Applications is New York-based architect Edmund Ming-Yip Kwong's newest installation, Project S'More: Small is More.
Demonstrating the innovative potential of small scale architectural works, Kwong challenges the utility of the non functional decorative skins that are prevalent in contemporary parametric architecture with a stunning yet economical confederacy of form and function - a lightweight, easy to assemble, convolute framing strategy whose sinuous contours augment the figure's structural capacity.
Kwong's work is a towering 22' tall hexagonal mesh that is partially shrouded in a canopy of heat shrink film. Inside, a central urban campfire anchors a ring of seating elements and creates a venue for intimate conversation and storytelling. Throughout the summer S'More will host a series of performances, readings, and informal gatherings, as people are invited to enjoy the space.
The M&A exhibit courtyard has been a testbed for innovative ideas from emerging architects and artists since 2002. This compact urban site emphasizes public participation and interaction with the most challenging and compelling concepts in architecture, design and the arts. Project S'More augments M&A's realm of inquiry by dissolving the boundary between sensible and the sublime, the grounded and the gregarious.
Kwong's underlying ethos of efficiency in construction recalls the Rudolf Schindler-era concern for economy and craftsmanship. Project S'More uses a unique technique of plywood molding, creating not just a beautiful undulating surface, but a surface that is applied on edge, making it stronger than conventional plywood. Consequently, the plywood can be made thinner without sacrificing any of its strength. The manipulation of molded plywood exploits and enhances the essence of its texture and natural imperfections.
The broader architectural applications have the potential to green the building industry. Making buildings from thin bent plywood yields nine to ten times more usable wood from a log than making a building from hardwood lumber. During the production of plywood, only fifteen percent of the wood from a log is lost to waste. On the other hand, the average waste it takes to make a finished solid wood frame building is one and a half times more wood than is used in the building itself!
The installation will be constructed via public workshops throughout April at Aperiodic Industries and a public opening May 25th. The installation will be viewable 24 hours a day through the end of August and documented extensively on the M&A website:
www.emanate.org
Below is the calendar for Project S'more's free workshops and our opening party. To attend workshops, please RSVP at www.aperiodic-industries.com
April 13 + 14 noon to 5pm aperiodic industries : begin construction, cutting and jigging
April 20 noon to 5pm, aperiodic industries : cutting + jigging + assembly
April 27 noon to 5pm, aperiodic industries: cutting + jigging + assembly
May 4 noon to 5pm m&a : site prep workshop, construct steel base and anchoring
May 18-19 noon to 5pm m&a: transport and assemble all parts at M&A create benches and wrap
SATURDAY MAY 25th - PUBLIC OPENING
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April 5th, 2013
START SEEING UGLY - LA2050: HELP locate new places for M&A-style projects throughout Los Angeles! PLEASE VOTE NOW!
M&A's new project, Urban Applications, is seeking a $100k grant for their amazing LA urban blight mapping application START SEEING UGLY. The ultimate goal is to get the app into the hands of the public (that means YOU) to share with everyone the ugliest empty places you pass everyday via an online map where photos you snap will be pinned to a map of LA.
Finalists are determined by public voting so please head on over to the site and lend your support by voting and leaving a comment!
Check out our proposal and click "Vote for this Idea" to vote for us, and then convince all your friends, relatives, and that guy in line ahead of you with a smartphone to do the same:
http://myla2050.maker.good.is/projects/UGLYAPP
If you need to register, please remember to validate your email address (you'll receive instructions after you vote) so your vote gets counted. You'll see a notification at the top of the screen once your vote has been successfully submitted. Thanks!
Start Seeing UGLY!!
(so we can Build Something Beautiful)
