CV Monica Hernandez Truitt Work Experience
Balmori Associates Lifeform Ltd. Studio Gaia Tonantzin Tlalli Institute Ludens Higuera + Sanchez Pascal Arquitectos W Hotels
Education
Masters in Landscape Design with Honors, Columbia University, New York 2010 Undergraduate Degree in Architecture, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City 2003
Exhibitions / Lectures
Van Allen Institute, portfolio part of permanent library. 2010. New York. Dome Colonies X ‘Nooks’ Exhibition, at X Initiative Dia Foundation. Collaboration with Fritz Haeg and Diana Balmori 2009. New York. ‘Constantly Variable’ Exhibition. Collaboration with Thomas Navin Architect, The Common Room. 2009. New York. ‘Making Public Places’ Twitter Forum. Collaboration with Diana Balmori. 2009. New York. ConFlux City ‘Making Public Places THE HUB’, festival of Urban Interventions. Collaboration with Balmori Associates. 2009.New York. StoreFront for Art and Architecture ‘Postopolis’ Lecture series. Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd. 2007. New York. Good Experience, ‘Gel Conference’, The Equitable Center. 2005.New York. Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico ‘Youth in Architecture’. 1999. Mexico City.
Academic and Research
Invited Jury for Columbia University’s Landscape Design Masters Final studio project. 2011- current. New York. Architecture for Humanity Competition, ‘Classroom Open Architecture Challenge’ Competition Jury. 2009 TEDx Manhattan 2012. ‘Changing the Way we Eat’. Attendee. New York. ‘TerreFarm 2010’, Experimental Lab for new prototypes for urban farming workshop with TerreForm1. New York. Certificate in Permaculture Design - Tri-State Food Not Lawns. 2007. New York. Associate Member American Institute of Architects (AAIA). 2005 - current. New York.
Awards
Best Social Service Project Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City and Delegation Cuajimalpa, Finalist .2002. Mexico City Outstanding Architecture Projects Universidad Iberoamericana, Winner .1998. Mexico City Outstanding Technical Drawing Universidad Iberoamericana, Winner. 1999. Mexico City
Selected Collaborative Publications
‘Futurescapes’ – Designers for Tomorrow’s outdoor Spaces. Tim Richardson. 2011. Collaboration with Balmori Associates “Safer Passage: Five Design Teams Competed to Help Animals Cross the Road”, Linda Mcintyre, Architecture Landscape Magazine, 2011. Collaboration with Balmori Associates. ‘Post-It Landscape’ Blog based on Diana Balmori’s book “A Landscape Manifesto.“ 2010. Collaboration with Balmori Associates. ‘MAKING PUBLIC PLACES’ BLURB booklet- 2009. Collaboration with Balmori Associates. ‘Tra fiume e città. Paesaggi, progetti, principi di Balmori Diana’- Publication. 2009. Collaboration with Balmori Associates ‘Collection, New Ideas - Library 2.0’ Korea, Bob Magazine - Publication. 2006. Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd. ‘ATK Monografias’ - Publication. 2006. Collaboration with Pascal Arquitectos. Other collaborative publications include publications in: New York Times, Fast Company, Village Voice, Architects Newspaper, Perspective Magazine (Korea), “ Bizkaia” ( Spain), LA Landscape Architecture China, MARU magazine ( Korea ) ,BOB Magazine ( Korea ) Abitare, Arquine ( Mexico ) Competitions Magazine, Domes architecture ( Greece), Interior+Design Magazine( Russia ), Metropolis, Arquitectura Viva ( Spain), Manhattan Magazine, Europaconcorsi, Architecture Record, and various blogs including : Inhabitat, Urban Omnibus, Landscape and Urbanism, Architectr, Core77, Design Boom and others.
Programs
AutoCad, Adobe Suite, 3-D Max, Rhino
Languages
Fluent in Spanish and English, basic French and Italian
Barn in the Forest, NY model
Building an Urban Livingroom , NY
ARI childrens shelving system
Designer / Business Development / Marketing Designer / Business Development / Marketing Designer / Marketing Design team for non-profit project Designer Design Internship Design Internship Guest Relations
Jan 2008 - current Sep 2005 - Nov 2007 Jul 2004 - Jul 2005 Sep 2002 – Mar 2003 Dec 2001 – Jun 2002 Apr 2003 – Jun 2003 Jul 2000 – Jun 2001 Jun 2003- Jan 2004
New York New York New York Oaxaca, Mexico Mexico City Mexico City Mexico City Mexico City
LIST OF PROJECTS
WITH BALMORI ASSOCIATES, NEW YORK University of Iowa, Hancher Auditorium Replacement Iowa city, Iowa Concept Design for Campus Master Plan and Landscape Design for New auditorium using flood prevention strategies. V.I.O.L. São Paulo San Paulo, Brazil Rendering, Planting Design and Selection. Concept Design through Design Development Landscape Design for commercial headquarters that on a site with native Mata Atlantica Rainforest. New Bauhaus Museum Competition Weimar, Germany Competition design team Manager Modular Crossing System / Arc Wildlife Crossing Competition Denver, Co Submission of RFQ, and competition team. Finalist. Botanical Research Institute of Texas Fort Worth, TX Detailing for Construction Documents for a research institute and education facility that opened in 2011. Campa de Los Ingleses Bilbao, Spain Design of various Park elements, including paving and plant selection for an urban park that recently opened in 2012. United States Institute of Peace Washington, DC 2 year Construction administration for the landscape design of this project headed by Moshe Safdie Architects. City Tech campus CUNY Brooklyn, NY Concept and Schematic Design package for Landscape Design of the Brooklyn campus -currently under construction. Bedford House Bedford Corners, New York DD set for the landscape design of this residential project in upstate New York. Hudson Yards Park & Boulevard Competition New York , NY Submission of RFQ, Competition design team w/ WORK ac. Finalist
Cajasol Sevilla Isla De La Cartuja, Seville, Spain Design Development detailing Design of green roof, and irrigation system for this mixed use commercial tower. Building an Urban Living Room New York, NY Proposal for Urban design for Public Space in the Meat Packing District “Nooks” For Dome Colony X in The San Gabriel’s New York, NY Furniture and art installation in a gallery. Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Competition Washington DC competition team. Finalist. Bogota Convention Center Competition Bogota, Colombia Submission of RFQ and competition team. w/ Zaha Hadid Architects. Finalist. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exterior Renovation Competition New York, NY Competition team. Finalist. UB Solar Park Competition Buffalo, NY Submission of RFQ and competition team. Finalist. Amman Performing Arts Center Competition Amman, Jordan Competition design team w/ Zaha Hadid Architects. Winner. WITH INSTITUTO TONANTZIN TLALLI , MEXICO CITY Rural Permaculture Center Oaxaca, Mexico 2002 - 2003 Designer for Masterplan and Sustainable Architecture, Volunteer Farmer WITH HIGUERA + SANCHEZ MEXICO CITY Casa Covadonga Competition México City, México Competition team.
WITH LIFEFORM LTD, NEW YORK 69 Bank Street New York, NY Permitting, DD set and Construction Administration for the Architecture and Landscape Design of this residential roof garden in West Village. 163 Montrose Building Brooklyn, New York Permitting and Business Development. N7 Modern Building Brooklyn, New York Architectural Design and Business Development Pataya Bay Condominiums Pataya Bay, Thailand Rendering and Business Development Bezalel Academy Competition Jerusalem Competition team. Library 2.0 Competition Helsinki, Denmark Competition team. Tsunami Memorial Competition Norway Competition team. WITH STUDIO GAIA, NEW YORK W Hotel Miami and Costa Rica Concept designs for Interior Design Disney Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Concept designs for Interior Design Alliance Capital Building New York, NY Graphic Design for cafeteria WITH PASCAL ARQUITECTOS, MEXICO CITY Sheraton Centro Histórico México City, México Concept designs for Interior Design
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Tsunami Memorial Competition
Norway, 2007 Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd – Competition Design Team An installation system of intertwining wood poles, metal piping wraps and an open meditation space becomes the design for this Tsunami Memorial. The structure reacts to the elements and forces of the site capturing nature’s choreography. The memorial is dedicated to embrace the perpetual cycle of nature and life. Constantly regenerating according to ongoing natural changes and natural forces, the installation symbolically represents the hopeful and optimistic spirit of life. sectionofofmemorial memorial section
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Jerusalem City, Isreal , Design Team sections A new addition to the Bezalel Academy of the arts is composed of two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza . Bezalel Academy Competition Jerusalem, 2007 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Competition Jerusalem City, Isreal Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city. Interior view Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd – Competition Design Team sections Design Team, Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd The Bezalel Academy design proposed is based on the understanding of Jerusalem and its urban elements and behaviors. tectonic analysis a typical Alley way of reveals A new addition to the BezalelAAcademy of ofthe artsJerusalem is composed two twin buildings made of 60% jerusalem stone and an open plaza . Interior view conditions such as a frame, entrance, connection, mysterious gateway, passage and bridge. Its elements are directly related to fragments of the city. These elements were used to compose the playfields. Several design decisions for the main elevations analysis of alley
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Brooklyn, NY, ProjectNY, Visualization Brooklyn, Project Visualization A nine Loft apartment building the trendy Williamsburg area. area. A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg N7 “The Modern inWilliamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn, NY N7 “The Modernand Williamsburg” Apartments Brooklyn,Ltd NY Project Visualization, Development. Collaboration with Lifeform Visualization, and Development. Collaboration withbathroom Lifeform AProject nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area. Ltd N7 Modern A nine Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area. Brooklyn, New York, 2007
SITE SPECIFIC Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Lifeform Ltd, N7 “The Modern Williamsburg” Apartments Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd. - Architectural Design and Business Development N7 is a nine loft unit condominium in the North side of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Its glass Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization Brooklyn, NY, Project Visualization facade references the surrounding condition through reflection and interaction and a system of apertures reveals of interiorin spaces highlights various internal elements A nine Loft Aapartment building the and trendy Williamsburg area. while nine glimpses Loft apartment building in the trendy Williamsburg area. preserving the privacy of tenants. Each of the facade windows extends beyond the floor planes, emphasizing community and potential relations between building inhabitants. By utilizing ideas of porosity and permeability, the building enhances its surroundings through improved air quality and light. Environmental friendly materials such as concrete aerated walls, Dura boardSPECIFIC partitions, and a low emission glass are used to contribute to a healthy, SITE comfortableSITE and sustainable living environment. SPECIFIC
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Pataya Bay Condominiums
Patay Bay, Thailand, 2007 Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd.- Rendering and Business Development A client’s request for the development of a site in Pataya Bay, Thailand, became the opportunity to design a sophisticated 50-story tower of luxury residences defined by a contemporary beachfront lifestyle. The development has a mix units that can be combined, as well as six exceptional duplex penthouses with private pools and fourteen four-bedrooms private villas with private island and pools .
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Arc Wildlife Crossing Competition / Finalist
Denver, Colorado, 2010 - 2011 Collaboration with Balmori Associates, Studio MDA, and Knippers Helbig Submission of RFQ, Competition Design Team Manager As a result of a successful RFQ that I submitted, Balmori Associates was chosen as one of 5 finalists for the ARC Wildlife Crossing Competition. As part of the competition team we analyzed and researched how animals cross roads. Whether we provide the means to ease these movements or not, they occur with great frequency. Resulting collisions with vehicles represent a safety hazard for travelers, a significant financial burden, and a threat to the viability of species populations located in landscapes dissected by roads. The Modular Crossing System applied on the bridge utilizes the surrounding landscape in order to create a new shape inspired by nature. The design uses a low tech system of layering wood planes to create an easily modifiable shape. The main focus was the sustainability of the bridge. By the massive use of wood - which is a change of paradigm - a low quality wood can be used (for example the beetle killed blue pine of Colorado). Quick installation time and small interference with the ongoing traffic are key. Most of the bridge is prefabricated in the shop. The pieces, maximized to the biggest allowable transportation size, will be assembled at the bridge location next to the street. These bigger pieces (arches) are still light enough to be handled with a crane. So the interference with the traffic is minimized to the moving hours of the crane. The crane could rest on the street during these hours. No scaffolding. Would be needed making it very quick, and very efficient to build.
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Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009 - Current Collaboration with Balmori Associates – Rendering, Planting Design and Selection. Concept Design through Design Development This design for headquarters building preserves the Mata Atlantica forest in Brazil and uses this as the driving idea behind the landscape character. Only 9% of this uniquely Brazilian ecosystem remains and this project celebrates its biodiversity and spatial richness in the urban landscape. The landscape follows the spatial rhythm and patterns of the forest as it weaves across the site and through two towers that make up the program. Circulation, lobbies and gardens are shaped and defined by the use of its visitors and users.
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Hudson Yards Park & Boulevard Competition / Finalist
New York, Ny, 2008 Collaboration with Balmori Associates and WORK ac - Submission of RFQ, Competition design team Hudson Yards linear park runs parallel to the Hudson River Park, while connecting the major transportation and cultural hubs of 34th and 42nd streets. The Wild West Side and Low Line Park is where Central Park meets Times Square in an explosion of ecological and programmatic exuberance. It is a park of movement that creates an urban leisure infrastructure by joining multiple pieces of program. The diversity and program grow organically out of the New York City grid, giving form and intensity the park. The Park as a new kind of linear park- one that is a hyper programmed response to its surrounding development.
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Cajasol Sevilla
Seville, Spain, 2009 Collaboration with Balmori Associates - Design Development detailing The central idea behind the landscape design for Caja Sol Sevilla is to create a shaded and cool path, with sounds and vapors of water, and variations in the degree of shade and shadows. The project is located in the south of the Isla of Cartuja, and is composed of a central square and two terraces on commercial podiums. The square is defined by the podiums that run north-south, which concentrate pedestrian activity and protected the plaza from the sun.
The City University Of New York ( CUNY ) City Tech Academic Building
Brooklyn, Ny 2009 Collaboration with Balmori Associates – Concept and Schematic Design package For the new LEED CUNY City Tech Academic Building we created a landscape that forms a continuous surface from the sidewalk entrance through the lobby to a garden courtyard. The idea is to enliven the public spaces and create a sense of the garden throughout.
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New Hancher Auditorium and Campus Masterplan
University Of Iowa, 2011- Current Collaboration with Balmori Associates – Concept Design With it’s water level rising and falling throughout the year, the Iowa River and surrounding landscape undergo constant dynamic change throughout the year while creating endemic habitats for flora, fauna, and humans alike. Since the 2008 floods devastated the Hancher auditorium in the University of Iowa, Balmori along with Pelli Clark Pelli was given the task to redesign a new auditorium and surrounding landscape that would stand the 500 year flood. We created a master plan for the Art Campus that provided the area with new currents of connectivity, creativity, and environmental performance. The area of study, the northern portion of the art campus, is an important moment within the campus plan representing the most northern anchor to the university and directly adjacent to Iowa City Park. Central to our plan is the idea of creating a new pedestrian bridge that is embedded in the landscape connecting an intimate riverfront garden on the east side to a series of landforms on the west that can be used for outdoor performance, temporary art exhibitions, recreational opportunities, educational opportunities, and water treatment areas. By creating significant areas of treatment and infiltration the stormwater collected on site can be cleaned and diverted into sculpted depressions that allow slow ground water infiltration and promote flood prevention strategies.
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The new building for Weimar Bauhaus Museum has been thought considering a wide range of aspects. First of all it is a Public building, very accessible from many very different directions and bound to the surrounding environment in many ways. It responds to the brief's functional requirements and takes inspiration from the urban texture of Weimar which recalls some radical nature elements or some artist's vision - and creates a small Urban System that blurs into the fabric of the city trying to extend it rather than stand alone like another monumental presence. It opens to the park and to the city center redefining this pivotal point of Weimar. The intention is to aggregate in the urban territory and not only in the building itself thus keeping a very recognisable architectural presence. The respect of the site caracteristics and limitations such as the contaminated soil and the intention to expand the brief to kindergarden and more exibition has been all taken into account.
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Pasaia, Spain 2010 Collaboration with Balmori Associates and S333 - Submission of RFQ, Competition design team The Bay of Pasaia was once an attractive, natural estuary for the River Oiastzun but over time the waterfront areas have been transformed into large man-made sites for shipyards, warehouses and for the storage of materials and goods. Titled ‘Revealing the Water’, the masterplan is premised on breaking down this artificial land, returning the waterfront sites to their natural state.
Amman Performing Arts Center Competition / Winner
Amann, Jordan, 2009 Collaboration with Balmori Associates and Zaha Hadid Architects Competition design team Located in the heart of the Jordanian capital of Amman, this new venue for the performing arts in is an initiative of Darat King Abdullah II to create a place to house all performing arts. Conceived a s a complex to become the mayor venue for theater, music, and dance performance in Amman and Jordan, it will become a vital element of cultural life in the area, and a catalyst of education
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Barn in the Forest
Upstate New York, 2010 Design proposal for Columbia University Landscape Design Master’s program This modern house designed by Angela Patterson is one of four barn-like structures that have been adapted to become modern homes. The project proposes that if the house is readapted farm structure then other aspects of the agricultural language could also be readapted and transformed into a contemporary language. By blending an agricultural model into the forest the landscape is transformed. Fences, water, fences and trails and the idea of cycles are turned into a pool, stonewalls, and a mobile gallery that follows the sun. The crop squares are reinterpreted into incisions on the land that have been planted as native grass fields, meadows, and fern terraces. Edibles are also introduced into them to enhance this idea. One of the most emblematic elements of the house is that is split in two by a thin ramp that cuts into the forest. This ramp is elongated in each direction creating a spine which organizes the entire program. It creates access into the house and give the owner an opportunity to walk the entire property.
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Bedford House
Bedford Corners, NY, 2009- 2011 Collaboration with Balmori Associates and Joel Sanders Architect - Schematic Design package, Construction Administration, Publicity For this renovation of a 1950’s house in the town of Bedford, we created a scheme that weaves interior and exterior as well as Main House and Pool House together by juxtaposing materials, surface, and planting. Inside the house’s cedar-clad darker perimeter shell is a refined folded surface made of custom concrete, exterior pavers, and drywall. This internal surface links the multi-leveled interior space and extends the inside out to the Pool House in the back, where it exposes itself fully as a dramatic folded concrete structure. Linking architecture to landscape is a stacked bluestone wall that brackets the Pool House in the lush surrounding landscape. I created the SD drawing set that ultimately became the set that was used for the construction of the landscape.
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Lifeform Ltd, 69 Bank Street Roofdeck Garden Project
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West Village , Manhattan NY , Project Architect Management and supervision of Roofdeck Garden with Japanese accents created for a family of 6 in the W
New York, NY, 2007 Collaboration with Lifeform Ltd. - Permitting, DD set and Construction Administration I was assigned as project architect for the Drawing and Construction Administration of this Roof Garden created for a family of 6 in the West Village. This rooftop garden with Japanese accents in the West Village provides an ecological retreat and unique outdoor space. The roof works to moderate heat gain, as well as to provide sound insulation, neutralize pollutants and reduce storm water runoff. Black stone, undulating woven bamboo, a circulating pond and bridge, and lush vegetation create a meditative and tranquil atmosphere for repose and gathering. stone and iris moss in landscape
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United States Institute Of Peace
Washington, DC, 2009 – 2010 - Construction Administration Collaboration with Balmori Associates and Moshe Safdie Architects - Construction Administration USIP is the independent, nonpartisan conflict management center created by Congress to prevent and mitigate international conflict without resorting to violence. Balmori Associates along with Moshe Safdie designed the institute, and I was in put in the construction administration for the project in the last two years floorplan is designed as a garden; a garden of construction. The Peace Institute’s landscape that surrounds a circular foyer for groups to gather at the front of the Peace and Education Center.
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / MARKETING
GREAT Natural ,Urban, Connected
NATIONAL GREAT RIvER PARk MASTER PLAN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS BALMORI ASSOCIATES + CONwAy & SChULTE ARChITECTS + CREATIvE CONCERN + DAvID FIShER + MARTIN & MILDRED FRIEDMAN + UNIvERSITy OF ARkANSAS COMMUNITy DESIGN CENTER + EMMONS AND OLIvIER RESOURCE INC + ITERIS + MAxFIELD RESEARCh INC + hESS ROISE & COMPANy + DAvIS LANGDON + ECONOMIC AND PLANNING SySTEMS
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2009 - current Collaboration with Balmori Associates With Balmori Associates I have put together and submitted over 100 RFQs, PPQs and RFP submittals which have resulted on a large number of successful shortlists and new projects for the firm. I have put together teams that included firms such as Zaha Hadid Architects, BIG, WORKac, Allied works, SHOP architects, ARUP, Buro Happold as well as other architects, engineers, and specialty consultants such as lighting and public outreach. My tasks required me to find provocative proposals, to reach out to firms that we would like to team up with and to gather qualifications, fees and key strategies from each of the players. Along with the directors of the firm and members of the team we develop design intents for the site that are incorporated into the submission. We look at key projects that illustrate that intention, and I put together everything into a cohesive document. Depending on the requirements of the RFQ, sometimes I also need to submit forms that are included in appendixes.
Sheraton Centro Historico Historical Center, Mexico City Design Team, Collaboration with Pascal Architectos Design Development drawings and Construction Details for the interiors of Sheraton Hotel of downtown Mexico City.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / MARKETING Pascal Arquitectos
Mexico City, Drafter IN THE NEWS: UP ON THE LET THE SHINE ! ROOF:THE Pascal Arquitectos is an internationally recognized firm withSUN luxury residential projects. As a drafter in the firm I worked on Design Development d NEW SOCIAL MEETING PLACE tion Details for the interiors of Sheraton Hotel of downtown Mexico City. This project was the first project done in 40 years in Mexico Ciy’s Histori drawings have been featured in several publications. www.pascalarquitectos.com
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BALMORI ASSOCIATES RE-ENERGIZES THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO WITH THEIR PROPOSAL PUBLIC POWER PARK Solar Installation on UB’s North Campus April 2010
Buffalo, NY - Last month the university of Buffalo with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) sent out an invitation to 20 artists to compete for the design of a new ‘Solar Park’, approximately six acres with the largest solar installation on any college or university campus in New York State and one of the largest on any campus in the United States. The installation was required to use 5,000 solar panels within a landscape to produce energy for the student housing. Balmori Associates with their proposal of “Public Power Park” was chosen as one of three finalists along with Walter Hood and Vito Acconci. Construction of the winning design is expected to begin in August.
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EXHIBIT OF ARTISTS’ CONCEPTS The university will be holding a public exhibit with the three final designs to celebrate Earth Day. The exhibit, “UB Solar: The Art of Power,” will be open to the public April 23 noon to 10 p.m April 24 and 25 noon to 5 p.m It will held in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Clifton Hall in the campus.
The Solaire 19th Floor Garden_ The first ‘green’ residential high-rise in the United States, winner of the 2004 Green Roof Award of Excellence, Battery Park City, NY
MASTERPLAN, COMPETITION WINNER
PARQUE DE LA LUZ CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN
The Park of The Light is designed as a fundamental change of infrastructures, from a hard infrastructure of an ancient port to a soft one of living systems, producing a beautiful green belt in the middle of the water. This living system cleans the water, protects against the wind, and provides an inviting setting for visitors and residents. The park creates a remarkable postcard image of Las Palmas for the ships who anchor to his edge. SIZE 4,000 acres STATUS Competition winner, 2005 DESIGN TEAM Balmori Associates, Inc. Pelli Clarke Pelli
MAGOK WATER ( WORKS) SEOUL, KOREA Water (Works) is a public park and a ecological infrastructure that is formally shaped by the flow of water. The park is a sophisticated network of ecological processes that weaves linear public space with natural and experimental technologies. Water (Works) is a working model of the park as an urban regenerator and prototype for future development. It is a public amenity embedded within a purifying infrastructure. SIZE 30 Acres
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Balmori’s proposal addresses the nature of technological infrastructure, where nature and technology intersect and proposes a new kind of public space, one that is a programmed response to producing power, and powering public space. More information: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/11217
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The largest green roof ever installed in New York City and the first to monitor scientific data, the Silvercup green roof has been designed by Balmori Associates as the first of a series of green roofs planned for Long Island City over the next decade. Balmori Associates conceived of and is implementing this plan for the neighborhood, dubbed “Long Island (Green) City.” EarthPledge, a non-profit organization devoted to identifying and promoting technologies for sustainability, has installed the Silvercup roof research station.
WORKpicnicEXPERIENCE / COMPETITIONS area SIZE 35,000 square ft. STATUS Completed 2005 DESIGN TEAM Balmori Associates, Inc. Shalat Architects, P.C. Greener by Design
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New York, Designer / Marketing Director 07.04 - 07.05 As a marketing director in various firms I created press releases, graphic, media and marketing material. I helped organize exhibitions such as “New Studio GaiaYork is one of the most influential hospitality design firms. As a marketing director I created digital presentations, attended media requests, created press reNow Exhibition” for the AIA in the Center for Architecture, events and conferences such as the “Gel Conference” in which I was required to lead a leases, press kits, graphic and marketing material. My job required some public relation work, such as representing the firm at exhibitions, “New York Now Exhibition” NewWYork, Designer Marketing group of entrepreneurs to our projects in the city. I created graphic presentations for W Hotel in Miami, the Hotel Costa Rica, /Disney Tokyo,Director and defor the AIA insigned the Center for Architecture, events and conferences such as the “Gel Conference” in 2005 in which I was required to lead a group of entrepreneurs to our the signage and branding of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Alliance Capital building Studio on 55thGaia street.isDuring the followone ofmy theI submitted most influential hospitali projects in the As a awards: designer,James I created graphic presentations for W Hotel Design in Miami,forthe“Solea”; W Hotel2005, CostaBest Rica,Hotel Disney Tokyo, and designed the signage and for branding ingcity. winning Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design Worldwide ‘Golden Key award excellence in Publication in BOB magazine leases, press kits, graphic and for marketing material. Press Awards Publications / the Brochures / Hospitality Design’ by Interior Design Magazine and HOTELS for the Hotel Mexico City” 2004 andawards: “W Hotel Seoul” 2005. of 24, 000 /square foot /corporate cafeteria Alliance Capital building on 55thmagazine street. During my “W I submitted the following winning James Beard Award Best for the AIA in the Center for Architecture, events an Printed Marketing Material Restaurant Design for “Solea”; 2005, Best Hotel Design Worldwide ‘Golden Key award for excellence in Hospitality Design’ by Interior Design Magazine and HOTELS 2004 - New current Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0 “ the Culture Yard” Competition York, Designer / Marketing Director 07.04 07.05 projects in the city. As a designer, I created graphic magazine for the “W Hotel Mexico City” 2004 and “W HotelHelsinger Seoul” 2005. www.studiogaia.com , Denmark, Design Team Publication in BOB magazine Collaboration with Studio Gaia, Lifeform LTD, and Balmori Associates CLICK HERE
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SITE SPECIFIC of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Allian While doing marketing for three different firms, I have created various press refrom public plaza and marketing material. MyLibrary job required some public relation work, such asviewrepresenting the firm at exhibitions, “New York Now Exhibition” leases, leases, graphic,press mediakits, and graphic marketing material. I helped organize exhibitions gal2.0 “ theinCulture Yard” Competition Helsinger , Denmark Restaurant forentrepreneurs “Solea”; 2005, Lifeform Ltd, Library 2.0the “Ltd the Culture Yard” Competition Design Team, Collaboration with as Lifeform for theand AIAconferences. in the CenterI developed for Architecture, events and conferences such “Gel Conference” in 2005 in which I was required to leadDesign a group of to ourBest Hotel D leries, events a marketing brochure AsHelsinger ,Balmori Denmark, Design Team on the information of its users and gives options back to the community. An for interactive library that feeds An interactive library that feeds on the information of its users and gives options back to the community. magazine for the “W Hotel Mexico City” 2004 and “ projects in the city.presentations As a designer, created for W Hotel in Miami, the W Hotel Costa Rica, Disney Tokyo, and designed the signage and branding sociates. I created graphic forIW Hotel ingraphic Miami,presentations the W Hotel Costa Rica, Disney Tokyo, and de-signed the signage and branding of 24, 000 square foot of 24, 000 square foot corporate cafeteria the Alliance Capital building on 55th street. During my I submitted the following winning awards: James Beard Award for Best corporate cafeteria Design the Alliance Capital building on 55th street. I submitted winning Restaurant for “Solea”; 2005, Best Hotel Design Worldwide ‘Golden Key award for excellence in Hospitality Design’ by Interior Design Magazine and HOTELS awards from WAN Urban Design awards 2011, to the James Beard Award for Best magazine for the “W Hotel Mexico City” 2004 and “W Hotel Seoul” 2005. www.studiogaia.com SITE SPECIFIC Restaurant Design in 2005. 103
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BIG IDEAS: Proposals for the new West Side boulevard include Work Architecture's fanciful hills and...
Here's the first look at designs for a spectacular new boulevard and park planned for Manhattan's far West Side, where Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a new business district more than twice the size of the World Trade Center complex.
From fanciful images of hills, trails and plantings to a park filled with enormous evergreen trees and rock outcrops, the proposals from five teams of architects vying to design the park and boulevard will go before the public beginning today.
The project, part of the Hudson Yards redevelopment, will create four acres of park space down the middle of a boulevard stretching from 33rd to 42nd Streets, between 10th and 11th Avenues, and linking up with a massive new office and residential project planned for the West Side rail yard just to the south of the new avenue. "We are thrilled by the quality of the designs," said Ann Weisbrod, president of the Hudson Yards Development Corp., which is overseeing construction of the project and the financing of an extension of the No. 7 subway line to a new station at 11th Avenue and 34th Street. The winning design will be selected in early October, Weisbrod said. Construction of the first phase of the project, from 33rd to 36th streets, is expected be completed at the same time as the subway extension in 2013.
The now low-rise neighborhood was rezoned by the City Council several years ago to allow for up to 24 million square feet of office space and 13,500 new units of housing, along with hotels and retail development.
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The entire project - construction of the subway, boulevard, plaza and other infrastructure work - is being paid for with $3 billion in bonds. "This is the extension of Midtown, the preeminent business district in the world," said Weisbrod.
The designs will be on public display at the Center for Architecture, at 536 La Guardia Place, from Sept. 25 through the end of October. tom.topousis@nypost.com
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09222008/news/regionalnews/citys_spectacular_new_w__side_story_130215.htm
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Social Media and Blogs
2009 - Current Collaboration with Balmori Associates Facebook / Twitter / Website I launched the Balmori Associates Facebook page and titter account that has over 1000 followers and help design the new website with interactive features. Building and Urban Living Room - Creating a temporary media platform for public space The project of the Urban Living Room began in the neighborhood of the Meatpacking District in New York. This historical neighborhood has undergone various transformations with the decline of industrial uses: The Highline Park opened a new Whitney Museum of American Art will open in 2012.. In the summer of 2009 the Meatpacking District Initiative commissioned Balmori Associates to propose a new design for the public spaces that the DOT (Department Of Transportation) had previously assigned for pedestrian use. Using a non traditional method, we set up an online forum with live video feed and though twitter using the site and invited the public along with landscape architect Erik de Jong, and 40 Dutch students to discuss urban public space.. We extended the conversation to the neighborhood of our office by participating in New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, “Conflux City 2009”, and we also made a video that could be shown in various online blogs. In June of 2010 Balmori Associates took the Urban Living Room to Rome and provided the organization “Civico Zero / Save The Children Italia” with guidelines for the construction of an Urban Living Room. POST-IT Landscape Blog – an alternative marketing strategy for ‘ A Landscape Manifesto’ book “A Landscape Manifesto’ is a new book by Diana Balmori that presents her theory and practice of urban landscape design as an art that spans the divide between culture and nature. .This Manifesto - consisting of 25 points - advocates a new language for landscape, reflecting the shift in our understanding of nature and how it interacts with “the city”. We wanted to show that A Landscape Manifesto was much more than just a book to read and we intended to spark a conversation about the infinitely changeable nature of our world, and how we might affect positive transformation where we live, work, sleep and play. A starting point for discussion, Post-It Landscape blog invited you to submit a post it with a manifesto point and share it with the public.
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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
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study model of material : plastic pallets found in near junkyard
Lead Designer for the Construction
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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
“NOOKS” For Dome Colony X in the Saint Gabriels
New York, NY, 2010 Collaboration with Balmori Associates and Fritz Haeg - Designer The piece that we produced for the “Dome Colony in the San Gabriel’s“, for Fritz Haeg’s two month long exhibition at the X Initiative Art Space was a way of playing with seating and planting. Envisioned as dynamic space and furniture piece; in form, it is a garden that engages the Colony. It is not only designed for visitors to move and play with, it is a social community space that invites them to linger, and just be. Using this as a premise the units allow you to make nooks where one person can be alone, or some can be for two or a large group. We named the experiment “nooks” for this reason. The secondary idea grafted on this was if plants could be incorporated into the system. This time they are shown conceptually by providing paper flowers that people can plant in the space. The Garden narrates a story of landscape taking over and expanding over the Public Space, therefore changing the way that the space is perceived and read by the user. The users that “plant” flowers in it, transform it with time.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN CORN IS THE COLOR OF MY CAB
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ReNEWable Times Square Competition
New York, NY, 2010 Collaboration with Maura Rockcastle, Jeremy Wyatt Linzee, Ivan Hernandez Quintela, and Emilie Lucie Baltz - Competition design team Manager “Corn Is The Color Of My Cab� The premise of our design recognizes that the vision for the pedestrian areas is inextricably woven with art and the design of public space- each needs the other to succeed and in turn something new is created through strengthening the connection between these parts. It is ultimately a story of corn that set the course and form of the Broadway Corridor we know now- from trail to farm to street to city. It begins with the Lenape Indians, the first inhabitant of Times Square, whose main crop was corn, and goes forward to the delirious intensity of crowds, images, lights and traffic of today. This visual connection is intended to create consciousness about how corn makes up the majority of the signage in Times Square and the crisis of our native crops. Through the iconic yellow color of the New York cab - the most easily seen from afar, we allow the corn kernels to create a pixilated grid on the ground that is seen as topography from above. If we were to allow the yellow paint to make something that we see every day suddenly disappear, taxis would be the neutral condition, in the same way that corn has faded into the background of our everyday objects.
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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
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JELL-O flavors are created by pastry chef Robert Truitt. Food shot by photographer Ngoc Mihn Ngo and overall object created of architect Monica Hernandez
PUBLIC PLACES
“Eat Your Vegetables” Edible JELL-O Flash Cards for Kids
New York, NY,2010 Collaboration with Robert Truitt and Ngoc Mihn Ngo - Designer This project takes a critical look at the digital age, consumerism and the empowerment of education that are influencing children today, It takes an iconic everyday object like the iphone and transforms it physically and programmatically into an edible JELL-O flashcard that teaches kids to eat vegetables. Hoping that as a result of a positive association with the JELL-O, the project will allow them to try vegetables that they would otherwise never try. The mold itself is a case from an old iphone model. With the recent release of the new iphone, and society’s desire to always have the latest technology, we predict that thousands of these cases will become useless to the users that have bought the new phone. So the mold is now a found object, reused and given a new purpose. The JELL-O molded into this is meant to question the role of technology. The JELL-O not only becomes a medium but a vehicle for giving kids a healthy helping of vegetables ( mixed with fruit). The card’s protective screen holds the name and image of the vegetable as it appears in a garden so that the child can have a positive association with it and begin to identify it. We will be creating a “carrot “flash card and a “beet” flashcard.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Living Chandelier
Brooklyn, NY 2010 Collaboration with Terreform1 through TerreFarm - Designer TerreFarm Design+Grow Summer Lab is a one week workshop that takes place at the Metropolitan Exchange Building in Brooklyn, NY. Every year 35 students and professionals from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning, art, media and science are chosen to create new prototypes for Urban agriculture. TerreFarm Lab seeks to rethink the city, in both its forms and its life, by reflecting new levels of sustainability. During the lab three projects were created to replace an old skylight with a Living Chandelier or hanging garden that can produce food. Using found materials prototypes were made and fabricated by hand using basic tools. A green house was build on top of the skylight to give it more height. An white electrical cable net was woven and filled hung from the top to be filled with plants that could hang from its pockets. Bladders out of marine shrink wrap plastic were assembled in an organic fashion to hold lettuces and leafy plants that could be connected via tubes to another water bag. A line of lightweight mirrors weighed with construction plumbs dangle down and reflect the sun light. The projects hang from a polley system that can regulate their height and allow for maintenance and harvesting.