On February 16 & 17, ShoP will be participating in “Creating the 21st Century Façade: How architects and fabricators are advancing curtain wall design in the digital age”, a 2-day conference which is being held at Pratt’s Manhattan campus. The event features a series of lectures on day 1 and a series of workshops on day 2. The conference’s purpose: to bring leading designers and fabricators together as a means to facilitate discussion as well as examine current work and the role technology plays in terms of making a design aspiration a reality.

SHoP Principal Jonathan Mallie will be leading a lecture on day 1 from 9:45 – 10:15 entitled, “Design and Implementation Through Collaborative Practice.” On day 2, John D. Cerone and Hashim Sulieman of SHoP will be leading a 2-part workshop entitled “Computational Design & 4D Sequencing.” The purpose is to focus on basic parametric-rule based modeling that allows design variations and tests the limits of form. The second session is a step by step 4D construction sequencing model process. The Software that will be used is as follows: Catia/Digital Project, Rhinoceros, Navisworks® Manage, Microsoft project, and Microsoft Excel.

The SHoP-designed Me + Ro jewelry store makes a cameo in this Capital One commercial with Alec Baldwin.

Above image by David Joseph.

SHoP's design for the Atlantic Yards development

Today, SHoP unveiled the design for the first of three new residential towers at the Atlantic Yards site in Brooklyn. The new building, B2, will be the tallest modular building in the world.

The site of our Botswana Innovation Hub project from the air, November 2011.

Bridge Huddle

AS / SHoP Architects

SHoP just completed a second successful year of “This Is Our River” Program at P.S.126! Lead by our dear friend Victor Papa at Immigrant Social Services, SHoP partnered with Lower Eastside Ecology Center and The River Project to teach an after-school program for sixth through eighth grade students.

The program aimed to bring a fun approach to learning math and science in tangible ways. The students participated in academic workshops where they enjoyed learning concepts and applying them to hands-on activities. While The River Project and LESEC taught students to compost and analyze aquatic life in the Hudson River, teams of architects and urban designers from SHoP held workshops which brought the kids closer to the waterfront and its architecture.

Workshops included constructing load-bearing bridges from a custom kit of parts, building the tallest possible tower from fifty sheets of paper, drawing maps, designing and racing rubberband-propelled boats, camouflaging the FDR, even calculating a real NYC zoning envelope! In a short introduction the students were familiarized with the basic physical or mathematical principles of the task at hand before setting off to tackle real-life problems faced by waterfront designers on a daily basis.

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AWM , HCH / SHoP Architects

The winning competition design for a new student center at FIT was clear enough; invert the existing campus topography by providing a transparent façade on 28th Street providing both views into the city from the campus and displaying the programs and activities of FIT to the city.

To accomplish this in as seamless way as possible SHoP employed a cable wall glazing system from the second floor to the roof allowing the entire glazed area to act independently of the buildings structural systems. Layered against the cable wall glazing is the building’s main circulation system of stairs corridors and three story express escalator that brings students to the 5th Floor Student Life Hall. A series of tubes form horizontal trusses that are supported off the main building structure enclosing and supporting the circulation elements and in some cases pull and push against the cable wall creating an undulation in the surface of the wall. The cable wall is a dynamic system, deflecting under wind loading, pushing and pulling on those cables in a non-uniform way creating areas where less deflection occurs introducing additional stresses to the glass panels that make up the façade. Continue reading »