Perfecting the look of Atlanta’s contemporary landscape is what 2012 Design Is Human Week is all about. MA and our passionate partners from many of the city’s leading institutions and top showrooms, including AIA Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Hansgrohe and Room & Board and others share our vision in inspiring change and showcasing Atlanta as a design destination embodied in bold ideas.

Design Is Human Week is all about the future in bold contemporary architecture, design excellence and creative culture at its finest. Our team of experts and proud sponsors have extensive knowledge of the latest design trends and are thrilled about exposing bold ideas, desirable & innovative products that make heads turn.

2012 Design Is Human Promotional Video

Each year the aspirations of Design Is Human Week is set on exposing just how human design really is and showcasing best-in-class products and design services from an impressive roster of exhibitors, established and emerging design studios, and manufacturers recognized locally, nationally, and internationally. Design Is Human visitors get to witness elevated programming rich in content and excitement. Manufacturers, businesses, and design professionals gain access to a growing targeted audience primed for excitement leading up to, during Design Is Human Week, and long after the event has past.

With all the excitement that is 2012 Design Is Human Week, it is the perfect vehicle to exercise your social media savvy and broadcast to your circle of influence and professional network in realtime as events unfold. 2012 Design Is Human Week will have a presence on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Your Exclusive SNEAK PREVIEW! Keep checking back for more updates as more exhibitors are added to our already impressive roster.

2012 MA Home Tour

Online tickets sales now open. Click Here to purchase.

Gage/Clemenceau Architects Talk “Design Liquidity” at High Museum

In Design Liquidity, architect Marc Clemenceau Bailly challenges current design practices and enlists new players into the architectural and design equation by illustrating his own collaborations between architecture and design, and biology, fashion, robotics, environmental science, software programming, automotive styling and material engineering.
Gage/ Clemenceau Architects is at the forefront of a new architecture language and makes its Design Is Human debut at High Museum of Art for a talk about the firm’s trailblazing practice including the highly publicized collaboration on the design and production of a temporary installation (above right image) with Nicola Formichetti, Fashion Director for Lady Gaga, Creative Director for Mugler as well as fashion stylist to Uniqlo, MAC and V Magazine.
Free admission. Limited seating and early RSVP now being accepted, contact antonella@modern-atlanta.org


Architecture & interiors; Sailing 140 yacht by Studio Boissard. Images courtesy Studio Boissard.

Paris-based Studio Boissard Talk on “Diversions/Conversions in Architecture/Design between Industry & Craft” at High Museum of Art

In this inspiring talk, Diversions/Conversions in Architecture/Design between Industry & Craft, Paris-based architect and designer Sébastien Boissard will question the transversality and interface between various domains of architecture and design and explore some of the influences of the industry with giants like Pierre Chareau, Jean Prouvé who built Historic architectural landmarks in the 20th century.
Before establishing “Studio Boissard”, Boissard collaborated with icon designers Philippe Starck and Martin Francis, where he was in charge of designing the highly publicized Starck “A” super-yacht and participated in the development of Mama Shelter Hotel in Paris. Since 2008, Mr. Boissard has taught 4th year interior and product design at “Ecole Camondo” in a transversal studio.
Free admission. Limited seating and early RSVP now being accepted, contact antonella@modern-atlanta.org



Axor Bouroulec (l), “true passion” (r). Images courtesy Hansgrohe.

Spend An Exciting & Educational Day at Hansgrohe N.A.

Plan B Architecture & Urbanism Talk “Imperfect States”

In Imperfect States talk, New Haven-based Plan B Architecture & Urbanism offers an ideal that values the impermanent and the incomplete. Designing is regarded as the continuing and augmenting of past actions. It embraces multiples over the singular, the improvisational over the deterministic, the indefinite over the finite.
Bimal Mendis, is Assistant Dean at Yale University School of Architecture. Joyce Hsiang is a Critic at Yale School of Architecture. Mendis and Hsiang are principals of Plan B Architecture & Urbanism, a research and design collaborative engaged in the investigation and development of urban infrastructures. Plan B lectures at Atlanta High Museum. Free admission. Limited seating and early RSVP now being accepted, contact antonella@modern-atlanta.org



Pomerol by Herzog & De Meuron, film by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine. Images courtesy Beka Films.

USA Premiere “Pomerol by Herzog & De Meuron”

From Beka Films’ Living Architecture Series, MA Film Screenings and High Museum of Art hosts the highly-anticipated and humorous screening of Pomerol by Herzog & De Meuron.
Free admission. Limited seating and early RSVP now being accepted, contact antonella@modern-atlanta.org



KUKA Industrial Robotic Fabrication research at YSOA by Cody Davis, Patrick Lun and advisor Michael Gage (l). YSOA digital work (r).

Design Is Human Week Academia Exclusive! YALE

YALE School of Architecture (YSOA) TALK “Patternism and Technology at YSOA”
YSOA Panel Discussion “Visualization/Internationalization in Design Pedagogy”

Each year MA invites top international institutions of design to participate in Design Is Human Week elevated activities. For 2012, we are extremely excited to welcome the prestigious and internationally-acclaimed Yale School of Architecture. What we didn’t foresee was how enthusiastic (and collaborative) Yale would be in what we consider to be (props to Dean Robert Stern) an historic moment and as further proof of the international acceptance of Design Is Human Week and our intrinsic values to a high quality of life and interlacing creative culture. To our delight, Yale wanted to do two separate activities addressing its preoccupations in architecture/design, Yale Talk at the High Museum of Art, and a Panel Discussion taking place at MA Design Exhibition/MA Home Tour launch night.

YSOA’s talk Patternism and Technology at YSOA, makes the case that at a point when digital architecture is nearly two decades old, the Yale School of Architecture has invested heavily in the next generation of hardware and software, allowing its students and faculty to explore what robotics and algorithmic software might mean for the next generation of architects and forever changing the frontier of our built environment.
Free admission. Limited seating and early RSVP now being accepted, contact antonella@modern-atlanta.org

In the Yale panel discussion Visualization/Internationalization in Design Pedagogy, explores the internationalization or proliferation of technology, and in particular how technology has resulted in ever widening applications, techniques, platforms, methodologies and audiences for visualization.
Open admission to MA Design Exhibition/ MA Home Tour attendees only.



Bar Alto London (l), Bread Workshop (r). Images courtesy DesignMarketo

DesignMarketo’s BAR ALTO Atlanta & BREAD WorkShop

London-based DesignMarketo brings the excitement of BAR ALTO & ‘BREAD’ Workshop to Design Is Human Week. DesignMarketo is a platform developed to help young designers reach a wider audience. DesignMarketo allows anyone in the world to buy products from amazing designers.
DesignMarketo’s Bar Alto Atlanta and Bread Workshop takes place in the Edgewood Design District.

Bar Alto/Bread Workshop Atlanta Sponsors are MA, The Sound Table, Space2, Cablik Enterprises, and the Edgewood Design District



Habachy Designs founder Michael Habachy. Right, Room & Board

Room & Board welcomes Atlanta-based Habachy Designs founder Michael Habachy

Steven Banken

Steven Banken graduated Cum Laude in 2010 at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. After his graduation he started his own design company, where design and production meet. Following successful premieres at Milan’s 2011 International Salone del Mobile and Dutch Design Week and in Russia, Project Sheaves makes its USA debut in Atlanta at Design Is Human Week.



Last year’s 10Up! Winner “Edge Condition”, 2012 10Up! pubic installation comes to Atlanta BeltLine

Atlanta BeltLine Hosts Third Installment of 10UP! International Architecture Competition

The Young Architects Forum of Atlanta (YAF Atlanta), a program of the American Institute of Architects Atlanta, is pleased to announce the third Annual competition entitled 10Up. We’re calling on young designers to step up to the 10Up challenge! This year Modern Atlanta (MA) and YAF Atlanta are teaming up with Atlanta Beltline Inc. to create a temporary installation on the Atlanta BeltLine. To add to all the excitement the design challenge, 10UP is an architectural experience for the public and that is inhabitable and built within 24 hours.



HOK interior designer John Cantrell, Curator 2012 Design is Material Installation

Be BOLD! Design Is MATERIAL2 2012

Curated by interior designer John Cantrell and HOK, 2012 Design Is MATERIAL is back following a successful launch last June. This exciting and informative activity focuses on the latest trends in material applications, exterior and interior systems, and innovation.



Dutch designer Maarten Baas featured in Dutch Profiles

25 Dutch Profiles over 2 days

“Ten Thousands Buddhas”, Bill Lowe Gallery presents the work of artist Cha Jong-Rye

and there is more…features in 2012 Design Is Human publication includes

2012 Modern Atlanta Home Tour Guidebook
Tony Riffel, Octane Coffee Lounge
John Cantrell, Interior Designer
Ego Collective Paris
Robert Tretsch, Harrison Design Associates
I’m Dutch (Rianne Koen, Steven Balken, Michael Courts, Dutch Profiles Short Films)
Karl Injex, Sound Table
Kystal Persaud, CEO For Change
Kwanza Hall, Atlanta City Council

Tickets are $35 for both Saturday and Sunday, and now available online at the link below.

All select MA ticket outlets are now open. See list below for locations and hours.
Tickets can also be purchased Friday, 8 June, at the 2012 MA Home Tour Launch Night and MA Design Exhibition.

Location and Online tickets sales now open. Click Here to purchase.

For 2012 MA Home Tour map, Click Here.

“Tickets are required for attendance to the MA Home Tour”.

The Official 2012 Modern Atlanta Home Tour Launch & MA Design Exhibition Night takes place at Terminus, Friday 8 June 2012, 6:30pm to 10:30pm.

Terminus Atlanta
Buckhead, 3280 Peachtree Rd NE (intersection at Peachtree Rd and Piedmont)
Atlanta, GA 30305



MA Home Tour Launch ‘MA Models and Renderings Exhibition.’ Philip Babb Architecture, image courtesy MA

“Pre-Tour Bonus” in Athens area

2012 MODERN ATLANTA HOME TOUR Dates

Saturday, 9 June
10:30am - 4:00pm

Sunday, 10 June
10:30am - 4:00pm


MA Home Tour Guide inside Design Is Human Publication designed by Armchair

Tickets includes our well-designed MA12 DESIGN IS HUMAN publication/program/MA Home Tour guidebook designed by Armchair and entry to 2012 Modern Atlanta Home Tour Launch Event and the Design Is Human Week Exhibition.

2012 MODERN ATLANTA HOME TOUR

is presented in close partnership with

               

News
The American Institute of Architects Atlanta Chapter (AIA Atlanta) has joined forces with MA in presenting Modern Atlanta Home Tour. AIA Atlanta is the city and southeast’s leading authority on matters pertaining to architecture and the built environment.

Welcome to modern Atlanta, design hub of the southeast

Since 2007, Modern Atlanta Home Tour has inspired, entertained, and educated thousands of fans and an admiring public in love with contemporary architecture and design. The highly sought tour is also a shining example of Atlanta unleashing its creative powers for a new language of bold urbanism to the rest of the nation. Modern Atlanta Home Tour examines the full vernacular of modern residential design currently seen in Atlanta, from the cutting-edge with the use of new sustainable materials and digital technology, all the way back to the post-modern era when architecture was inspired by the works of Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles & Ray Eames.

2012 DESIGN IS HUMAN Exhibition Promotional Video

You will also witness thoughtful architects bringing their passion for contemporary excellence into the interiors of more traditional homes with some amazing results; and fine examples of cool conversion-projects adapted to individual taste and the relevant concerns and needs of today’s demanding contemporary lifestyle.

The Nation’s Best Tour of Contemporary residential Architecture and Design Awaits You

Online tickets sales now open. Click Here to purchase.

Online tickets sales now open. Click Here to purchase.

Design Is Material2

All Ticket Outlets Now Open.
Tickets available at 2012 Design Is Human Week/Modern Atlanta Home Tour launch night event, online at www.modern-atlanta.org, and at these convenient MA ticket outlet locations.

Atlanta Locations

Octane Coffee (Westside)
1009 Marietta Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
404-815-9886
Mon-Thu 7am-Midnight
Fri 7am-1am
Sat 8am-1am
Sun 8am-10pm
Octane accepts Cash & Credit Cards Only



Octane Coffee (Grant Park)
437 Memorial Drive Suite A5
Atlanta, GA 30312
Mon-Fri 7am-12am
Sat 8am-12am
Sun 8am-10pm
Octane accepts Cash & Credit Cards Only



Room & Board 1170 Howell Mill Road NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
(404) 682-5900
Mon-Fri 11am-7pm
Sat 10am-6pm
Sun 12-5pm
Cash and Check Only




Bill Lowe Gallery
1555 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(404) 352-8114
Tue-Sat 10am-5:30pm
Mon, Sun Closed
Cash and Check Only

Athens Locations

(coming soon)


Disclaimer: Homes showcased as part of 2012 MA Home Tour do not assign, sublet, share or apportion the whole or any part of the home, or represent, display, advertise or distribute products or literature promoting products or services of any other firm or individual or third party without the full consent of the event organizer, Modern Atlanta (MA). The use of the home is strictly limited to the conditions strictly outlined in contract between MA and homeowner or appropriate parties.

Promotional Video, 2012 Design Exhibition & MA Home Tour

Come celebrate 2012 MA Design Exhibition and Home Tour Launch event at Terminus Atlanta

2012 MA Design Exhibition and Home Tour Launch event
Friday, 8 June
6:30pm - 11:00pm
Terminus 2, 4th floor
Buckhead, 3280 Peachtree Rd NE (intersection at Peachtree Rd and Piedmont)
Atlanta, GA 30305

Click Here For Tickets

New Products from top international established brands and emerging design talent making their mark on the industry

Axor Bouroullec designed by Rowan & Bouroullec (r) for Hansgrohe. 2012 MA Design Exhibition

Join MA and check out all Design Is Human exhibitors including Hansgrohe’s “Axor Bouroulec” and Room & Board’s Eames collection, just to name a few. We also invite all Design Is Human visitors to openly mix with your fellow event attendees, and some very special guests for an evening of excellence in creativity, sustainability, social responsibility, and all that is uniquely MA. In short, “your” kickoff is the window to changing times, embracing Atlanta’s future in bold urbanism, and connecting powerful ideas that leaves a positive impact on individuals, society, the environment, and benefits the world we all share.

We are kicking off 2012 MA Home Tour with this launch event and design exhibition!

The many faces of contemporary architecture in and around Atlanta. Newcomer Residence (l), Plutino Residence (r). 2012 MA Home Tour

2012 MA Home Tour is now in its 5th successful year and has gain a solid position in the marketplace as a major force in promoting contemporary architecture and design. That’s thanks in part to our strong alliances with AIA Atlanta and the High Museum, our architecture models and renderings exhibition, elevated talks and inspiring films on architecture and design, and having a big beautiful publication that inspires action and change in the designed world.

2012 Architecture Models and Renderings Exhibition

Philip Babb Architecture. 2012 Models and renderings exhibition

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Design Is Human publication and MA Home Tour guide

Armchair-designed 2012 edition Design Is Human publication & MA Home Tour Guide

“MA People Favorite Ads”
2012 Design Is Human publication/MA Home Tour Guide

2012 Adwork from London’s Design Museum (l), Octane Coffee Bar (m), and Lightroom (r)

Graphic Design Category
MA 12 Design Exhibition and Home Tour Launch event attendees and guests can vote on their favorite adwork in the 2012 Design Is Human publication/MA Home Tour Guide. 3 winners will be drawn and given a prize. At MA, we celebrate the talent and creative contributions Graphic Designers make to the designed world and have created a fun and interactive activity our attendees and quests can demonstrate their admiration too. Forms will be handed out at the door. At your own pace, review all the amazing content and ads, make your selection and hand the form to one of the MA staff. Winners will be announced at 10pm.

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Free entry to 2012 MA Home Tour ticket holders and includes the fifth edition of our beautifully-designed 2012 DESIGN IS HUMAN publication/program/MA Home Tour guidebook.
*Cost to attend design exhibition/launch event only: $10 at the door (book not included). Books can be purchased at the door for $10.00

But there’s still more to be happy about at 2012 MA Design Exhibition and Home Tour Launch event…

Yale Panel Discussion “Visualization -in Design Pedagogy”

Robotic and Digital fabrication research at YSOA. Images courtesy Cody Davis and YSOA.

In this MA exclusive Yale-led panel discussion asks the question, what are the larger implications on contemporary visual culture? Visual representation is intrinsic to the education of the designer. Its role in facilitating and communicating a design idea is indispensable to the intentions of the designer. Evolving beyond conventional two-dimensional hand drawing, which has defined architectural production for generations, visual representation now encompasses digital, three dimensional and interactive strategies. What is the future of visualization in pedagogy as it continues to radically transform the process of design and its production?

Panel Discussion starts at 7:30pm - 8:15pm, arrive early, limited seating. Moderated by AIA Atlanta with a three member panel consisting of industry experts from Yale School of Architecture and Atlanta-based architecture/design professionals.

Design Is Material2 Installation

HOK interior designer John Cantrell, Curator 2012 Design is Material Installation

Curated by interior designer John Cantrell and HOK, 2012 Design Is MATERIAL is back following a successful launch last June. This exciting and informative activity focuses on the latest trends in material applications, exterior and interior systems, and innovation.

Octane Coffee Bar’s Food and Beverage Stand at this year’s launch

Best of the Best! Official 2012 Design Is Human Week Support Partners Includes!

This program offers attendees the opportunity to enjoy an interactive tour of the Hansgrohe N.A. facility led by the president of the high-end K & B manufacturer himself. Guests will also enjoy a catered lunch and can gain professional credit through two dynamic CEUs (.1 each) by Hansgrohe’s Manager, Training & Development, Jen Bruno, regarding sustainability and bathroom design.

Thursday, 7 June 2012
11am - 3pm

RSVP to aquademie_us@hansgrohe.com by 1 June to reserve your space. Due to safety reasons, plant tour participants must wear closed-toe shoes.

PuraVida is on display in the Aquademie

Schedule At A Glance:

Experience Axor Bouroullec at The MA Design Exhibition/MA Home Tour Launch Night

Visit Hansgrohe on the 2012 MA Home Tour

Vail Residence, Hansgrohe Allegro E Gourmet Prep Kitchen Faucet with Pull-Down; 2012 MA Home Tour

Hansgrohe products will be on display at the Vail Residence, part of the 2012 MA Home Tour. Admission to tour ticket holders only.

Want more Hansgrohe? Click Here.

“Imperfect States” —Projects by Plan B Architecture & Urbanism

The talk “Imperfect States” put claim to the fact the we live in a less than perfect world. Economic instability, political turmoil, environmental crises, rising oil prices, overpopulation and rapid urbanization are just a few of the daunting issues that weigh heavily on our thoughts and actions. But these real and unavoidable exigencies are also the qualities that set each site and scenario apart as distinctive, unique, even beautiful. They can be thought of instead as opportunities, for agency, adaptation and action.


Plan B Architecture & Urbanism

The imperfect state offers an ideal that values the impermanent and the incomplete. Designing is regarded as the continuing and augmenting of past actions. It embraces multiples over the singular, the improvisational over the deterministic, the indefinite over the finite.


World Indexer, Plan B Architecture & Urbanism

Plan B Architecture & Urbanism thrives within these contingencies, applying architectural thinking, analysis and design to consider and reconfigure larger global forces at play through a broad range of interventions at multiple scales. Their projects engage in unfamiliar yet important territories of design practice, whether through their work to: map, model, and display the development of the entire world; index sustainability in urban areas; develop a spatial planning strategy for a country that is projected to be eradicated by rising sea levels; plan and preserve an island to counter the effects of rapid urbanization; create a tidal park for a local community; or design a natural retreat for writer. In an imperfect state, Plan B is the new status quo.


Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis, Plan B Architecture + Urbanism

About Plan B Architecture & Urbanism

Plan B Architecture & Urbanism was co-founded by Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis in Rotterdam in 2008 and is currently based in New Haven, Connecticut. Plan B’s multi-disciplinary team and creative environment promotes a culture of interchange and collaboration. To leverage resources, expertise and intelligence, Plan B works with a constellation of external consultants, engineers, planners and policy makers. They received a Hines Research Grant for Advanced Sustainability in Architecture, an AIA Upjohn Research Grant, and were finalists for the Latrobe Prize. Their designs, research and writing has been widely published and exhibited and was most recently featured in the 2011 Chengdu Architecture Biennale and the 2011 Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Plan B Architecture & Urbanism
35A Crown Street
New Haven, CT 06510 (usa)
mail@planb-au.com
www.planb-au.com

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Winners announced May 2012

Click here to visit MA PRIZE Website for details and to register

This year the prize calls for designers to submit projects that critically consider today’s notions of sustainability as applied to the modern dwelling. This award aims to highlight projects of all scales, that showcase a critical investigation into sustainable design practices in the home as well as projects that thoughtfully deal with the unique geographical, social, political or cultural conditions.

The first prize winner will be awarded $1000 USD and the second prize winner $500 USD. In addition to the prize winners honorable mentions will also be selected. Prize winning entries and honorable mentions will be exhibited during the Design is Human Week 2012 event to be held from 1st to 10th June 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Green Dwelling Jury Panel

The 2012 MA Prize international jury represents some of the brightest minds from the world’s leading design institutions and studios…

Winner 2011 MA PRIZE International Design Competition

2011 MA Prize Winner. Gadeokdo Island Master Plan by Joyce Hsiang, Elijah Huge and Bimal Mendis. All Gadeokdo Island and background images courtesy Plan B Architecture + Urbanism

Project: Gadeokdo Island Masterplan
Architecture: Joyce Hsiang, Elijah Huge, Bimal Mendis
www.planb-au.com



The annual MA (Modern Atlanta) International Design Award/Competition Program recognizes, celebrates, and promotes excellence in all areas of design.


MA Prize is organized by MA and Manifesto Architecture

    

“Architecture’s relationship to the wider world it serves continually evolves but always there is at its core an unchanging belief that the act of building is in and of itself a great and ennobling undertaking.”

Robert A. M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture and J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture

Digital work and research at Yale School of Architecture. Image courtesy Yale

Panel Discussion “Visualization -in Design Pedagogy”

Robots in School -Technology and the Next Generation of Architects

Three years ago, the executive directors and founders of MA asked YAF to create a competition for a temporary outdoor installation which would act as a beacon for “Design is Human Week”. The project would not only accentuate the series of events organized by MA, but would be an event of its own celebrating young talents by exhibiting their work to the public. That competition is 10UP 2012.

10UP Challenge
The challenge, create a temporary structure with a base no greater than 10’x10’ that will materialize and dematerialize in less than 24 hours.


2011 10Up Winner ‘Edge Condition’ (l). 2010 10Up Winner ‘Periscope’ (r). Images MA

Now in its third year, the past two winners, Periscope and Edge Condition, were unexpected successes that appeared in multiple international design publications and exhibits. This year’s winner will once again be surprising, innovative and daring.

This year Modern Atlanta (MA) and YAF Atlanta have teamed up with Atlanta BeltLine Inc. to create a temporary installation on the Atlanta BeltLine. The largest development of its kind in the United States, the Atlanta BeltLine demonstrates the power of design to shape on an enormous scale. At the heart of the Atlanta BeltLine is an integrated approach to land use, transportation, greenspace and sustainable development that will create a framework for future growth in the City of Atlanta. By attracting and organizing some of the region’s future growth around parks, transit, and trails, the BeltLine will help change the pattern of regional sprawl in the coming decades and lead to a vibrant and livable Atlanta with an enhanced quality of life.
Here we go and congratulations to this year’s winner and all runner ups.

2012 10Up Winning Installation

Project: A TENSIGRITY AVIARY ‘What will live here?’
Architecture & Design: Tim Frank & Chip Clark
Location: Atlanta, Georgia (United States)

Simply put, the Atlanta Beltline is second to none. As a twenty-two mile linear park and the longest arboretum in the world, it is a ground-breaking urban plan that doubly generates intensified densities within the city while also restoring the natural tree cover and wildlife habitats that were devastated by 20th century sprawl. Our project aims to celebrate such innovative thinking in the realm of urban renewal and seeks to educate the 2012 MA (Modern Atlanta) audience about the Beltline as its sets high values in the area of urban design and offers such widespread positive impact to the City of Atlanta. Instead of providing a name for this project, we instead reinforce the same important question of culture and environment that has been pursued by the designers of the Beltline…What will live here?



Like the Beltline, the installation seeks to join together the Atlanta community with indigenous wildlife through the construction of a tensegrity canopy. Tensegrity is a structural principle based on the use of compressive components inside a net of continuous tension. In this case, the tensegrity structure will double as a temporary bird habitat. The wood compressive elements in this canopy will serve as bird feeders while the net of tension elements will serve as bird perches. Due to the lightness of such a system, it is ideal for a project that requires such rapid deployment.



The canopy is comprised of eight interconnected tensegral icosahedron modules symmetrically decreasing in scale as they cantilever from the center of the site along the axis of the Beltline. The icosahedron modules will be fabricated and connected at an offsite facility so to calibrate the structural dynamics of the system prior to being transported to the site. The mocked up canopy will be field verified by a structural engineer to ensure the structure conforms to specification.



Once the engineering review is complete, the canopy will be demounted and transported to the site where it will be re-installed over the course of twenty-four hour period. The installation sequence includes the connection of eight modules on the ground using temporary scaffolding. Once the eight modules are joined, the long span canopy will be jacked into place and the supporting columns will be secured below.



Once installed, the lightweight aviary cloud will float overhead, just out of reach, cantilevering over fifty feet beyond its small 10’ x 10’ footprint. Celebrating the Beltline’s conservation of green space while embracing community density, the installation will serve as a place of cohabitation between local birds species and design enthusiasts. The structure will invoke the repetition and axiality of the former rail while looking forward to the revitalization of Atlanta’s wildlife habitats. In the spirit of the Beltline, the industrial noise of the heavy rail will be replaced by the sound of the song bird, in turn calling us to canopy the once downtrodden space in celebration of its renewed life.

Atlanta BeltLine, 2012 10Up Site
The Atlanta BeltLine is a comprehensive redevelopment and mobility project that will shape the way Atlanta grows throughout the next several decades. The project provides a network of public parks, multi-use trails and transit along a historic 22-mile railroad corridor circling downtown and connecting 45 neighborhoods directly to each other. The Atlanta BeltLine is the most comprehensive economic development effort ever undertaken in the City of Atlanta and among the largest most wide-ranging redevelopment projects currently underway in the United States.

Bringing life back to this abandonded rail line before and during construction is a priority of Atlanta BeltLine, Inc., the non-profit corporation responsible for developing the Atlanta BeltLine. As such they have generously provided a section of the Atlanta Beltline at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Bill Kennedy Way.

10UP RUNNER UP

Project: SIGNAL BOX
Architecture & Design: Nicholas Ho and William Liow
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)

10UP HONORABLE MENTION

Project: DYNAMIC TERRAIN
Architecture & Design: Rachel Dickey and April Tann
Location: Atlanta, GA (United States)

10UP HONORABLE MENTION

Project: CIRCULAR KNIT
Architecture & Design: Brian Peters
Location: Amsterdam (The Netherlands)


10UP Competition Sponsors

              

From commercial to residential environments, new advances in materiality is rapidly changing the face of architecture and design.


Design Is Material2: Maharam digital projects.

Welcome! Design Is MATERIAL2

Following last year’s successful launch of Design Is MATERIAL, the simple idea behind the continuation of MA’s ‘Design is Material2 traveling exhibition is to feature both renowned and obscure products to the broader design scene in an aim to peak interest and curiosities around materials in the architectural and design industries.


Design Is Material Installation at 2011 Design Is Human and MA launch event.

In 2011, the exhibit was kept quite simple with a focus on innovative specifiable materials on the market with a few ‘teaser’ products to evoke the question of what an architectural material might become if acquired from other industries such as industrial and automotive design.


Design Is Material2: Round Bicycle Tubes by Beck Textile Studio.

According to HOK Senior Designer and DIM2 co-curator John Cantrell, “Materiality has always been a fundamental source of dialogue in architecture and design, and even within the industry there is quite a few differences in opinion about the “right and wrong” ways to use or apply materials in the context of the environment, the story the environment tells, and whether pragmatic or artistic ideas are most important.”


Design Is MATERIAL2 curators, interior designer (l) Weronika Cichosz and John Cantrell (l), Senior Designer at HOK, visits Armchair’s Kevin Byrd

Bold Ideas. Innovative Solutions. Amazing Stories to Inspire.

About Design Is MATERIAL2 Curators

John Cantrell, Interior Designer at HOK
John Cantrell, senior designer at HOK, featured in this year’s Design Is Human publication, has a specialty in the design and construction of sustainable and creative environments with work for clients such as Bacardi USA, Porsche, and Sony Mobile. In addition to architecture and interiors he has extensive experience in product design development with current designs in both flooring and furniture. John serves on the Advisory Board for the Building Arts Department for SCAD as well as having served as the Sustainable Design Advisor for the Georgia Chapter of IIDA and chair of the 2008-09 Trash to Treasure Art Auction supporting Public Art for the Atlanta BeltLine.




Weronika Cichosz, Interior Designer
Weronika was raised in Mikolow, Poland and educated at LaGuardia high school of Music and Art in New York City and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. With a degree in Architecture from Savannah College of Art and Design, experience in interior design, and passion for graphic design she is inspired by design at all scales. Currently she co-curates the visual blogs of Interiology, Illustrology & Every Little Thing as a way to document exceptional and interesting design that inspire her to create future work.




Amanda Millner, Interior Designer
Amanda Millner McAdoo is an Atlanta based interior designer. With a degree in interior design from Georgia State University. Amanda further developed her design skills at HOK and TVS before opening her own interior design firm am2design in 2009. With 9 years of industry knowledge Amanda specializes in commercial interiors with a hands on approach. From building custom light fixtures to designing unique spaces with an emphasis on functionality Amanda works to create lasting spaces that inspire.

Design Is MATERIAL2 Sponsors and Support

        

MA in its first collaboration with Netherlands-based DutchDFA (Dutch Design Architecture Fashion) presents screenings of ‘Profiles’

Rem Koolhaas OMA (Architecture)

DROOG Design (Design)

Profile: Renny Ramaker, co founder at Droog. Image courtesy DutchDFA.

In the beginning of the nineties, a group of young dutch designers was presented in Milaan under the name of DROOG. Their designs were immediately recognized as something new. Anti-glamour, sober yet funny, and all telling a story or commenting on society. For a while, DROOG design even became synonymous with dutch design. Founders of this collective are Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers.

Many of the early DROOG designs found their way to galleries and museums all over the world. They became icons, sometimes crossing the line between art and design. One of the very first to acquire them was the museum of modern art in New York. Since the beginning, Droog has evolved. It has become more of a thinktank under the name of drooglab, which aims to detect global trends in design, and then reflect on those trends from a new perspective.
www.droog.com

Profiles Screening Locations

Screenings at The High Museum includes:

Screenings at Space 2 includes:

Wim Crouwel (Design)

Jongerius Lab (Design)

Maarten Baas (Design)

Christien Meindertsma

Dutch Profiles are free and open to Design Is Human visitors and general public.

Alan Heller & Frank Gehry Furniture Collection debut at Whitespace Gallery & Design Is Human Week

About Alan Heller

Frank Gehry Furniture Collection for Heller

Frank Gehry has single-handedly changed conventional ideas about architecture. Recent masterpieces include the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao and the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Gehry’s unique vision and innovative use of materials has brought him numerous honors including the 1989 Pritzker Prize, the 1998 National Medal of Arts Award, and the 2000 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.


Cubes, bench, chair, sofa, and table. Image courtesy Heller

Through his emphasis on collaboration in the creative process, Gehry continues to transcend the boundaries of design. The Frank Gehry Furniture Collection is in the permanent design collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and exhibited in The Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York.

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Now in its third successful year, the 2012 Architects Studio Crawl and Happy Hour has become a popular activity with fans of contemporary architecture wanting to go deeper into the process of designing a home and meeting architects responsible for designing many of the beautiful contemporary homes seen on MA Home Tour each year. The Crawl and Happy Hour activity is tied directly to the MA Home Tour excitement and offers an unique opportunity to tour some of the city’s top design studios, meet practicing architects, be better informed about sustainable practices, and discuss contemporary architecture and design excellence -all on their dime.

This year’s CRAWL Participating Studios

Lightroom

TaC Studio

Cablik Enterprises

TaC Studios

765 East Avenue
Atlanta GA 30312


TaC Studios, is a full service architectural firm. Our broad experience includes project types ranging from retail, offices and restaurants to single and multi-family residential. We apply an integrated approach to design that unites the disciplines of architecture, interior design and furniture design. We are in this business because we have a passion for design and enjoy working with people. Our commitment is to create modern works within a wide range of budgets. Our portfolio reflects a design process that develops through collaboration; we and the clients collectively evolve the work. Each project is unique and a high degree of energy and enthusiasm is devoted to every undertaking in order to discover a natural (simple) solution for each design challenge.

Please join us for drinks and appetizers.


www.tacstudios.com

Cablik Enterprises

675 Edgewood Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30307

Cablik Enterprises is a premier builder of Atlanta modern homes through its modern homes division, Cablik Modern Dwellings. Cablik Enterprises can work with you to build your new Atlanta modern home, or remodel your existing home to have an updated look. Cablik Enterprises has built many of the Atlanta modern homes you see scattered throughout various parts of the city, and each Atlanta modern home is custom built to the exact specifications of the owner. Cablik is a custom modern home builder and can build out on your lot anywhere in the Atlanta metro area.



www.cablikenterprises.com

Lightroom Studio

Architecture and New Media
Studio: 115b North McDonough Street
Decatur, GA 30030

Lightroom is an interdisciplinary studio in Atlanta, GA. We have expertise in sustainable modern residential and commercial architecture, historic preservation, interiors, websites, graphic and exhibit design, film production, branding and strategy. Lightroom is known for it’s exceptional design, for it’s commitment to the particularity of place, context and user, and for an approach based on a quiet and restrained rigor. We enjoy putting buildings and projects together and the tectonics of elegant assembly and materiality.

Join us for drinks and appetizers.


www.lightroom.tv