Status : Completed
Location : New York, NY
Year : 2013-2015
Architect : Gensler - Laurent, Will, Elizabeth
Project Role : Associate. Primary lead for concept / schematic design of the project. Responsible for all concept work, alternate medium exploration, 3d modeling / exploration and imagery seen below. All 3d iterations / renderings were produced in Rhinocerous & Vray, with additional options utilizing grasshopper for modelwork. For more information on the process that guided the sculptural form, please see “project description” below. Project was executed by NYC team listed above.
The Chaos Theory, a complex branch of mathematics, is the study of dynamic systems and the initial conditions that affect them. This ‘Butterfly Effect,’ theory is represented graphically by a whirling dynamic form, whose intricacies evoke the fluid, sometimes violent swings of the banking world. The constructed formation was generated by 2 perfect circles (rational) linked & pushed to structural extreme (irrational) while 2,500 individually hung light fixtures form a point cloud in response to the 14,000lb steel and aluminum ring.. Structural coordination for this project was a great undertaking; the Metro-North railroad runs just below the surface of Park Avenue, necessitating the form’s full integration into the structural system of the building’s topping slab without penetration below.
