Young Projects: Figure Cast Frame (ARCHITECTURE) - Tapa dura

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'Bryan Young recibió su Maestría en Arquitectura con distinción de la Universidad de Harvard en 2003, donde recibió la Medalla AIA Henry Adams y el Premio de Tesis por sus diagramas espaciales sobre Donkey Kong y Pac Man. Recibió su Licenciatura en Artes con los máximos honores de UC Berkeley en 1997. Desde 2009 ha impartido estudios y seminarios de diseño de arquitectura a nivel de posgrado en varias universidades, incluidas MIT, Columbia, Parsons y Syracuse. Antes de establecer su estudio, Young fue asociado senior en Allied Works Architecture y anteriormente trabajó para ARO, SOM y Peter Pfau. Young Projects LLC es un estudio de diseño fundado por Bryan Young en la ciudad de Nueva York en 2010. Su trabajo abarca edificios, interiores, creación de prototipos de materiales, muebles y objetos de curiosidad impulsados ​​por un interés en los patrones, las texturas y la complejidad espacial. Estos elementos dispares están conectados a través de un enfoque experimental de las propiedades y el despliegue de los materiales. '

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This first monograph from New York-based Young Projects explores a new approach to spatial design that combines digital and analog methods at the intersection of exploration and architecture

This monograph introduces the cutting-edge research and work of Young Projects, founded by Bryan Young, where materiality, structure, and form intersect to generate new architectural typologies. The book presents a selection of the practice’s most relevant projects: five innovative houses completed between 2015 and 2020 as well as less in-depth looks at other projects that define the practice.

Each house serves as a chapter through which Young Projects’ broader body of work is explored across scales, illustrated through a rich landscape of drawings, diagrams, renderings, mock-ups, prototypes, and photography. The through-line connecting all chapters is the studio’s interest in using ambiguity and anomaly to create novel and accessible spaces, whether for high profile clients like Heidi Klum or a new resort in St Kitts.

Young Projects seeks to draw users into immersive spatial experiences that unfold over time, in a manner that is familiar but subtly foreign. This quality of “allure” is a result of a unique and experimental approach to materiality and spatial legibility. These are the threads that tie the work together and have set Young Projects apart as an emerging practice, as well as inform the larger-scale projects the studio undertakes as it enters its second decade.

Young Projects’ process often begins with simple exercises in making: form-finding experiments they undertake within their Brooklyn studio. Material research has included hand-pulling plaster with an irregular knife, using furniture foam as a casting bed, and forming concrete with palm stems. These experiments, among many others, mine characteristics that are not typically associated with conventional architectural materials and break traditional methodology, allowing for qualities of randomness and spontaneity to enter the process of making. The studio finds that letting go of control (at the right moments) produces results that are often surprising, entirely bespoke, and resist replication.