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The Social Cave – Milano Furniture Fair 50 + 50 – Temporary Installation / April 12th – 17th 2011 featured at Salone Satellite
The class will engage architecture’s capacity to respond to human-environmental conditions and develop a
design strategy for an installation to be temporarily inserted in occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the
Milano Furniture Fair.
By selecting a given fabrication material enabling students to explore how parametric design can
e ectively and quickly be adaptable to fabrication, site , programmatic and perceptive conditions.
Students will develop a design strategy responding to the program of a lounge at the Salone del Mobile di
Milano 2011.
Credits:
Concept + Schematic Design: Non Linear Solutions Unit / GSAPP Columbia University – Caterina Tiazzoldi
Interaction Designer: Mirko Arcese
Teaching and Research assistants,
Bryce Suite, Daniel Cashen, Javier Zaratiegui, Mauro Fassino, Vernon Roether
Students:
Andrew Kim, Alvin Shim, Benjamin Brichta, Cristina Handal, Courtney Pope, Dionysis Kaltis, Elena Kapompasopoulou, Evan Bauer, Florence Schmitt , George Valdes, Georgina Lalli, Hye Lee Oh, Jeohg-in Choi, Jevin Dornic, Katherine Thorn, Kelsey Lents , Michael Gonzales, Youmi Kim, Sanny Ngy
Sites:
Acknowledgments:
Marva Griffin
Mark Wigley / Dean Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation GSAPP Columbia University
Laura Kurgan / Director of the Visual Studies section at GSAPP Columbia University
Marco Piana, Gabriele Sala
Sponsor: AIPE, COSMIT, GSAPP, NSU
