COMPETITIONS & EXHIBITIONS
MET Home Installation
City / Los Angeles, CA Program / 500 sf +/Client / Hachette Filipacchi Media US Inc. (Metropolitan Home Magazine) Completed / 2007 Awards / 2008 I.D. Annual Design Review Award, Honorable Mention in Environments
Koning Eizenberg was 1 of 10 invited participants in 2007’s MET Home LA Showhouse Installation. In this home, like many others, the arrival sequence for those living in the house is not the front door but the overhead door and the garage. We decided the garage could provide a more theatrical and welcoming experience while screening the usual mechanical equipment and typical garage contents. We like playing with expectations and tweaking ordinary materials. The installation redressed the neglect by conflating billboard and pegboard into a backlit, laser cut, series of screens that spell out a personlized message, here “Welcome Home” and the always anticipated “You’re Late.”
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University of Melbourne Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning
City / Australia Program / 180,000 sq. ft. of architecture, building, planning and landscape Client / University of Melbourne Competition / 2009 Finalist
This competition called for a new 180,000 sq. ft. building to house architecture, building, planning and landscape architecture for approximately 1900 graduate and undergraduate students and 150 full-time staff. The competition sought to create an active and collegial research environment that brought together staff and students to exchange knowledge and engage in debate. We designed a student-centric environment that focused on a strong studio culture with a high degree of public visibility. The facility was to be equipped with the most advanced technologies to nurture strong staff-student relationships and support research endeavors. Above all, the project was designed to change as the faculty continues to develop its research. Current research focuses on several key themes, including sustainable built environments; urban futures with focus on housing, transport and communities; design, technologies, management and practice; and built environment history, theory, and social critique in the Asia-Pacific region.
Lake Elsinore Civic Center
City / Lake Elsinore, CA Program / 100,000 sq. ft. Client / City of Lake Elsinore Competition / 2007 Competition - Finalist
In 2007, the City of Lake Elsinore, California, held a competition requesting an innovative and sustainable plan for areas surrounding historic and natural resources. This plan was to provide meaningful public space for community activities while creatively contributing to the economic development of the area. Our 100,000 sq. ft. building program includes a new city hall, council chambers, a post office, a public library, business incubator space, parking, and a shoreline park that ties civic identity with the future of the lake. The proposed park connects with adjacent open spaces, restores wetlands at the lake edge, and introduces meadows and wetland perches with shaded picnic areas.
11th Annual International Architecture Venice Biennale Exhibition
“Uneternal City”
City / Venice, Italy Client / La Biennale di Venezia Completed / 2008
Thirty years after ‘Rome Interrotta’, twelve Italian architects and international design studios were asked to re-imagine the Eternal City of Rome based on new instruments for the transformation of the contemporary city. Our focus lied within the myth of Rome’s center overwhelming the legitimacy of the periphery. By unbundling the suburbs from its historic core, Rome’s encircling freeway (GRA) was re-imagined as a freed, straight-lined datum that refigured the context. Pinning Rome back together highlighted key places of interest - disinvested communities, neglected countryside, antiquities and malls. Looping these points generated a freewheeling line that begged a more compelling future than the sponsoring freeway: a 120km train ride traversing the GRA to cultivate public space and catalyze development. Fast effective public transportation would eclipse the GRA’s plodding commuter experience with the thrill of a more sustainable and public-spirited suburban dream.
Adaptive Re-Use
Century Building Pittsburgh PA
Children’s Institute Inc. Otis Booth Campus Los Angeles CA
The Standard Hotel Downtown Los Angeles CA
Planning
The Village Santa Monica CA
Urban Intervention Competition Seattle WA
Historic Farmers Market Los Angeles CA
Housing
Related Projects Hancock Lofts West Hollywood CA
Takeout House Pasadena CA
Duane Apartment New York, NY
Education
Wildwood Elementary Los Angeles CA
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
PS1 Elementary Santa Monica CA
Culture/Civic
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
Children’s Institute Inc. Otis Booth Campus Los Angeles CA
Commercial
Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel Hollywood CA
Thornton Tomasetti Office Los Angeles CA
Gilmore Bank Los Angeles CA
Virginia Avenue Park Santa Monica CA