Victoria Meyers : Invisible Buildings

Sound Sculpture, Art Installation : Vox Harbour in Queens, NY

hMa sound research : Vox Harbour
conceptual installation
collaboration with Jane Philbrick and Bob Bielecki

 SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK : SOUND FIELD DIAGRAM

Vox Harbor proposes three body-sized bandshell sound booths that will enable participants to communicate across three banks of the East River, connecting the distinct but proximate communities of the Sculpture Park, Roosevelt Island, and Astoria Housing in a sidewalk-type dialogue.  Conversations will be sampled and play back, referencing the sound of the ocean in a seashell, but here the din will comprise the soundscape/urban landscape of New York’s most diverse, polyphonic borough. 

The soundtrack will also include a spoken word panorama recorded by the artist in situ at each of the three Vox Harbor sites.  Bracketing the river in these formally parenthetical structures, Vox Harbor invites and celebrates the diversity of discourse that constitutes New York’s dynamic voice, where world-wide street talk is at home in Queens.

SOUND BOOTH DIAGRAM

To read more about Vox Harbor on our website, click here, www.hanrahanmeyers.com.

The Museum of Women : Green museum design / Women and Culture

A Woven Text

hMa used research into women’s voices to weave a rich text that weaves itself into a building that is itself  a fabric.  This woven fabric creates a fresh and relevant approach to the design of a Museum of Women.  The fabric is woven from collected ‘testimonials’, as well as from a considered investigation into the life of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women active in the fight for women’s rights.

Sustainable Fabric

The skin of the Museum of Women uses weaving and layering to make an environmentally sensitive enclosure.  The Museum will be a transparent building covered in a ‘woven fabric’.  This fabric will be a series of sun shades and rain catches that make the building an ecologically sensitive ecosystem.  The skin is an important part of that ecosystem, and keeps internal temperatures and humidity levels controlled with a minimum use of fossil fuels.  This layered or woven skin is environmentally appropriate and fosters the use and application of sustainable technologies.

To see more about hMa's Women's Museum design, visit our website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com.  hMa specializes in desigining public buildings with unique design concepts that incorporate cutting-edge green technologies.

hMa research : material + form, sound + light

  

research

Many of hMa's projects develop from specialized areas of research into natural phenomena and the way in which they shape material and form.  Research topics have included the shaping of space for sound and light with curved and faceted surfaces.  Advanced methods of construction including prefabrication have informed hMa's materials research, emphasizing those methods of building that accomplish the most with the least means.

WAVELINE : LATIMER GARDENS COMMUNITY CENTER
QUEENS, NY

PREFAB HOUSE
EASTON, PA

INFINITY CHAPEL
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY

QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART (COMPETITION)
QUEENS, NY