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Senior Day-center
Concept: Disruption in the shape of excitement
As we grow older our senses diminish, and we start loosing the sensibility and the excitement of the world as some seniors get trapped into the rutine. This project aims to create excitement and awaken the senses to produce a much more active and vibrant life style.
In this center, the people is the main attraction, their personalities shine and are seen from every angle, just like the silent vigilantees of space: the columns. Playing from the idea of each column having a personality of it's own, we designed the different columns as activity areas for the seniors to enjoy their multiple personalities: happy, sporty, chatty, brainy, etc.
The Lighting Design was developed taking careful consideration of eye adaptation and glare, concealing all light fixtures from direct view and controlling the overall system to adapt to the time of day and exterior conditions. While the lighting is not meant to be the prominent feature of space it provides an impression of cleaness and ampllitude desired by most seniors currently going to centers like this one.
Location: New York, NY
Year: 2016
Canyon Library
Design team: Sudtida Benchahiransak and Billy Wong
Concept: Magnified light experience unveiling different qualities of daylight through time.
Our building is a tool that captures time. In a normal day when you are wandering around New York City, the light is constantly changing around you, and yet none of us seem to notice this subtle changes of light qualities. Our building intend to act like a magnifying glass, filtering light from the outside and showing it to our users as a distinct paused moment in time, so that we can witness and identify the different qualities of light changing through out the day.
Daylighting Design seeks to accentuate the variations of color and light quality and make us aware of this sensibility in diferent spaces inside the building, filtering the light by different Architectural mechanisms.
Year: 2016
MicroLibrary
Design team: Sudtida Benchahiransak and Billy Wong
Concept: Into the Void
Intent: to create a space that allows you to escape reality into another world. Providing for each space in the program a different ambiance where you can read/study and have a relaxing time. By manipulating contrast planes and different brightness, light is used as a navigation tool which guides the user into the library. The experience leads you through a confined passageway where you are driven towards the brightness of the back wall forcing you to turn as you reach the end of the room. While you wander inside the lounge you can catch glimpses of the outside world through little windows framing specific scenes. Your journey culminates at the upper mezzanine level, a final hidden place designed for the passionate bookworm to experience the final framing of the outside view in a cozy setting.
The challenge for this project was to limit our design moves to the South West facade and the roof, so we decide to focus in generating a powerfull Daylighting strategy by onlyseaking one effect over the facade and one over the roof (skylight)
Year: 2016
Marimekko's Headquarters
Design team: Sudtida Benchahiransak, Sarah Dlinn and Gisbel Videla
Concept: Inside-out
MARIMEKKO is a Finnish design company founded in 1951, renowned for its original prints and colors. The company’s product portfolio includes high-quality clothing, bags and accessories as well as home décor items ranging from textiles to tableware. Marimekko’s designs are inspired by the nature and culture of their home country. They strive to produce high-end product while creating a collaborative and engaging environment for their designers. In designing their new office in New York City, we wanted to create a fun and inviting atmosphere for both the designers and clientele, while incorporating “marimekko-style” inspirations of nature from INside Finland OUT to the world of New York City.
Intent: The objective of this project was to develop a complete lighting design that satisfied the client requirements, in our case we considered the importance of high color rendering for the colorful textiles, uniformity, focused light and provide light only where needed.
Location: Chelsea, NY
Year: 2015
Lighting and Furniture integration
Concept: Back to the origins
Intent: Our custom display connects the Marimekko products back to where their inspiration was taken from, Nature. Showcasing the products in this display allows them to relate to their roots and convey the essence of their creation within the Marimekko design process, while also providing bright illumination and highlighting the vibrant colors of the merchandise.
Modular Lighting display system.
Year: 2015
Waste not challenge
Design team: Sudtida Benchahiransak and Sarah Dlinn
Concept: How much we recycle depends on what we do about it!
Intent: While you approach the site, you’ll be drawn by it’s subtle glow and INTERACT with it to discover the impact you can have over our world. To recycle is to contribute to a colorful world!
Location: The New School University Center, NY
Year: 2015
Light Box challenge
Concept: Light in motion
Intend:This exploration intended to identify a lighting effect around New York city and explore it’s composition and phenomena to recreate the effect at a scaled environment; inside a box size 5’x5’
EFFECT DESCRIPTION:
The reflection of light that causes the materiality and feel of a surface to change, interacting directly with its surroundings reflecting the movement of an ever-changing city. The reflective quality of light from my picture is diffused, pixelated, due to the construction of the surface reflecting the light, not a solid surface but rather the achievement of a surface by the repetition of series of vertical elements placed in diverse angles. As a result light reflects in different ways depending on the direction of light and merges within the surface resulting in a completely different feel and look, the space is turned into a playground of light, joyful and curious.
Location: Liberty Tower, NY
Year: 2015
Private Residence
Full scope project:
Design: Architecture, Lighting and furniture
Construction: Superviser, Site visits
Concept: Connection to nature and privacy
The goal of this project was to create a residence that fitted perfectly the personality and functionality of the family. We aim to create a division between public and private spaces incorporating the natural environment inside the house as well as take advantage of natural light to the maximum capacity.
This is my family's house and it was a collaborative effort, as the lead Architect I had to manage the integral design between the architecture, enginieering and structure in the design fase, and deal with the contractor and administrative details during construction fase.
The house is split in two levels, the lower levels is highly trnasparent and permebale to the garden and inner patio, to allow for a free floor plan where the family spend most of their time. The top volumes where more solid to control the inside temperature and natural light coming in.
This project is a representation of my design approach, a full integration of systems and performance, the greatest compiment I could get is the fact that my family lives happy and utilizes the spaces just as I envisioned they will.
Location: Puebla, Mexico
Year: 2013-2015
ATEA Workshop & Gallery
Concept: Inter-connections
Intent: At ATEA diferent profesionist work for comunity engaged projects, tangled in a web of collective creativeness. The more connections they make, the better projects they achieve and the more impact they have ion our society.
The choise was to reflect those human connections and interactions in the form of light, representing ATEA, and it’s desire to share it’s knowlege with our society.
Location: La Merced Market, Mexico City.
Year: 2014
Plaza de las 3 Culturas Installation proposal
Concept: Remembering individuals through time and light.
Intent: Live performance of people moving through the plaza in diferent periods in time and history. in the shape of squares of light.
The intention was to create a performance remembering the people who “comes and goes” trough the plaza in the diferent periods in time (war, social protests, earthquake, happiness, cheer, etc). The lighting choice was to use the paving squares and building shapes, to replicate moving people by the use of light, submerging the visitors in a journey through the colors and movements of the past.
Location: Tlatelolco square, Mexico City
Year: 2014
Arte Alameda Art Laboratory
Concept: Light and Shade projection experiment.
Intend: To simulate the solar movement in an imaginated city throughout the day by recreating a game of sahdow and light using diferent light temperatures and filters.
Location: Downtown, Mexico City.
Year: 2014
Experimental Installation
Concept: Light the park. Project in collaboration with classmates in Lighting Design Posgraduate course at Arquine.
Intend: Mexico city’s parks have no life at night and we observed many people walked their dogs when they come back from work (6-7pm) when there is no natural light left. In an attempt to show how a little light makes a lot of difference we decided to iluminate a portion of the park by placing little light in the pathways. For one night, we gave life to the park by adding a very cheap, ephimeral light.
Result: that night more people walked their dogs, and everybody around the neightbourhood prefered to walk in the enlighted path. Every visitor was encouraged to take home a souvenir (a lamp bag).
Location: Colonia Roma, Ciudad de Mexico
Year: 2015
Beach Lovell House Analysis
Concept: The journey to the view
Through the analysis of the Architecture of Rudolph Schindler, the objective of this work is to capture the perception of light of place as you experience a day in this wonderful double height living room overlooking the ocean and being surrounded by the different qualities of light in 5 different points in time merged in one single image.
As a follow up to the analysis of the Lovell Beach house, this is an exploration of key moments moving through the house and a series of snapshots capturing the moments of perception of light in those spaces moving from day to night.
Year: 2015
Focusing Exhibition
Lighting Design students collaborate with the gallery to design, install and focus the Lighting for the New exhibition every begining of the semester. The process included relamping of all Halogen fixtures, intalling, focusing and dimming. I’ve been part of the Installation team for two Semesters:
- September 2015, Fonts exhibition
- February 2016, Workwear/Abiti da Lavoro
Location: Shelia Johnson Gallery at The New School
