Portfolio - Eric Futerfas by efuterfas

Institute for the Comtemporary Art Museum Netxus Radiolarian Enticing Ecology the Seed Fuse

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                                                                                   

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  

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     

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 

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    

Runof

Runof is treated diferently depending on where it lands                        as a waterfall feature. Rain that lands on the lat part spills                            

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OUND

embedded water channel running drain

EART

TER WA



  

                 Employ nature’s morphological strategies of economy and eﬃciency through a process that                  approach with a deined construction method allows for the installation to be easily disassembled and reassembled in a diferent part of the forest with the help of local arbors in order to lure visitors to diferent parts of the forest each year. This would become an annual ritual to create a unique 





       piezoelectric iber optics.









 

 





The inal platform of the               

Dragonly Drone



Radiolarian Carbon Fiber String Lamp Shade

The lamp shade was conceived through an algorithmic process that generates modules organized around a nucleus of light. The geometry was inspired by natural forms, and the base shape became a dodecahedron for practical and aesthetic purposes. The outward extrusion of each module is programmed according to the surface area of its derivative panel, resulting in 4 different modules that give the lamp a tapering appearance. The final conglomerate was wrapped together with string to stabilize the form through constant inward compression, mirroring the outward expulsion of light that it controls.

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 of urban environments. This project is an efort to activate latent green spaces to encourage                                    while releasing oxygen. It’s also sticky and lexible, allowing for the construction of the most abstract forms to conform to a dynamic landscape and ofer many diferent interactions such as  heavily considered factor in every signiicant installation of the project. It was crucial to anticipate   

Hempcrete is an organic mixture of hemp stalk ibers, water, and a lime binder. The higher the ratio  depending on how durable it must be to suit each speciic form’s function. Human interaction with  relect how they are used. Eventually, the installation will complete its integration by completely 

                                                     that’s already camoulaged the                    

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!                                     deinition would increase as people      latten earth; a way of creating a                                  

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This bend ofered                                                                     

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    concept of this speciic site                                                                                                                           This site relects a dynamic      the project in the irst place:                       

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  and amphitheater can ill two pockets and gently pinch it at the ground. These two features are deined by perforated screens of bamboo growth which stem from the spire                 

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             under which a large ETFE bubble is then inlated to interface with the bamboo                               

                 program, arranged in a speciic sequence to let              consume their meal, and inally enjoy sights out onto 

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        

core

greenhouse

spiral ramp bamboo structure

       bamboo to create a shaft of difused light that               sense of luidity between levels.                                        

     

site plan / 1:300

To have a minimal impact on the landscape of the site, the entire structure comes down on only 4 modules with elongated downward extrusions to be driven into the ground for anchorage. The form then mushrooms up and out in order to cantilever over myrtle bushes, waiting to embrace their growth.

time

FUSE Submission for a Public Installation Competition

Town of Pafos, Cyprus

In the heart of the town lies a neglected public garden space that the Town of Pafos created an open-call competition for in order to solicit designs for installations that would help draw people in and reactivate the space. Pafos has intriguing Greek mythological connections that were the foundational inspiration of this project’s design. It’s fabled that Aphrodite herself, the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility, was birthed offshore and rose from the sea to the shores of Pafos. During her ascension, the Greek Myrtle, a fragrant local shrub, wrapped her to hide her nudity and was heavily symbolic throught ger life. Aphrodite later became the first wife of Hephaestos, the god of blacksmiths, metallurgy, and sculptures. Analogous to the marriage of these gods, this project seeks to bring the two seemingly opposing things that they both represent together into harmony. After doing some research on the local industry in Pafos, an aluminum manufacturer was identified that would be convenient for the production of the installation. For these reasons, aluminum was chosen as the main material and the Greek Myrtle as the main plant to create a connection to Pafos’ industry, botany, and mythology.

Myrtus communis (Greek Myrtle) a local evergreen shrub; is best grown in sandy, well draining soil like that of the Municipal Garden; can grow up to 1.5m in height over 3 years with partial to full sun and has many tolerances; white, fragrant flowers bloom in early Summer, creating an aromatic lure; Sacred to Aphrodite who was born from the seafoam off Pafos

nourish mist irrigates the Greek Myrtle shrubs; also dematerializes the aluminum lattice and abstracts it with the white myrtle flowers

FEEDBACK LOOP the aluminum lattice ascends to support a series of winding mister hoses, artistically woven by installation crew

buttress

fuse*

branches pierce through the lattice sculpture while roots spread to eventually wrap and help anchor the foundation

2cm

Two of the key factors that nature uses to generate forms are efficiency and economy in regards to the use of resources. With this in mind, we designed a module that can be easily and cheaply manufactured and assembled. Although forming the modules is a very rigid and technological process, what the modules are able to form can be very organic and sculptural. Because of this, the project does not necessarily have a defined form and is allowed to flex depending on the cost of the manufacturing process.

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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1cm

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anodized aluminum square section (primed, painted white, sealed) opaque plastic cap for exposed ends bolt washer nut module marriage piece mister hosing zip tie lighting wire caulked hole to secure and seal threaded wire programmable LED light bulb

30cm

standard module details / 1:10

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against it. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing much at all.

- Frei Otto