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JEAN-PIERRE VILLAFAÑE
JEAN-PIERRE VILLAFAÑE
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
jeanpivilla@gmail.com www.jeanpierreskem.com 787.504.0000
Education Columbia University - Graduate School of Architecture and Planning Masters in Architecture
Savannah College of Art and Design SCAD - Hong Kong + Savannah Architecture Inmersion Program
The Catholic University of America - School of Architecture Architecture - Engineering (Transfer)
New York City 201 Hong Kong 2013 Washington, DC 2012-2013
Awards & Honors Dean’s List SCAD Academic Honors Scholarship SCAD Student Incentive Scholarship SCAD Achievement Honor Scholarship Winner Poster Competition Washington UNBUILT Awards Program AIAIDC Art Subject Award 4.0 Average Three Consecutive Years Award Special Service Award Outstanding Service to the Class 100 Top College Board Scores Private Schools in Puerto Rico
Work Experience Fabrication Shop - GSAPP Atelier Manferdini, LA Shake Shack Inc., NYC Biaggi Faure, PR William M. Balbi, PR Gustavo Arango, NYC Whitebox Art Center, NYC JR Design Group, FL Newman Architects, DC De La Cruz Gallery, PR ID Deko , PR Hotel Da Haus 312, PR SKEM® BY JEAN PIERRE INQ Enterprises, PR
Columbia GSAPP Fab Shop Monitor Architectural Intern, Design and Construction Development Designed artwork for latest restaurant in Buckhead, Atlanta
Savannah College of Art and Design Hope for Kasai Congo, Africa AIA+Draw Together Hong Kong Savannah College of Art and Design Babson College, MA University of Maryland, MD School of Architecture, PR School of Plastic Arts, PR
Lab Normal Digital Fabrication
Extracurricular
Represented by Fine Art Gallery of modern & contemporary art Architectural Intern, Design and Construction Development Design Textiles for Gustavo Arango Collection Architectural Intern/Digital Visualizer Art design on wine cellar for Art Basel Architectural Intern Modify drawings using Revit Collective Art Exhibition Art design for Dorado Beach Wellness Center Permanent Art Exhibition in guestrooms Fashion, Product, Interior and Architectural Design Commission canvasses for lobby and offices
2011-Present Present Present Present 2012-2013 2011 2011 2011 2016 2015 2015 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010
Urban Art Course
2014 Present 2013 2013 2010 2009 2009 2008
Exuberant Bridge Breaks Linearity & Explores Directional Dynamic Forces
2014
Art Rise, Thincsavannah Team opportunities
2014
Marketing Committee Member - Urban Artist Handel Architects Drawing Activity w. Shing Mun Spring Youth AIAS Member National Youth Leadership Forum of Medicine National Student Leadership Conference Summer Architectural Course
Publications eVolo DoSavannah Glamour Magazine Adidas Originals Ambiente y Color Magazine Modo de Vida Magazine
Fashion Designers of the Future Skem Twelve Days in Paradise Arte Urbano, una Opción de Color
2013 2012
DesignersLab 2011; Wellness Center 2011; Graffiti sobre Lienzo 2011; Grafiti Arte Urbano 2011l
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Nueva Generación Philippe Starck 2011; Arte Urbano 2010
El Nuevo Día Newspaper
Sueño Grafitero, Con Madera de Empresario
Skills Computer Skills
2011
Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premier Pro, Autodesk: Revit, AutoCad, Maya, 3DS Max. Rhinoceros 3D, V-Ray, Keyshot, Grasshopper,
Language Profiency
T- Splines, VisualArq, Z-Brush, Sketchup Fluent English & Spanish
I consider architecture, a multi disciplinary field, where ideas are borrowed and extracted from other applicable models of examples found in any design field and modern day issues. With this in mind, my objective is to adapt form, space and technology of architecture at any given scale, to coexist in a respectful manner with any application that takes place in the building form.
URBAN FARM
EAST RIVER, NYC
LOST AND FOUND
EAST VILLAGE, NYC
VERTICAL SIDEWALK
STUYVESANT TOWN, NYC
JUNIOR COLLEGE DOHA, QATAR
POETRY LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D.C.
SYNERGY
SAVANNAH, GA
FASHION MUSEUM
JACKSVONILLE, FL
ARTIST VILLAGE SAVANNAH, GA
SURFACE DYNAMICS
UNSITED
ADDITIONAL WORK
RD. CONGO, NYC, MIAMI, LA, SAVANNAH,PUERTO RICO
NEWTOWN CREEK OIL SPILL GREENPOINT/LONG ISLAND CITY TO BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN EXXON MOBILE Oil, Mercury, Lead, Multiple Volatile Organic Compounds, PCBs, Coal Tar, Cement, Nitrate, Pathogens and Sewage Wastewater
CONSOLIDATED EDISON EAST RIVER REPOWERING LOWER EAST SIDE Responsible for 1/4 of air emissions in the area Oil burning toxins released into river ASTORIA & EAST RIVER PARK SEWAGE DISPOSAL Streetwater runoff + Sewage Disposal and Bathroom Drainage
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Soil and Ground Water Toxic Vapors Water Toxicity Level (density refers to concentration) 1/32”=1’-0” Underwater Map of East River + Health Wave of LES & Brooklyn
Cartographic Study Mapping water toxicity levels and diseases along the edge of the East River in New York City
SUPERFUND SITE: 2010
Typology Iterations Archetypes include a dock, beach, markets, cafe, garden, grotto, fishing dock
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Mapping Exercise Diagramming subway ride’s perception of time vs reality based on external forces and human interaction
Typology Study Change of scale conveying activity applications
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Mapping Exercise Diagramming urban homegeneity in East Village and its impact on diversity and city’s vibrancy
Planometric Section Proposal for a corner intervention in Stuyvesant Town housing buildings
Physical Models
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DOHA, QATAR - 2015
his project sprouted from ideas enlightenment and submersion. One works towards a concept, the latter towards a formal expression on the site. The aim of this scheme is for the building to achieve a Net-Zero standard. These objectives will transcend the checklist of LEED qualifications to situate the project in not only an efficient building but a net-zero environment. Attaining maximum performance while preserving cultural sensitivity, the building shall act in the form of enlightenment or illumination, a tool for students to achieve maximum knowledge or insight. Creating a mindfulness towards Qatar’s culture with small pockets and niches that appear randomly between classrooms and enclosed spaces, freeing students minds. Passages are intersected by these small niches that contain areas of reflection, prayer spaces and enclosed courtyard to reconnect the student body with its Arabic culture. These pockets sprout unexpectedly between classrooms and hallways and coalesces the exterior with interior space.
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Lusail Island, a manmade terrain challenged earlier conceptions of TEMPERATURE architecture. Instead of digging into the land, objects appeared ETRIC CHART as if floating through the gulf, etric chart shows the standard indoor comfot zone in yellow. Each a comfortperature and clustering humidity is shownto with acquire black lines. Selected strategis, ored areas, extend the comfort zone without mechanical heating or able shaded environment
s and night purge ventilation, evaporative cooling, passive solar heatal ventilation look like the most effective strategies from this chart. If 1 es are to be implemented successfully, the building may be able to p to eight months of the year without significant heating or cooling h reduced mechanical cooling costs for the rest of the year.
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The project included a site selection exercise to be chosen within S omfort Zone Doha, Qatar. My selection was entilation Mass from needed sustainolar Heating derived Mass and Night Purge vaporative Cooling able factors that strengthened the building’s purpose through its proximity to other programrelated buildings. Mapping these provided with a optimum location for the objective was not only to have a net-zero building but facilitating the heavy traffic every day Doha faces.
Doha has a hot desert climate. Summer is very long, from May to September, when its average high temperatures surpass 38 °C (100 °F) and often approach 47 °C (117 °F). Humidity is usually the least in May and June
PROCESS 1. 2Simple building form is carved from, creating a faceted geometry that allows for wider hallway dimension and protects from solar exposure DIFFUSE 2. Buildings are clustered and traditional hallways live in the exterior to provide a shaded environment 3. Ground decreases to reach even lower temperatures providing a cooler environment 4. Solar umbrella captures UV rays and collects rainwater distributing it to ponds on the ground creating an evaporative cooling effect.
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Second skin extends creating hallways needless of mechanical cooling Volumes raise to create shaded areas for reflection Canopies create shading for courtyards Artificial ponds cool spaces through evaporative cooling
Mashrabiya or Shanasheel ( )ةيبرشمis the Arabic term given to a type of projecting oriel window enclosed with carved wood latticework located on the second storey of a building or higher Cool air is circulated through individual wind towers Semipublic terraces promote social interaction between students
Photo Voltaic Panels
Skylights Draw Natural Light
Rain water collecting system
Underflow Air
Double Skin: Solar Shading
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Auxiliary Convection System feeding from cold deep waters from Gulf
Geothermal Heat Rejection
Pedestrian Walkway Secondary Walkway Grass Fields Sidewalk Parking Reception Admin Offices Media/Computer Student Center Library Classrooms Solar Shading Artificial Ponds Offices Solar Field Desalination System
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Spaces are open and playful. They invite the students to collaborate and engage in a creative learning environment Double skin made of light wood: reflects light and shades first level hallways Spaces conditioned with spray mist: water obtained and processed from gulf
A/C System runs between inerstitial space through ceiling and second level floor slab Persian Gulf
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Welded Wire Fabric: Reinforcing Bar 1/2”
Metal Deck - HSB-36 ( High Shear B Deck )
1. Cross Section 2. Detailed Section: Computer Room 3. Wall to floor detail 4. Custom raised floor system
Parallel Chord Bar Joist Armstrong Aluminum Ceiling (98% recycled content) 4 ft. Surface Mount White LED 120-Volt Strip Light Mechanical, Electrical & Pumbling Ducts and Air Plenum in Inerstitial Space service classrooms
Strip Flooring: 2”x6” Laminated Wood Planks Custom Aluminum Railing
Fiber Glass Wall Coating
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Artificial ponds provide evaporative cooling with water desalinated from Persian Gulf Canopies provide shading to patios in between classrooms Double skin protects classrooms from direct solar radiation Apertures facing north (indirect sunlight) to wards water mass
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Poetry library
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - 2013
tructures arranged around one central performance space that encourages visitors to not only read and indulge in a poetic experience but become part of the audience from the reading spaces and have an individual or collective connection with the city (DC). Achieved through perforations and direct connections on top floors. Its circulation and arrangements invite the visitor to have a full experience with different poetry and literature rooms. The skins of the bridge were produced parametrically using computational software in order to produce different lighting effect that alters feeling of space and conveys the idea of the poetry being held in each tower.
Precedent Study BEINECKE RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript (BRBL) was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. The building was designed by Pritzker Prize architect Gordon Bunshaft of the firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merril, and is the largest building in the world reserved exclusively for the preservation of rare books and manuscripts. It is located at 121 Wall Street in the center of the Yale campus in New Haven, Conecticut, in Hewitt Quadrangle, which is more commonly referred to as “Beinecke Plaza”. The outside dimensions have “Platonic” mathematical proportions 1:2:3 (height: width: length).
precedent study
program diagram
service vs served
geometry diagram
noise levels
excavation diagram
study models: division
enclosure
light
Study Models Series of sketch models created as a study for various spatial applications and surface articulations for the poetry library. Creating enclosure, altered by gaps which offered views to exterior was a key factor in order to develop the desired mood in each tower.
Public/Performance Space Reading Rooms/City Exposure
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Circulatory System
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elevation facing east
exploded axonometric
A snake like aluminum structure meanders throughout the poetry towers of the building. Glassboxes are placed on the higher part of the towers. Readers circulate to the top onto the level of “enlightenment�. A public performing space was created to attract poets and other users of the building to recite their works to the visiting public. The snake like structure serves as a canopy to the space, protecting visitors from unpleasant enviromental inclements .
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The idea behind this building are individual towers, each affected by light that penetrates the parametric honeycomb that acts as an exterior skin, and implies a different spatial application. The hexagons are extruded or intruded to apply different uses. They are also covered or exposed through glass materials to produce different lighting effects that convey moods from different poetry genres. Learn
The idea behind this building is individual towers, each affected by light that penetrates the parametric honeycomb that acts as an exterior skin, and implies a different spatial application. The hexagons are extruded or intruded to apply different uses. They are also covered or exposed through glass materials to produce different lighting effects that convey moods from different poetry genres.
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BRIDGE ADDITION/ SAVANNAH, GA - 2013
he fundamental principle the design attacks is linearity, which describes the dominating directional dynamic. This dynamic can be expressed both by individual and multiple lines of force, this has particular relevance to architecture both in terms of its making and resultant form. Perceiving lines of force originating from elements such as the bridge. As the architecture moves in the linear horizontal fashion it starts to grow and bend in reaction to the geometry from the bridge which has “segmental� arches. The curves from the volumes and the strands echo that geometry from the arches and braid themselves in a loose way to create an excessive and exuberant appearance which represent a lively energy and excitement as they reach for the nature which awaits them on the other side of the bridge.
Manmade Structure
Nature Site
The purpose of these models is to accentuate the surface characteristics that were applied to the main volumes placed over the bridge. Using mass produced objects, and altering their forms by cutting them in order to imply different sectional qualities within each modular piece. The colors indicate the transition of space created in the project from one point to the other. The transition is also seen throughout the change of form and object in order to convey different surface characteristics.
Study models
The orthogonal manner of the existing building is to be broken with curvilinear surfaces that will create interior/exterior conditions when the volumes intertwine with each other. Program will be accommodated judging on the noise level of the two major perpendicular crossings which are the street and the canal. One which is close to nature and the other which resembles rush and mobility. The architecture will not only mimic the standards of the architecture of the bridge but will also respond to the conditions imposed by the context and topography.
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Apertures
Rustication
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reading space
3D SECTION DETAILING 1. Hydrophobic Texture 2. Glass Aperture 3. Expandable Interior Surface 4. Delivery Conduits 5. Hollow Core Aluminum Structure 6. Fiberglass Reinforced Polymer Panel 7. Mechanical Piping 8. Water Tank 9. Hydro-chambers
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fashion museum
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JACKSONVILLE, FL - 2014
he proposal is a podium-like structure with an intersecting volume rising six stories, so that its upper level coincides with the podium of the main Fashion Design building and its facade as well. Everything is arranged around a central void, an orthogonal form through which a stair/ ramp rise, connecting the levels and creating interesting spatial tensions. The dimensions of the square courtyard correspond to the perfect cube which faces the void. A cube emerges through the horizontal volume which also serves as an exterior platform, as if it were an extrusion from the missing piece from the void. A gridded piloti welcomes the visitor into the void, then into the massive cube.
1. Existing Site in Jacksonville Florida 2. Pulling the lot up creating a double ground condition 3. Connection pedestrians between W Adams & Forsyth St. 4. Solid: 1/2 Apartments & 1/2 Museum facing plaza Void: Interior External Relationship Dissolved: Gradual dark entrance, progressing towards moment of light, the void.
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Metal Flashing Membrane Roofing Continuous Clip Blocking Fasteners and Batten strip Reinforced Fastening Strip Slice Tape Adhered Membrane Roofing
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Aluminum Window Frame Metal Plate
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1. Sealant 2. Termination bar, mechanical fasteners 3. Metal Flashing 4. Membrane Roofing 5. Blocking 6. Fasteners and Batten Strip 7. Reinforced Fastening Strip 8. Slice Tape 9. Adhered Membrane Roofing 10. Ridged Insulation 11. Poured in Place Concrete 13. Curtain Flat Rail 14. Double Glazing 15. Aluminum Window Frame 16. Metal Plate 17. Ridged Insulation 18. Z Channels 19. Gypsum Board 20. Solid Wood Flooring w/ Moisture Barrier 21. Pour Stop 22. Metal Decking 23. Beam to Column Connection 24. Bar Joist 25. Bar Joist Bridging 26. Hat Channels 27. Gyp Board Ceiling
Sealant Termination bar, mechanical fasteners
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Bar Joist Bar Joist Bridging Hat Chanels Gyp Board Ceiling
Spatial Separation
exploded axonometric
Ballast Roof Membrane Insulation Concrete Slab Bar Joist Tilt Panel Concrete Double Glazing Steel Column Partition Gyp Wall Metal Deck I Beam Gyp Ceiling
The museum wishes to transmit the idea of a fashion show. Instead of the spectator viewing the models, the models are looking at the spectator making him the model. The piloti penetrates the roof from the exhibition space to wash light into the dark volume. Museum spaces intersect the apartments, and bring interesting views from the apartments towards the exterior platform.
Apartments Museum Museum Lobby Void Entrance Auditorium
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The style of the building is expressed by its simplicity and minimalism. The architecture seeks to meet with the ideas about minimalist fashion design to work together in the boutiques to achieve simplicity, using white elements, cold lighting, large space with minimum objects and furniture. Minimalist architecture simplifies living space to reveal the essential quality of buildings and conveys simplicity in attitudes toward life.
The building seeks to create new public spaces for Jacksonville. Always having interesting views within it, to create intricate connection between the visitors. The skin of the cube is shredded according to the space in which its punctured. The apperture follows a specific order and geometry which responds to the buildings need. The atrium opens up and brings natural daylight into the apartments.
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he following projects consist of a series of studies done for a surface dynamics class, all within a contemporary architecture discourse. Surfaces must have a logic and characteristic that can be read through each project. Apertures, ornaments, figural cuts and two dimensional chacteristics are applied to the surfaces to embellish the form and accentuate its characteristics. The projects demonstrate not only visual production for contemporary architecture, but small prototypes and digital fabrication to further help the visualization of these complex and dynamic forms.
Exploded Axon
Pavilion Metaseams
Unifying Tattoo
The purpose of this project is to treat the architectural pavilion as a whole autonomous object. The volume, interior, ground and surface articulations are liberated from the traditional hierarchical relations and stations in classical composition. The object is hovering, showing an empathy without fusion. A moment of tension and magnetism that creates a gap and a joint. The nested objects are further unified by a unifying tatoo that creates a graphical link for the whole pavilion.
Implied Outer Shell
Surface Articulation
Object Mass
Gap/Joint Ground Condition
exploded axon
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Rusticated Wall Panel
This wall panel explores the idea of rustication through digital fabrication process. Inspired by characteristics of product and car design, this prototype explores new architectural questions through surface characteristics such as figural cuts, sweeps, crease. The cuts create fragments in the piece that still work together as a single object.
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Contemporary Arch
As an interdisciplinary course, this project demanded abstractions from contemporary fashion, graphic and product design. With the objective of translating two-dimensional ideas in order to embrace the form yet express its form through a different language that still respected its neighbors nature.
hybrid sketch studies
The arch represents a contemporary approach to a classical arch passed to us by geometry. A combination of three apertures provide natural light to the surface beneath and it is these which combine to form a play of arches.
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object to ground Surface Dynamics
digital model
This model creates a continuous surface that smoothly connects with its base in the bottom. The contemporary discourse explored in this project deals with a curved surface flow that rejects modernist ideas of planes and intersecting tectonics and rather embraces the object by mimicking its form.
physical prototype
The surface contain sweeping creases that swell and ripple and embellish the formal composition. The base acts as a ground condition to the tower.
Modular Wall Panel
As a collaboration with an interior design student. We designed a wall panel that merged achitectural geometry and techniques combined with two-dimensional graphics to create a distortion to the initial perception of the form. Gradients and patterns saturated the geometry in order to achieve new compositions. The process included digital fabrication techniques such as CNC and concrete casting, a final application of spraypaint was added as a finish.
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This bench is based on flowing surfaces that accomodate to different ergonomical needs of the human being. The dynamic flows from a solid cube to a curvilenear surface which merges back into the solid orthogonal geometry. The surface tangles and elevates from the ground to create a sense of tension and an aesthetic of being dematerialized and stretched.
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The bench is made out of fine 1/2� plywood with 1/4� zinc nuts in between each of the wooden faces. The structure of the bench is held up by zinc threaded rods (12).
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As a collaboration with the Fashion Marketing Department at SCAD, I was commissioned to design a window display for their lobby. The proposal consisted of a series of layered laser cut plexi-glass that alluded to the layering produced by two-dimensional graffiti, this time through three-dimensional application. Production was worked in hand with accessories design student.
First solo show in Hotel La Concha in San Juan Puerto Rico. Mannequins were painted with funky curves, accentuated by vibrant colors. Each mannequin represented different canvases. The curves represent movement created by flowing curves of graffiti and tags. These patterns distort the human figure and accentutate the anatomy through graffiti.
Series of graffiti artwork produced for the interiors of a Vacation Rental apartment located in the heart of San Juan in Puerto Rico. As an artist I have produced a line of graffiti that collects characteristics from graffiti, typography and street art, and use them for commissions that speak to the furniture and interior design for the apartment.
Ink on Canvas. 18�x34�
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As a member of the marketing committee of a non profit organization my graffiti artwork was used for this special commission that was donated to the Hope for Kasai, a non-profit organization that provides students in the region of Kasai, Congo with educational opportunities. My design was used for t-shirts sold in a fund raiser for elementary schools in Miami. Over 1,000 t-shirts where sold.
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For this special commission, I was asked to produce a graffiti drawing for a piece of furniture by Kartell. Using graffiti I previously painted on the streets has always accompanied the concept of my artwork. Reading the style and characterstics of the essence of graffiti and translating them into other artforms opens new conversations in the world of contemporary art.
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Commission for an architect that designed the furniture piece shown below during the Miami Art Basel 2013. The graffiti plays against the rigid lines from the wine cava and accentuates the idea of the drink through the colors and style used. Another example of how graffiti done directly in the streets has been altered and abstracted for sophisticated clients in the world of design.
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spraypaint on canvas. 36” x 36”
In collaboration with a senior fashion student from SCAD I designed the prints for her collection. In this case the artwork was extracted from canvasses and applied directly to the textile using a spray paint or airbrush with ink. Her dresses were selected for the advertising campaign for the fashion show that brought fashion experts such as Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang and Miss Alexander J.
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By using elements from the logo as inspiration, graffiti was adapted to represent the young and funky image of Shake Shack. “Form follows ingredient�. The typography of the graffiti takes on a new form to characterize ingredients used in the burger. Its free form takes on the organic shape which intertwines with itself making a more intricate composition. Location: Shake Shack, Buckhead, Atlanta
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