Description: E X T E N T S is a design collaborative that operates across scales and disciplinary silos. We’re interested in architecture, urbanism, media, digital culture, and other instruments of life that can be impacted by design. The collaborative is led by McLain Clutter and Cyrus Peñarroyo, faculty at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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Tiered levels of lavender foam-padded platforms support the physical stuff of media, including an off-the-shelf data floor system, computer monitors, and extension cords, to create digital platforms for displaying recent projects EXTENTS. The double reading of platform on platform finds form through custom-milled low-density fiberboard and high-density foam padding embossed with design elements abstracted from architectural drawing software, which provide the substrate for screens presenting images and vide
Shaped Places of Carroll County New Hampshire speculates on the complex reciprocity between who we are and the shape of where we live; between identities and the built environments that support them. Culminating in the design of three linear cities, the project seeks to geometrically organize population at a geographic scale to carefully prescribed ends – drawing upon a seemingly unlikely set of protagonists and sources from Frank Stella to M.A. Ochitovic, and from American formalism to critical geography.
This proposal draws a critical line between contemporary digital presence and the fundamental surface of human appearances. Composing a material installation and a custom-made augmented reality platform, the project questions how we are seen and all of the myriad ways that technology allows us to appear in a scene by staging a critical party that blurs the distinction between occupant and scenography. The Young Architects Program has always been a set for a party, and conventional critique has run out of st