Prism Gallery / PATTERNS

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PATTERNS has designed a new three story cultural center for West Hollywood, California.  The center, known as Prism, will become a cornerstone of artistic experimentation, carving a new niche for the arts in Southern California.   The facade will be the first in the nation to be constructed entirely out of a resin based composite polycarbonate. Inspired by automotive design supple forms, streamlined detailing and plastic finishes; the façade has a dual aesthetic performance associated to its plastic materiality and responsive to the lively energy of its context: it behaves as a reflectively glossy surface during daylight and as a translucent skin at night.

More about Prism after the break.

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PATTERNS’ collaboration with 3Form, an advanced material fabrication company specializing on resin based composites, has led to the center’s dynamic form.  Building surfaces are lift up and down, opening the interior while suspending its mass over the strip and producing a sense of weightiness over passerby pedestrian and vehicle traffic approaching from downhill.  Its formal logic is the outcome of a productive negotiation between the ordering column grid of the existing building and the intense social and physical dynamism of the context.

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23 comments »

pelican says:

“translucent screen at night”,where are the night photos then??
plus its not even pretty :[

 
# November 12, 2009 at 21:39
Rupesh Jamkhindikar says:

Its just about one corner with some pretty ordinary looking material…???

 
# November 12, 2009 at 22:20
L dog says:

simple with nice metal detail. nice job!

 
# November 12, 2009 at 23:23
Alex Leonard says:

how does this respond to the corner if it just slabs the bottom, its no longer the corner, but its own corner. it sitting on its own plinth and having a weird form just makes it another singular building on the strip. great..

 
# November 12, 2009 at 23:52
mc says:

why turn your wall into a ceiling surface just to pull the wall back to its original position

 
# November 13, 2009 at 00:54
    E says:

    Couldn’t agree more.

     
    # November 13, 2009 at 04:35
dah says:

yeah, don’t know. Not so nice, eh?..

 
# November 13, 2009 at 09:56
c says:

kind-of-nice detail is no compensation for everything else going on here

 
# November 13, 2009 at 10:18
g says:

is this all the Parametric Project has to offer? it’s all just the same ‘ol same ‘ol………….

 
# November 13, 2009 at 10:34
M says:

appreciate the effort… but the curves could use some refinement, it appears to be wrenching to hard

 
# November 13, 2009 at 12:41
cad says:

Cash for clunker…LOL, “building surfaces are lifted up and down…” to reveal a California sunroom, huh?

 
# November 13, 2009 at 13:55
frank Wilson says:

badly dressed for a day out. It does not stand as an original piece of architecture.

 
# November 13, 2009 at 15:23

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