The Black Box / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

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Text description provided by the architects. The concept of the "Black Box" is the guiding concept behind the architecture--modeled after the "black box" flight data recorder; it is used symbolically to represent the “storage” of conversation, ideas, thinking and research in the creative studio office. The black box also serves the function of protecting that recording in the event of a crash, fire or tragedy, analogous to the role of a design office servicing as a container of its intellectual production and protection from outside damage.  The black box offers poignant, relevant and passionate design ideas with meaning and purpose to clients who may have had to face design tragedies in their lives. The ground floor in the form of a retail store displays some of these designed objects produced in the offices above, rendering it a window into the contents of the black box.