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—cultural

  1. Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University
  2. Breaking Character
  3. Australian Performing Arts Center - Confidential
  4. Korean Cultural Project - Confidential

—housing

  1. Enfilade House
  2. All That is Solid Melts Into Air, or Reconsidering the McMansion
  3. One House Per Day: Element House(s)
  4. Kinetohaus
  5. Playing House
  6. Williamsburg Multifamily
  7. Windsor Terrace
  8. LowRise LA: Floating Bungalows
  9. 8x1 House
  10. Brentwood Residence
  11. Blackland Village

—retail

  1. NC Bar & Cafe
  2. Kingston Co-op Grocery

—installation

  1. Onda Wall
  2. Phantom Formwork
  3. A+D Museum:
    Misbehaving Monument
  4. Acrylic Mountains
  5. Paper Trails

—research

  1. All That is Solid Melts Into Air, or Reconsidering the McMansion
  2. Playing House
  3. One House Per Day: Element House(s)
  4. Learning from Lampasas
  5. Micropolitan Texas
  6. Computational Drawings

—media

  1. The Architect’s Newspaper
  2. Ghosts in the Machine
  3. A+D Museum:
    Misbehaving Monument
  4. A+D Museum Redux: Monuments to Maximalism
  5. A+D Museum Future of _Space: Corporate Marketecture
  6. Foam is the Future (ISSUE:Copy)
  7. Architect in the Machine
  8. Digital Baroque
  9. Flattening the Digital and the Phyiscal
  10. TEDxUTAustin, “Hyperobjects: Aesthetic Philosophy for Sustainable Architecture”
  11. Simplicity is Dead

—info

  1. drooopi is an architecture office rethinking where and how we live.
  2. drooopi offers architectural services for projects of all types, scales, and budgets: houses and housing; restaurant, retail, and brand experiences; arts centers; installations; and more. Our approach is grounded in finding dogmatically rational solutions that challenge presumptions, expressed with a refined and playful aesthetic sensibility.
  3. drooopi is technically a cheeky acronym for “Davis Richardson Office of Objects, Projects, and Images,” meaning we design and make drawings of architecture and related things. drooopi as a name implies the reconsideration of preconceived notions: a building that droops is typically considered to be failing. What opportunities are there for defying conventional wisdom that could produce better buildings, more interesting spaces?
  4. drooopi is led by Davis Richardson, a licensed architect in New York and Texas.
  5. Contact us for potential projects or media inquiries: daviswrichardson@gmail.com

Mark

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 Acrylic Mountains    



Installation
Eustace, TX
2021
When asked by photographer friends to design a
wedding altar that would double as a backdrop for photo sessions, allusion to mountain-scapes and the large, singular pine trees throughout their land provided inspiration. A series of conical forms of various heights and directions were conceived of as a family that could exist together, in multiple configurations, or individually as follies across the land.


The cones are constructed out of a waffle structure of 2D contours created through CNC routing. Rather than focusing on the novelty of the fabrication process, the design seeks to explore ways an increasingly-ubiquitous construction process could yield intriguing aesthetic effects, namely through the use of acrylic sheets that are almost completely transparent yet create diffusion through layering and incident.


Preliminary Design Schemes:

The CNC process also makes customized etching and carving quite simple, and each sheet receives a custom “tattoo” of wood grain hatch pattern, which plays on layering, incident, and translucency through a playful and ironic misuse of disciplinary convention: the wood-grain hatch also alludes to more “natural” objects like mountains and trees despite the seemingly artificiality of plastic platonics. More to come.
Mark

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