drooopi is an architecture office rethinking where and how we live.
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.
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?
drooopi is led by Davis Richardson, a licensed architect in New York and Texas.
Contact us for potential projects or media inquiries:
daviswrichardson@gmail.com
Exhibition “In the Round, On the Flat,” Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY 2022 (Directed/completed at Overlay Office)
Overlay Office’s submission to the “In The Round, On the Flat” show, “Playing House,” a medium-sized tabletop model made of wood and 3D-printed PLA plastic, begins with the idea of a Brooklyn townhouse transformed into a building block “toy.” Abstracting the scale and context of typical infill development, “Playing House” becomes a kit of parts for endless urban variation on constrained lots. Imagining a building as a toy facilitates opportunity to challenge flat, two-dimensional compositions and ornamentation typical of townhouse architecture. Instead, it explores the spatial variety of relief, three-dimensional composition, and whimsical tectonic play.
The media of the project all take on distinct roles in the perception of depth: the main object, the model, is a “model of a model,” or an assemblage of pieces and components which could vary in arrangement and scale. Components break traditional architectural constraints, where pieces start to fold down or break the edge of the table. The model itself is flanked by two images: a photograph of the physical model is staged in a studio with drawing props, and a rendering from a similar view explores digital qualities. The photograph, a medium which typically flattens the world as we see it, becomes dimensional like a rendering, with flat entourage added to the scene as in a collage; and the rendering itself explores layering and projection as it is re-rendered as a printed photo on a digital tabletop.
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