DANCE PLATFORM
Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens NY
2019
Platform Design: Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser
Project commisioned by: Mauricio Cortes & Alva Mooses (MAALVA Studio)
19’ x 19’ interlocking wood structure and deck set in volcanic gravel ring
Designed for Alva Mooses’ as part of her project, Se entra bailando / You enter dancing, at Socrates Sculpture Park, this dance platform was inspired by the Purépecha ‘troje’—vernacular architecture decimated by the eruption of Paricutín volcano in Michoacán, México in 1943. The eruption forced the Purépecha residents of San Juan Parangaricutiro to relocate and left only fragments of the local church visible. The Dance Platform utilized an interlocking wood structural grid to support the wooden deck and provide a hollowness for reverberation of the dancer’s steps, an integral part of the performance. The modular design allowed for ease of construction, transportation, and installation of the wooden elements on site. The wood elements were stabilized and surrounded by a bed of of decomposed black asphalt emulating the volcanic eruption.
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TEA HOUSE
Manitoga
Spring Street Garden
Woods Gerry
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
Lake Cabin
Rowhouse
Live/Work
Studio 2Q
CURATORIAL
Artist In Vacancy
Ann Street Gallery
EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
Dia: Chelsea
Bauhaus Dessau
Dia: Beacon
Arts Letters & Numbers
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Codas
Dance Platform
Winter Solstice Bells
Hako Sushi
Bubuto
Salo
TEA HOUSE
Manitoga
Spring Street Garden
Woods Gerry
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
Lake Cabin
Rowhouse
Live/Work
Studio 2Q
CURATORIAL
Artist In Vacancy
Ann Street Gallery
EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
Dia: Chelsea
Bauhaus Dessau
Dia: Beacon
Arts Letters & Numbers
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Codas
Dance Platform
Winter Solstice Bells
Hako Sushi
Bubuto
Salo
Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.
Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.
Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.
By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.
As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.
Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.
Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.
By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.
As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.