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Y S D M


Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
based in Newburgh, New York

@ysdm.studio
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Y S D M


Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser
info@ysdm.studio / @ysdm.studio

TEA HOUSE: MANITOGA
Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center
Garrison, NY
2021-22

Project Lead: Yoshihiro Sergel
Project Support: Diana Mangaser

Artist In Residency Installation
12’-4.5” x 12’-4.5” x 8’-0” interlocking cedar structure set on stone footings with (8) sliding string doors, (4) felt tatami, lime concrete hearth, and paper roof tiles.

Thanks to: Allison Cross—Director at Manitoga & Staff: Vivian Linares, Nina Scibelli, Kelly Ellenwood, Emily Phillips & Mia Wendel-DiLallo, Sarah Connors, and all the incredible tour guides; Installation Assistance: Zach Blaue, Alex Cimbal, Sanjay Thakur, John Zelehoski; Component Fabrication: Jason Bauer (Third Room), Ricardo Fuentes (Fabhaus); Photography: Don Stahl

ABOUT

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 principles 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.


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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. 
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Y S D M
 info@ysdm.studio 
@ysdm.studio