포스트 인더스트리얼 디자인, 242번가에 자리한 1950년대 상업시설의 리뉴얼을 돋보이게 하는 거대한 오브제는 마치 거대한 갑옷을 입은 듯 당당한 모습으로 주변의 시선을 맞이한다. 다양한 문화활동을 제공하는 다목적 공간으로 변신을 꾀하는 시설의 인상적인 시그니처를 생성하는 거대한 기계장치는 도르레와 기어로 작동되며 풋페달과 손으로 회전하는 크랭크를 이용, 스틸프레임으로 구성된 거대한 글래스 윈도우를 개폐한다.
reviewed by SJ,오사
Hand cranks are a Tom Kundig signature. He’s designed sculptural versions to operate the doors and windows of houses across the Pacific Northwest as well as the skylight at the Olson Kundig Architects studio in Seattle. Now one of the largest cranks to date has arrived in Los Altos, California. The location is a multipurpose space owned by the Passerelle Investment Company, a real-estate developer that has tapped various architecture firms to remake downtown properties.
The facility—known by its address, 242 State Street—occupies a 1950’s commercial building. Standing taller than the roof, which Kundig raised 7 feet, is a massive steel armature that looks like some kind of art installation. Its I beam actually serves to anchor an exposed system of counterweighted pulleys and gears that, when a foot pedal is unlocked and a hand crank turned, raises the new storefront: a 10-by-16-foot, 2,000-pound object in steel-framed glass. “This is an evolution that explores using relatively small mechanical parts to move large pieces of architecture,” Kundig explains. His other interventions include the steel canopy out front and the stripped and patched concrete floor inside the 2,500-square-foot space.
It recently served as a temporary off-site for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s “Project Los Altos,” featuring a Spencer Finch artwork based on colors from The Wizard of Oz.
PROJECT NAME: Passerelle Investment Company's Multipurpose Space
LOCATION: Los Altos
FIRM: Olson Kundig Architects
SQ. FT.: 2,500 SQF
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