PEAK COFFEE TABLE

Peak-table_3_for-web © 2012 sarosh. All rights reserved.

Mak­ing is such a lux­ury. Noth­ing teaches you about the accu­racy and leg­i­bil­ity of your draw­ings like mak­ing your own designs. Recently I ven­tured back into the work­shop to test myself in such a way. Sur­rounded by the sweet smell of saw­dust I worked to cre­ate the first Peak cof­fee table. Con­tinue read­ing →

DESIGN APPROACH

I approach archi­tec­ture and design as way of address­ing chal­leng­ing issues. It’s a way of think­ing about prob­lems and what we can do to pro­vide con­sid­ered, per­sonal solu­tions. It’s about being inno­v­a­tive in this prob­lem solv­ing, with­out for­get­ting how we came to this point.
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FAX

FAX 4 © 2012 sarosh. All rights reserved.

Recently I was asked, with my OH.NO.SUMO. col­leagues, to be part of the inter­na­tional tour­ing exhi­bi­tion, FAX. The exhi­bi­tion calls for par­tic­i­pants to fax a work to the gallery that dis­cusses the posi­tion of the fax machine within soci­ety and as a draw­ing too. Con­tinue read­ing →

PAPER SKY

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Paper sky was an instal­la­tion art­work that was con­structed for Urbis Design Day 2010 at the Poggen­pohl Kitchens show­rooms in Auck­land, New Zealand. The project called for a trans­for­ma­tive inter­ven­tion into the space which allowed for an alter­na­tive view­ing of the dis­play kitchens, while pro­vid­ing an immer­sive expe­ri­ence for patrons of Urbis Design Day.
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INTERCONNECTIONS OF SYSTEM DENSITIES

Spaceframe construction prototype © 2011 sarosh. All rights reserved.

Designed to address the issues sur­round­ing the degra­da­tion of the Rice Ter­races of the Philip­pines, this project exam­ines how con­ser­va­tion of envi­ron­men­tal and cul­tural resources are depen­dent on the estab­lish­ment of Social Sus­tain­abil­ity. Con­tinue read­ing →

MOMOYO KAIJIMA OF ATELIER BOW WOW

Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow Wow © 2011 sarosh. All rights reserved.

Since form­ing Ate­lier Bow-Wow in 1992, Yoshi­haru Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kai­jima have been pro­duc­ing some of the quirki­est and most sub­tly nuanced work of their gen­er­a­tion. Their seem­ingly light hearted name masks what is an extremely insight­ful research based prac­tice. Con­tinue read­ing →

PALIMPSEST & THE MODERN GRIEVING SPACE

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Archi­tec­ture has the power not only to frame sig­nif­i­cant moments within our lives, but to actively project our val­ues and sup­port us within these moments. One of these moments is the fare welling of a loved one. This project exam­ines the archi­tec­ture of griev­ing within the con­text of land­scape and con­text. It aims to exam­ine what fac­tors must be taken into account in the design of con­tem­po­rary archi­tec­ture on sites which exhibit a palimpsest of cul­tural, land­scape and socio-economic his­to­ries. Con­tinue read­ing →