DAH STUDIO AMENIA

HOUSE FOR AN ABSENT ORIGIN 2

PROJECT DATA

Name: DAH Studio Amenia

Year: 2018

Status: study

Location: Amenia NY

Team: Jon Lott, Justin Gallagher, Lauren McClellan, Huma Sahin

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STUMP HOUSE

HOUSE FOR AN ABSENT ORIGIN 1

PROJECT DATA

Name: Stump House

Client: private

Year: 2018

Status: design development

Type: residential

Location: Ben Lomond

Program: single family house and studio

Team: Jon Lott, Justin Gallagher, Lauren McClellan, Kenneth Hasegawa, Josephine Roubert

Publications: ARCHITECT (Feb 2019)

Awards: P/A Award, Honor (ARCHITECT 2019); Special Mention Award (Architizer A+Awards 2019); Best of Design Honorable Mention (Architect’s Newspaper 2019)

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ROCHE/DINKELOO DOUBLE

ROOM FOR A WALL

PROJECT DATA

Name: Roche/Dinkeloo Double

Client: University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS Amherst

Year: 2018

Status: complete

Type: temporary installation

Location: Fine Arts Center, UMASS Amherst, MA

Program: pavilion

Team: Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., Michael Kubo, Marianna Gonzalez, Justin Gallagher, Lauren McClellan, Kenneth Hasegawa

Contractor: John Pierce

All images © CLOK

PIONEERTOWN HOUSE

HOUSE FOR A HOUSE 4

PROJECT DATA

Name: Pioneertown House

Client: private

Year: 2017–current

Status: design development

Type: residential

Location: Pioneertown, CA

Program: single family house and studio

Team: Jon Lott, Lauren McClellan

Publications: ARCHITECT (Feb 2018)

Exhibitions: Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech (2018, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, curated by Andrew Holder and K. Michael Hays)

Awards: P/A Award Citation (ARCHITECT 2018), A+ Award (ARCHITIZER 2018), NEXT LA Merit Award (AIA|LA 2018)

All images © PARA

STOREFRONT FOR STOREFRONT

WALL FOR A WALL

PROJECT DATA

Name: Storefront for Storefront

Client: Storefront for Art and Architecture

Year: 2016

Status: built

Type: installation

Location: New York City

Program: wall

Design: Jon Lott, Ben Halpern

Contractor: IA

Fabrication: Jeffrey Cheung, Nikita Grachev, Mark Hernandez, Paul Knepley, Julien Leyssene, Paul Pino

All images © PARA unless noted

Images 1, 3-6: Naho Kubota

MORAN MORAN GALLERY

ROOF FOR A ROOF

PROJECT DATA

Name: Moran Moran Gallery

Client: Moran Moran

Year: 2016

Status: concept design

Type: commercial gallery

Location: Los Angeles

Program: gallery, offices, roof terrace

Design: Jon Lott, Ben Halpern, Justin Gallagher

All images © PARA 

HEART OF HEARTS

PROJECT DATA

Name: Heart of Hearts

Client: Times Square Alliance

Year: 2016

Type: pavilion

Location: Times Square, New York City

Team: this project was run under the Collective-LOK 

Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo

with team members: Justin Gallagher, John Todd, Aimee Hultquist

Structural Consultant: Robert Silman Associates

Image 3 © David Sundberg/ESTO

All other images © Collective-LOK

COOK HOUSE STUDIO

House for a House 3

PROJECT DATA

Name: Cook House Studio

Year: 2016

Status: CD

Location: NYC

Team: Jon Lott, Justin Gallagher, Lauren McClellan

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MAPPA MUNDI

PROJECT DATA

Name: Mappa Mundi

Client: Peace Corp

Year: 2015

Status: Honorable Mention / competition

Type: cultural

Location: Washington DC

Team: this project was run under the Collective-LOK 

Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo

with team members: Justin Gallagher, Benjamin Halpern

Structural Consultant: Robert Silman Associates

Exhibitions: Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech (2018, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, curated by Andrew Holder and K. Michael Hays)

All images © Collective-LOK

BOB’S HOUSE

HOUSE FOR A HOUSE 2

PROJECT DATA

Name: Bob’s House

Client: Bob

Year: 2014, 2019

Status: Concept Design

Type: residential

Location: Winter Park, FL

Program: gallery space for private art collection

Team: Jon Lott, May Jieun Jeong, Lola Kleindouwel

All images © PARA

MIRROR MIRROR

Mirror Mirror explores the institutional definition of MoMA PS1 through the triangular figure of its courtyard, proposing the mutual reflection of this space and the city through a billowing roof surface and the redefinition of its perimeter wall as an urban mirror. The edges of the triangular courtyard are lifted to make its space visible as an urban figure, then used as the frame from which a shimmering surface of mirror tiles is draped. The tile pattern ranges from fully mirrored at its edges to a halo-like void at its lowest point, dissolving this collective accumulation of tiles to create space for a singular moment of contemplation at its center. A gravel mound lifts viewers above ground level for a direct view over the courtyard wall and accommodates tiered seating for events, while the surface of the concrete wall is mirrored to double both mound and roof between courtyard and street. A colonnade of wood beams at the perimeter of the triangle houses a variety of hanging elements for cooling and play, including mist, showers, buoys, and swings. Through a crowdsourced campaign each mirror tile is customized with an inscription of 140 characters, investing participants in the collective form of the billow and creating a memento through 17,000 personal mirrors sent to contributors after the closing of the pavilion. At night, spotlights turn the field of mirrors into a glittering backdrop for the Warm Up party and other MoMA PS1 events.

PROJECT DATA

Name: Mirror Mirror

Client: MoMA / PS1

Year: 2014

Status: competition

Type: cultural

Location: Queens, New York

Team: this project was run under the Collective-LOK 

Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo

with team members: Chaewon Ahn, Enas Alkhudairy, Majda Al Marzouqi, Justin Gallagher, Jerome Byron Hord, May Jieun Jeong, Arion Kocani, Patrick Evan Little, Lauren McClellan, Dave Miranowski, Caner Oktem, Gabrielle Patawaran, John David Todd, Robert White

Structural Consultant: Robert Silman Associates

All images © Collective-LOK

VAN ALEN INSTITUTE

The new home of the Van Alen has to be many things at once. The space requires curatorial flexibility for a breadth of public programming including exhibitions, lectures, reading groups, and book launches; a comfortable an efficient office environment for different scales and modes of work ranging from formal to casual; a framework that can grow to include the second floor and basement as the institution expands in the future; and a mobile street seat that will bring the Van Alen’s mission into the urban realm.

To accommodate this range of possibilities within a limited square footage, we propose a Screen Play; a mechanism to order these spatial, curatorial, and temporal scenarios through a subtle interplay of surfaces that creates a complex and ambiguous presence in the city.

The project employs five types of screen play to enable and give shape to the broadest possible range of uses. Along the east face, a silver-leafed accordion wall masks a dense poché of private and semi-private programs, producing a figure in plan that is calibrated along its length to accommodate different scales of use from work areas to public events. Above, a synthetic ceiling houses projectors, track and fluorescent lighting, acoustic cones, and mechanical equipment within a module that inverts the traditional heavy coffer into an ethereal geometry of suspended scrims that both obscure and reveal what lies above. Along the west wall, a long niche provides a panoramic screen for continuous multi-projection as well as uninterrupted wall space for exhibition display, seating, and storage. Mirrored exterior screens extend the space outward to include the mobile street seat in front and an outdoor terrace in back, doubling the facade to create a layered threshold from the city into the institutional space of the Van Alen. Translucent interior scrims can be lowered from the ceiling to bracket different programmatic areas, allowing the scale of spaces to be controlled for curatorial and staff needs.

The complex interaction of these surfaces according to different conditions of use creates subtle, luminous effects of reflection, transparency, and translucency that alternately reveal or obscure the changing presence of these activities within the space of the city. Presented here are a few of the scenarios we imagine for the Van Alen’s future performance as a cultural and curatorial space. Screen Play provides a powerful spatial platform for these scenarios, one that we hope will come to be uniquely identified with the Van Alen and its public mission.

PROJECT DATA

Name: Van Alen Institute

Client: Van Alen Institute

Year: 2013 competition, 2015 complete

Status: built

Type: cultural

Location: New York City

Program: gallery, event space, offices, bookshop

Design Team: Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., Michael Kubo

with team members: Young Byun, May Jieun Jeong

Competition Team: this project was run under the Collective-LOK 

Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo

with team members: Hyun Chung, Aimee Hultquist, Kyung Sik Kim, Paul Knepley, Dammy Lee, Dave Miranowski

Structure: Robert Silman Associates

Lighting: Doug Russell of Lighting Workshop

Contractor: IA

Book Design: Chris Grimley / over,under

Awards: 2016 AIA NYC Honor Award, 2016 AIA NYS Award of Excellence, A+Award Finalist (Architizer 2016)

All images © Collective-LOK

Photos 1, 2 by Cameron Blaylock

HAFFENDEN HOUSE

HOUSE FOR A HOUSE 1

 

PROJECT DATA

Name: Haffenden House

Client: private

Year: 2014

Status: built

Type: residential

Location: Syracuse, NY

Program: writing studio/library

Team: Jon Lott, Paul Knepley, Min Lam, Hilary Pinnington, Cristina Webb

Publications: New York Magazine (Aug 10, 2015); MARK #54; A+U #526; The New Urban House (Yale University Press, 2018), edited by Bell and Stathaki; 44 Low-resolution Houses (2018, Princeton University, edited by Michael Meredith)

Exhibitions: 44 Low-resolution Houses (2018, Princeton University, curated by Michael Meredith); Interior Matters (2016, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, curated by Kiel Moe); Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (2016, Crown Hall, IIT, curated by Dirk Denison); New Practices New York (2014, Center for Architecture AIANY)

Awards: Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture Finalist (IIT 2016), Architecture Merit Award (AIANY 2015), A+Award (Architizer 2015), AZ Award (AZURE 2015), Best of 2014 by Domus

All images © PARA

Images 1,2,9 Nathan Rader

HUNTINGTON HALL AUDITORIUM

HOLE FOR A HOUSE  / PHASE 2

PROJECT DATA

Name: Huntington Hall Auditorium

Client: Syracuse University

Year: 2012

Status: Schematic Design

Type: educational

Location: Syracuse, NY

Program: auditorium

Budget: $7.5 million

Project Team: Jon Lott, Dennis Harvey, Julien Leyssene, Kyle May

Consultants: Robert Silman Associates (structure)

All images © PARA

HUNTINGTON HALL COMMONS

HOLE FOR A HOUSE

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BREUER SHOW

PROJECT DATA

Name: Marcel Breuer and Postwar America

Client: Syracuse University / School of Architecture

Year: 2011

Status: built

Type: exhibition

Location: Slocum Gallery, Syracuse University SoA

Program: exhibition design for the Marcel Breuer archives acquired by Syracuse University’s Special Collections

Curators: Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey

Design Team: Jon Lott, Hilary Pinnington, Kurt Nieminem

Graphics and Catalog Design: Brett Snyder

All images © PARA

LA CASITA

HOUSE IN A WAREHOUSE

PROJECT DATA

Name: La Casita

Client: La Casita / Syracuse University

Year: 2011

Status: built

Type: cultural

Location: Syracuse, NY

Program: gallery, event space, library, offices

Concept Design: Jon Lott, Hilary Pinnington

Project Team: Jon Lott, Hilary Pinnington, Cristina Webb, Jaime Magaliff

Contractor: Rich & Gardener Construction

Publications: American City X (2014) by Princeton Architectural Press

Exhibitions: New Practices New York (2014 @ the Center for Architecture, NYC, exhibition design by Natasha Jen of Pentagram)

All images © PARA

ALMADEN HOUSE

HOUSE FOR A HOUSE

PROJECT DATA

Name: Almaden House

Client: private

Year: 2009

Status: Concept Design

Type: residential

Location: Santa Teresa, CA

Program: single-family house with property wall, gardens, and sport courts

Team: Jon Lott, Cristina Webb

All images Â© PARA