#DesignMiami : formlessfinder x Design Miami 2013
formlessfinder has been selected to design the Design Miami 2013 Entrance Pavilion. Based in NYC, the formlessfinder team of Garrett Ricciardi and Julian Rose is dedicated to releasing the formerly siloed input and output aspects of architecture so that each project has the ability to have its own flavor.
As the press release states:
“Each December, Design Miami/ commissions early-career architects to
build a designed environment for the fair’s entrance as part of its biannual Design
Commissions program.
Harnessing multiple, often unexpected, properties of sand and aluminum,
formlessfinder’s Tent Pile pavilion provides shade, seating, cool air and a space to play for the city’s public. The pavilion appears as a dramatic aluminum roof miraculously balanced on the apex of a great pyramid of loose sand. Milled aluminum benches give resting space in the shade, where visitors will be fanned by the cool air naturally generated by the structure….
The pavilion acts as a refuge for the more than 50,000 visitors who come to Miami for the
fairs each year, as well as inhabitants of the city’s South Beach neighborhood. It is
intended as a public installation that marries the practical requirements of shelter and
seating to spectacular creative architectural ideas from a young practice. Formlessfinder’s
Tent Pile engages not only with materials and aesthetics specific to Miami, but with the
location of the fair within the city–the pyramid of sand is there to be sat on and played in,
the cooling fans to be approached, examined and enjoyed. “We’re hoping to create
something that people would want to participate in,” says Ricciardi, and the result is a
structure designed to be occupied and explored, as much as it is to be admired. ”
For further information, please visit Design Miami’s website and blog, Design Log, for
regular news and updates.
Photographs courtesy of DesignMiami/