MAK t6 VACANT | Winning Competition Entry for the Schindler House in Sept 06 for the MAK Center, West Hollywood, California |

Size: 15,000 S.F. | Client: Peter Noever / MAK |

Project Brief: The MAK Center and SCI-Arc invited thirteen emerging architecture firms and architects to design a 'vertical garden' at the Schindler House. To contend with the vertical growth of the city, a vertical garden will be designed to occupy the edges of the Schindler House property, adding a new dimension to the landscape of the low-rise Schindler House and creating a green buffer between the house and its neighbors. The vertical garden will address this condition and posit new ideas relating to landscape, public art, urban growth, and architecture.

MAK t6 Vacant t proposes a light weight structural system enveloping the site to provide support for the growth of an organic sturctural system - strangler fig (f. petiolaris). Over time, the organic structure fuses with the non organic structure and becomes dominant. SEE FILM HERE.

Project Team: Juan Azulay, David Fletcher, Nick Pisca, Stephanie Ragle, Emily Waugh, Greg Thorpe, Daniellle Willems, Christopher Pearson, Moira Henry, Gary Hummel, Jarod Poenisch, Anthony Lagunay.

Publications: Landliving; Living Systems / Liat Margolis, Alexander Robinson; MAK Austria Permanent Collection; SCIArc Lecture Series Schindler Redux, curated by Eric Owen Moss