https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/2433-young-ayata en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12051 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12051-design-vanguard-2016-young-ayata Young Ayata Photo © Young & Ayata   Dalseong Gymnasium Young & Ayata received an honorable mention in a 2014 competition for a design for a below-ground athletic complex in South Korea that dissolves into the hilly landscape. An exercise in symmetry, the facility positions athletic courts along a central carapace-like axis. Pathways weave over and through the building, which features a printed ETFE-membrane roof.  Photo © Young & Ayata Bauhaus Museum One of the firm’s most ambitious designs was for a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Ger­many. The timber lattice–framed  “vessels” would touch at their concrete bases to create a unified floor plate. The volumes would be clad in glass tiles, patterned like Bauhaus textiles. “We didn’t look to represent Bauhaus as an aged ideology, so we speculated on where the move­ment could go,” says Ayata. The design tied in an international competition but was ultimately unbuilt. Photo © Young & Ayata Bauhaus Museum One of the firm’s most ambitious designs was for a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Ger­many. The timber lattice–framed  “vessels” would touch at their concrete bases to create a unified floor plate. The volumes would be clad in glass tiles, patterned like Bauhaus textiles. “We didn’t look to represent Bauhaus as an aged ideology, so we speculated on where the move­ment could go,” says Ayata. The design tied in an international competition but was ultimately unbuilt. Photo © Young & Ayata Cône de Cadavre Exquis Young & Ayata teamed up with Harmen Brethouwer—a Dutch artist who creates square and teardrop-­shaped objects exclusively—to design a conical 3-D-printed sculpture inspired by the surrealist parlor game, the Exquisite Corpse. The architects asked four designers each to select a pattern from Owen Jones’s 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament; the patterns were then programmed into the digital fabrication of a 17-inch-tall cone using full-color sandstone powder. Photo © Joris Lugtigheid/Hidde van Seggelen Gallery Base Flowers In their work, Young & Ayata  are interested in the interplay of fact and fiction. For a set of repositionable 3-D-printed vases, they developed a species of hyperreal 3-D-printed flowers. These mutant blooms are barely perceptible within the larger bouquet. “We sought to create a tension between the container and what’s contained, what’s alive and what’s not alive,” says Ayata. Photo © Young & Ayata DL1310 Apartments The studio is collaborating with the Mexico City–based practice MAPmx on a 10-unit apartment building in that city. Though the building is a simple rectangular volume, the design plays with the geometry of the facade and the traditional application of board-formed concrete by manipulating the wedge-shaped window insets. The project will be completed next year. Photo © Young & Ayata