DREAMLAND CREATIVE PROJECTS | Design + Direct

DREAMLAND | Design + Direct  DREAMLAND is an inventive architecture and design lab and office supported by an aligned and humane working process. Our particular interest is to promote understanding and empathy as the core of pioneering ideas.  We aspire to a future of connected living.Our holistic, design process comes to life at DREAMLAND through our L.A.B. The L.A.B. consists of three interconnected branches: DREAMLAND LEARNING, DREAMLAND ALLIANCE and DREAMLAND BUILDING.

SAREE GARDEN

Kolkata, India

The Saree Garden is a building design for Swayam, a non profit organization committed to ending violence against women and children, based in Kolkata, India. The saree, the beautiful, dignified, everyday, iconic, symbol of womanhood is reframed as a draping landscape and planted veil which wraps the building. These flowering panels, based on the dimensions of a saree, screen an undulating stair, where women and their children can circulate, rest and play, shaded from the hot sun. From the interior of the building, views look at nature, introduced to the narrow streets of the city. From the exterior, the symbol of woman is announced powerfully to the public. Instead of seeking contextual cues from surrounding buildings, Swayam's new home sets the architectural tone for the street. It empowers women through visible, recognizable and cultural symbolism. With Dreamland.

GENOA DINEGRO SUBWAY STATION

Genoa, Italy

Dinegro Station was designed as one of several new stations, part of the master plan for Genoa of the Metropolitana, a new rapid transit system. It is a three-track station which occupies part of a semi-subterranean warehouse accessed by a broad stair. As Architectural Designer for Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Photography by: Gianni Berengo Gardin.

DECAY-TRASH TRACE

Decay-Trash Trace is a sculpture project of overscaled, paper bags littered on the landscape. The intention is to lie down and inhabit the bags. It is a metaphorical symbol of personal decay, a message of self acceptance and a place to reflect on our contribution of real trash in the environment. With Dreamland.

CENTRAL PARK AQUARIUM

New York, New York

The Aquarium, an architecture and landscape project, is conceived as a living gate and threshold into Central Park, adjacent to the existing zoo and lake at the Fifth Avenue park entrance. Recycled water, impacted by the park soil, creates a natural water plinth while generating a source for filtered water for the fish aquaria. It is an exhibition of both the natural and artificial water worlds. Three components-granite rock outcroppings, water, and reflective, folded glass panels form an experience of the pleasure of water in nature. The project elements are multipurpose spaces where interior and external spaces, event rooms, picnic areas, bars, walkways, and the fish aquaria became the partition elements of the space. The floor of the restaurant forms the canopy over the building entrance. It is an aquarium, viewed from above and below. Nature is viewed through the lens of a colored water and fish landscapes, day and night. The building is a park. With Dreamland.

LIBERTY GATE

New York, New York

The Liberty Project is a prototype for a gate project installation at boundaries between ethnic communities in New York City. This prototype is located at a corner between Chinatown and Little Italy. Half of the gate is in Chinatown and the other half is in Little Italy. The full experience of the gate installation is completed by crossing the boundary between the two neighborhoods. A symbol of welcome to immigrants entering the free world, this project uses the metal armature of the Statue of Liberty, discarded during its renovation. It is recycled with glass to create gestural wings over a park on each corner. With Dreamland.

EL DORADO

A Visionary City

El Dorado is a visionary city proposal which attempts to capture and re-translate energetic memories of New York City. Based on personal dream vignettes of experiences in New York City, choreographic notations (rather than architectural drawings) inspire the design of mysterious dance sequences, which were performed interactively with energetic street patterns projected on the wall. Performed in London and Paris. With Dreamland.

KASSEL COMMUNITY CENTER

Germany

The community center in Kassel, Germany explores the relationship between children and adult activities. Sited on a peninsula, using the hill topography, it reverses the role of supervision and safety. Children, in their activity spaces observe adults from a sectional height. Rock foundations and wooden roof canopies create natural enclosures. With Dreamland.

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