COMPETITIONS & EXHIBITIONS

MET Home Installation

Koning Eizenberg was 1 of 10 invited participants in 2007’s MET Home LA Showhouse Instal-lation. In this home, like many others, the arrival sequence for those living in the house is not the front door but the overhead door and the garage. We decided the garage could provide a more theatrical and welcoming experience while screening the usual mechanical equipment and typical garage contents. We like playing with expectations and tweaking ordinary materials. The installation redressed the neglect by conflating billboard and pegboard into a backlit, laser cut, series of screens that spell out a personlized message, here “Welcome Home” and the always anticipated “You’re Late.”

City / Los Angeles, CA Program / 500 sf +/-

Client / Hachette Fil ipacchi Media US Inc.

(Metropolitan Home Magazine) Completed / 2007 Awards / 2008 I.D. Annual Design Review

Award, Honorable Mention in Environments

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This competition called for a new 180,000 sq. ft. building to house architecture, building, planning and landscape architecture for approximately 1900 graduate and undergraduate students and 150 full-time staff. The competition sought to create an active and collegial research environment that brought together staff and students to exchange knowledge and engage in debate. We designed a student-centric environment that focused on a strong studio culture with a high degree of public visibility. The facility was to be equipped with the most advanced technologies to nurture strong staff-student relationships and support research endeavors. Above all, the project was designed to change as the faculty continues to develop its research. Current research focuses on several key themes, includ-ing sustainable built environments; urban futures with focus on housing, transport and communities; design, technologies, management and practice; and built environment history, theory, and social critique in the Asia-Pacific region.

City / Australia Program / 180,000 sq. ft. of

architecture, building, planning and landscape

Client / University of Melbourne Competition / 2009 Finalist

University of Melbourne Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning

In 2007, the City of Lake Elsinore, California, held a competition requesting an innovative and sustainable plan for areas surrounding historic and natural resources. This plan was to provide meaningful public space for community activities while creatively contributing to the economic development of the area. Our 100,000 sq. ft. building program includes a new city hall, council chambers, a post office, a public library, business incubator space, parking, and a shoreline park that ties civic identity with the future of the lake. The pro-posed park connects with adjacent open spaces, restores wetlands at the lake edge, and introduces meadows and wetland perches with shaded picnic areas.

Lake Elsinore Civic Center

City / Lake Elsinore, CA Program / 100,000 sq.

ft. Client / City of Lake Elsinore Competition /

2007 Competition - Finalist

Thirty years after ‘Rome Interrotta’, twelve Italian architects and international design studios were asked to re-imagine the Eternal City of Rome based on new instruments for the transformation of the contemporary city. Our focus lied within the myth of Rome’s center overwhelming the legitimacy of the periphery. By unbundling the suburbs from its historic core, Rome’s encircling freeway (GRA) was re-imagined as a freed, straight-lined datum that refigured the context. Pinning Rome back together highlighted key places of interest - disinvested communities, neglected countryside, antiquities and malls. Looping these points generated a freewheeling line that begged a more compelling future than the sponsoring freeway: a 120km train ride traversing the GRA to cultivate public space and catalyze development. Fast effective public transportation would eclipse the GRA’s plodding commuter experience with the thrill of a more sustainable and public-spirited suburban dream.

City / Venice, Italy Client / La Biennale di Vene-

zia Completed / 2008

“Uneternal City”11th Annual International Architecture Venice Biennale Exhibition

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