The Making of Screenplay: Part 1
Jenny Wu, a partner at Oyler Wu Collaborative, documents the process from design through fabrication of their latest installation, Screenplay, to be featured at the upcoming Dwell on Design 2012. Part 1: Introduction.
Several months ago, Michael Sylvester, managing director of Dwell on Design, approached us about designing and constructing an installation for the upcoming Dwell on Design show in June. I was really excited about finally showing a piece at Dwell, but equally as nervous about the challenges, ranging from design to fabrication to material issues—sourcing the building material as well as designing the process of how we will actually build it. Although these concerns are things that we have become quite accustomed to through our previous work, unforeseeable challenges always seem to pop up along the way that force us to be both resourceful and inventive about resolving them.
Oyler Wu Collaborative is a Los Angeles–based architectural practice that I started with my partner, Dwayne Oyler, in 2004. Eager to test our ideas—and impatient in our desire to see the effects of our work—our office has turned to our own love of building to transform small projects with modest budgets into a testing ground for our ideas. Since 2007 we have designed and built seven installations in Los Angeles and Taipei. Conceptually, our work has most often been focused on evoking a spatial effect through the build-up of material density and through three-dimensional geometric complexity. Often built of aluminum tubing, steel, and, most recently, rope, our work has always operated in a realm that straddles the line between art and architecture.
In next week’s installment, I will get into the design of Screenplay, but here is a preview of the design.
Netscape - Sci-Arc Graduation Pavilion from Oyler Wu Collaborative on Vimeo.
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