Harrison Phan
Installation - Spatial - Experiential - Fabrication
SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition
Director: David Eskenazi
Fall 2023 - Supervisors: Kaita Saito, Morgan Sobotka
‘A Bathhouse Appears Crudely, Twice’ is an exhibition that brings up the topics of the doppelgänger, the simulacrum, reflections from the surface of water, or even the story of Eve. It is an argumentative binary comparing art vs. craft, new vs. familiar, or beauty vs. ordinary.
The exhibit is about being simultaneously right and wrong - being on both sides of the argument. Two models are assembled, one more architectural with structure and panelization and the other is made of paper and tape. Both portray crudeness - leaks, gaps, slumping; alone, they are forgetful and uncared for, but together they begin to produce a dialog between each other. Are they total opposites or near copies? It doesn’t matter. Their appearance together reminds us that we don’t have one identity but inhabit many things at once.
-David Eskenazi
Volunteer work encompasses making water bags inside panels, crafting ‘tape’ joinery, assembling fiberglass structure, attaching paper panels onto bathhouse structure
Photography by Brian Guido and Rory Hamovit
Photography by Brian Guido and Rory Hamovit
After Party
Deinstall + clean up
Deinstall + clean up
Installation - Spatial - Experiential - Fabrication
SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition
Director: Gordon Kipping
Spring 2024 - Supervisors: Olivia Saed-Billingsly
Maison de Cartes proposes a module of construction for the crisis of our time: climate change. This module of construction is in the spirit of Les Maisons Dom-ino, however, using mass timer as the structure or backbone for the construction.
For the exhibition, a fragment of the Maison de Cartes is constructed in the exhibition space, complete with the expression of fragility and impossible balance. Through the use of an augmented reality application available to your smartphone, the fragment is extended on your screen with wireframe linework to compose the whole. As one moves through the exhibition space with the augmented reality application, real-time/real-space perception of the fragment is augmented with the completion of a representation of the Maison de Cartes.
To demonstrate its mutabiity, Maison de Cartes is taken through a geometric progression to become the Hocken House, a residential project currently under development by Gordon Kipping Architects in Toronto, Canada. The Maison de Cartes fragment is to have a second life and support another crisis. The mass timber fragment upon disassembly is reassembled into a cube which is redeployed to provide emergency transitional shelter on an encampment site of the unhoused.
-Gordon Kipping
Volunteer work part of a team of 6 fabricating and assembling picture frames for gallery exhibition.
Detail photos by Joshua White