BURST*008

1,500 sf

New York, NY

Commissioned piece for the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling curated by Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen

Built in 10 weeks, the Home Delivery project was an evolution of the BURST*003 built in 2005 in North Haven Australia. At MoMA, the BURST* name took on more than its original semantic origin, derived from the surface-applied “sunburst” flower graphic, to become a skylight and, more significantly, to become a means of delivery in which the structural ribs literally burst open on site before being lowered onto the structural moment frames that connect the house to the ground. Additional project evolutions in BURST*008 include a prefabricated structural insulated panel (SIP) skin system that provides a highly insulated architectural structure.

An alternative to mass-produced versions of domestic life that reduce prefab houses to differing arrangements of boxes, the BURST* system functions like a kit of parts to produce homes that use small building pieces to achieve individually tailored spaces, expanding the range of architectural form for economical domestic construction.

Selected Press: Material Evidence; AD v.79; a+u; Log15; Costriure; Vanity Fair; Domus; Time Magazine; Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling; Modern Painters; TreeHugger; Flint Journal; Artforum; ARTnews,; Architectural Record; Newsweek; Architectural Review; The Guardian; NYTimes; NY Sun; Fast Company; Financial Times; Wall Street Journal; New York Review of Books

DESIGN TEAM

Jeremy Edmiston, Henry Grosman, Michela Chiavi, Kristina Kesler, Lucia Eastman, Kevin Field, Scott Nicholl, Rob Baker, Franz Daniel, Maryana Grinshpun, Rebecca Hora, Malvin Hwee, Jung Min Kim, Edward Kim-Yujoong, Charles Kwan, Philip Lee, Brian Osborne, Vicente Quiroga, Seth Roye, Troy Thierren

CONSULTING ENGINEER

Buro Happold - Craig Schwitter, Cristobal Correa, Alexandru Marin, Nathaniel Stanton

LIGHTING DESIGN

Clark Johnson Lighting Studio

EXHIBITION CONTRACTOR

Sciame Construction Company

PROJECT CONTRACTOR

Ryan Associates - Jim Friedman, Ashley Simone

CONSTRUCTION TEAM

Budco Enterprises, Inc.; Associated Fabrication LLC; Blaine Window Hardware; Millennium Steel; The Murus Company; P. C. Steck, Inc.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Richard Barnes and the architects

VIDEO

Anthony Rossello, Certain Pictures