SPORTS

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Side Effects, our project for , opened a few weeks ago.  The project learns from two qualities of Columbus’ special design legacy—the indoor-outdoor continuity deployed by Modernist architectural design, and the high-contrast patterns developed by Alexander Girard—to strengthen the visual and social connection between indoor and outdoor spaces downtown and to offer a new identity and use to the space near The Commons’ entrance.
 
The project consists of two large, brightly-colored and patterned shapes that break down the boundary of interior and exterior to the north and south of The Commons’ main entrance on Washington Street. By connecting through the building facade, the project aims to create a “continuous” public space that simultaneously serves adjacent interior programs and exterior activities.
 
Thank you to Landmark Columbus Foundation for the opportunity, Shanda Sasse and her team at The Commons, our buddies for fabrication consultation, for their support, and .hanna and for their amazing fabrication and installation work.
 
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Side Effects, our project for , opened a few weeks ago.  The project learns from two qualities of Columbus’ special design legacy—the indoor-outdoor continuity deployed by Modernist architectural design, and the high-contrast patterns developed by Alexander Girard—to strengthen the visual and social connection between indoor and outdoor spaces downtown and to offer a new identity and use to the space near The Commons’ entrance.
 
The project consists of two large, brightly-colored and patterned shapes that break down the boundary of interior and exterior to the north and south of The Commons’ main entrance on Washington Street. By connecting through the building facade, the project aims to create a “continuous” public space that simultaneously serves adjacent interior programs and exterior activities.
 
Thank you to Landmark Columbus Foundation for the opportunity, Shanda Sasse and her team at The Commons, our buddies for fabrication consultation, for their support, and .hanna and for their amazing fabrication and installation work.

“Same Difference” exhibition now open at Kent State University CAED (College of Arch + Env Design]), through March 11, 2022. “Same Difference” is a collaboration between SPORTS and 12 artists and writers: Mark Allen (), Dave Crosland (), José Figueroa (), Ana Galvañ (), Rage Hezekiah (), Michael C. Hsiung (), Tania James (), Keren Katz (), Reif Larsen, Dominica Phetteplace, Avery Williamson (), Ethan Worthingon ()
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“Same Difference” is generously supported by Kent State University CAED (College of Arch + Env Design]) and Syracuse University School of Architecture (). Thank you!

Special thanks to gallery coordination Ryan Scavnicky () and the amazing Kent students who assisted in the installation of the show.

“With a focus on creating compelling spaces that are catalysts for social activities and connection, SPORTS has recently constructed several public spaces, urban interventions, and architectural structures that explore ideas of spatial, programmatic, and experiential flexibility. These projects embrace an idea of elasticity within the built environment and ask how spaces might operate as public infrastructure that supports dynamic interpretation, co-authorship, and unprescribed activation by its users and the community as a whole.

Same Difference presents four projects by SPORTS – Rounds, Runaway, City Thread and Heart of Gold - through the lens of a group of visual and non-visual artists from outside of the discipline of architecture. The collaboration privileges external perspectives as a way of exploring the fresh interpretations and unfamiliar framing of the projects inherent to the process of working in the public realm. Ultimately, by packaging the projects in extra-disciplinary vehicles authored by others, the exhibition challenges existing notions of authorship, audience, and access.”

“Same Difference” exhibition now open at Kent State University CAED (College of Arch + Env Design]), through March 11, 2022. “Same Difference” is a collaboration between SPORTS and 12 artists and writers: Mark Allen (), Dave Crosland (), José Figueroa (), Ana Galvañ (), Rage Hezekiah (), Michael C. Hsiung (), Tania James (), Keren Katz (), Reif Larsen, Dominica Phetteplace, Avery Williamson (), Ethan Worthingon ()
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“Same Difference” is generously supported by Kent State University CAED (College of Arch + Env Design]) and Syracuse University School of Architecture (). Thank you!

Special thanks also to gallery coordination Ryan Scavnicky () and the amazing Kent students who assisted in the installation of the show.

“With a focus on creating compelling spaces that are catalysts for social activities and connection, SPORTS has recently constructed several public spaces, urban interventions, and architectural structures that explore ideas of spatial, programmatic, and experiential flexibility. These projects embrace an idea of elasticity within the built environment and ask how spaces might operate as public infrastructure that supports dynamic interpretation, co-authorship, and unprescribed activation by its users and the community as a whole.

Same Difference presents four projects by SPORTS – Rounds, Runaway, City Thread and Heart of Gold - through the lens of a group of visual and non-visual artists from outside of the discipline of architecture. The collaboration privileges external perspectives as a way of exploring the fresh interpretations and unfamiliar framing of the projects inherent to the process of working in the public realm. Ultimately, by packaging the projects in extra-disciplinary vehicles authored by others, the exhibition challenges existing notions of authorship, audience, and access.”

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