Pavilion models at half scale, Meyerson Plaza, University of Pennsylvania
MANITOGA announces 2017 Artist Residency Program PennDesign Pavilion
June 2 to November 13, 2017
We are thrilled that Master of Architecture students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design will design and build a site-specific pavilion at Manitoga inspired by the design legacy of Russel Wright.
 
Through form, structure, material and process, the pavilion will respond to Manitoga's rich history and extraordinary sense of place. The full-scale pavilion will be on view during seasonal public tours and special programs. A Members Opening Celebration will be held Saturday, June 10, 5-7pm.

"Our 2017 Artist Residency Program brings together a new generation of visionary designers with a mid-century design icon," says Executive Director Allison Cross. "In his experimental home and landscape, Wright celebrated material innovation, good design, and harmony with nature. The striking creativity shown by the student work is an inspiring tribute to this legacy."

The residency culminates a two-year collaboration between Manitoga and PennDesign Architecture Department. Over 150 students visited Manitoga and participated in various studio projects inspired by Wright's design principles. A juried pavilion competition of student group concepts was a program highlight with the 2015 winning design  Over Cast named one of the world's top student design-build projects by ArchDaily.com . 

The winning design concepts from 2016 - Hereafter  and Devour(ing) the Dark - are c urrently  being developed and fabricated as one pavilion for Manitoga in a seminar led by Lecturer Mohamad Al Khayer. Chair Winka Dubbeldam observes that "the pavilion installation at Manitoga is a unique design-build experience. Students have the opportunity to take what they are learning at PennDesign and move it beyond our walls to engage a rich cultural context with an immediate impact."

The pavilion competitions were conceived and coordinated by Associate Professor Andrew Saunders who explains, "The pavilion is meant to be a built dialogue that speculates on the trajectory of mid-century modern design of mass standardization in the context of today's politics and digital technologies."

Special thanks go to former Manitoga Board member Dan Macey for introducing PennDesign to Manitoga.

Please find more information on this exciting partnership, student projects, and pavilion progress updates at  VisitManitoga.org. 
 
ALSO AT MANITOGA IN 2017!  A site-specific fall performance by resident sound artist and composer Suzanne Thorpe (stay tuned for details) and an extended run of artist Peter Bynum's installation
Hereafter, 2016 Winning Design
Seem/less, 2016 Best Craft
Design Jury of pavilion concepts, Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Meet the PennDesign Students & Faculty: 2015-2017
2017 Arch 730-001 Techniques, Morphology and Detailing of a Pavilion

Enrolled students :  Sookwan Ahn, Zakariya Yaseen Al-Haffar, Mohamed Ali, Musab Mohammad Badahdah, Xiaonan Chen, Justine Huang, Bosung Jeon, Hewen Jiang, Yunhwan Jung, Katherine Anne Lanski, Dongliang Li, Siyang Lv, Jia Lyu, Xiaoyu Ma, Ayotunde Oreoluwa Ogunmoyero, Taeseo Park, Daniel Silverman, Grace Soejanto, Ali Tabatabaie Ghomi, Lingxiao Teng,  Ailin Wang, Yijia Wang, Ge Yang, Yunlong Zhang, Yuchen Zhao, Jianbo Zhong, Xieyang Zhou (Instructor: Mohamad Al Khayer).

2016 Arch 501 Design Studio I: Pavilion Competition

Winning Projects (2) : Devour[ing] the Dark by Katherine Lanski, Justine Huang, Ayotunde Ogunmoyero, Lingxiao Teng, and Xieyang Zhou (Instructor: Michael Loverich); and Hereafter by Grace Soejanto, Mohamed Ali, Daniel Silverman, Ailin Wang (Instructor: Michael Loverich). 

Honorable Mentions (3) : Laurentia (Best Presentation) by Dyan Castro, Yanking Huang, Dili Zha, and Yi Zhu (Instructor: Miroslava Brooks); Seem/less (Best Craft) by Elizabeth Heldridge, Logan Weaver, Nikolaos Kalantzopoulos, Yitian Zheng, and Xiaoyu Duan (Instructor: Miroslava Brooks); and Zoetic Roost (Best Technical Innovation) by Ariel Cooke-Zamora, Jordan Hillier, Gwan Sook Kim, Tae Hyung Lee (Instructor: Andrew Saunders).

2015 Arch 501 Design Studio I: Pavilion Competition

Winning Project: Over Cast by Margaret Gregg, Ruoning Deng, Siyi Li and  Yuntao Xu (Instructor: Andrew Saunders)

Honorable Mentions (5): Guide to Easier Loving (Best Titled) by JooYoung Ham, Kat Engleman, Farre Nixon, Nikita Jathan (Instructor: Abigail Coover Hume); Hellebore (Best Process) by Madelyn Moretta, Noah Medlinsky, Marianne Sanche, CW Wesley Chiang (Instructor: Lasha Brown);   Whipped Cavern (Innovative Use of Material) by Have-yun Kwon, Alex Bahr, Yiqun Chen, Yuwei Sun (Instructor: Abigail Coover Hume); Tetraheji (Best Craft) by Andre Stiles, Constance Chang, Yoon Ji, Julie Pepitone, Tian Ouang (Instructor: Andrew Saunders); Marshmapod (Visionary) by Alyssa Appel, Kaj Marshall, Margarida Mota, Xiaoling Wang, Huanan Ye (Instructor: Michael Loverich)

Winka Dubbeldam, Chair and Professor,  Department of Architecture
Frederick Steiner, Dean and Paley Professor, PennDesign
Laurentia, 2016 Best Presentation
   Meridian, exhibition gallery student project for Manitoga's Quarry Pool by Ariel Cooke-Zamora