Swelling Depths

Competition Proposal
Market Square Design Competition, Stratford, Canada
September 2006

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This proposal utilizes Stratford citizens’ perceptions of their own town as an instrument for the stereoscopic transformation of Market Square into an urban civic space. Stereoscopic vision can produce a much desired (and needed) soothing feeling. The optical production of a ‘virtual’ depth submerges the viewer into a newly created blank personal space. This project proposes to transform Market Square into a new public interior with the capacity to link individual psychological perceptions with a set of collective cultural understandings.

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Project Data

Competition Proposal
September 2006

Design Team: Sergio López-Piñeiro

Submitted to: Market Square Design Competition, Stratford, Canada

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Located in Buffalo (New York, USA), Holes of Matter is an architectural practice led by Sergio López-Piñeiro.

Olmsted’s Blank Snow is Melting


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In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011

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Olmsted’s Blank Snow in the Boston Globe


In Rethinking Snow by Courtney Humphries.

Olmsted’s Blank Snow


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Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011

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Olmsted’s Blank Snow Textures


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In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011

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Plowing Olmsted’s Blank Snow


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In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011

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Playing in Olmsted’s Blank Snow


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In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011

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How to Do a Thesis on Archinect


How to Do a Thesis: Practice Models as Instigators for Academic Theses makes it to the Top 10 Most Requested Features on Archinect for the year 2010.

Olmsted’s Blank Snow in Progress


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In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
December 2010 – March 2011

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Olmsted’s Blank Snow in Buffalo Rising


In Olmsted’s Blank Snow: A Snowscape by Julia Foy.

Ramp Design


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Sergio López-Piñeiro has received a Junior Faculty Development Fund Grand from UB’s School of Architecture and Planning for his proposal “Ramp Design.”

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Olmsted’s Blank Snow in Good Magazine


In Video: Choreographed Snow in Buffalo Becomes Winter Park by Kyla Fullenwider.

Olmsted’s Blank Snow in Co.Design


In Buffalo Professor To Turn Snow Into a Colossal Work of Art by Suzanne Labarre.

Olmsted’s Blank Snow Press Release


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“Olmsted’s Blank Snow” will go live very soon!

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Proposal for Olmsted’s Blank Snow


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In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
To take place during the winter of 2010

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Reconsidering the Enabling Architect


Reconsidering the Enabling Architect has been published on arq: Architectural Research Quaterly. The article discusses the current relevance of architects’ enabling capacity and proposes Blank Architecture as an alternative model to The Architecture of Persuasion, as it was best described in Learning from Las Vegas.

Sergio López-Piñeiro, “Reconsidering the Enabling Architect,” arq: Architectural Research Quaterly, vol. 14, no. 3 (2010): 286-288.

Studies for Olmsted’s Blank Snow


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In Progress
Temporary Winter Landscape
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
To take place during the winter of 2010

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How to Do a Thesis


On March 7, 2010, Sergio López-Piñeiro presented How to Do a Thesis: Practice Models as Instigators for Academic Theses at the 2010 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

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White Space


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White Space has been published in the journal Places. A photo essay by Sergio López-Piñeiro, “White Space” shows how everyday snow plowing practices — practices with no artistic or design ambitions — have the capacity to transform snowed-in parking lots into beautiful winter gardens.

NYSCA Grant for Olmsted’s Blank Snow


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Sergio López-Piñeiro has received a New York State Council on the Arts grant for his proposal “Olmsted’s Blank Snow.”

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Space Clearing


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Competition Proposal
International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens Grand-Métis, Canada
October – November 2009

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International Seminar on Urban Form 2009


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On September 5, 2009, Sergio López-Piñeiro presented “The Blank Meander” at the International Seminar on Urban Form in Guangzhou, China.

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Imprecise Infrastructure


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Competition Proposal
2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi, Kenya
September 2007 – February 2008

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UB Reporter on Architectural Blankness


Sergio López-Piñeiro and his work on architectural blankness has been featured in the UB Reporter, University at Buffalo’s weekly newspaper.

Swelling Depths


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Competition Proposal
Market Square Design Competition, Stratford, Canada
September 2006

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SkyParkWay


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Design Speculation
Skyway, Buffalo, USA
July 2006

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Playful Infrastructure


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Competition Proposal
Keitai City Competition
Honorable Mention
September 2005

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Silent Garden


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Design Speculation
October 2004

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People


Sergio López-Piñeiro (Madrid, 1973) graduated from ETS Arquitectura Madrid in 1998 and received his M.Arch. degree from Princeton University in 2004, where he was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize. He has previously worked at Foreign Office Architects (London, 2000-2002) and at NoMad (Madrid, 1998-2000). Currently, Sergio López-Piñeiro is an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.

Collaborators: Katie Conwell, Nicole Halstead, Wesley Lam, Kin Chun Ma, Joseph Piwowarski, Kim Anh Tran, Niina Tsuchiya, Nicholas Yamich, Saki Yoshimura

Contact


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Buffalo, NY 14222
United States

Telephone: +1 (716) 880-9301
Email: holes(at)holesofmatter(dot)com

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