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wacdesignstudio
Founded in 2007 by Scott Cartwright and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amaré Cartwright, focusing on the linkages of art, architecture and design.
Our work illustrates the discourses that unite these three practices as one, while being interested in methodologies that are unique to each individual practice.
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Obus Lofts
A design experiment for the city of Houston, of how to redesign the city based on a future of oil and water scarcity while maintaining the core landmark of the city, it’s freeway system.
Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Plan Obus for Algiers of 1933-1944, a massive high-rise development will be proposed under Houston’s freeway system. This project will place several twenty first century narratives together in a proposal to rebuild sprawling American cities in the form of a new condo development.
Obus Lofts will include its own product and furniture line intended for Obus Lofts’ residents, writings, drawings, an architectural model and an animation made in collaboration with music composer Ramon K. West of Anonymous Somewhere. To listen and watch it, keep scrolling to the right. |
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Furniture Sale on North Freeway
In March 2010, wacdesignstudio staged Furniture Sale on North Freeway, a guerrilla retail event that took place in the abandoned lot of the former Landmark Chevrolet dealership located at 9111 N. Fwy, Houston, TX 77037. In Furniture Sale on North Freeway, wacdesignstudio launched its first furniture line, a line designed and fabricated with an attention to the modesty of scale, materials and production.
Located outside the crumbling remains of the Landmark Chevrolet Dealership, Furniture Sale on North Freeway reflected on the unanticipated failures of highly leveraged businesses and their effects on the city landscape.
wacdesignstudio intended to create the hopeful gesture of a small design business selling its locally designed and manufactured product to local customers. |
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Rebuild San Francisco in the Form of a Cone
Imagine a city whose walls dictate how its inhabitants relate with the other. A cone becomes a fitting form for a city such as San Francisco, whose historic, economic, geographic, and political histories give contradicting definitions of community. The hollowed shell of a cone becomes an engaging metaphor.
Citizens who can fit inside the cone are forced to lurch forward by the walls of the cone, as if they were intent on the distinguishing characteristics of each individual that they were coexisting with in the cone community. There is ample space at the base to accommodate a physical diversity of individuals, however there is only space enough at the top of the cone for this collective to share one head.
The community moves in the direction and ideology of the head that drives the community. Those who cannot fit in Cone city can migrate to areas peripheral to the community. |
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Press + Selected Writings
Pettit, Ethan. "Defaults Restored," Ethan Pettit Blog.
1 April 2011. Web. Solis, Jose. "The Business of Craft." Cite Magazine - The Architecture and Design Review of Houston. Winter 2011: 21. Print. Kelly, Chris. "Artists in Residence: An edgy young couple reimagines city planning-and urban interior design." Houston Modern Luxury. September 2010: 58. Print. Cartwright, Scott, and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amare Cartwright. "I Love It, But Not For $3,000: Our Thoughts When Selling Furniture." wacdesignstudio 2 May 2010. Web. Cartwright, Scott, and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amare Cartwright. "Notes and Thoughts on Furniture Sale on North Freeway." wacdesignstudio 22 March 2010. Web. Thomson, Steven. "That's so wac! Squatting in the abandoned Landmark Chevrolet parking lot to make a furniture statement." Culturemap Houston 12 March 2010. Web. Thomson, Steven. "Furniture buyers unite! You have nothing to lose but your La-Z-Boy," OffCite Blog 11 March 2010. Web. Mankad, Raj. "Guerrilla Furniture Sale," OffCite Blog 5 March 2010. Web. |
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Colophon
We made this website using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 on on an Apple Mac mini; it is best viewed on most modern browsers (except on some versions of Internet Explorer) The font we chose is Open Sans, a typeface designed by Steve Matteson, available for free through Google Web Fonts. Our logo is set in Sylar, a typeface designed by Jonathan Hill of The Northern Block.
All objects, photography, drawings and writtings published on this site are by wacdesignstudio; unless otherwise noted.
ⓒ 2007 - 2011 wacdesignstudio. All rights reserved. |
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