Roosevelt Island Science & Technology Center Counter Proposal to Cornell & Technion

Roosevelt Island Science & Technology Center, Cornell Technion -Counter Proposal

Recently in the news, we saw a proposal for a Science and Technology Center, that is to be located on Roosevelt Island. A multi-billion dollar collaboration between Cornell university and Technion Institute of Technology, and supported by Mayor Bloomberg, this project is meant to catapult New York City into a leading technology center.

We felt compelled to rethink a Technology & Science center that is more closely tied to the urban morphology of Manhattan.

The Tower of Stacked Labs has the overall dimensions and scale of a Manhattan block that is rotated 90 degrees to an upright position. The overall volume is broken down into diversely sized labs, studios, work spaces, ateliers, workshops, auditoriums, etc allowing individuation of space and small scale identification.

The open space between the volumes will remain open and be developed as 'hanging gardens' and accessible to the public. They can be reached by stair or elevator and will form a vertical park.

Maziar Behrooz photographed by Francine Fleischer

Maziar BehroozThanks to Francine Fleischer for this photograph of Maziar Behrooz and her portrait series taken inside one of our RDMU pods. To see more of her portraits and photos of the PODs, click here.

maziar behrooz talks about 'Inconvenient Space' at the Parrish Museum

Maziar Behrooz on "Inconvenient Space" at Lightning Round from Parrish Art Museum on Vimeo.

The Parrish Museum is located in Southampton, NY (Hamptons).

affordable housing for seniors in amagansett, ny

amagansett, new york

The Hamptons, contrary to common perception, suffers from a lack of affordable housing for year-round residents. In this project, we tried to address this deficiency by providing affordable housing units with commercial amenities across the street. 

Each building is comprised of a one-bedroom unit per floor. All units have a private garden, either on grade or on on the roof (for the second floor unit).

what we did this summer.

photo: Kim Acee
This summer, we saw the publication of the recently completed Arc House in a variety of media and formats from print, to video, to web. These included The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo, Yahoo Real Estate, Green Building & Design magazine, Home Review magazine, Acura Style magazine, and webzines such as WallPaper*, GreenSource, ArchDaily, Dezeen, Inhabitat, Curbed, Architizer and thousands (literally) of other design and architecture websites (for details go to our press page).

Our work on the Sayers' Roof Garden & House in Wainscott is nearing completion and looking good. The roof gardens are in place and healthy. The seamless resin floors are poured and showing their subtlety of color and feel (to the barefoot). The triangular pool appears like a hinge and makes all the various site components come together.

We are preparing a small book on a single project. This will be announced later.

Our work in New Orleans to provide alternative paths of experience for disadvantaged youth is ongoing and promising.

And finally we are exploring both medium and large scaled solutions for two dense urban environments -to be announced later.

Not the latest news: Revisiting an old project. A modern farm village in Norwalk.

affordable housing, norwalk, connecticut

US Green Building Council Award 2008.
AIA Peconic Award 2008. 

arc house is featured on Yahoo's homepage. 7/1/11

The article accompanying the photographs is the most popular story on Yahoo Real Estate & the fourth most popular story in all of Yahoo on 7/1/11 and following days. 

arc house video in the 'Wall Street Journal'

arc house, east hampton, NY

arc house is completed!

arc house, east hampton, ny, photo: Matthew Carbone

Featured in the Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2011
Featured in Wallpaper*, May 28, 2011.
Featured in GreenSource Magazine, Best Green Houses, July 2011. 

'A space of undetermined functional value' on display at the Salomon Contemporary Warehouse, East Hampton, NY.

Maziar Behrooz inside RDMU
Thanks to all who came to the opening of the RDFU at the Salomon Warehouse this past Sunday. Images of the show will be posted soon. Read about it in the EH Star: "All Aboard Spaceship Behrooz"

Opening of 'Rapid Deployment Functional Unit' at Salomon Warehouse

Maziar Behrooz will present the first prototype of the Rapid Deployment Units at the Salomon Warehouse on August 22nd, 4-7 pm. For directions and details, please visit the gallery website.

amagansett, ny

container studio, amagansett, ny, photo: Dalton PortellaMB Architecture is currently developing Rapid Deployment Container Buildings for US distribution. Contact us for details.

Container Studio featured as building of the week on World-Architects.com.
New photographs of the Container Studio, by Dalton Portella, are now on display here.
Container Studio featured on Dezeen, May 31, 2010....as well as  apartmenttherapy.com,  inhabitat.com, treehugger.com, noticias.arq.com.mx, mocoloco.com, jetsongreen.com and hundreds of design, architecture & sustainability websites from around the world -over 3,000 web references.
Container Studio featured on ArchDaily, May 19, 2010 (right after OMA's Millstein building for Cornell).
Container Studio featured on ArchNow, May 17, 2010.
Video segment of Container Studio and our client, Andrea Shapiro, on Babelgum.
Container Studio among featured projects on Architizer and displayed on its cover page, May 14, 2010.

Arc house -east hampton, ny

montauk, ny

The green roof of Montauk house, in its third year, is thriving.
-Bielak, Andrew. “Montauk sees a roof go green”. The East Hampton Press.  August 15, 2007.

-Salomon, Evie. “Montauk Gets Its First Green Roof In Its Entire History”. The Montauk Pioneer. August 10, 2007.

east hampton, ny

photo: Anne SurchinAIA tour of Angle house published in East Hampton Press & Southampton Press.

islip, ny

Follow the progress of our School project on our newly created FACEBOOK page: Maziar Behrooz Architecture

east hampton, ny

Arc House, Winner 2009 AIA PECONIC HONOR AWARD. AIA tour of the Arc House scheduled for April 21, 2010.

wainscott, ny

AIA TOUR of angle house under construction, changed to April 21, 2010.

norwalk, connecticut

Recipient of United States Green Building Council Award, 2008, LI Chapter and 2008 AIA Peconic Award. A modern and affordable village cluster of 90 apartments in a semi-agrarian setting in the suburbs of Norwalk, CT.