https://ianfennimore.com/poster-series-button 2025-03-13T23:56:11+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/info-button 2024-10-29T20:46:47+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2027202151127766257442922783018/ViewCapture20240816_211319.png https://ianfennimore.com/title 2025-03-08T00:39:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2027201797503682364430818304298/ViewCapture20240814_231450.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2027216785889070623063116439850/Fennimore_GT24_Screenshot-5.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2027221211613462043385030598954/mask.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2030602445292044266384518373674/test5.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2030606765261251912129573118250/syringe.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2030607361828955255896472379690/hand.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2041433484795570996356913127722/230522.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2041434095954648902428067717418/target_zine_add.png https://ianfennimore.com/poster-series 2025-03-22T02:48:17+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg <div style="text-align: left;"> Everyday Poster Series </div><div style="text-align: left;">From January 1, 2023 through December 31, I challenged myself to create something every single day. This "challenge" is a fairly common exercise held in the design community and its goal is deeply personal. In this case, developing a routine, an intuition, and establishing a way of working that demands an abandonment of perfection, or even a plan at all. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The choice to develop a series of typographic experiments/tests/(re)constructions in this format was made partially for its established nature in the graphic design world and its potential to be imbued with ideas of space and topology that is so pervasive in architecture. Tugging at the ideas of legibility, spatial logics, field topologies, and representation was the main focus of the series, but attempting it in a much less serious way. Each day, the production of the poster was executed whenever it became convenient and was never longer than 60 minutes, and never done in advance. These imposed limitations were set to ensure the series would be a true exploration of my own personal process and force me to create in a completely different way/mindset. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The series culminates in a body of work that is significant only as an entire collection. Each work individually never presents a complete idea, and no idea can ever be represented in its totality. The posters are mere sketches and the series is essentially a sketchbook, executed through one medium and iterative in nature. As a final set of representation, the poster series lives in a zine, a 1 of 1 edition that houses the works, assets, failures, and thoughts on the benefit of taking on something of this nature.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2041420082571918659714120245546/230128_Bitmap.png 230128_ https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2041420082645705636008958452010/231024_zine_add.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2041420082867066564893473071402/NOVEMBER.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2041420082608812147861539348778/230831_zine_add1.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2041420082756386100451215761706/free-urban-posterwall-mockup-sachanati.com.png <div style="text-align: left;"> Everyday Poster Series </div><div style="text-align: left;">From January 1, 2023 through December 31, I challenged myself to create something every single day. This "challenge" is a fairly common exercise held in the design community and its goal is deeply personal. In this case, developing a routine, an intuition, and establishing a way of working that demands an abandonment of perfection, or even a plan at all. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The choice to develop a series of typographic experiments/tests/(re)constructions in this format was made partially for its established nature in the graphic design world and its potential to be imbued with ideas of space and topology that is so pervasive in architecture. Tugging at the ideas of legibility, spatial logics, field topologies, and representation was the main focus of the series, but attempting it in a much less serious way. Each day, the production of the poster was executed whenever it became convenient and was never longer than 60 minutes, and never done in advance. These imposed limitations were set to ensure the series would be a true exploration of my own personal process and force me to create in a completely different way/mindset. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The series culminates in a body of work that is significant only as an entire collection. Each work individually never presents a complete idea, and no idea can ever be represented in its totality. The posters are mere sketches and the series is essentially a sketchbook, executed through one medium and iterative in nature. As a final set of representation, the poster series lives in a zine, a 1 of 1 edition that houses the works, assets, failures, and thoughts on the benefit of taking on something of this nature.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2041420082774832844524925313322/JANUARY.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2041420082885513308967182623018/OCTOBER.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2041420082737939356377506210090/Free-Outdoor-Poster-Mockup.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2041420368127516920737979261226/DSC_0042.jpg “daily” Poster #248 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2041420368201303897032817467690/DSC_0049.jpg Final Exhibiton https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2041420368238197385180236570922/DSC_0067.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2041427949776224703511112540458/MARCH.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2041427949647097494995145679146/MAY.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2041427949813118191658531643690/AUGUST.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2041427949757777959437402988842/JUNE.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2041427949702437727216274333994/DECEMBER.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2041427949665544239068855230762/SEPTEMBER.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2041427949720884471289983885610/FEBRUARY.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2041427949794671447584822092074/APRIL.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2041427949683990983142564782378/whitespritedesign_mockup_truck.png January 28th https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2041428600153080510288773865770/JULY.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2041429720442294850743553057066/231230_Mockup.png December 30, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2041429720571422059259519918378/230306b_Mockup.png March 26th https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2041429720589868803333229469994/230220_Mockup.png February 20th https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2041429720534528571112100815146/230428_Mockup.png 230428_ https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2041429720460741594817262608682/231115_Mockup.png 231115_ https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2041429720626762291480648573226/230108_mockup.png Poster #8 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2041429720479188338890972160298/230804_Mockup.png 230804_ https://ianfennimore.com/home-nav 2025-03-08T00:37:18+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-at-bottom 2025-04-30T21:50:05+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com 2025-04-30T21:51:38+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon>Casa Desplazada https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2027224320498581017876893098282/Fennimore_GT24_Photo-18.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2027248974590482274766337433898/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_PH05.png <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon> Puzzling Assemblies https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2027249897112153400981013750058/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-15.jpg <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon> Details, Details... https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2027251815038581488636804817194/LG-Interior_Alt_Square.png <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon> Slaughter House https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2027256986491048832741052604714/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Skarphedinsson_DG_01.png <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon> Synthetic Fields https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2027261763515234392787667738922/ObliqueFinal_small.png <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon> Machinic Morphologies https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2029043120857078145441562190122/landscape-edits---Copy.png <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon> Icarus https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2029045879401633672041620398378/Artboard-16.png <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon> Semantic Toplogies https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2029046717732364845845903139114/INTERIOR_1.png <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon> Residual Fields https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2333178176724076613177031614762/untitled2.png <text-icon icon="upwards-arrow-4"></text-icon>Casa Desplazada https://ianfennimore.com/projects 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/cd 2025-07-12T22:40:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-cd 2025-07-12T22:40:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/casa-desplazada-1 2025-07-12T22:40:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Casa Desplazada 2025 • Design Charette https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2333139888200908619788958654762/untitled_vertical.png Casa Desplazada creates a new geometric imposition within the land, carving out existing natural areas to cultivate nested objects of cultural production. One of the most important traditions of rural Patagonian life is outdoor food preparation in an asador, exterior barbecue spit. However, the harsh winter months do not always permit this type of activity so the internal kitchen is also fit with a contemporary horno de barro, or large stone oven. The dialogue between the traditions of indoor and outdoor smoke cooking allows activity to flow from the large, singular internal space to the exterior shapes. These circles also define the language of the floor, and spatial differentiation inside. As the radii approach the internal volume, the walls and floors are carved by imposition of the exterior space. This outside-in approach allows the interior to follow a logic of discovery through discursive devices. Primarily a formal gesture, these carvings find their way into the pragmatic divisions of storage, stepped volumes and gathering spaces. Another point of departure for the discovery of the internal experience was the indifference of the internal shell to the shape of the external envelope. Sectionally, the poche takes on different characteristics as certain important functions are embedded into the walls and floors of the project. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2333139888145568387567829999914/untitled2.png Casa Desplazada 2025 • Design Charette https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2333139888164015131641539551530/int.png Casa Desplazada is an off-the-grid rural microhome embedded in the remote landscape of Patagonia. Organized around a continuous sequence from an exterior barbecue spit to an interior vernacular oven, the project engages food production as a central element of Patagonian life. The displacement of the house’s inner and outer shells negotiates these cooking spaces in varied ways—whether through the slippage of the exterior envelope or the operability of articulated volumes, the architecture frames and protects both indoor and outdoor preparation zones from the region’s harsh climate. To withstand the extreme environmental conditions, the house employs vernacular red corrugated metal paneling as a rigid, protective outer skin, offset against a misaligned wood-framed inner sleeve. This poche discrepancy generates a layered spatial tension, where the centralized smoker oven and chimney puncture the massing, and where exterior panels slide open to define entry sequences and shelter outdoor cooking areas. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2333139888182461875715249103146/top.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2333140524834940091653004026154/Shear-Side.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2333140524724259627210746716458/Axo-Diagram.jpg Internally, the house is structured around two primary skylights, oriented toward the prominent northern sun. As daylight filters through the inner volume, the open living space is dynamically illuminated, reinforcing its spatial continuity. Positioned along the primary cooking and storage zone, this space embeds essential domestic programs within the poche, dissolving the perceptual boundary between the two massing elements and enabling inhabitation between their layers. The project’s aesthetic expression emerges from its material strategy, leveraging the ubiquitous red corrugated metal of the Patagonian vernacular. This not only situates the house within the region’s material ecology but also heightens its legibility as an iconographic object within the landscape. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2333140524798046603505584922922/Section.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2333140524742706371284456268074/Front-Elevation.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2333140524761153115358165819690/Front-Elevation.png In elevation, the project emerges from the ground and reaches towards the sky. These solar chimneys create vertical heat ventilation as well as a formal gesture against the large mountains surrounding low Patagonian mountains. As both a formal and pragmatic gesture, this move creates a certain iconographic rereading of a vernacular typology. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2333156080457708616854014353706/Plan-01-Crop.jpg https://ianfennimore.com/ea 2025-07-12T22:40:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-ea 2025-07-12T22:40:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/earnest-abattoir 2025-07-12T22:40:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Earnest Abattoir Enters Stage Right... with a limp 2024 • Graduate Thesis https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2030575629555332219988687020330/Fennimore_GT24_Photo-15.jpg Earnest Abattoir Enters Stage Right... with a limp 2024 • Graduate Thesis https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2030576594559854947956460708138/Fennimore_GT24_Photo-13.jpg Section Model https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2030576594522961459809041604906/Fennimore_GT24_Photo-07.jpg The abattoir, a historically significant yet understated typology, is reimagined here as a site of architectural investigation that engages with broader cultural and aesthetic ideas. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2030576594504514715735332053290/Fennimore_GT24_Photo-05.jpg Marking the beginning of industrial modernism in the United States, the slaughterline is an austere mechanism of architectural and cultural production which has shaped urban development and cultural aesthetics. Drawing from work by Temple Grandin and CJ Lim, the project attempts to develop a conversation about the role of contemporary aesthetics and its ability to dismantle notions surrounding deeply ingrained cultural undercurrents of alienation and marginalization https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2030578378341560131596392423722/Fennimore_GT24_Screenshot-4.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2030578378323113387522682872106/Fennimore_GT24_Screenshot-2.png The thesis critically examines the role of traditionally totalizing aesthetic categories in contemporary architectural discourse. By engaging with marginal aesthetic cate- gories—particularly zaniness, as conceptualized by Sianne Ngai—the project proposes an alternative approach that challenges the pervasive antecedental and typological thinking of architecture’s inherently introspective discourse. Zaniness, characterized by its performative and equivocal nature of lightheartedness and peril, is explored as a strategic effect capable of introducing new forms of agency within architectural practice. Unlike traditionally totalizing aesthetics which prioritize exactitude and coherence, zaniness embraces intentional misfits and the productive tensions they generate, offering a means to disrupt established norms and provoke critical reflection. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2030578378470687340112359285034/ViewCapture20240821_231539.png By converting an introspective architectural typology into an immediate and provoc- ative encounter with tectonic form, the project seeks to establish a different aesthetic timbre—one that embraces the trivial and the zany as conduits for meaning. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2030579433550661380003873513770/ViewCapture20240816_211105.jpg The architectural intervention central to this thesis is a transformation of Morphosis’ Caltrans District 7 Headquarters into an abattoir and pig sanctuary. This transformation serves as both a satirical critique and a serious interrogation of the building's canonical status, sustainable design claims, and role within the architecture. By abstracting and reconfiguring elements of the existing structure, the project exposes certain contradictions and ironies embedded in its pragmatic intentions, humorously exposing these incongruities and transforming them into a spectacle. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2030588680608317625422745788714/Plan_SM.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2030588680571424137275326685482/Render-CE-v1_SM.jpg By converting an introspective architectural typology into an immediate and provoc- ative encounter with tectonic form, the project seeks to establish a different aesthet- ic timbre—one that embraces the trivial and the zany as conduits for meaning. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2030597884851080875761748762922/Objects-Drawing-01_SM.jpg Postured somewhere between speculative reality and adaptive reuse, the thesis delivers an architectural project embodying the marginality of contemporary zaniness, all of its quirks and ineptitudes, its comedies and immediacy and perverseness. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2038490696871907564132468351274/image_2024-10-27_202002095.png https://ianfennimore.com/pa 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-pa 2025-07-12T22:40:12+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/puzzling-assemblies 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Puzzling Assemblies 2024 • In Collaboration with Mohamad AlSharif https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2038492002827601006473884557610/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Section.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2038492002809154262400175005994/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_Site-Plan.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2038492002735367286105336799530/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_Puzzle.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2038492002753814030179046351146/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_Render-3_SM.png Existing seams from pieces allow autonomous volumes to create different zones and reduce the reading of a solid aggregate. By allowing the museum to be carved in more inense ways, the focus of the project lies in the mediation of the base to tower transition. Here, the intersection of the two puzzles culminates in a large cantilever underneath the split tower volumes. In both the museum and tower, interstitial circulation volumes form the basis of the conceptual throughline. The hidden ‘inner objects’ create moments of intense interest through its intersections at different levels. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2038492002716920542031627247914/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_Puzzle-to-Massing.png Developed as a pair of puzzle assemblies, the maritime museum and hotel project creates a sprawling mass adjacent to Keelung’s busiest port. The exisitng puzzling moves allowed for the volumes to be oriented through slight torques and pushes. The museum base that spans two exisitng lots is fractured, allowing a network of internal circulation bridges to span across its various volumes. The puzzle was retained as more true-to-form object in the hotel tower. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2038492165472543504371001155882/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_PH04.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2038492165490990248444710707498/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_PH05.png Puzzling Assemblies 2024 • In Collaboration with Mohamad AlSharif https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2038492439757181136358324134186/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamah_Fennimore_Ian_PZ1.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2038492439886308344874290995498/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamah_Fennimore_Ian_PZ8.jpg Translated to a larger architectural reality, the dual museum-hotel massing has large interconnected circulation armatures that cross between various components and help organize the project. The indexical nature of the green circulation armatures create a diagrammatic composition that begins to trace the inner workings of the puzzle's armatures. Multiple poses of the puzzle were explored to develop the massing, as two different states of disassembly were combined to form an 'L' shape, allowing the maritime museum to cover the ground levels and the hotel to rise above. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2038492439849414856726871892266/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamah_Fennimore_Ian_PZ6.jpg Organized around a central rotational fulcrum, the main massings of the puzzle form a central layered void space which creates a main area of visual intensity. Gravity is introduced visually into the piece around this area, as the larger puzzle pieces are tentatively held above, threatening to slide past one another. Other than the main fulcrum rotations, other puzzle pieces grow beyond their initial reading, reaching deeper into the massing and having moments of locking. These pieces become the most important to the function of the object, and also provide moments of surprise through the reveal of their actual formal extents. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2038492439904755088948000547114/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamah_Fennimore_Ian_PZ9.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2038492439775627880432033685802/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamah_Fennimore_Ian_PZ2.jpg <div style="text-align: left;"> After developing an initial puzzling strategy, the creation of intentional seams and carved voids becomes the main issue of the puzzle’s expression. Through the carving of the part-to-whole logic, latent architectural expression can be embedded through a series of formal exercises. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Since the main mechanistic strategy is developed already, the layers of formal expression begin to construct a spatial logic through the decisions of fitment. Critical to this particular puzzle exploration is the layering of void spaces around the intersection of major puzzle elements. Also, through the intentional misalignment of certain seams to create readings of loosely fit components, certain moves become highlighted through tight vistas.</div></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2038492960121384711631065669930/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_ModelPhoto_-08.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2038492960139831455704775221546/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_ModelPhoto_-09.jpg Beginning with the development of a puzzling object, the project develops through the exploration of formal translations. The original qualities imbued in the puzzle were about finding interesting postures through hidden rotational moments. Several components of the puzzle deny particular readings about the extent of its reach and role within the assembly. Hidden within the schism of the rectangular puzzle is an interconnected network of parts reaching through embedded channels and across other pieces. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2038492960195171687925903876394/DS5000_Wu_SP24_AlSharif_Mohamad_Fennimore_Ian_ModelPhoto_-15.jpg https://ianfennimore.com/d,d 2025-07-12T22:40:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-d,d 2025-07-12T22:40:12+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2039552555470992221695629418794/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-17.jpg https://ianfennimore.com/yokohama-railing 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Yokohama Railing 2023 • In Collaboration with Ben Elmer https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2039552555397205245400791212330/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-12.jpg Yokohama Railing 2023 • In Collaboration with Ben Elmer https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2039555866513979499970468077866/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-3.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2039555866661553452560144490794/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-17.jpg The offset wooden board base, which sits forty-five degrees from the ground plane, serves as a geometric strata requiring an intervention to develop a language which compliments the rest of the project but develops agency in its expression. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2039555866550872988117887181098/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-7.jpg Situated in the context of the Yokohama port terminal, the railing detail accentuates and exaggerates the existing wooden deck geometry to develop a detail with its own autonomous language. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2039556174925093668320461545770/231127_Exploded-Drawing.jpg <div style="text-align: left;"> When explored graphically, the detail becomes a different type of architectural object. The expression of the railing was derived from a series of radii which formed depth and length of the railing itself. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> These lines, explored as a series of graphics, were then translated to material thickness and bend ratios in order to determine how the detail is constructed. The traces formed the extension of the bounding box from the welded boxes, literally drawing the mass as a physical, steel line.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2039556174943540412394171097386/231127_Unfolded-Drawing.jpg To establish a new language which departs from the tectonic and material logics of the context, the handrail extension is created from a system of graphic instantiations. In ‘peeling’ the wooden boards upwards and [re]building them out of steel boxes and rods, the graphic quality of leading lines traces the once solid base up to a lighter expression. Sitting atop the newly constructed metal structure is a new wooden handrail, providing an interface between the user and detail. As a new centerpiece of the detail, the railing itself evokes a sense of curiosity as its full geometric ergonomics are not revealed until it is fully used. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2039556175017327388689009303850/AS2509_Oyler_FA23_Elmer_Ben_Fennimore_Ian_PH4.jpg Nullam rutrum mi urna https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2039571937501883956468931453226/3.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2039571937557224188690060108074/6.png The main metal bends are welded up 16-gauge cold rolled steel plates that form a hollow box. These plates were hand bent and tack welded to form the initial shape, then fully welded and ground down to create the look of a solid, bent extrusion. Steel rods (5/8” dia.) were then also bent by hand and welded to the ends of the boxes to receive the handrail and serve as a graphic continuation of the box itself. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2039571937520330700542641004842/4.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2039571937575670932763769659690/7.png Material selection was key in the formation of the detail. The main design dialectic was formed between the desire for certain radial geometries and the properties of certain materials to achieve these bends. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2039571937538777444616350556458/5.png Wood was also a main material choice, both in establishing the look of a polished, designed detail and furthering the project’s location in the port terminal. The base slats were made from 100+ year old reclaimed lumber while the handrail itself is machined walnut. This contrast makes the base feel sturdy and used while the railing itself invites interaction and has a different tactility. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2039571937464990468321512349994/2.jpg Sed leo enim, lobortis egestas mattis https://ianfennimore.com/slaughter-house-1 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-sh 2025-07-12T22:40:12+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2039552555470992221695629418794/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-17.jpg https://ianfennimore.com/slaughter-house 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Slaughter House 2023 • In Collaboration with Ben Elmer https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2039922185831611479725464445226/Vertical_Hernan_Fa23_Elmer_Benjamin_Fennimore_Ian_Render_00004.png Slaughter House 2023 • In Collaboration with Ben Elmer https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2039929385983205074111360753962/Vertical_Hernan_Fa23_Elmer_Benjamin_Fennimore_Ian_Render_00002.png Beginning with the “Box/Casa House” typology as a site for mutation and experimentation, “Slaughterhouse” presents a two-part series of architectural and spatial transformation. Questions of domesticity, materiality, and transfiguration became the basis of an exploration into the alienation of a potential domestic architecture. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2039929386038545306332489408810/Vertical_Hernan_Fa23_Elmer_Benjamin_Fennimore_Ian_Render_00005.png <div style="text-align: left;">Another prerogative of the project was to replace the missing program of the now-half box house. In the Mills precedent home, one of the main features of the domestic space is a bathroom. In redefining this original conceptual aim, an outhouse became a cheeky realization of this ‘renovation’. </div><div style="text-align: left;">In the project, the outhouse becomes an estranged version of itself, with proportions and a stance that is slightly off. Also, the primitive shape language from the main house bleeds into it, furthering the motif of these spheres as void objects imposed by the alien-like meat language.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2039929386001651818185070305578/Vertical_Hernan_Fa23_Elmer_Benjamin_Fennimore_Ian_Render_00003.png The main expression of the mutation was literally derived from the tradition of Argentinian butchery. As an important cultural practice, butchery presented an interesting way to develop a new type of domestic environment. Techniques, textures, and formal languages from the various types of meats and cuts inspired a different kind of architecture; one that is not necessarily living or dead, but one that is spawned from the very material that constitutes the way we live. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2039929386056992050406198960426/Vertical_Hernan_Fa23_Elmer_Benjamin_Fennimore_Ian_Render_00006.png <div style="text-align: left;">The project began with the proverbial box house, a pervasive typology with a particular aesthetic and phenomenological expression. Situated in Patagonia, Argentina, typical contextual factors were backgrounded in favor of an introverted and contained experience. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Part one of the series presents the box house as a site for intervention. However, the prerogative was to not touch the existing house, only the half that was chosen to remove.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2039929385946311585963941650730/Vertical_Hernan_Fa23_Elmer_Benjamin_Fennimore_Ian_Render_00001.png Bathtub https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2039931398098708402128122372394/Mid-Wireframe-Plan_trans.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2039931398135601890275541475626/231102_meatspinnerz0360_trans.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2039946135737504466826485391658/Water-View.png When viewed from the interior, the project becomes clearly a negotiation between the existing material and architectural infrastructure from the box house and the imposition of meat/flesh. In certain areas, the fleshy areas become foregrounded, as the interface between occupant and architecture changes. Tertiary systems are mediated through the dissolution of various layers of material, as if the underlying structure of the drywall is actually meat. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2039946362318861924200907890986/Top-View.mp4 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2041289985968554875342161273130/231102_Second-Floor-Plan_Midterm.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2041289985931661387194742169898/231102_Section_Midterm.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2041289985950108131268451721514/231102_First-Floor-Plan_Midterm.png https://ianfennimore.com/sf 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-sf 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2039552555470992221695629418794/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-17.jpg https://ianfennimore.com/synthetic-fields 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Synthetic Fields 2023 • In Collaboration with Arnar Skarphedinsson https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2041303032815682631970442273066/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Skarphedinsson_RN_02.jpg <div style="text-align: left;">The advent of large-scale fusion energy generation marks a new societal paradigm based on abundance. When clean energy becomes a viable, distributable resource the urban space will become inundated with physical new infrastructures. To facilitate the organization of a urban microgrid, a central fusion reactor placed in the grid allows for connected receptacles to power various building and public functions. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> These fusion receptacles also form the main public aseemblages on the ground level, inundating people with this technology at an urban scale. The connection of these receptacles form an extended ground plane, filling the interstitial spaces of other built infrastructure</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2041303032852576120117861376298/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Skarphedinsson_RN_04.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2041303032686555423454475411754/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Skarphedinsson_DG_03.jpg <div style="text-align: left;">As an urban assembly, the new microgrid organized around the fusion reactor deploys towers housing one main program. Architecturally, the towers are read as follies; totems of an existing paradigm that begin to form a new reality. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Programs such as the blockchain center, representing a decentralized, online currency, still require extremely dense physical infrastructures to support them. These physical instantiations of future technologies echoes what much of this project aims to achieve; a representation of a future that speculates on both where architecture is and where architecture, as a component of our collective social and economic zeitgeist, may go.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2041303032797235887896732721450/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Skarphedinsson_RN_01.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2041303032741895655675604066602/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Skarphedinsson_LN_02.jpg <div style="text-align: left;">A persistent tower typology of the future is live/work. However, in a society marked by the advent of abundant energy, what does ‘work’ mean? </div><div style="text-align: left;">In this schema, the organization of the building is able to be more polluted by various, and more ambiguous, functions. Spaces that are largely open and unprogrammed give way to technological substrata that allows various leisure activities to occur. Typical ways of working also give way to communal digital envrionments that still necessitate a physical space.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2041303032668108679380765860138/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Skarphedinsson_DG_02.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2041303032723448911601894514986/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Skarphedinsson_LN_01.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2041309088660401101931723186474/2GBX_Manfe_SP23_Fennimore_Ian_Skarphedinsson_Arnar_MP_01 <div style="text-align: left;">Synthetic Fields presents a near-future, utopian urban vision of downtown Los Angeles predicated on the adoption of large-scale nuclear fusion energy. The project manifests as an urban microgrid centered around a central fusion core. Program is distributed through the grid as disparate totems, carrying their own character and likenesses. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> The interstitial space of the collective towers is imbued with sythetic biomes, formed through the generation of endless energy. These biomes serve as a response to climate change and urban activities as these spaces can be transformed instantly to house a variety of natural and unnatural entities. Elevated paths form a ubiquitous ground plane that connects the towers, weaving between the new urban conglomerate. </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2041311645416023206222996267306/presp1.png Synthetic Fields 2023 • In Collaboration with Arnar Skarphedinsson https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2041311645471363438444124922154/topviewfarm.png On the ground areas of energy-imbued, climate-controlled biomes serves as urban infill. The newly elevated public pathways slice though the once gridded streets and allow for pockets of forests, glaciers, and hotsprings to become typical member of this new synthetic urbanism. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2041314285237333874428380274986/test5.png https://ianfennimore.com/mm 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-mm 2025-07-12T22:40:12+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2039552555470992221695629418794/231205_bcbeif_detailsdetails_railing-17.jpg https://ianfennimore.com/machinic-morphologies 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Machinic Morphologies 2022 • In Collaboration with Ben Elmer https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2041333344376417342989690822954/IMG_8350.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2041333443269412322146597036330/220914_be_if_shoe_photos_005.JPG <div style="text-align: left;"> Beginning with an analog exploration of shoe geometry and sneaker culture, this project culminates in a narrative structure merging the analog models with a digital, machine-imbued language. Focusing on new ways of working and generating narrative and formal responses, this project speculates on how digital workflows can be leveraged in order to quickly iterate on formal arrangements. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The project itself is a fictional elementary school project that focuses on generating a new contextual response. By creating a parasitic object interfacing with the sloping landscape, the project capitalized on mew programmatic moments through these narrative structures. Also, the interior classrooms of the mass serve as vignettes, highlighting new ways in which this reality impacts the educational experience of the school.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2041333443306305810294016139562/220919-bcbe-if-2gax-p1-2.JPG In vel faucibus enim, sit amet tristique quam https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2041333443343199298441435242794/220919-bcbe-if-2gax-p1-16.JPG Departing from the idea of sneaker culture and consumerist tendencies, these models were created to explore the way in which these cultural values shift contemporary paradigms. As a formal study, the constituent shoe elements were deconstructed and then collaged into larger objects. The moments in these models were seen as analogies, looking at ways in which these loose material conglomerates can inform a new reading on the way shoes and the body operate. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2041333443361646042515144794410/220919-bcbe-if-2gax-p1-18.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2041334252454287859489788223786/ObliqueFinal_small.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2041339219461490634671075451178/Zoom1.png <div style="text-align: left;">After 3D scanning these newly constructed artifacts, their formal and geometric qualities were used to create vignetted classroom spaces. These spatial scenarios were initially explored as a new way of creating architectural moments from complex, almost non sequitur geometries. The insertion of a larger mechanical infrastructure substrate begins to create a more ordered/codified geometric quality. Programmatically, the intersection of these scenarios and the technological substrates yields fun ways of thinking about the contemporary learning environment. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Also, the residual consumerist attitudes that were present in the models that created these spaces permeate the project. Artifacts of the shoes' brands become ornamentation and spatial indicators, finding themselves codified into a new architecture. </div><div style="text-align: left;">"Checks over stripes..."</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2041339219443043890597365899562/Flat-Final.jpg Machinic Morphologies 2022 • In Collaboration with Ben Elmer https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2041349111915381786966030115114/Classroom02_trans---Copy.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2041349111878488298818611011882/Classroom04_trans---Copy.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2041349111896935042892320563498/Classroom01_sm_trans---Copy.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2041352343895623965321730548010/IMG_8234.png The narrative of the shoe morphology and mechanical elements permeates even the furniture design of the classroom elements. The use of these mechanical elements throughout the project began to create a school imbued with a simultaneously ornamental and functional infrastructure. As this system interacts with the spaces at different scales and in different ways, the pipe system can become circulation, railing, workshop systems, and geometric noise. The way the pipes are articulated references the way shoes are indoctrinated into modern culture. As elements that blurring the idea of ornamentation and performative schemas, shoes are universal symbols of status, expression, innovation, and modest functionality. In the same way, the residual mechanical infrastructure of the project appears as typical elements that begin to expand the way people use and think about space. As a living system within the building, this substrate becomes its own organism driving the way people work around it. https://ianfennimore.com/icarus-1 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/nav-icarus 2025-07-12T22:40:12+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2050633840128868729956398883114/frame0021_ed.png https://ianfennimore.com/icarus 2025-10-04T01:57:53+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Icarus Lamp 2022 • In Collaboration with Tristan de Anda https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D861716831371225350277586299484/horizontal.svg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2050643195155318038797276766506/Icarus https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2050650012979693961479006282026/221215_f22_vs_lamps_edit_035.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2050650012942800473331587178794/221215_f22_vs_lamps_edit_033.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2050650012961247217405296730410/221215_f22_vs_lamps_edit_034.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2050650012813673264815620317482/221215_f22_vs_lamps_edit_026.jpg <div style="text-align: left;">This project focuses on a sequence of techniques and visual effects as a platform for cultural manifestos. Beginning with a 3D scan workflow, human faces were transformed into a lamp with a blend of high-fidelity geometry and texture and digital saturation producing a slow reading of messy virtual data. </div><div style="text-align: left;">As a vessel for light, the lamp became a conveyor of common themes in ancient Greek mythology; maturity and wisdom. The narrative structure of the short film uses the distorted lamp geometry and materials to show result of Icarus' fatal flaws.</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2050650144744786879986333475114/ianblockout-1.png Icarus Lamp 2022 • In Collaboration with Tristan de Anda https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2050667077933509341669239382314/20221028_210243364_iOS.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2050667740337642284505528361258/20221028_205725191_iOS.png https://ianfennimore.com/semantic-topologies 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W861716811061360125123369970268/vertical.svg Phasellus volutpat interdum mauris sed efficitur https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D861716831371225350277586299484/horizontal.svg Duis in commodo neque, luctus posuere velit https://ianfennimore.com/residual-fields 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/co_lab 2025-04-30T21:50:08+00:00 always 0.5 https://ianfennimore.com/info 2025-10-04T01:57:53+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2041368249324000360276968169770/9e806cce-7bb5-47ab-9c74-dc67d1977846_rw_600.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2107940521517971639895356432682/20240907_231143790_iOS.jpg