#digitalfabrication

"Cellular Origami" is the name of IwamotoScott's design for the new facade for UCSF's 3rd Street Garage in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood that was produced in response to an invited design competition. The competition brief was focused on creating a new facade to transform UCSF's 3rd Street Garage, which had its earlier facade made of channel glass removed a number of years ago. Craig Scott Craig Scott The project was initiated to both bring a stronger identity and sense of brand to UCSF's campus edge, and to create a dialogue with the high-profile new architecture rising directly across 3rd Street including the new Warriors NBA Arena (Chase Center) and new Uber HQ. Craig Scott David Lloyd Craig Scott Ce... More

Penumbra is a work of Public Art situated on Market Street, San Francisco's urban spine. In addition to our scope as designers of the Serif condo interiors, lobby, common spaces and amenity spaces for this large new mixed use development, IwamotoScott was commissioned by Group i to create this signature piece of immersive sculpture. Craig Scott Situated in a courtyard between the historic Warfield Theater and  the Serif residences / Line hotel, Penumbra's form takes cues from the scientific phenomena of penumbra, 'a partial shadow between regions of full shadow and full illumination'. Craig Scott Penumbra functionally defines the passage to the second lobby entrance to the Line hotel from Market Street, and offers  sha... More

IwamotoScott was commissioned by Dacra and LVMH Real estate to design the southern end of the City View Garage in Miami's Design District. Our facade design is adjacent to the central portion of the facade designed by the Los Angeles based artist John Baldessari, and at the opposite end to the north is a facade design by New York based architects, Leong Leong. Luis Gomez Caption Sited along the edge of the Design District adjacent to I195, the building's facade has a strong presence from the freeway, and thus acts as a kind of billboard for the Design District. The main body of the building is a parking structure above a level of retail storefront and includes a small six story office block. IwamotoScott's portion of the facade w... More

Connected Home Architecture: Estudio Guto Requena + PAX Arquitetura Interior design: Estudio Guto Requena In an environment where civil construction is one major contributors to carbon footprints it becomes a necessity to invest in new ways of designing and building. The Connected Home is a collaborative digital fabrication project developed for an architectural exhibition in Brazil focused on residential projects. It seeks to disseminate a sustainable construction method through a global collaboration platform, the wikihouse. From the availability of the construction system, it is possible to develop a variety of forms, adaptable to different project demands. A house connected with new technologies, built from naval pine plywood sheets... More

THE INTERPRETATION OF A NATURAL, ORGANIC SPACE, WHOSE FUNCTION IS THE ARCHAIC ONE OF REFUGE.ECHINOIDEA IS A MODULAR WOODEN SHELL THAT OFFERS THE VISITORSAN ENVELOPING CONTEMPLATIVE EXPERIENCE.by GG-LOOP in collaboration with RUBNER HAUS Alice Turazza The quest for harmonious coexistence with our planet is manifested through the profound connection and mutual exchange with Gaia, our mother earth, of which we are a fundamental part. Minimising the impact of our actions, of our buildings is not enough; sustainability is a necessary approach whose standards are now almost obsolete. To “reverse the curve”, we must necessarily aim for a positive ecological impact through our built environment. Alice Turazza In exploring th... More