A design-build course taught by Hauptman and Michael Fox at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIarc) in 2002. The project was funded primarily by the Los Angeles Community Garden Associations in the Silver Lake Community. The projects focus simultaneously in trying to develop dialog and awareness of issues of fresh food access, community participation…
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MiSo*, the University of Michigan’s entry to the United States Department of Energy sponsored Solar Decathlon 2005. As faculty advisor I led a group of students, (primarily graduate architecture) in the final design and construction of a structure which was deliberately interrogative and confrontational of unreflective popular assumptions about style, sustainability and the American house….
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This chair was produced for and exhibit in 2001, its production was a vehicle to explore packing industry manufacturing techniques, to query weather or not more durable goods could be made from a process that typically yields ultimately discarded components. In addition it was an opportunity to explore 3d modeling software applications for the purposes…
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In collaboration with Arden Freemen for client: Art Share LA, this tectonic interior design, fabrication and permanent installation was produced as our submittal for a competition titled: “to See, Sit & Sleep”. The program called for the proposal to be independent of the existing architecture and free standing to avoid building permits and code checks….
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In 2002 HPI began to research the green waste streams and governmental regulations concerning waste management in Southern California, the consequence of this research was the development of a design strategy and an ad-hock manufacturing process that could be implemented to produce a sustainable American made furniture product. These prototyped where made from a portion…
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In 2002 Andrea Zittel’s was commissioned to produce a work for exhibit at the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the commission was to make an addition of twelve pieces titled which she titles “AZ Wagon Station”. Design development and fabrication was contracted to HPI. Although initially exhibited at the Museum, her ultimate goal was to place…
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In collaboration Kiej de la Bosques (Guard of the Forest) a Guatemalan environmental and social justice for profit consultancy, Hauptman and small team he put together of design interns and professional craftsmen began this project to develop a rural design and manufacturing approach to produce goods made from the marriage of woven and composited palm…
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Our design as well as our research and development strategies are typically to simultaneously work on development and design instead of applying development to design. By doing this the different parts to our process inform one and other in a bidirectional, nonhierarchical manner. In many ways we see the material science side of our work…
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