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Architecture in Resonance with the Cosmos - 2015-2016:

 Exhibition and Lecture: FIU, Miami Beach Urban Studios

 

The second solo exhibition of the Oculi Sound Chamber is entitled "Architecture in Resonance with the Cosmos," which opens on November 19 and continues through January 22, 2016, at Florida International University's Miami Beach Urban Studios. 

I will be delivering a lecture on restoring our resonance with Earth and the cosmos, and on the designs and mapping of cosmological dwellings. The lecture will be followed by a reception, 7:00-9:00 pm, on Dec 1st, 2015.

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For additional details about the location and hours of the exhibition, reception, and lecture, please see the announcement flyer and web link below.

http://mbus.fiu.edu/events/lecture-architecture-and-resonance-with-the-cosmos-with-simon-koumjian/

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Special Gratitude for assistance with this exhibition to:

 

Nicholas Pendas, David Ciambotti, Henry Rueda, John Stuart, John Doyle Design, Joe Reitz, Leslie Hahne, Daniel Tabet, Carlos Spartacus, Veronica Jaile, Amanda Guyah, Matthew Wasala, Patricia Elso, Jacqueline Thompson, Odette Barrientos, and everyone else who assisted together in facilitating this exhibition.

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  Architecture for Celestial Light - 2015 Kickstarter Presentation:

   Enhance your Well-Being by harmonizing your inner light with star light

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Oculi Sound Chamber:

Let’s restore ancient wisdom’s place in contemporary consciousness by providing educational awareness of cultural elements of the past in a new context, so that people may incorporate them into the evolution of a thoughtful and vibrant future.

Prototype: Oculi Sound Chamber

The Oculi Sound Chamber Dwelling  project aims to fulfill three educational ambitions: (1) the enhancement of human experiences with the vibrations of sound and light, and with the ambiance of the cosmos; (2) the utilization of an ingeniously sustainable past building technique of compression-only masonry vaulting through computational methods, to find new expressive structural forms; and (3) the bridging of ancient Native American and contemporary cultures, specifically how these ancient cultures interpreted their place on Earth into cosmological dwelling expressions.

  Architecture & Engineering the Cosmos - 2013:

   Exhibition & Event Presentations for Design Philadelphia

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Architecture & Engineering the Cosmos -2003 - 2013:  Lecture & Exhibition

One typically considers the cosmos as the universe, located in or encompassing outer space. This installation expresses the architecture and engineering of the cosmos here on Earth. The ideas behind this installation arose out of (a) efforts to understand the ancient pueblo culture (900 to 1130 AD) in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, specifically how the Chacoan people interpreted their place on Earth into cosmological dwelling expressions; and (b) the research of compression-only masonry vaulting building techniques to find new expressive structural form.

 

Over the past ten years, Simon Koumjian III, of SKIII Spacevariations, LLC has initiated a series of nine interdisciplinary research projects for a dwelling and earthwork site design to be built on a property of 18.4 acres, located in the southeast region of Utah.

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Collaborators:

 

  • Simon Koumjian III:  2003 - present - director of research and project teams

  • Kyung Lee:  2003-2004 - research, drawing and illustrations

  • Skylar Tibbits:  2005-2007 - research, design, drawing and illustrations; site visit

  • Jared Laucks:  2005-2011 research, design, drawing and illustrations; site visit

  • Brandon Kruysman:  2008 - design, drawing and illustrations

  • Joseph Reitz:  2009 -2013 research, design, drawing and illustrations; site visit; exhibition design team

  • Kyle Blackwell:  2013 – research, design, drawing / exhibition design development team 

  • Louis Chang:  2013 - exhibition design development team; Fishtank Gallery sponsor

  • Heather Martin:  2013 - exhibition design development team 

  • Amy Ahn:  2013 - exhibition design development team 

  • Todd Rubio:  2013 - exhibition design development team 

  • Henry Moll:  2013 - exhibition design development team

  • Christopher Golin: 2013 -  exhibition photography

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  • Thank you to the generous sponsors for funding our installation in commencing October 2013:

    • Philadelphia University

    • The Sierra Group

    • NextFab Studio

    • Fishtank PHL

    • Blackwell Design

    • Ortlieb's

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