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- 24° Studio
Established
Service - architecture | design | furniture
New York, NY
Architecture, Interiors, Furniture, Products, Graphics, Research, Design Consultance
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Description
24° Studio is a multidisciplinary practice established in 2008. We dedicate our investigation in working at the intersection of architecture, technology and environment. It is in our inherence to collaborate with our vast network of experts to deliver new solutions to our clients and audiences in realizing their aspirations. With ever changing global movements bringing us limitless inspirations, 24° Studio believes that the process of integrating multiple perspectives will lead to innovative result, thus redefining the connection between our body and our surroundings.
We believe design process is a quest of discovering and understanding the problem through questioning it in multiple scales, from local to global. Questions differ from given circumstances. Further provocation of questioning process continues into understanding the effects of proposed solution on surroundings, researching methods and its materialization. A prototype is created offering additional questions and discoveries. Often the final stage is a creation of a final product in its singularity or mass production. We attest into continuing further after the completion of a task going beyond a created entity. We are against mere repetition of a design product for the sake of establishing style and brand. From every design task we inherit a set of questions and knowledge that will enhance the solution of the next problem, leading us to create an innovation of any scale. We believe in the provocation of questioning process rather than a particular product of creation. Our difference is to be style-less and brand-less.
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Fumio Hirakawa Principal
- Born
Education
Contact - Kobe, Japan
Southern California Institute of Architecture
M.Arch, 2005
Fashion Institute of Technology
BFA, Interior Design, 2000
fmhirakawa@24d-studio.com
At 24° Studio, Fumio believes in comprehensive communications and extended reserach as must do steps prior to design. He believes that every project has unique elements of various scales and categories including socio-cultural issues. He enjoys exploring virtual and technological in realms of digital as well as physical and detailed in building multiple models and prototypes.
Before establishing 24° Studio, Fumio has worked at various architectural parctices. Just after receiving his Masters of Architecture Degree from SCI_Arc in 2005, Fumio worked for Rafael Vinoly Architects as a project designer on large-scale residential and institutional projects. In 2006, he joined L.E.FT as project manager; Fumio was a highly involved member for numerous projects
that ranged from furniture design to urban scale proposals in the US and international locations.
Fumio currently teaches at Kyoto Seika University. He also has taught at Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and served as a studio guest critic at Fashion
Institute of Technology, S.U.N.Y., Pratt Institute, and New York Institute of Technology.
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Marina Topunova Principal
- Born
Education
Contact - Moscow, Russia
Southern California Institute of Architecture
M.Arch, 2006
University of Illinois at Chicago
B/Arch, 2003
mtopunova@24d-studio.com
At 24° Studio, Marina believes in pursuit of innovation through exploration of building techniques, formal complexities, and new materials. She believes in the discovery of various degrees of playfulness across design problems. She enjoys solving the riddles of how to create the outmost effect with the least amount of available funds. Similar to Fumio, she believes in employing all techniques from virtual to physical in exploration of every project's design.
Before establishing 24° Studio, Marina was a project designer at Asymptote Architecture on projects in Abu Dhabi and in New York City. Later, she joined SOM office in New York where she was a project architect for a large number of international designs, research and building projects in Saudi Arabia, Mexico City and New York City.
Marina also served as a studio guest critic at Fashion Institute of Technology, S.U.N.Y. and Pratt Institute.
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