From some angles the wall appears to be organised in a pattern, but from other directions the surface seems distorted and irregular.

The rope is also tied around the framework of a bench, which protrudes from one side.

Oyler Wu Collaborative's previous projects include a moving installation for the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and an aluminium staircase in the SCI-Arc gallery in Los Angeles.

The movie is by Them Too Productions.

Photographs are by Oyler Wu Collaborative and Clifford Ho.

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Screenplay by Oyler Wu Collaborative will be on view from 6/22 to 6/24 at Dwell on Design 2012 at LA Convention Center.

Screenplay is conceived of as a ‘play’ on one’s visual perception. This 21-feet-long screen wall is constructed of 45,000 feet of rope strung through a series of lightweight steel frames.

The wall is designed with the intention of provoking a sense of curiosity by slowly revealing its form and complexity through physical and visual engagement with the work.

The wall is made from a repetitious steel framework with rope infill that varies over the length of the wall in three dimensions, forming a thickened undulating screen made up of dense line-work. In its orthographic, or ‘straight on’ view, the wall forms a meticulously organised series of patterns easily recognised by the viewer.

As the viewer moves around the wall, its three-dimensional qualities reveal a more complex system of deep sectional cavities, twisting surfaces, and material densities.

The experience is meant to build on an ‘on again/off again’ system of pattern legibility, using optical effects as a means of provoking engagement in the work.

Project Design and Fabrication Team: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, Huy Le, Sanjay Sukie, Yaohua Wang, Qing Cao, Farnoosh Rafaie, Jie Yang, Clifford Ho, Joseph Chiafari, Tingting Lu, Qian Xu, Mina Jun, Vincent Yeh, Kaige Yang, Shouquan Sun.

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Architects Oyler Wu Collaborative have designed a moving, ceiling-mounted installation for the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design in Los Angeles, USA.

The articulated structure, called Pendulum Plane, is made from aluminium tubes and can be used to hang display boards in different configurations.

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PENDULUM PLANE

The LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design sponsored an open competition in the Spring of 2008 to design what they termed a “liner” for their newly acquired headquarters on Hollywood Boulevard. Because the space is shared between Woodbury University and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture, the competition brief asked for something that could be moved from the space and stored while not in use by the Forum.

The initial starting point was very much a reaction to the project brief in the sense that it was not exactly the right approach. Anything of real architectural value within the space should be an integral and constant part of the experience of the space.

The challenge came in considering how to introduce a system that can have the most amount of spatial and functional impact but still allow for existing functions (i.e. pin up space for Woodbury) to occur on occasions. The idea of using the ceiling was the right combination of 1) maximizing the spatial experience within the space and 2) providing something that could be tucked away when required.

The project subverts that idea of storage by creating a system that capitalizes on the idea of variability. The proposal performs both spatially and functionally in two ways. It consists of an intricate ceiling system that performs both as a ceiling as well as a vertical plane that can shape the space in multiple dimensions.

It also functions as a variable display system along the wall or in the middle of the space. When in the closed position, each individual unit is self-balanced on a hinge and hovers above the space. At both ends of the unit is a smaller hinged frame that may be rotated. When either of the frames is opened, the balance of the unit shifts, allowing the smaller hinged frame to be lowered into position that is optimal for hanging display panels. With panels running along both sides of the space, the system provides display options along the perimeter of the space, along a central spine, or a combination of the two.

Oyler Wu was given a $7,500 budget to fabricate the installation, which was completed August 2008. The system includes two different units (one being the mirrored version of the other) as well as a truss that is supported by the existing ceiling. Constructed almost entirely of welded aluminum tubes, the units measure 96” x 40”, and are designed to allow for the display of up to 42” boards. Even though each of the units operates individually, different spatial configurations can be formed by lowering consecutive panels to create more of a continuous spatial divide.

Engineering: Buro Happold, Los Angeles
Project Design and Fabrication Team: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, Phillip Cameron, Jian Huang, Huy Le, Erik Mathiesen

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Live Wire

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Architects Oyler Wu have created an aluminium staircase called Live Wire at the SCI-Arc gallery in Los Angeles, USA.

The installation consists of a staircase linking the ground floor of the gallery to a catwalk above.

The staircase is made from approximately 2,400 feet of aluminum tubing and rods. According to the architects the treads can support more than 100 pound per square foot.

Photos by Oyler Wu Collaborative.

The following is written by Robert Cha, a SCI-Arc Student:

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Oyler Wu Collaborative's SCI-Arc gallery installation: Live Wire.

Live Wire, designed and built by architects Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, is aptly titled: it is shockingly aggressive in its pursuit of taking over and exploiting the gallery space with its expressive performance.

This installation is a muscular yet diaphanous stair with minimal connections to the walls.

This monster is a fully functioning stair (yes, you will walk on this thing) constructed of 2400 feet of aluminum tubes.

These tubes were first assembled at SCI-Arc's metal shop.

Fragile by themselves, the welded tubes swayed on the shoulders of Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, and the students as they carried them part by part into the gallery space.

Even with the 2x4 wooden scaffolding holding up majority of the tubes (and the workers), its amazing balancing act is an anxious pleasure to watch.

On the stability of this installation, the architects consulted Buro Happold.

This tripartite cantilevering Cloverfield of a stair will stand on its own and support more than 100 pound per square foot on top of its treads.

The trepidation I have felt, seeing this mutant monster stair in construction, will be a fragmentary side note on the opening night: when I am actually experiencing what is sure to be one of the most spectacular feat of architectonic performance ever exhibited in SCI-Arc.

Defiance over gravity has always been architecture's wet dream. The tectonic expressiveness and the architects' mastery of lightweight materials posit this installation as an exemplar in that nocturnal wonderland.

About Oyler Wu Collaborative

The architecture office of Oyler Wu Collaborative was established in 2001 by Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu in New York City and is currently located in Los Angeles, CA. Oyler received a BArch from Kansas State University and March from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Jenny Wu received her BA from Columbia University and also received her Master of Architecture from Harvard University GSD

They are the principals of Oyler Wu Collaborative, an architecture firm that believes in creating a dialogue between context and intervention that has the ability to operate at multiple scales and through varying physical and conceptual relationships. 

Oyler Wu Collaborative’s scope of projects range from small design interventions to a 15–story mixed use tower in Tapei, Taiwan.

Oyler Wu Collaborative was recently awarded the design of the new space for the LA Forum for Art and Architecture in Hollywood, CA and is one of the 100 firms selected to participate in the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia, China.

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