e-Architects develops software, information “mapping” and “visualizations” implementing Big Data, including machines to “draw” and machines to “build”, understanding them as proto-architectural. Professionally, Lorenzo-Eiroa is the design principal of the experimental practice e-Architects (New York/Buenos Aires) based on an emerging Architecture and Urbanism of Information. He then won the Fulbright and the National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship to complete his M.Arch II at Princeton University. He received his Doctor in Architecture degree from UIC Barcelona and his architecture degree from the University of Buenos Aires, where he completed studies for his second master's degree and a post-graduate seminar at the Superior School of Fine Arts de la Carcova. His work innovates in information-based representation and construction systems through materials, robotics and digital fabrication. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa is an associate professor with Tenure and director of the Master of Science in Architecture, Computational Technologies program in the NYIT School of Architecture and Design, and is an international architect and scholar in the fields of architecture, urbanism, ecology, and computation. To learn more about the Menokin Foundation, please follow this LINK.Dr. The Concept Design is complete and the Menokin Foundation is actively raising funds for construction. The glass highlights the connections between the house and the surrounding landscape by means of variable transparency.Ĭurrently we are starting with the stabilization of the remains of the main neo-palladian house.
This allows for the restoration of the overall configuration while establishing a clear distinction between old and new, exhibiting the process of colonial construction systems and the spatial relationships of different interior locales. Instead, a sophisticated structural glass system is proposed as the dominant new construction material. However, this will not be a conventional restoration process which might seek to reconstruct and replicate the original residential quarters. The volume and overall original form of the neo-palladian house will be re-established so that the visitor can visualize the original relationships among the structures and between these structures and their landscape. The second phase involves the transformation of these main structures into a showcase of the process of their construction and conservation. These registered National Historic Landmarks require urgent action to prevent further decay. The first phase of the project involves the stabilization of the existing remains of the main house and ancillary structures. For this we assembled an extraordinary team of consultants and begun working on a novel approach to conservation and interpretation of both the original architecture and the whole plantation site so as to make Menokin a distinctive stop along the string of historical colonial and revolutionary sites in Virgina.Įxisting Conditions of the Exterior & the Proposed Interiors. Our work pursues the goal of giving structure, physical form and institutional operativity to the Foundation enlightened aspirations, chiefly to approach conservation and interpretation in a innovative, unconventional way, aiming at making the visitor's experience of the multi-layered site a veritable individual creative process. This historic plantation is and will continue to be in the foreseeable future an active site of historical, ethnographic and archaeological investigations.
Built and administered by Francis LIghtfoot Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Menokin sits on a prominent waterfront site whose full history traces itself back to pre-colonial times as the settlement of the Rappahannock tribes, from whom the name 'Menokin' comes from. Of particular interest are the remains of neo-palladian buildings of what were, at the end of the 18th century, the Menokin Plantation. In 2011 we were hired by the Menokin Foundation to develop a design strategy and master plan for the conservation and interpretation of their magnificent and inspiring 500 acres site in the Northern Neck of Virginia. Work In Progress: Menokin Exhibition and Conservation Center
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