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MESH publications + exhibitions

I.D., 53rd Annual Design Review, July/August 2007

The New York Times, Ater Open Water, Lots o Open Spaces,

July 12, 2007

Frame Magazine, Jetblue Story Booth Sept/Oct 2006

Spafnder, Downtown Duplex, Sep. Oct. 2006

The NY Times, The Cheap Fix, Alexandra Lange, Aug 31, 2006

Sign Builder Illustrated, Jetblue Story Booth, August 2006

MARU Magazine, Korea, Overseas interior, February 2006Randomaccessmemory.org,Morsel Gallery, Brooklyn 2005

Salons and Spas, The Architecture o Beauty, Oscar Bond Salon, 2005

The New American Apartment, James G.Trulove, 2005 orthcoming

Bathroom, D&D Publishing, Parsons apartment, Mott street lot,

Downtown Duplex, 2004

Complete Bathroom Design, Quarry , A working bath, 2004

Metropolis, A city that orgets it past loses its soul(Storycorps),

January 2004

ID Magazine, Chat Room(Storycorps Booth), October 2003

Archi-Tech, Hybrid Design: MESH Architectures, November-

December 2003

The Smart Lot, James G.Trulove,Harper Design International, 2003

Architectural Record, For the emerging architect, June 2003

The Architectural League, Young Architects_4 Material Process, 2003

The New York Times, Oral History Project Wants Nation o Interviews,

May 7, 2003

New York Magazine, Fabulous Baths(Parsons Apt), April 2003

Metropolis Magazine, Like on Noahs Ark(Downtown Duplex),

January 2003

New York Magazine, 100 Best Architects & Decorators, October 2002

Surace, The Future o the Skyscraper n. 38.

The Architecture League, Young Architects Forum, June 2002

Interior Design, Light Bright(Milestone Oce), March 2001Konichi-wa (Japan), Manhattan Style, February 2001

Frame Magazine, Digital Hair Jan/Feb 2001

Interiors Magazine, Interiors Awards January 2001

Saturday Night, (Canadas National Post) Screenplay July 29, 2000

Interior Design, Rinse, Set, Sur(Bond Salon), April 2000

Surace Magazine,Bond Salon, n. 22

New York Magazine, Just Say Glow, April 21, 2000

I.D., Review o Random Access Memory, March 2000

New York Magazine, The Internets Git Is a Wider Bazaar by Eric

Litin in Times, December 25, 2000

New York Times Magazine, Times Capsule eature, December 5, 1999

Boston, Carriage Trade, Susannah Clark. October 1998.

Metropolis, Sizing Up the City: Rem Koolhaas by Eric Litin, 1995

MESH ARCHITECTURES

Eric Litin ounded MESH in 1997 as a hybrid architectural practice

to design both architectural spaces and Web sites, with a ocusedobjective o orging new relationships between people and their

environments in the age o the network.

Visualization o spaces in sotware is only one application o digitaltechnology in architecture. MESH strives to integrate interaction o

people over a network and inormation into architectural experience,bringing electronic, network media into the design process. People are

building oces in their homes to avoid long commutes. Companiesare conerring over computer screens. Shopping occurs in a desk

chair at midnight. The crossover o architecture and digital technologyis leading to new spatial congurations and, in turn, to new kinds o

events and modes o dwelling.

Conversely, the designers o Web sites rarely think architecturally.Most sites still resemble an ATM interace o multiple-choice

button navigation. Sophisticated, well-conceived sites, however,pose architectural questions about circulation, adjacency, hierarchy,

and community. When these issues are considered, the space oinormation can emulate urban space, incorporating its complexity,

spontaneity, and intensity. For several years, Litin has beendeveloping the concept o Web urbanism to bring urban theory to bear

on Internet space.

MESH works proactively to integrate material and digitalenvironments. We consider digital spaces on the network to be

extensions o physical space. It will soon be impossible to conceivean architectural space without imagining how it is connected to

inormation networks. When designing architectural and electronicspaces in tandem, we aim to create a continuously experienced space-

part physical, part digital.

At any given time, the rm is executing architectural projects anddeveloping Web sites. The balance between these project types varies

over the course o the year. The Web sites tend to be database-drivensites that, ideally, enable the dynamic o visitor interaction to shape

the site. Architectural projects have been mostly in New York, rangingrom private residences to oce space to retail.

Please contact:

Eric Litin

MESH Architectures

www.mesh-arc.com

68 Jay St, Suite 213

New York, NY 11201

v 212.989.3884 l 212.989.2335

[email protected]


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Williamsburg House

Brooklyn, NY

Size: 2500 s

2008-present

Folding door tableau

New York City

Size: 560 s renovation2008

Prince Street Lot

New York City

Size: 700s lot renovation

2008

Upper West Side Apartment

New York City

Size: 850s

2008

Park Slope Rec Room

New York City

Size: 730s basement addition

2008

Eldridge Street Roo

New York City

Size: 1,200s roo terrace addition;

2007

Ben White HouseHouse addition and transormation

Jersey City, New Jersey

Size: 1800 s

2007

Wooster Street Lot

New York City

Size: 3,000 s

2006

Tenth Street House

House addition and renovation

Brooklyn, New York

Size: 3000 s

2005

Basalt House

House addition and transormationBasalt, Colorado

Size: 4500 s

2005

Vertical Lot House

Complete house transormation

Brooklyn, New York

Size: 3200 s

2005

Lightbox Lot

Residential lot with LED

lightboxes

New York City

Size: 2000 s

2005

Riverside Drive Apartment

New York City

2,500 s

2004

Grou House HollywoodlandHouse transormation

Hollywood, Caliornia

Size: 5000 s

2004

Midtown Triplex

Transormation o 3-story

penthouse

New York City

Size: 4500 s

2003

Robinson-Johnson House

House transormation

Brooklyn, New York

Size: 3000 s

2003

Clinton St House

Floor addition and renovationBrooklyn, New York

Size: 3000 s

2003

Downtown Duplex, New York

New York City

Size: 4000 s

2003

Prince Street Triple

Multi-apartment renovation

New York City

Size: 3000 s

2002

Parsons Apartment

Brooklyn, New York

Size: 1200 s

2002

Mercer Street Lot

New York City

Size: 4500 s2002

The Apartment o Rachel Greene

New York City

Size: 1400 s

2001

Lincoln Double, New York

New York City

Size: 2000 s

2001

Mott Street Lot

New York City

Size: 3200 s

2001

Schmieder-Adamczyk Apartment

Brooklyn, New York

Size: 1000 s2000

Greenwich Street Lot

New York City

Size: 3300 s

1999

Genetic Arts Barn

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Size: 1000 s

1997

Residential project list


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VERTICAL LOFT HOUSE

Brooklyn 2006

3200 s

Owners who wanted a lot bought a Victorian-style

Park Slope house. The challenge was to open the

house to space and light without neutering its

character. This is accomplished with two relatedgestures: First, open the parlor foor as a large open

space or amily living. Then open a zone through

the middle o the house that ascends to a large

skylight, to bring light down and animate the central

circulation. In this zone, nishes are translucent

panels or peeled back to reveal the old structure.

Lighting in the zone is by pipe lights, designed and

abricated by MESH.


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Section Parlor Floor

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

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PARK SLOPE REC ROOM

New York City, 2008

800 s

It was a common brownstone cellar: dirt foor

and 6 headroom, with pipes and conduit tangled

throughout. Ater underpinning and excavation we

liberated a new habitable foor or a newly expanded

amily. Bright colors in the cabinetry, linoleum

foor, and lightbox make up or the lack o regular

windows, although the old coal chute, converted into

a skylight, admits sunlight.

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TENTH STREET HOUSE

New York City, 2005

2400s

Extending the rear o this houses garden

level foods it with light, transorming a dark

basement into a sun-lled amily space. The

10-oot addition eatures skylights and glassdoors. The new foors and countertops are

salvaged Vermont butternut.


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GENETIC ARTS BARN

Cambridge, Massachusets, 1997

1,000s

How do you take an old carriage house

designed or horses and chickens and turn

it into a unctional, ully wired oce space

while preserving traces o its historicalsignicance?

MESH translated existing elements - the

barn door opening becomes a glazed

entry, the hay door a picture window, and

the cupola a light shat - and designed

components to serve double duty- peeling

away stripso the second foor exposes the

old wood joists while creating a light well.

The rater ties become steel cables wired

or lighting.

Within only 1000 square eet, the

recongured foors and variable lighting

system provides a range o spatial

experiences. Most o the lights are designed

and built o plumbing pipe by the architect.


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PARK SLOPE GARAGE

New York City, 2004

1000s

A row house blessed with a curb cut and the

luxurious opportunity or a private garage.

Charged with expanding the house to enclose

a car, we redesigned the acade and entry

at garage level. Ipe wood planks maintain a

modest scale and restrained but intriguingvisual texture.


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DOWNTOWN DUPLEX

New York, 2003

4000s

The duplex lot starts rom the concept o a lot as a

microcosmic urban space, an oversized setting or

activities and events. By creating loosely connected

zones with varied environments, the home becomesa dynamic setting or exploration and concentration.

Small LCD screens throughout the space, embed-

ded in walls, urniture, and cabinetry, provide access

to the Home Operating System, a web-based home

control and communication system. This system is

not only internal it connects the micro-urban space

o the lot out to the electronic urban space o the

Web. This exter ior-viewless home becomes at once

an inward-ocused sanctuary and an active site or

mediated connection to the outside world.


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ELDRIDGE STREET ROOF

New York City, 2007

1,200 s roo terrace addition

A complete roo-deck makeover combines views

and privacy in Manhattans lower east side. A can-

tilevered steel stair, sheltered in a wood planked

bulk-head connects the original apartment to thedeck. Finished in sustainably harvested ipe, the deck

environment integrates plantings, outdoor shower-

ing and dining areas as well as concealed storage.

The deck terminates at its north end in a screen o

blue-grey concrete ber board underscoring views

on the city skyline.


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PRINCE STREET DOUBLE

New York City 2004


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Acquired by estate sale, a 3-story house

had not been touched in decades. The layout

was o another era, with the kitchen in the

basement. We designed the kitchen in the

middle o the main foor, between a ront

dining area and living room in the rear. Dark

wood paneling and millwork was kept and

coexists with a modern, lab-supply kitchen

and custom, illuminated shelving.

ROBINSON JOHNSON HOUSE

New York City, 2003

2500s

A renovation o two neighboring Nolita

apartments, ocusing on kitchen and baths,or a bachelor. The spaces are modest,

so they open up or integrated living. Thekitchen is outitted in lab ixtures and

cabinets. The bath, open to the bedroom,

seduces with a warm, wood loor and agenerous, pharmacy-style cabinet.

New York City, 2004

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CLINTON STREET HOUSE

New York City 2003


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This house in Cobble Hill was a run-down,

3-amily aair. MESH designed a complete

renovation, preserving some elements

while bringing kitchen and baths to modern

standards. Historic and contemporary coexist

harmoniously.

New York City, 2003

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A condition particular to the Hollywood Hills:

A large house was built into the slope, withstreet access down low, living space at the

top, and stunning 360 views arther up rom

the pool terrace. A remarkable vertical se-quence, dampened by a tired, 1980s design.Hollywood loves rejuvenation and rebirth.

For a limited budget, we nipped and tucked toachieve reshness, suused with Caliornia

light and openness.

HOLLYWOOD FACELIFT

Los Angeles, 2004

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CO HABITATA manual for the sustainable suburb

Weintend to build notonlyahouseand garden for theHackleyAvenuesite,butasystemfor building sustainablestructuresand landscapesthatcan beintegratedinto thedailylivesofpeople, and embedded in industrialprocesses.TheCOHABITATshelter harnessesand organizesenergyfromsun,rain,wind,

materials,and biomasseffectivelyand transparently,fostering participation andexchangebytheuser and the community.

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ORGANIZES THE FLOWof water, waste and energy

IS COMFORTABLEfor animals and people

NETWORKS TOGETHERdwellers, builders, and industry, products and users,

environmental data and house functions, habitat

corridors and migration patterns


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ThermalMassforheatstorage

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PhotovoltaicSolarPanelsforconvertion of solarenergyto electricity

Waterharvestingandstorage incistern forcleaning,flushing,watering

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sunslatesPV shingles

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regionalresource information

Allhousesconnected in anetwork.Componentsofeach varybysite.House InformationDashboardOpenSource DesignComponents

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Collectsandtreatsrainwaterfordomesticuse.Excessflowsto bioswale.Treatsink waste fortoilets

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3 OL AR ( E AT I NGOtherroof collectssolarheatin pipesthatrun to hot

waterheaterandradiantfloor,forgentle warmth.

7 A L L MO D U L E SCastwallsin reusable,rentedformsin

modularsections.Blowcellulose insulationinto interstitialcavities.

3 OL AR % L E C T R I C I T YElectronicsrun on low-voltDC,the natural

productof solarcells.Create safer,efficienthome wiring with car-style jacks.Super-low-powerLEDsforambientlighting.

$ AS HB OAR DMonitorshouse functions,coordinates

systems.Wiredto COHABITATNetwork forreal-time information on upgradesandcleanerliving.

! I R 7 A S T E 7 A L L Changesinteriorair,providing supplementalheat

orcooling if necessary.Sorting binsmove wasteinto garage andsoil.

# / ( ! " ) 4 ! 4 N E I G HB OR HOODThe house fitsinto Gainsboro in scale andform.A

welcoming frontporch andgrassyterrace-sur-garage encouragesinteraction.

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C2C\OS

Wewillengineer anew digital informationalsystemthatsupports,monitors,connects,and maintainsthe construction of anewphysicalhome

and landscapethroughoutthestagesof itslife. Building components,materials,and equipmentareorganized in an evolving database

incorporating feedbackfrombuilders,manufacturers,and dwellers.

Planning& BuildingOrientation and siting,desired layoutplansand materials, and construction

methodsaredetailed.

Living& MaintainingTheC2C\OS(operating system) monitorsthemechanicaland electrical

systems,assesseswater,waste,temperatureand weather,and makesdecisions based on reducing energyconsumpti on and increasing comfort.

For example,isenough heatcoming fromsolar heating or should theheatpump beswitched on?Isthe water cistern full?Istherea northern flicker

in thenestbox?

Disassembly& ReuseWhen acomponentist aken outofservice,whether aspart ofan upgrade,

renovation,or completedemolition,thedatabasecontainsinformation about

disassembly,recycling and/or disposal.

c2c/COHABITAT COMPETITION

New York City, 2004

We will engineer a new digital inormational system

that supports, monitors, connects, and maintains

the construction o a new physical home and

landscape throughout the stages o its lie. Building

components, materials, and equipment are organized

in an evolving database incorporating eedback rom

builders, manuacturers, and dwellers.

Planning & Building

Orientation and sitting, desired layout plans and

materials, and construction methods are detailed.

Living & Maintaining

The C2C\OS (operating system) monitors the

mechanical and electrical systems, assesses

water, waste, temperature and weather, and makes

decisions based on reducing energy consumptionand increasing comort. For example, is enough heat

coming rom solar heating or should the heat pump

be switched on? Is the water cistern ull? Is there a

northern ficker in the nest box?

Disassembly & Reuse

When a component is taken out o service, whether

as part o an upgrade, renovation, or complete

demolition, the database contains inormation about

disassembly, recycling and/or disposal.

6. Water WallCollects and treats rainwater for domestic use.

Excess flows to bioswale. Treat sink waste for toilets

and irrigation.

4. Solar HeatingOther roof collects solar heat in pipes that run to

water heater and radiant floor, for gentle warmth.

3. Wall modulesCast walls in reusable, rented forms in

modular sections. Blow cellulose insulation

into interstitial cavities.

2. Solar ElectricityElectronics run on low-volt DC, the natural

product of solar cells. Create safer, efficient

home wiring with car-style jacks.

Super-low-power LEDs for ambient lighting.

1. DashboardMonitors house functions, coordinates

systems. Wired to COHABITAT Network for

real-time information on upgrades and

cleaner living.

5. Air & Waste WallChanges interior air, providing supplemental heat

or cooling if necessary. Sorting bins move waste

into garage and soil.

COHABITAT neighborhoodThe house fits into Gainsboro in scale and form. A

welcoming front porch and grassy

terrace-sur-garage encourages interaction.

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