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Storm King
Studio AI Architects collaborated with New York-based artist Stephen Talasnik on the structural design and engineering of "Stream: A Folded Drawing" — a major site-specific bamboo installation commissioned by the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York. The work was part of 5+5: New Perspectives, Storm King's celebrated 50th anniversary exhibition, which opened in June 2010.
Stream consisted of more than 3,000 bamboo poles tied together with stainless-steel connections to form a monumental structure 12 feet high and 90 feet long — occupying an isolated slope between two oak trees at the foot of Isamu Noguchi's 1978 granite sculpture Momo Taro.
Talasnik — whose drawings are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the British Museum, and the Albertina — works at the intersection of drawing, sculpture, and architecture, relying on intuition rather than measurement.
Studio AI provided the structural framework that allowed the bamboo skin to be realized at the scale and permanence the commission demanded. The completed installation survived an earthquake, a hurricane, and one of the worst winters of snowfall recorded in the Hudson Valley. (Source: State Department).