BURST*008, New York, NY

1,500 sf

BURST*008 was commissioned by MoMA and installed as part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Built in just ten weeks, four off-site and six on-site, the project evolved from the award-winning BURST*003, constructed several years earlier in North Haven, Australia. At MoMA, the BURST* identity expanded beyond its original “sunburst” name, derived from the surface-applied flower graphic, to become both a functional skylight and a literal construction method: the structural ribs burst open on site before being lowered onto the moment frames anchoring the house to the ground.

Further innovations in BURST*008 include a prefabricated structural insulated panel (SIP) skin system that provides a highly insulated self-supporting architectural envelope. As an alternative to mass-produced versions of domestic life that reduce prefab houses to varying arrangements of boxes, each BURST* iteration generates spatial individuality, expanding the architectural potential of affordable, prefabricated construction. The system functions like a kit of parts, enabling the creation of distinct, customized homes from small, interlocking components.

Selected Press: Material Evidence; AD v.79; a+u; Log15; Costriure; Vanity Fair; Domus; Time Magazine; Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling; Modern Painters; TreeHugger; Flint Journal; Artforum; ARTnews,; Architectural Record; Newsweek; Architectural Review; The Guardian; NYTimes; NY Sun; Fast Company; Financial Times; Wall Street Journal; New York Review of Books

DESIGN TEAM

Jeremy Edmiston, Henry Grosman, Michela Chiavi, Kristina Kesler, Lucia Eastman, Kevin Field, Scott Nicholl, Rob Baker, Franz Daniel, Maryana Grinshpun, Rebecca Hora, Malvin Hwee, Jung Min Kim, Edward Kim-Yujoong, Charles Kwan, Philip Lee, Brian Osborne, Vicente Quiroga, Seth Roye, Troy Thierren

CONSULTING ENGINEER

Buro Happold - Craig Schwitter, Cristobal Correa, Alexandru Marin, Nathaniel Stanton

LIGHTING DESIGN

Clark Johnson Lighting Studio

EXHIBITION CONTRACTOR

Sciame Construction Company

PROJECT CONTRACTOR

Ryan Associates - Jim Friedman, Ashley Simone

CONSTRUCTION TEAM

Budco Enterprises, Inc.; Associated Fabrication LLC; Blaine Window Hardware; Millennium Steel; The Murus Company; P. C. Steck, Inc.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Richard Barnes and the architects

VIDEO

Anthony Rossello, Certain Pictures