meredith_sattler

with Steve Lee, Aprilli

Interactive Installation _ 13' x 13' x 19' Bank of America Plaza, Los Angeles   February 11th - March 18th, 2016

Lumibolic is an occupiable interactive environment designed to test the viability of seamless interfaces for the production of dynamic space. Shaped from hyperbolic paraboloid geometries, the 3,200 cubic-foot installation delineates zones of occupation with luminous surfaces composed of strands of low voltage, glowing EL wire that modulate form and intensity in response to sound and motion. The piece visualizes interactive relationships between site and visitor, within a metropolitan public plaza, on a large scale. The challenge was to generate sensitive, efficient, and engaging sensor interfaces that capture peoples’ interest as they traverse from multiple destinations.

While in motion-mode, visitors move across the sensor pad to input their motion into the Arduino-based interface, thereby creating their own real-time light and geometric patterns across the Lumibolic’s individually responsive 48 strands. In sound-based mode, El wires respond to either live or pre-recorded sound, modulating pattern and intensity based on volume levels. Several live performances confirmed Lumibolic’s ability to generate dynamic visual fields in synch with musicians’ performances.

For videos of motion and sound performances:

https://vimeo.com/162274827

https://vimeo.com/160298536

Meredith Sattler. 2024. “Constructing an Anthropocene: Organizing Life Through Logics of Enclosure at Biosphere 2, 1984-1994.” PhD diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Science and Technology Studies.

Janet Abbate, Chair

Barbara L. Allen

Eileen Crist Patzig

Matthew Wisnioski

Design Resiliency, Curbing Climate Change, and Temporal Trajectories for the Anthropocene ·  Chapter 3.1 in:  The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking: Healthful Ecotopian Visions for Architecture and Urbanism ·  Edited by Mitra Kanaani  ·  Routledge  ·  2022

invited to author introductory chapter to the section titled The Design Connectivity Domain: Design Hybridity and Performativity in Non-Utilitarian/Utilitarianist Approaches and Views Toward Eco-Centric Environmental Behavior Transactions: Materiality, Biodiversity, Biomimetics, Energy Resiliency, and the Role of Technology.

Situating meanings of sustainability within the architectural discourse ·  Chapter 12 in:  Routledge Companion to Architectural Design & Practice: Established and Emerging Trends·  Edited by Mitra Kanaani and David Kopek  ·  Routledge  ·  2015

Invited to author the introductory chapter to the section titled Architectural Design and Sustainability.

Commentary from Jim Dator, Chapter 35:  "Alternative Futures in Architecture," p. 561

"Another exceptional essay in this volume is that of Sattler. She focuses on sustainability broadly, accepting the idea that human actions over the past thousands and especially hundreds of years have moved the Earth geologically from the Holocene to the Anthropocene Epoch. This places novel obligations and possibilities squarely on the shoulders of architects. “If architecture is to continue to be relevant, the discipline can no longer afford to address the multitude of contextual forces thrust upon it in a piecemeal manner,” she writes. She refers to “the post-growth, post-peak oil context” of “the current developed world.” The bulk of her chapters discusses the “3E’s: Environment, Equity, and Economics.” If I am correct in assuming the absence of this kind of a discussion in the other papers in this volume represents the absence of concern among architects generally for the “3Es,” then her paper is one of the most important in the book from my point of view." 

Meredith Sattler. “Ecological Systems Theory as Architectural Design Process,”  Proceedings, ACSA 108th Annual Conference: “Open” [2020] · expected publication date: 2021

Double blind peer reviewed publication.

Meredith Sattler, Carolina Rodriguez. “Translating Ecological Systems Models into Generative, Real-Time, Form-Based Visualizations,” Proceedings, 2014 EAAE/ARCC Architectural Research Conference: “New Intersections and Connections” [2014]: 431-442.  

Double-blind peer reviewed publication.

Enclosure as Ecological Apparatus: Biosphere 2’s ‘Human Experiment’ ·  Chapter 13 in:  Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era ·  Edited by Clifton Fordham  ·  Taylor & Francis  ·  2020

Elizabeth Matthews, Meredith Sattler, Carol Friedland. “A Critical Analysis of Hazard Resilience Measures within Sustainability Assessment Frameworks,” Environmental Impact Assessment Review 49 [2014]: 59–69.

Double blind peer reviewed publication.

Meredith Sattler. “Systems and Others: Inclusion and Agency in Willis and Associates’ CARLA Platform,” Proceedings, ACSA 106th Annual Conference: “The Ethical Imperative” [2018]: 587-594.

Double blind peer reviewed publication.

Meredith Sattler. “Backpedaling via. Upcycling:  Sustainable Material-Logics as Re-Instigator of Foundational Studies,” Proceedings, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student: “Materiality:  Essence + Substance” [2014]: 522-528.

Double-blind peer reviewed publication.

Meredith Sattler. “Iterative Resilience: Synchronizing Dynamic Landscapes with Responsive Architectural Systems,” Proceedings, ACSA Fall Conference + Modular Building Institute Regional Industry Meeting: “OFFSITE:  Theory and Practice of Architectural Production” [2012]: 70-78.

Double blind peer reviewed publication.

Meredith Sattler. “Learning from Lafitte: An Interdisciplinary Place-based Approach to Architectural Research and Education,” Proceedings, Architectural Research Centers Consortium: “Considering Research: Reflecting Upon Current Themes in Architectural Research” [2011]: 257-268.

Double blind peer reviewed publication.

2019

2007 - 2010

cambioform

between thought and spirit

between function and inspiration

pure pieces for modern living

1997 - 2004

2003 - 2010

Vassar + Norfolk

1993 - 1995