Jennifer Bonner / MALL
Work
Sixteen Projects- HAUS GABLES
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- THE DOLLHAUS
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- 4 OVER NONE
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- HAUS SCALLOP, HAUS SAWTOOTH
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- BEST SANDWICHES
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- OFFICE STACK
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- ANOTHER AXON
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- X HOUSES
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- STILL LIFE
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- GLITTERY FAUX
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- LEAN-TO ADU
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- BIG CIRCLE ADU
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- MADE IN OPA LOCKA
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- CEDAR PAVILION
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Publications
Four Projects
MALL —
Info
- Business Matters
- MALL stands for Mass Architectural Loopty Loops. Or Miniature Angles & Little Lines. Or Maximum Arches with Limited Liability—an acronym with built-in flexibility.
- MALL uses the acronym, not to be quick or flippant, but because our architectural interests shift for each project.
- MALL is committed to projects that hack typologies, take creative risks, reference popular culture, and invent representation.
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Born in Alabama (b. 1979), Jennifer spent the first thirteen years of practice teaching at Harvard GSD, Georgia Tech, and Woodbury University.
BEST SANDWICHES
Borrowing from past and recent history’s best practices for assembling sandwich architecture, Best Sandwiches is a design and research project in search of novel spatial stacks. Awkward middle levels are piled up and squeezed together resulting in messy figures between two slices of architectural bread. Extrusion is not entirely off-limits, but used sparingly.
The nine sandwiches on display present a close reading of several classic sandwich types: the grilled cheese, the BLT, the hamburger, the Dagwood, and the submarine, to name a few. Color and the deployment of many types of apertures are intentional. They promote the legibility of repeating layers found in a high-stack Dagwood sandwich or suggest the vaguely familiar melting cheddar found in a grilled cheese sandwich. Color is a necessity for reading Best Sandwiches.
The nine sandwiches on display present a close reading of several classic sandwich types: the grilled cheese, the BLT, the hamburger, the Dagwood, and the submarine, to name a few. Color and the deployment of many types of apertures are intentional. They promote the legibility of repeating layers found in a high-stack Dagwood sandwich or suggest the vaguely familiar melting cheddar found in a grilled cheese sandwich. Color is a necessity for reading Best Sandwiches.
Location: Boston
Date: 2016
Type: Research
Exhibitions:
Best Sandwiches (pinkcomma Gallery), 2016; Currents:
Expanding Fields (Lexington Art League), 2017; Inscriptions (Harvard GSD Druker
Design Gallery), 2018
CREDITS
Project team: Jennifer Bonner, Justin Jiang, John Going
Production assistant: Steven Meyer
Rendering: Kenneth Robin
Photography: Adam DeTour
CREDITS
Project team: Jennifer Bonner, Justin Jiang, John Going
Production assistant: Steven Meyer
Rendering: Kenneth Robin
Photography: Adam DeTour
