Spokes on a Wheel: Programming Two Sigma’s Collision Lab When Two Sigma—a Soho-based investment management firm that draws upon technology and the scientific method to guide innovation—hired us to imagine a Collision Lab in the Bridge at Cornell Tech,...Read More
Digital Fabrication: From Bracelets to Buildings As WRNS explores new technologies in our own practice, we have found a nice synergy between internal research and the project-driven explorations we're undertaking with clients for high-tech environments. We're...Read More
Clerestory Beams Play Light Off Shadow in Intuit’s New Marine Way Building Transforming the financial lives of individuals for over three decades, the people of Inuit have long felt part of something vital, and Intuit wanted to honor their employees with new...Read More
GFRC: Finding Poetry in the Practical In a way, one’s first impression of a building is its exterior envelope or “skin,” comparable to glancing over the first lines of a book, or to a casual handshake....Read More
Lifting the Hood on Design Software While many of our tools at WRNS Studio are analog – we still go through a lot of pencil lead, trace paper, and chipboard – we work extensively with digital...Read More
From Paper to Pixel – BIM @ WRNS Technology is integral to the entire lifecycle of our design and project delivery process. From early on, hand sketching and paper study models are our generative design tools, which we...Read More
Pushing the Envelope with BIM At the 2011 conference of the Pacific Coast chapter of APPA, “Leadership in Educational Facilities,” one of our designers, Jason Halaby, delivered a presentation on BIM with Warren Jacobs, former...Read More
