designing everything.
I’m a designer and strategist. I live in Berlin.
You can email me at kotting@au-st.in.
Reach is a plugin for QGIS that enables users to use travel time with a given means of transportation, rather than cartographic distance, to define proximity between points. It adds two new processing algorithms to QGIS: Select by Transit Time and Join by Transit Time. Select by Transit Time allows the user to select features…
Excerpt from capstone project, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Full .pdf available here. Now more than ever, the way we plan cities is out of touch with the way we live in them. As the city moves in the direction of being primarily a creator of inherently subjective and perspectival experiences, we still plan from the…
With less than a week until the deadline for installation, we needed to completely reconfigure the design for this prefabricated steel stair. Because the apartment was being lived in continuously, we needed to minimize on-site installation time. We built the stair in our shop in four segments. We then hoisted them into place, bolted them…
This project required an installation to selectively channel light and views from certain parts of SPACES Gallery to others, while also blocking the flash of a photo booth from disrupting the party at SPACES’ annual fundraiser. I devised a simple solution – to physically articulate the paths through which we hoped to admit light by arranging…
Entry for the Cleveland Competition. The Cleveland International School is conceived of as a means by which students are progressively socialized into the city at large. To this end, the building is designed around points of “input” and “output” with relation to the city. These interface points are programmatic areas where things are exchanged or…
The Echo line of furniture from Forest City Fabricators is comprised of laterally stacked, CNC-cut plywood profiles. I worked with Forest City’s John Arthur to design the newest additions to the line, the Lounge and Rock chairs. Analysis of the structural forces at play in each chair allowed me to judiciously cut voids from the…
In collaboration with Rustbelt Welding. With the Rustbelt fabrication team, I designed this series of flat-packable steel furniture. The profiles are cut out of 1/4″ plate steel and fit together exclusively by friction. No fasteners or glue are used. Total time from initial concept to debut exhibition was 72 hours. Sketches were worked out in two…
Submission for Music In Architecture / Architecture In Music, University of Texas at Austin With Michael Abrahamson, Jacob Chandler, Amie Morrison, and David Koenig What music and architecture have in common are their similarly mediated patterns of production. They utilize standardized forms of notation through which others produce a work. In both disciplines, notation enables communication between designer…
The site for this cafe was a first-floor space on the east side of Cleveland, OH. Formerly an apartment, the space was divided into three rectangular floor plates of roughly 300 square feet each [10’ x 30’.] The first task was to ascertain if keeping the existing split-level arrangement might be more trouble than it…
At Robert Maschke Architects, we were asked to convert two side-by-side buildings into a contemporary, upscale restaurant. In order to create a consistent architectural experience in these varied spaces, we decided to pursue a large-scale formal gesture to unite the spaces. Working towards this end, we experimented with a wide variety of configurations of the…
The staging area at this music festival was uncomfortably hot the day before it was scheduled to begin. With no budget for air conditioning or additional fans, I needed to build a quick, cheap and recyclable shading device. The layers of paper provided diffuse natural light in the space as well as mitigating solar heat…
Originally published in CLOG : APPLE, 2012. Apple [Computer] is stasis, symmetry, transcendence, design as object. It idealizes smooth space and central authority. It does not break. A universal plane with a single button implies an omnipotence with no need for such banalities as user input. Perfectly smooth graphic transitions imply that everything in the…
“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.” – David Foster Wallace I’ve always been a baseball fan, and specifically a fan of the Cleveland Indians. I don’t remember deciding that I liked…
Competition entry: AC/CA #4. In collaboration with Michael Abrahamson. The competition brief indicated the site for a new art museum in Buenos Aires’ Puerto Madero district. Because the site faced a major vehicular street on the west and a pedestrian walkway on the east, we realized that the building should be articulated at a human scale on…