A Brief View on Reisner’s Research Design Projects, starting in 2004

Reisner’s interest in research design projects  was applied first through her PhD study while working on a project to be built in Tel Aviv, a House, a Music Pavilion and a Constructed Hill, between 2004 and 2007.

Reisner designing architectural installations as research based projects, began during her collaboration with the British artist Dee Ferris, they started by designing an entry for the competition A Room for London , investigating architecture as a three dimensional canvas to be inhabited, exploring light, shadows, spatial depth and beauty as an emotional experience.

In 2012 Reisner submitted a further developed 3D physical object, entitled Pipe Dreams with Sweet Sweet Bulbs, which was derived from the 3D drawing of A Room for London. She was interested in printing three dimensionally a painting made of plaster, a 3D miniature fresco printed in colored plaster - the entrance niche leading to the room – embedded within the white elegantly curved wall.

In 2014 the installation Take My Hand – Rights and Weddings, in Placa de la Merce, Barcelona - aspired to bring upon the wellbeing of the people who enjoy the square, and particularly of the newly wedded couples, fulfilled by exercising freedom of individual choice along with a live and elevating honey fragrant flowers, introducing by both elements a ceremonial ritual for civil weddings.

The Magic indoor Garden for an urban context is

a collaborative research project with a group of leading scientists, from the disciplines of chemistry and botany (Weizmann Institute of science, and Volcani centre - agricultural research organisation), and neurobiology (UCL), extending Reisner’s architectural pursuit of beauty to a much broader agenda, encompassing further complementary relationship between nature and culture, taking on board a new approach, conceptually, philosophically and artistically towards a sustainable architecture.

In the Bologna Shoah Memorial, the design pursuit was to explore ways to include imagery in architecture in a fresh way.

The ambition was - after selecting 2D work by the artist we collaborate with -  to embed the imagery thoughtfully in the three dimensional surfaces that create the spatial configuration of the space and place.

This research work started five years ago with the project A Room for London, (see under Projects), an installation we were investigating architecture as a three dimensional canvas to be inhabited and experienced, exploring light, shadows, spatial depth and beauty as the ingredients that might help to stir an emotional experience in the beholder; aspiring to induce human wellbeing in architecture. The imagery - both its aesthetics and content  - was an integral part of the overall deign intention. The artist we collaborated with then was Dee Ferris.

The photography embedded in the Bologna Shoah Memorial, is more three dimensional on all surfaces, and on the scroll-wall, the epic photography affects each side of the surface differently, like a haunting ghost, thus the narrative further interact with the viewer.