Year
2022Location
Piaule Landscape Hotel, Catskill, NYDescription
The Piaule Multispecies Habitats is a series of three structures, designed as armatures to support a variety of bird nesting boxes, bat houses, and insect habitat boxes. The installation is located along a walking trail, and designed with attention to local wildlife in the Catskill region. The project was commissioned as part of the Piaule Multispecies Fellowship that was awarded to Joyce Hwang by Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture in 2022.
Credits
Sponsored by: Piaule Catskill, Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
Armature design and fabrication, habitat design specifications: Joyce Hwang.
Armature fabrication: Wade Georgi.
Habitat boxes designed and fabricated by MLA students at Pratt School of Architecture: Nell Heidinger, Chase Mitchell, Daniel Montoya, Joyce Hsu, Noelle LaDue, Ana Julia Chiriboga, Tiger Lee, Patrick Belli; with Pratt studio instructor: Cathryn Dwyre. Additional habitat boxes fabricated by Samendy Brice, Kat Cheng, Nicole Sarmiento.
Installation team: Pratt MLA students, Richard Fadok, Piaule Catskill maintenance staff.
Photo credits: Enmi Yang.
