A Seat for the Lawn / Pratt Institute x Domaine de Boisbuchet
For a design elective lead by Annie Coggan, the objective was to invent a material from the grounds at Domaine de Boisbucht and apply it to a vessel and a seat. The vessel and seat are made form mowed grass modules that are hand molded pinwheels. When tied together they create a modular textile that can act as a structure or cusion. In this case it was constructed into a textile for a ground chair made from recycled materials. It is meant to fade into the lawn and connect to the origin material.
Nike ACG Lupinek Flyknit
Spring 2016
Nike Sportswear - ACG/Special Projects Footwear
My first time working on premium Flyknit footwear color in Sportswear at Nike. Working in collaboration with footwear design and material design, this NikeLab Spring colorway was the rebirth of an ACG classic. The colors needed to stay simple and sophisticated for the initial release with reserved hits of color in the tongue and sockliner. Working with Flyknit was very new and top secret at the time, making this project very exciting to work on. Low Top Pure Platinum - Black - Dark Grey.
Low top also available in Black
High top available in Bone, Black and Cargo Khaki
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Graduate Thesis Work from Pratt Institute
June 2023
(1) a. thesis statement
This thesis aims to broaden access to historic infrastructure through a deconstruction of traditional methodologies to facilitate broadened understanding of the multifaceted attributes of site and expand access to history, culture and community for visitors to Governors Island through prosthetic spatial reconstruction of site and immersive exhibition methodologies.
(1) b. abstract
This thesis aims to fully address how current interior historic presentation inhibits educational, artistic and cultural experience, further cementing inherent inequities in the historic built environment and limiting the narrative opportunities to include a broader community’s stories. Through a rethinking of spatial intervention in the historic interior, there is an opportunity to excavate and expand a narrative that supports broadened understanding of the site for unearthing oral histories, ecological restructuring and the evolution of habitation over the course of hundreds of years on Governors Island. Often these historic exhibitions in museums both small and established are composed of a diverse amalgamation of artifacts and have a narrative scope that limit broadened understanding of these stories. By deconstructing rigid preservation methods in historic space, it can unlock sites that are currently exclusive by conventional means and utilize interventions such as structural interruption, hybrid analog-digital technology, narrative driven circulation and immersive interaction to expand the story of a site and investigate layers of human experience through spatial storytelling. Liggett Hall on Governors Island in New York City is a historic site ripe for a reimagining of how a historic interior can promote broadened understanding of site and public engagement. Currently there is not an official museum to tell the layered stories of the island, but rather a scattered network of pop up exhibitions and art sites that aid in community participation. The only infrastructure that supports holistic historic understanding are the abandoned military buildings left behind with abbreviated references to what once was. By utilizing these spaces in their states of disrepair, there is a flexibility to intervene structurally and promote an immersive historic experience for all who visit the island. This initiative ultimately aims to mutually support and broaden historic access to Governors Island, specifically Liggett Hall, through creative reconstruction of specific preserved interior structures into radically immersive educational experiences that not only unlock space historically but sociologically as well. By restructuring the traditional methodology of a house museum or cultural site, one can begin to uncover the site’s full narrative scope and create opportunity for layered storytelling supported through expanded spatial experiences.
My husband and I renovated a 140 year old Brownstone through our design practice GLAM Studio and share the process through our website and Instagram. We are currently renting it out for production shoots. Please proceed to our website to learn more.
The AMENT Half Moon pouch, Small Pouch and Mini Pouch were designed and put into production in the Spring of 2015. They have been produced in 4 colorways and sold internationally. The entire collection was featured at both Brooklyn Designs and ICFF 2018. The pouches are available for purchase in Black, Navy and Khaki at Glamstudiobk.com
Rhoads Cabinet Collection
2019-
GLAM Studio
Made with Birch plywood, there are 4 sections with adaptable doors that can be positioned to meet storage needs. This model has garnered many commissions for custom iterations such as credenzas, bookshelves and even bathroom vanities.
GLAM is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Brooklyn, New York that I run with my partner and has participated in events such as Brooklyn Designs and ICFF. It offers design services and consultations for a range of projects including concept, interiors, furniture and product.
Photography + Styling by clients Mallory Fletchall of @reserve_home and Chelsea Chan
Featured in Domino Magazine (2019)
Metcon DSX Flyknit 2 “WOD Paradise”
Summer 2016
Nike Men’s Training - Footwear
As a team we were tasked to design an energy colorway for the WODAPALOOZA tournament in Miami, Florida. Crossfit consumers like to wear bright and loud colors, so this seemed like the perfect moment to have fun. As lead designer on this project, I pulled inspiration from Art Basel, which is a modern art exhibition that takes place in Miami every year. The city’s art scene is strikingly irreverent, energetic and playful. The Wynwood district is covered in bright graffiti, murals and signage expressing the community’s culture. I coordinated with the print and graphics team for the main pattern and logo for the event.
An interior design project for a dutch colonial home in Irvington, New York. The aim was to bring back charm and historic context into the over-renovated historic home in phases, anchored by the needs of the growing family and the conditions of their existing heirloom furniture. The client was interested in expressive color and layers of vintage texture, done in an elegant way that felt grown up but comfortable.
PEEL
Integrated Wellness Center
2020
Aubrey Ament Student Work at Pratt Institute
This is a concept for an integrated wellness center with a focus on meditation, natural daylight and healthy materials as spatial drivers. Undulating partitions peel away as the user navigates the space, revealing or concealing light and structure. Meditative moments are accentuated by cracks of light providing inward reflection while daylight washed spaces energize outward focus. Ultimately the interior experience soothes and resolves through light and shape, leaving the user rested and centered.
Selected as a top exhibitor at Pratt Green Week (2020)
Pratt Institute x Domaine de Boisbuchet - Lessac, France
2023
A chair study of a curated collection of furniture belonging to Alexander von Vegesack on site at Domaine de Boisbuchet.
Brownstone Community Fridge Project
2021
The annex is designed to reinforce mutual aid work through existing community resources such as the Fort Greene Farmers Market, neighborhood businesses, while being grounded in historic architectural identity. The use of donated refrigerators brings full circle the interiority of the community fridge, transposing it even more by bringing it back inside, activated and accentuated by historic millwork profiles. Decorative and functional typologies are intertwined to serve an operation that injects community back into the rows of stoic victorian brownstones.
2016
Nike Sportswear - Elements/Special Projects Footwear
One of my favorite moves as a Color Designer in Sportswear was to use monochromatic color or “flood” our footwear in what was unexpected color at the time.
The Refractory
Mediatheque at The Brant Foundation
2019
Aubrey Ament Student Work at Pratt Institute
First architectural design project of my foundation year at Pratt Institute. This is a concept for a mediatheque based in the reality of the book Einstein’s Dreams written by Alan Lightman. The chapter referenced tells a story of life lived in one day - one sunrise and one sunset. Imagining a life dramatically impacted by the movement of daylight informed the concept of isolated moments of color that enhance the programmatic requirements throughout the day. The site is a two story high industrial space normally used to exhibit large scale works of art procurred by the Brant Foundation. The design sits in the spatial envelope like an inner component, scaled to human movement. Studies were achieved through model making, daylight study photography, digital collage, hand drafting and hand sketching.
Flex By Grid
Agency Office at Seagram Building
2020
Aubrey Ament
Student Work at Pratt Institute
Flex By Grid is a hybrid style workspace design for a fictional creative agency in New York City. The site is the 20th and 21st floors of the Internationalist style Seagram Building on the corner of Park Ave. and 53rd Street designed by Mies van der Rohe. The main design concept, Flex By Grid, was built upon the inherent grid language imbedded in the design of the site by Mies van der Rohe. To create a space that was adaptable enough for a constantly shifting landscape, a subdivided ceiling track grid was introduced into the middle of the workspace, offering moveable partitions to further subdivide the space however needed. Two ceiling systems work in conjunction, as the subdivided track system acts as a subtle continuation or transposition of Mies’ original ceiling grid. This method is applied to provide custom spaces as needed for individuals, small groups, pin ups or exhibitions away from either the rigidity of the private offices or the expansiveness of the open studio environment. Partitions can fit any desirable configuration (hard or soft) with a variety of cladding to suit the circumstances.
Developed Surface Drawings of Period Rooms at the Brooklyn Museum, 4th Floor
2021
Aubrey Ament Student Work at Pratt Institute
WIP
Investigations into three of the period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum through research, analysis, and hand drafted documentation inspired by Robin Evan’s developed surface technique. This process is used as a mechanism to better understand historic space and its relevance/position in modern architecture. After much analysis, the work will be taken into a speculative mode to explore authentic expressions of visual occupancy and space making through candlelight and abstraction of candlelight through movement.
Utility Daypack + Pouch
2015
AMENT
The AMENT Daypack was designed and put into production in the Spring of 2015. Inspired by the bold color blocking and heavy line weights of the Bauhaus movement, it’s design is a study in simple utility and graphic expression. Made from PVC backed Cordura and seatbelt webbing, it is water resistent and anything but fragile. It has been produced in 4 colorways and sold internationally. It’s companion collection pieces are the Half Moon Pouch, Small Pouch and Mini Pouch. The Daypack has been included in Design Milk’s Holiday Gift Guide 2017 and Metropolis Magazine. The entire collection was featured at Brooklyn Designs and chosen to represent the best of Brooklyn Designs at ICFF alongside Token, Fort Makers, Argosy, and Ot/Tra in “Design Crosses a River.”
Featured in Design Milk’s Holiday Gift Guide (2017)
Featured in Metropolis Magazine (2018)
Exhibited at Brooklyn Designs (2018)
Exhibited at ICFF (2018)
The Daypack is available for purchase in Black, Navy and Cobalt at Glamstudiobk.com
Planar Obscure
Noguchi Museum Annex (on Mars)
2020
Aubrey Ament Student Work at Pratt Institute
A concealed and remote sanctuary is required to digitally view Isamu Noguchi’s work in the midst of a global pandemic. To best relate to the artist, the remote space (Mars) has been designed to reflect the qualities found in the work, the originally intended site (DUMBO) and the artist himself, bringing a sense of harmony through an interior that is unique to this moment. Composition for Arrivals Building, Idlewild Airport, 1956-1962 was the design foundation for the spatial system; fostering transitional shapes, evoking lift, light and movement towards the heavens. These planar geometries are transformed through the flexing of suspended planes at different tensions, positioned throughout the interior and obscuring the viewing environment to create a sense of concealment and intimacy amidst the harsh climate of Mars. Featured on the Noguchi Museum Website (2020)
Bainbridge Brownstone
2021
GLAM Studio
WIP
Schematic and design development for a two-family Romanesque Revival Brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York built in 1897. The overarching consideration was to retain the Victorian envelope as much as possible while creating modern interventions, increasing in modernity toward the center of the interior. Each floor has its own mood tied to its function, being sensitive to moments of activity or rest. Each material and color chosen is rooted in contextual Victorian sensibilities but nuanced for its modern application. The spatial strategy favored the idea of flexibility in order to allow the house to adapt to a growing and aging family with opportunity to take over both units or leave one to rent when necessary. Intensive historical research, site analysis, diagramming, space planning and FF&E work went into the development of this project.
Shared here are some polaroids from photographer Dinanda Nooney’s 1978 series on Brownstones.
Below is a sampling of initial planning diagrams and inspiration boards starting from the garden level rental to the top floor of the owner duplex.
Revisionist Living
Gramercy Park Co-Living Townhouse
2020
Aubrey Ament Student Work at Pratt Institute
Two families have decided to buy a townhouse together in Gramercy Park. The idea of co-living isn’t a new concept, but the way it can be done was an opportunity to reimagine how one can share a space. One family has school-aged children while the other has an aging parent providing an intersection of lifestyles creating multi-generational living. Grounded in the principles of Rudolph Schindler’s own co-living design and the engineering of the Japanese Ken module, this shared house design concept offers both private and communal living space anchored in lush terraces and transitional thresholds for optimal co-habitation.
Metcon 4 “#PowerCouple”
Spring 2018
Nike Training - Footwear
This was a fun, collaborative energy project between the color and materials designers for Women’s Training and Men’s Training. We took this as an opportunity to break away from traditional gender colors and approach this from a more gender neutral angle, especially since we used the same footwear model for both divisions. Drawn to energizing color clashes that could be flipped for the companion shoe, this would create a Yin and Yang effect which felt conducive to the notion of couples working together. The break from gendered colors helped free the consumer to identify a couple as any kind of partnership, not just heteronormative. It was exciting to see our star Crossfit athletes and real-life power couple Lauren Fisher and Rasmus Andersen wear them in the Nike Power Couple campaign (2018).
Featured in Kicks on Fire Featured in Sneaker News
Highlighted at the Crossfit Games (2018)
Clinton Hill Loft
2019
Dean Works X GLAM Studio
Renovation of a loft apartment in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NYC . This small studio apartment was a blank slate in sore need of storage and a refresh of materiality. Custom casework was designed for the kitchen in connection with the new bedroom builtins giving the owners privacy and storage. A luxe pairing of Soapstone and colorful Marble is offset by the simple utility of Birch Plywood. Reeded sliding glass doors bring in the final note of texture, reflectivity and light.
Architecture/Design by Dean Works
Concept + FFE by GLAM Studio
Construction + Casework by OMC
Photography by Daniel Salemi
Styling by Aubrey Ament
Featured in Dwell (2019)
Featured in Dezeen (2020)
Circle Square Table + Bench Set
2018
GLAM Studio
The Circle Square Table is a multi-purpose work surface that can also be utilized as a dining table that accomodates 6 people. Large circular voids were cut out at the two ends of the table to allow knee space for additional seating as well as dog access. This model has spurred on commisions for a variety of iterations such as kitchen islands and bar stools.
GLAM is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Brooklyn, New York that I run with my partner and has participated in events such as Brooklyn Designs and ICFF. It offers design services and consultations for a range of projects including concept, interiors, furniture and product.
Spring 2018
Nike Men’s Training - Footwear
I was tasked with coming up with an energy story for our training consumer that would launch on 1/1. As I started concepting, I realized that this was a big moment for our consumer. The new year meant going back to the gym after the holidays or working hard to prepare for upcoming summer competitions. The idea of changes brought to mind the word metamorphic which is a transition that occurs when rock undergoes pressure and heat causing profound physical or chemical change. It was the perfect pairing of concepts. We needed a commercial colorway so I nuanced the classic pairing of Black and White by introducing stony Grey-Greens and Creams.
2018
Nike Sportswear - Apparel
NYC Flagship Graphic Tees
NikeLab Aqua Sock 360
Fall 2017
Nike Sportswear - Elements/ACG - Footwear
The NikeLab Aquasock 360 was a streetwise reimagining of the classic 90’s Aquasock made popular for swimmers and outdoor enthusiests. Seeing an increase in desire for slip on shoes in the luxury sneaker market, the ACG design team worked together to add structural elements and consider color in a more modern way. Flyknit was utilized for maximum breathability and flexibility, considering hot or wet climates. My work as a color designer was to strategize timing, business needs and predicting trend fufillment through hands on research via traveling to Japan and New York.
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The Holler Hat was designed and produced in 2017. It’s available for purchase at Glamstudiobk.com
Dividing Lines Room Partition
2020
Aubrey Ament Student Work at Pratt Institute
A partition design for an obscure gallery space. Taking cues from origami and smocking techniques, I was able to experiment until I came to a scalable solution. Pleated panels of rigid paper and heavy canvas modulate through the gallery, catching warm light and shadow in a harmonious conjuncture. Each panel is strung through with cord at three points, providing strength through tension and the opportunity to be manipulated as its arranged by pushing or pulling; cinching and loosening. Movement follows the direction of the self-arranged partition, as it ebbs and flows from entrance to exit.
2014-2016
Nike Sportswear - Footwear
I worked on a variety of Nike Benassi Slides on and off for two years. From prints and graphics to mismatched colorblocking. There were a few different styles as well such as the NikeLab Benassi Lux Boot and Sandal.
This stool was designed as a modular object that could function as a hanging partition as well as a seat in a exhibition setting. It is comprised of up-cycled cardboard boxes, recycled felt and climbing rope.
