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Gans studio has completed a series of exhibit designs for traveling shows and New York venues including the Columbia University and The Architectural League of New York. Their prefabricated housing system for Commonground Community's first step housing was exhibited at the Van Alan Institute and is in production. Commissioned by the School Construction Authority of New York, their patented "workbox: generation school desk" is in use in PS 137 Staten Island and included in the permanent collection of the New York Historical Society. Their housing cores developed as part of their research in refugee housing are patent pending. The United States Pavilion of the Venice Biennial 2008 exhibited a prototype of this Roll Out House .


Varietal

Varietal (2007)
New York

chandeliers




Common Ground First Step Housing

Common Ground First Step Housing (1999)
New York City

Mass produced, modular partition system for homeless residences prototype constructio




Workbox, desk system

Workbox, desk system (1999)
Patent # 5,967,600 received 1999

Manufacturer and distributor: ABC School Supply




Housing the Spectacle

Housing the Spectacle (1995)
Pratt Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Arts

Traveling Exhibition Design




Pedestrian Connections in the City

Pedestrian Connections in the City (1990)
New York City

Exhibition Design, Graduate School of Architecture Preservation and Planning Columbia University




Vacant Lots

Vacant Lots (1989)
New York City

Exhibition design for the Architectural League of New York installed at the Mercantile Exchange Building








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