Tarte-ography Workshop
As part of PS21/PATHWAYS: FOOD CULTURES, co-organized by Villa Albertine and PS21, I created and led “Tarte-ography” — an interactive pastry workshop exploring the multi-cultural urbanization of New York City through flavors, textures, and patterns. Participants of all ages collaboratively created a large pastry map using various creams, toppings, and sauces to abstractly interpret the evolution of the city’s diverse cultures and neighborhoods. Building on the conversations of the day, the workshop concluded with the consumption of the intricately composed pastry cityscape.
Fruit Mandala Installation in Ibiza
Savinien presented his latest pastry installation, a Mandala featuring the vibrant fruits of Ibiza for the RIMA Experience, taking place in the beautiful Temple of Sabina. The installation — consisting of a puzzle of 192 unique tiles — turned into a ceremony during which guests participated in an act of deconstructive co-creation as they took turns consuming the tiles they most connected with.
Ba&sh boutique on Bleecker Street, NYC
Savinien Caracostea designed the Bleecker St location for French womenswear brand Ba&sh. It marks their second brick and mortar presence in the US market.
Ba&sh boutique at the Miami Design District
Savinien Caracostea designed the Miami Design District location for French womenswear brand Ba&sh. It marks their first brick and mortar presence in the US market, and features their entire collection of ready to wear and accessories.
Croquembouches for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm
Three croquembouches were constructed in the main entrance hall of the Royal Academy of Arts of Stockholm for the annual gala. They featured cream puffs of five flavors: vanilla, chocolate, pistachio, rose and coffee.
Croquembouches at Storefront for Art & Architecture, NYC
As part of the exhibition BEING, Storefront presented DISRUPT: Croquembouches, an installation-banquet on the connections and connotations between Food and Architecture. The event follow a day-long installation by Savinien Carcostea, which included an 9-foot tall cone of Croquembouches, a traditional French dessert, that was on display at Storefront’s gallery throughout the day and was offered to visitors from 6-7pm.
Kaleidoscopic Journeys: M.Arch II Thesis
In my M.Arch II thesis project at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, I explore architectural typologies that seamlessly blend the outside with the inside, such as theaters, department stores, and hotels. These spaces serve as alchemical, proto-cinematic devices that create thresholds between wakefulness and dream, reality and imagination, and space and time.
Museum of Time: Harvard GSD
This project was presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on May 2nd, 2012.
The Contemporary Art Museum is the place where time manifests itself - where the images we will live by tomorrow are housed as they first make their appearance. It must modulate this interface of several coexisting time frames within the same space through which the visitor negotiates his way. In an effort to foster a fertile territory for the artwork of tomorrow, new contemporary art museums must seize this moment and allow its visitors to transcend the psychology of this passing of time.
Meshes of the Afternoon: Harvard GSD
This project was presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on December 14th, 2011.
What is a utopia today? A dreamer lies on the city's bedrock - giant spiders weave away his dreams - webs expanding out of sight. A tapestry spreads and fastens to the streets, projected as a three dimension matrix, a scaffolding of dreams. This sensitive membrane sifts through the currents of the city, catching in its web particles, fragments, seasons, nights and days, lifting them up in the winds like a fisherman hoists his net.
“Addressing Bergdorf Goodman” — Cornell B.Arch Thesis Project
Once "spectacles of extraordinary proportions", department stores are now common retail spaces. Through the application of film, particularly Fellini's 8 1/2, and the understanding of the store as a living subject, Bergdorf Goodman's dreams, fantasies and memories are released, providing a framework for the implementation and organization of new programs in distinction to shopping. In an effort to return to its golden age, these programs open up the store to an eclectic population, making a more social and cultural urban experience.