DORON SERBAN DESIGN

month

January 2011

2 posts

Lighting and texturing study for render optimization. Render times averaged about 2minutes. 3ds Max and Mental Ray.

November 2010

1 post

CFEB - Team 13s WOD #2. I’m coaching and documenting CrossFit East Bay’s preparation for the 2011 CrossFit Games season. The athletes’ experience in bouldering ranged from daily climbers to ones who’ve never climbed before. Color Graded with Magic Bullet Looks. The description and comments of the workout can be found at...

October 2010

1 post

September 2010

7 posts

July 2010

1 post

June 2010

1 post

CFEB - Lewin Style Chipper. I shot and edited a workout at CrossFit East Bay. Color Graded with Magic Bullet Looks. Testing out the Lumix Lx3, it’s a versatile little camera. A special thanks to all the crossfitter for putting up with a camera in their faces during a brutal workout. The description and comments of the workout can be found at...

May 2010

5 posts

Maya & Mark's Wedding

With Gabriela Sotomayor, we designed a destination-wedding package for the wedding of Maya Serban & Mark Tobin. The vintage postcard e-“Save The Date” would set the tone for the invitations. My sister wanted the essence of vintage travel posters for the invite itself. The bride and groom’s likenesses were stylized into recognizable characters, and the couple supplied us...

February 2010

1 post

Unzip: Competition as Design Research. Alternate take for a short film highlighting select competition work by Michael Pelken and Vasilena Vassilev, exhibited at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University from February 8-April 2, 2010. Film by Doron Serban. Music by Brad Mehldau and Wes Montgomery.

December 2009

3 posts

November 2009

2 posts

October 2009

2 posts

September 2009

2 posts

MIRROR | MIRROR: A DOCUMENTATION BY CAMILA E....

During her adventures in Wonderland, Alice exclaimed, “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” [Alice, 1951] The dichotomy of alternates, what is and what isn’t, is fascinating. Held in a London...

July 2009

2 posts

I am documenting CrossFit East Bay’s endevaours. In preparation for the 3rd annual CrossFit Games, I produced this short piece, one of the Affiliate Cup team’s super secret sunday club workouts. Music by Fabolous. A book is in the works.

April 2009

3 posts

The Berkeley Public Market

Working with Ratcliff, I provided design production and digital renderings for a mixed-use project consisting of housing, hotel, conferencing for UC Berkeley, retail, restaurant and banking facilities, with associated parking of approximately 500,000 gross square feet, located on a 0.9 acre site in the downtown area of Berkeley, CA.

January 2009

1 post

September 2008

3 posts

I worked on IwamotoScott’s design for 1 of 100 villas in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Brick Corbelling “Ordos Villa 100:043 aims to merge inverse spatial paradigms of the Chinese Courtyard House (inward focus towards a central exterior space), and the European Villa (outward expression and orientation to the surrounding landscape).” -Craig Scott

June 2008

35 posts

MAGOK WATERFRONT URBAN INFILTRATION H20

design and renderings as part of a team-entry in the Magok International Competition in Seoul, Korea.

THESIS: PHASE 2_SITE SPECIFICITY

THESIS: PHASE 3_PROGRAMMED

COUNTERPOINT: An Architecture of Air. The third phase of research explored creating derivatives of PHASE 2 towards a pavilion in Brussels, Beligum, celebrating the 50th Anniversay of the Philips Pavilion.