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Y S D M


Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY

@ysdm.studio
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Y S D M


Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser
info@ysdm.studio / @ysdm.studio

箱 寿 司 HAKO-SUSHI
at 1.5 ROOMS
Brooklyn, NY
2017

8”x 14.5” Hako Sushi
箱 寿 司 HAKO-SUSHI or
Oshizushihako 押し寿司箱, literally “pressed sushi box” are rectangular molds filled with rice, fish, vegetables, and other condiments to prepare pressed sushi (oshizushi 押し寿司 or hako-sushi 箱寿司 ), a method perfected in Osaka and Japan’s Kansai region in the early 18th century. Using a traditional hako, intended to serve 1-2 people as a model to construct a sushi box press at three times the scale, Y S D M created a series of seasonally inspired large pressed sushi to serve 18-20 people. Invited by Colleen Tuite, curator of 1.5 Rooms, Y S D M prepared this Dinner as an Act of Construction with a group of friends, architects, and artists who partook in the making, sharing, and eating of large-format hako-sushi.

Photography: Colleen Tuite (1.5 Rooms)


ABOUT

Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.

Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.

By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as principles from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.  

As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.


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Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.

Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.

Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.

By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.  

As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be. 
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Y S D M
 info@ysdm.studio 
@ysdm.studio