GO>TABLE::GO.LO.GOR.SKY.STUDIO

Justin Gologorsky, a local Boston resident, is a designer who attempts to construct pieces that are stripped down to the essence of the pure idea. The GO>TABLE, an award winning entry in the Metropolis Magazine sponsored NEXTGeneration Competition in 2004, is an effort to form and apply gathered knowledge of highway overpass diagrams into a new, hybridized design vocabulary. This object represents the position that people 'move' in cars, through cars and by cars – and this movement is a critical expression of how we routinely get around and get things done. Our highway infrastructure can be viewed as a diagram that describes our current speed of movement in three-dimensional form. Specifically, the concrete box beam employed on Boston's Big Dig Project serves as the impetus for design – an aesthetic significance originating in the structural systems itself. The table sparks conversation with its ethereal quality of simplistically designed broad elements, which configure a transverse axis about plane and a longitudinal axis about line. The broad tunneling legs capture a powerful, heavy presence that compartmentalizes personal space and creates an aura of luxury through separation. The Plexiglas top exhibits a whimsical character in materiality and form through a unique phenomenon as it folds upon itself creating heat lines that wrap the surroundings. The contained space of the fold reveals an opportunity to shelve or display various articles. Justin Gologorsky, founder of GO.LO.GOR.SKY.STUDIO, graduated from Kent State University School of Architecture and Environmental Design with the 'top designer award' in May 2002. He can be contacted at [email protected]