Ashish Soni

AshishSoni
Ashish Soni
Design Director, Light Weight Structures Group

The history of the building is a slow evolution from mass to membrane, from heavy stone structures to luminous, lightweight, flexible, and environmentally responsible structures.

The investigation of these new light, sustainable flexible technologies is my core. Exploration of lightness as a visual, physical and sustainable approach, using a minimum of materials to impact our planet, using physical lightness of form and its visual effect of light on structure. To build responsive spaces which inspire, a place where building, nature and people can meet

Areas of expertise:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Smart Skins
  • Sustainable Building Envelopes
  • Lightweight Structures
  • Tensile Architecture
  • Relocatable Enclosures
  • Temporary enclosures
  • Special event Enclosures
  • ETFE enclosures
  • Shading structures
  • Cable nets

Awards:

  • 2022 AIA Award for Excellence, Best in Category Hybrid Tension Structures for the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater
  • 2021 AIA 25 Year Award for Burton Barr Phoenix Central Library
  • 2018 New York Landmarks Conservancy, Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award for the Child’s Building & Ford Amphitheater at Seaside Park, NY
  • 2016 IFAI Outstanding Achievement Award for St. George Ferry Bus Station, NY
  • 2015 IFAI Award of Excellence for Caramoor Center for Music & Arts, NY
  • 2014 NY State AIA Excelsior Award and IFAI Award for the Yonkers Casino Porte Cochere, Yonkers, NY
  • 2012 ARE Store of the Year Award & IFAI Award for the Louis Vuitton Singapore
  • 2011 IFAI Outstanding Achievement Award for the United Nations Porte Cochere
  • 2010 Tucker Design Award