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Jenny Sabin Studio

With strong links to the Sabin Lab at Cornell, Jenny Sabin Studio LLC is an experimental architecture, design, and art studio based in Ithaca, NY.

06/08/2026

Material Intelligence

Material innovation is central to The Heart. It is constructed from digitally knitted textiles made of advanced responsive yarns. These high-tech fibers are capable of reacting to light, storing energy, and glowing when activated. Textiles are particularly suited to represent new energy. Like digital and energy networks, they are composed of interconnected threads that can transmit forces, signals, and patterns across a surface. By using digital knitting technologies, The Heart is a continuous textile structure that behaves both structurally and visually as a network.

Supporting the textile is a lightweight armature made from rolled aluminum tubing, digitally fabricated to match the geometry of the knitted surface. Suspended in tension, the textile and armature work together as a reciprocal structure, each element supporting and stabilizing the other. The result is a soft yet resilient architectural environment that appears to float in space.

Photography by © E.ON House of New Energy.

The Heart is a project by Jenny Sabin Studio.

Commissioned by JSH Productions for E.ON.

Architectural Designer: Jenny E. Sabin.

Design & Production: John Hilla, Lauren Cruvellier.

Design Engineer: Clayton Binkley, Odd Lot.

Lighting Design: Aaron Mooney.
berlin STAATSBALLETT BERLIN Cornell Tech Cornell AAP Hilla John claytonbinkley Aaron Mooney

23/07/2026

Data as Design

While the lighting system responds to energy data, the form of The Heart is also shaped by mathematical principles. Our design process often begins with generative algorithms, computational methods that translate patterns such as rhythm, frequency, and amplitude into geometry. For The Heart, these algorithms generate a continuous symmetrical surface structure. Its network of cellular geometry reflects the idea that renewable energy sources—sunlight, wind, and organic matter—are effectively limitless and constantly in motion. In this way, the design process mirrors the systems it represents. The same mathematical rhythms that describe waves, pulses, and cycles in nature also guide the architecture’s shape and organization.

Photography by © E.ON House of New Energy and JSS.

The Heart is a project by Jenny Sabin Studio. 

Commissioned by JSH Productions for E.ON. 

Architectural Designer: Jenny E. Sabin. 

Design & Production: John Hilla, Lauren Cruvellier, Bo Li.

Design Engineer: Clayton Binkley, Odd Lot. 

Lighting Design: Aaron Mooney. 
berlin STAATSBALLETT BERLIN Cornell Tech Cornell AAP Hilla John claytonbinkley Aaron Mooney

       

29/06/2026

I’m honored to deliver the opening keynote for this year’s DigitalFUTURES and grateful to be named this year’s DigitalFUTURES Fellow. Thank you to Philip Yuan and the DigitalFUTURES community! Can’t wait to see the results of the amazing workshops!

DigitalFUTURES Tongji Caup Cornell AAP Cornell University Cornell Tech

25/06/2026

Energy as Creative Driver

The Heart begins with energy. Specifically, it draws on data about renewable energy production to shape how the installation behaves over time. Using information from Germany’s national energy monitoring platform-SMARD electricity market data platform-the project tracks how electricity is generated across four renewable sources: biomass, offshore wind, onshore wind, and solar power.

These energy streams fluctuate throughout the day and across the seasons. To capture this variation, we’ve selected data from four key points in the year, one from each quarter of 2025. Each dataset reflects the unique rhythms of renewable energy production at that time of year. Wind speeds rise and fall, sunlight shifts with the seasons, and biomass production follows its own cycles.

Within The Heart, these streams of energy are translated into light. Each source is assigned a distinct color and linked to a specific location within the installation. As the data changes, the lighting program shifts in response, producing a dynamic environment that visualizes energy generation in motion. The project also represents energy consumption. Ultraviolet light activates photoluminescent materials embedded within the structure. When the UV light fades, the materials release stored energy as a soft glow. This cycle of illumination and afterglow reveals the continuous exchange between energy input and energy output, an immersive representation of how energy moves through systems.

Photography by Lena Kupatz_PAULIWOOD FILM

The Heart is a project by Jenny Sabin Studio. 

Commissioned by JSH Productions for E.ON. 

Architectural Designer: Jenny E. Sabin. 

Design & Production: John Hilla, Lauren Cruvellier. 

Design Engineer: Clayton Binkley, Odd Lot. 

Lighting Design: Aaron Mooney. 
berlin STAATSBALLETT BERLIN Cornell Tech Cornell AAP Hilla John claytonbinkley Aaron Mooney

       

11/05/2026

We are so excited to announce the opening of the Heart for the House of New Energy featuring an incredible and special opening performance by the StaatsBallett Berlin!

The Heart is an immersive environment that transforms green energy data (solar, wind, biomass) into light, form, and human experience. Like a living system, the Heart constantly shifts and responds to the flow of energy that powers it. At its core, the project explores a simple but powerful question: How might architecture make the invisible systems that power our world visible and tangible?

The Heart represents more than a single installation. It serves as a prototype for a broader vision of architecture, one in which buildings are not static containers but responsive systems that interact with their surroundings, much like organisms do. In this emerging model, energy is not merely a resource to be consumed but a dynamic relationship between natural forces, technological systems, and human behavior. Materials are no longer passive surfaces but active participants capable of sensing, storing, and communicating information. And design itself becomes a living and generative process, one that evolves through data, interaction, and environmental change.

By bringing together renewable energy data, advanced textiles, and interactive design, The Heart offers a glimpse into this future. It suggests that architecture can help us better understand the complex networks that sustain our world and inspire new ways of living within them.

The Heart is a project by Jenny Sabin Studio.

Commissioned by JSH Productions for E.ON.

Architectural Designer: Jenny E. Sabin.

Design & Production: John Hilla, Lauren Cruvellier.

Design Engineer: Clayton Binkley, Odd Lot.

Lighting Design: Aaron Mooney.
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16/04/2026

So excited to showcase two new book projects at the Spring 2026 AAP Launchpad! Here’s the first!

“Design Tech Volumes 01” highlights the transdisciplinary work of faculty, fellows, and students from the multicollege department of Design Tech at Cornell AAP. DTech is a transdisciplinary initiative pioneering innovation, research, and teaching on topics at the intersection of design and emerging technology that most greatly impact research, industry, and practice in a changing world. Bridging expertise and catalyzing exploration, innovation, and collaboration in emerging areas, including design + interactions, design + materials, and design + environments, Design Tech is a generator of new modes, methods, and applications that redefine design practice and research.

26/02/2026

Honored to give a lecture in the long-standing Computations in Science Seminar Series hosted by the James Franck Institute at U. Chicago. Inspiring day with colleagues and students discussing networks, particle jamming, sensing and interaction design, AI, + more and the importance of creativity and making.

15/01/2026

Bolt Tower is officially unveiled!
Jenny Sabin Studio has created a landmark sculpture for the new MAPS 4 OKC Fairgrounds Coliseum. Our 72-foot beacon of creativity, history, and community now rises at Oklahoma City Fair Park. Rooted in the stories of thousands of State Fair moments, Bolt Tower holds something truly special: a 3D-printed clay time capsule embedded at its base, filled with photos and memories shared by the people who make this place unforgettable.
Dedicated in celebration of 118 years of Fair Park history and looking toward the future, the tower stands as a symbol of connection, curiosity, and collective spirit.

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