landscape[+]architecture
example of model that unites, conceptually and physically, buildings and terrain as a matrix of chipboard ribs. primary facades are coplanar with ribs [or are part of the rib itself] while secondary facades and horizontal strips for roads provide lateral bracing. basswood and wire [mess + piano] are introduced for emphasis of design elements. [model from ALAR801 spring 2009, malda]
testing grasshopper to model + router to fabricate flatpack installation for exhibit at parsons about reCOVER relief housing project from uva. collaboration with a. canfora
a project from june 3 – 30, working with w. on a traveling exhibit space. trespassing on an amtrak train car to tell the story of pullman porters – typically african-american employees of the pullman [palace car] company from the mid-19th to early 20th c. – who inhabited that era’s racial divide as menial laborers and train-slaves to white passengers, yet respected leaders in their communities whose travels spread news and cultural influence north to south and back again …
started with a reading of tye’s rising from the rails, and a ride on the crescent from c-ville to DC, which inspired plans for more train rides with cameras …
exhibit concept leverages the low ceilings of the train car and the datum of seat-backs along an aisle : exhibit panels, display ledges and several seating conditions emerge from a continuous, folded ceiling surface above …
on the heels of national train day [may 9, celebrated in philadelphia] and recruitment efforts tracking down the last of these porters, had hoped to get further than these models + drawings … information from amtrak is not forthcoming, so we’re stalled
exhibit concept leverages low ceilings of train cars and the datum of seat-backs along an aisle: panels, display ledges and seating emerge from a continuous, folded ceiling surface…
