going fishing

urban camping

another take on urban camping from OWI // office for word and image

turn from tents

decent take on another situation in which rapid deployment of shelter is critical. although what still needs to be made explicit is that the language of “temporary” and “permanent” depends on clearer terms of engagement. relief shelters can be more than just protection from the elements: homes and business incubators and infrastructure and…

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

live the skeletons

project archives from coloco, operating from paris.

The skeletons are structures without frontages. These buildings testify to very diverse anomalies in the good progress of the operations of construction.
Given up, unfinished or partially destroyed, their silhouettes point out the destruction as much as construction.

rogue shelter

new york times, january 11, 2010.

de Vaul says he is simply doing the work his county cannot or will not do. But officials say that the housing … known as Sunny Acres, is substandard, often illegal, and rife with dangerous code violations.

hotel exposure

from cville issue no. 21.31 [08.04-10.09]

The Landmark Hotel may be a liability, but according to Baber the issue is “not structural, but aesthetic.” Like just about everyone else in town, he says, “I dislike the idea of an unfinished structure taking up space on the mall.”