Friday, July 29, 2011
Team 8: collectors and 12.5 hours to go
trans - plant:> car park weed > plant > personality > urban reality > fragment > compost > seed > weed = transplant
cold > making our design work > fantastic team work!! thanks guys!
Team 8: structure and substrate
transplanting: or response to site/ observation/ desire/the canopy of the structure is in the process of becoming colonized by our collectors. devices that transform the nature and being of plants we find in the cracks and on the edges. wild and spontaneous vegetation, caught in wire traps that become suspended and operate as ephemeral mementos to what we view as a lacking organ: a soul.
(maybe heart or brain depending on your viewpoint as we are still debating the nature of whether the soul is an organ)
Team 8: after 58 hours
our multilayered site design comes together in structure and form: steel tubing forms a structural framework for the creation of small pockets of space. rested in our response to site (formwork tubing) we are making seats and tables, white capped tubes.the team is working as a precision machine: leveling, taping edges, sanding, countersinking, raising (steel) bars...
Evening MAD followers... a very productive afternoon and lots to report!
At the start of the day we had our timber panels ready to go...
...and our recycled blue overalls cut up (int0 50,000 pieces) and ready to attach... and how, may you ask, is this going to form our public realm space?
Well, we've had numerous groups touring the competition and there's Nate below, trying to explain our design, with no form to demonstrate it as yet...
So, let us tell you hows its to be done... this is the first of our pods being constructed by Zac, Taylor and Ben, whilst another touring group gets an explanation of our concept design.
Two sides of each pod will be treated with the blue overall cuts... this process is taking us 2 hours per side (with 8 to do, that's 16 hours to complete this phase alone)... !
By 4pm, we had the first side treated with the recycled overalls and when we got it outside we understood the simplistic beauty that the form has in the wind...
Following completion of the second side of the first pod, we marched it down to our site from Shed 4.
Once on site, we played with sides of the first pod to understand how our pathway would look and feel... this soon attracted lots of attention from the locals, who were keen to try it out...
We then began to move the pod into position...
We got back to the Shed for dinner and had a visit from our bosses, who were enthusiastic and supplied with a box of beer to see us through the night... (thanks Simon and Tony)
As you can see, we have been treated to the most spectacular firework display, by the organisers and competition sponsors, which lifted our spirits and given us the motivation to continue into the night...
14 hours to go!
Keeping voting MAD followers
MAD out.
SUPERFLUX//////
SUPERFLUX/////
These armitures are for movement, pivoting, flexibility and to invite play (MOVE ME!) This is an injection of fun, humour and plastic into a chaotic intersection.
We have created a programmed infrastructure.
The requirements of the suggested programms determine the configurations of the 'weedy wedges.' Choreography of these movements is also used to control human traffic.
The primary function of the infrastructure is to seperate, manipulate and calm pedestrian and bike traffic during peak times. This can be folded and stacked at other moments to accomodate for more or less human traffic and more or less control of the space. The infrastructure is elastic and operates as a joint would with a hinge and a sinue. The skeleton is padded out by the green flesh.
1. Human Traffic Control is one program, though it suggests rather than insists.
The users of this site are used to having to having no control on the spaces they inhabit. Though the site has been wrapped in construction materials for a year, the implementation of a separation between bicycles and pedesrians has never been completed. We intend to heal this flaw by augmenting the current walking and cycling procedures.
2. We wanted the forms to speak two languages, the language of bikes and the language of walkers. Walkers are encouraged to alter the forms, adopt their own program and be able to take control in their space. The astroturf laughs at itself by sprouting weeds offering a place to sit and a public joke. The QR code is a link to a site instructional for those curious enough to use it.
Bike riders are also offered a safer passage, the opportunity to rejuvinate and heal (pump their tires, park their bikes) or to continue on their way.
The elasticity of the tendons below the provides for a body like flexibility that is durable and satisfying, that dances when you look down upon it. The solar lighting points at the pivot points and defines the edges of the weedy wedges. These weedy limbs 'dance' to suggest another program that can also be viewed from above.
The finish was a 'take' on the ubiquitous astroturf. It is literally a recycled soccer pitch. The plasticity and tactility appealed to the programmatic function of sitting and touching, as well as suggesting an urban park gone wild. The infrastructure provides a SUPERFLUX , a tongue in cheek exclaimation in front of the NAB building, crying "MOVE ME!"
Urban Realities - Site 2 - Urban Filler - Team 7 Blanket Solution - Day Five
This is craft.
This is tap tap.
This is thread thread.
This is repetitive.
This is twinkle twinkle.
This is a blanket conversation (urban encounter).
This is another type of blanket conversation (knitting circle).
This is a prototype.
This is Tim (human structure prototype).
This is Ammon (human structure prototype)
This is urban fill.
This is tap tap.
This is thread thread.
This is repetitive.
This is twinkle twinkle.
This is a blanket conversation (urban encounter).
This is another type of blanket conversation (knitting circle).
This is a prototype.
This is Tim (human structure prototype).
This is Ammon (human structure prototype)
This is urban fill.
Our project spoke. Listen to what it has to say
Sound of Bottle Cap Blanket.
Cleaning our tools.
Planting vegetation on site.
Construction.
Digging the site ground.
Drilling it Hard
Emergence and Occupation
37° 49' 7.85", +144° 56' 47.12"
SuperFlux6.
Urban Relalities. Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge.
Late night construction resulted in the early morning emergence of our forms on site.
Late night construction resulted in the early morning emergence of our forms on site.
moveability allows for adaptability. this is crucial for our site requirements, i.e a site of flux and constant change. From the outset the manipulation of these flows has been at the centre of our design.
Choreographing our new infrastructure.
TEAM X: Site 8 - Making
Team X met early in the 44th hour of the 72 hour Landscape Urbanism design challenge. In a small room in Urban Central we sit on bunk beds and sprawl on the floor and review our progress and discuss as a group the overarching theoretical elements informing our incision into Site 8 @ Docklands. We talk about our individual interpretations of our work and discuss how we feel about the design. The shared con
versationat the beginning of the day ensures we are all in agreement with the direction of our project and are committed to the demanding task of continuing the construction process. Our team departs from room 324 of our shared accommodation and we fragment into smaller groups - moving to the site, to source material and to Shed 4.
At Site 8 the structural form of our design is weaved & wired & glued & tied into shape. A skeleton for the synthetic skin of our design rises up from the cold expanse of concrete upon which Site 8 is situated, the organic structure Team X is creating captures the attention of passing residents and visitors throughout the day - as we work we are all invited to discuss our design and the project. We are pleased and somewhat suprised by the extent of community engagement and the level of curiosity the public are demonstrating, instigating questions to the 10 of us as we construct the design in our white plastic overalls.
"What are you doing..."
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING.."(yelled to us from a 3rd floor balcony)
"Is it a whale you're building..?
'Mate, Is that a model of an enlarged prostate?"(we decided to interpret this as a weirdly flattering question).
"What's going on here..?
and on and on the questions came. The curiosity and comments were entirely positive - not one derisive comment on the project or the design was expressed. We felt this spoke of an underlying desire from the public that they WANTED to see creative activity happening in the site. Team X is asking one another what will groups from the 40,000 strong football crowd make of the project as they head to the bars and restaurants surrounding Site 8 after the game. Hmm....
Some members are considering camping out all night to protect our baby from any possible attack - while others of us think our project needs to defend itself and prove it can survive in the world without our constant care. My God, being a parent is hard work because we can't help but love and want to protect our baby from the destructive elements in the real world!
In the 50th hours of the competition you would have seen Team X filling & tieing sandbags. Who would have thought tieing sandbags would prove to be such an unpleasant task? You would have seen Team X drilling & cable tieing bamboo and fitting netting over the form. The construction process proved a need to be responsive to the materials and to let the nature of the bamboo guide us as we constructed the form throughout the day.
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