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!"