http://w-as.net Working Group on Adaptive Systems Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:18:23 +0000 http://w-as.net en http://w-as.net/Woodmont http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Woodmont Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:18:23 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 5400572 partners: withheld by request 2011 - 2013 <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMG_8740_copy.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMG_8740_copy_o.jpg" data-mid="29068325" border="0" align="left"/> This project was created at the invitation of a public art consulting firm and a sculptor. It seeks to reimagine corporate plaza scultpure and bollards as a geometrically modular, interactive, micro-megastructure. Three piece types combine to form diverse spatial conditions, enclosures, and pieces of street furniture. <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/Woodmont 3 Bench.jpg" width="670" height="368" width_o="1514" height_o="832" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/Woodmont 3 Bench_o.jpg" data-mid="29068368" border="0" align="left"/> The pieces are able to interact with each other and with users via streams of water, lasers, or infrared beams. <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/Woodmont 2 Seat.jpg" width="670" height="369" width_o="1430" height_o="789" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/Woodmont 2 Seat_o.jpg" data-mid="29068406" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/Woodmont 1 Pavilion.jpg" width="670" height="369" width_o="1427" height_o="788" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/Woodmont 1 Pavilion_o.jpg" data-mid="29068409" border="0" align="left"/> At the scale of street furniture, the pieces can form seating areas, small pavilions or follies. <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/Woodmont Types-01.jpg" width="670" height="517" width_o="2048" height_o="1582" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/Woodmont Types-01_o.jpg" data-mid="29068463" border="0" align="left"/> Closely calibrated proportional systems offer geometric unity and spatial diversity, while open ended tectonic systems allow for a broad set of material expressions. <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/All 3.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/All 3_o.jpg" data-mid="29068808" border="0" align="left"/> The repetition and variety of the modules allows the system to be interpreted at multiple scales - becoming components of building and even cities. <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0398.jpg" width="670" height="377" width_o="2048" height_o="1154" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0398_o.jpg" data-mid="29070563" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0491.jpg" width="670" height="1188" width_o="1840" height_o="3264" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0491_o.jpg" data-mid="29070570" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0514.jpg" width="670" height="1188" width_o="1840" height_o="3264" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0514_o.jpg" data-mid="29070579" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0594.jpg" width="670" height="377" width_o="2048" height_o="1154" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0594_o.jpg" data-mid="29070586" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0604.jpg" width="670" height="377" width_o="2048" height_o="1154" src_o="http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/5400572/IMAG0604_o.jpg" data-mid="29070592" border="0" align="left"/> Portions of this work were shown at Dcenter Baltimore's Network show in 2011. partners: withheld by request 2011 - 2013 This project was created at the invitation of a public art consulting firm and a sculptor. It seeks to reimagine... http://w-as.net/Invasive-Species http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Invasive-Species Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:22:57 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 917425 partners: Parks & People Foundation, Baltimore City Department of Recreation & Parks 2008 This is a temporary outdoor public sculpture installation for Parks & People's Art on the Trail, on the Gwynns Falls Trail at Winans Meadow. Conceived as a research project between drawing and building, the intent was to create a system that could be composed at the site in an ad-hoc way. The scalability of the system allowed the project to be composed on the fly, adapting productively to size, material, and time constraints. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/boardnet.jpg" width="670" height="465" width_o="1000" height_o="695" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/boardnet_o.jpg" data-mid="4399850" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/brickgrid.jpg" width="670" height="465" width_o="1000" height_o="695" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/brickgrid_o.jpg" data-mid="4399853" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/boards in situ.jpg" width="670" height="247" width_o="2048" height_o="757" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/boards in situ_o.jpg" data-mid="4400126" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/DSC04024.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/DSC04024_o.JPG" data-mid="4400140" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/DSC04001a.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/DSC04001a_o.jpg" data-mid="4400968" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/Paulownia_Leaf_vector s.jpg" width="670" height="194" width_o="2048" height_o="595" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917425/Paulownia_Leaf_vector s_o.jpg" data-mid="4401004" border="0" align="left"/> partners: Parks & People Foundation, Baltimore City Department of Recreation & Parks 2008 This is a temporary outdoor public sculpture installation for Parks &... http://w-as.net/Constellation-Energy http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Constellation-Energy Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:22:56 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 917605 partners: Axis Alley 2009 In an imaginary green world, where every household can use their own energy, grow their own food, and recycle their own waste - where every unit is potentially a closed loop like each of these solar powered lights, what are the motivators that bring the nodes together? <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/3857805674_34505b8b88_o.jpg" width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/3857805674_34505b8b88_o_o.jpg" data-mid="4401319" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/3987658690_c3f5fdbb6b_b.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="768" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/3987658690_c3f5fdbb6b_b_o.jpg" data-mid="4401321" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/4110165416_c98a71d086_b.jpg" width="670" height="293" width_o="1024" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/4110165416_c98a71d086_b_o.jpg" data-mid="4401325" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/4110357095_49f5ba064e_o.jpg" width="670" height="565" width_o="1000" height_o="844" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/4110357095_49f5ba064e_o_o.jpg" data-mid="4401329" border="0" align="left"/> Connection details mimic the clinging and intertwining of plants on the site. Portions of the piece were later destroyed and stolen by gardeners and scrappers, the plantlike aspects of the piece implicitly acknowledged by these acts of pruning and harvesting. This is a project that was complete for less than 24 hours. During the installation process, the show's curator predicted: "someone's going to come along and smash that with a brick". By the next evening, that's exactly what had happened. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/4111073852_abba01b333_o.jpg" width="670" height="761" width_o="1000" height_o="1137" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/4111073852_abba01b333_o_o.jpg" data-mid="4401331" border="0" align="left"/> After a few days, all of the globes wtihin easy (even some in not-so-easy) reach had been stolen. The copper was cleanly snipped with wirecutters. Someone had even taken the small solar panel for the lights on the ground. By the time replacement lights had been installed, the feral vegetation that sheltered the smaller lights had been weedwhacked, short fragments of wire and broken LEDs were mixed everywhere with shredded Paulownia. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/4111099408_9e89cddaaa_b.jpg" width="576" height="1024" width_o="576" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917605/4111099408_9e89cddaaa_b_o.jpg" data-mid="4401332" border="0" align="left"/> The lights resembled the iconic Baltimore police cameras, known colloquially as 'blueberries'. This was probably another contributing factor to their disappearance. This is the light that invites destruction. These intentional and unintentional interactions with the human and natural geography of the site are reminders that there are always other contexts and networks that built objects take their place within. (thanks to Sarah Doherty and Eric Leshinsky for additional photography) partners: Axis Alley 2009 In an imaginary green world, where every household can use their own energy, grow their own food, and recycle their own waste - where... http://w-as.net/Waterwheel-Trash-Interceptor-w-Z-S http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Waterwheel-Trash-Interceptor-w-Z-S Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:22:55 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 919522 with: Ziger/Snead Architects, Steve Ziger, Clearwater Mills, LLC, John Kellett 2009 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/Aerial.jpg" width="670" height="349" width_o="1906" height_o="994" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/Aerial_o.jpg" data-mid="4409511" border="0" align="left"/> Located at the outflow of a polluted Baltimore watershed, this trash interceptor uses current and solar power to drive a boomed conveyor and rake system, skimming floating garbage into a dumpster that can be taken away to a recycling facility. This project was created with Ziger/Snead Architects, and is a proposal for updating and simplifying the current design, making the collection process, now hidden in a floating shed, visible as an educational experience for harbor visitors. The assembly is made of off-the-shelf hardware and can be adjusted to accommodate changing conditions in sun angle and water flow. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/East Elevation.jpg" width="670" height="357" width_o="2048" height_o="1093" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/East Elevation_o.jpg" data-mid="4409515" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/Front View.jpg" width="670" height="349" width_o="1906" height_o="994" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/Front View_o.jpg" data-mid="4409520" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/View 2 transparent.jpg" width="670" height="349" width_o="1906" height_o="994" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/View 2 transparent_o.jpg" data-mid="4409523" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/Rear View.jpg" width="670" height="351" width_o="1893" height_o="994" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919522/Rear View_o.jpg" data-mid="4409542" border="0" align="left"/> with: Ziger/Snead Architects, Steve Ziger, Clearwater Mills, LLC, John Kellett 2009 Located at the outflow of a polluted Baltimore watershed, this trash... http://w-as.net/Classroom-of-the-Future-w-Z-S http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Classroom-of-the-Future-w-Z-S Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:22:54 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 919116 with: Ziger/Snead Architects: Steve Ziger, Fred Scharmen, Sukanya Walsh, Doug Bothner partners: Baltimore Curriculum Project, the students, faculty, and administration at City Springs School, Architecture for Humanity 2009 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Classroom of the Future final medium.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Classroom of the Future final medium_o.jpg" data-mid="4407615" border="0" align="left"/> In the summer of 2009, Ziger/Snead participated in Architecture for Humanity's Classroom of the Future Open Architecture Challenge. The brief was to work with an existing educational organization to create a classroom design that would best serve their needs into the next century. Participating designers worked with schools from all over the world, but we decided to stay close to home, partnering with our friends at the Baltimore Curriculum Project. BCP is a nonprofit charter school operator that runs five schools in the city. We've worked with them in the past, collaborating on a vision for a renovated auditorium at the Collington Square School, and on the recently completed library, early learning center, and Phase One Masterplan for the Hampstead Hill Academy. For this project, Rhonda Richetta, the principal of City Springs School, brought the team into the classroom to talk to students about architecture, and find out from them what their school needed. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/student sketch.jpg" width="530" height="500" width_o="530" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/student sketch_o.jpg" data-mid="4407920" border="0" align="left"/> We worked with the students as they made drawings of their classroom space. Many of them were especially interested in representing the lists of daily goals posted in the classroom, the storage space and shelves, the board, and the windows. Our design team was also interested the Baltimore Curriculum Project's emphasis on research, data, feedback and interaction. BCP uses a very closely tracked curriculum in their schools that’s based on direct instructional interaction between teacher and student, and lesson plans that are synchronized and coordinated across their schools. Defining learning as the potential for making connections to the larger world, we found an opportunity for an architectural intervention at the classroom’s aging, outdated and inefficient window system: the literal interface between the space of education and the larger environment. We created a diagram illustrating the various functions of the existing window wall as a series of filters for light, air, sound, views, and information. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Classroom Window Before.jpg" width="670" height="413" width_o="2048" height_o="1265" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Classroom Window Before_o.jpg" data-mid="4407931" border="0" align="left"/> Our proposal is for a system of multifunctioning, off-the-shelf components that, when combined, reorganize the window into a machine for interacting with the outside world. Through teleconferencing, data overlays, and side by side comparisons between the skyline of Baltimore and other cities around the world, the students of City Springs would be able to link their own learning experiences to those of students in other countries. This kind of data display and feedback also enables students to track their own goals as a class, and as individuals. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Diagram After.jpg" width="670" height="452" width_o="1000" height_o="676" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Diagram After_o.jpg" data-mid="4407939" border="0" align="left"/> Additionally, the Window Wall also allows the students to regulate their own immediate physical environment, fine tuning the light, air, and acoustics of their space in order make the most of their connection to these other, larger systems. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Classroom Section Closeup.jpg" width="670" height="1392" width_o="1971" height_o="4096" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Classroom Section Closeup_o.jpg" data-mid="4407981" border="0" align="left"/> The new Window Wall system fits into the existing opening, a section through the system shows the components: (1) SOLAR THERMAL SUNSHADE (2) HEAT POWERED ABSORPTION AIR CONDITIONER (3) OPERABLE CURTAINWALL WINDOW (4) LIGHT REFLECTOR IN WINDOW POCKET (5) BLACKOUT BLINDS (6) ELLIPTICAL REFLECTIVE LIGHT FIXTURE (7) WINDOWSHADE AND PROJECTION SCREEN (8) SLIDING ERASABLE INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD (9) DAYLIGHT REFLECTING VENETIAN BLINDS (10) EXPERIMENTAL WINDOW PLANTER BOX (11) CONDENSATE FROM AIR CONDITIONER WATERS PLANTS (12) SOLAR THERMAL RADIATOR AND SHELF SYSTEM (13) EXPERIMENTAL CHICKEN INCUBATOR (14) LAPTOP PRESENTATION CONTROLLER (15) SPEAKER SYSTEM (16) DAYLIGHT REFLECTOR (17) CLAMP AND PIPE SYSTEM FOR PROJECTORS, CAMERAS & OTHER PROJECTS (18) INTEGRATED CAMERA/PROJECTOR SYSTEM (19) LED PROJECTOR FOR HEADS UP DISPLAY (20) ACOUSTIC CEILING TILE (21) SEATING MADE FROM DISCARDED CRUSHED WINDOW FRAMES We looked for opportunities to combine the pieces in unique configurations, with the requirement that every piece should function in at least two ways, preferably in three or four ways, whenever possible. So the mullion at the window holds a light fixture, a daylight reflector, a pull-down blackout and display screen, and a track for a sliding whiteboard. The solar thermal collectors create warm water for radiators in the winter, the same warm water helps power the absorption chiller in the summer, when the collector also functions as a sunshade, deflecting solar heat gain. The condensate from the air conditioner is collected and used to help water the plants at an experimental window garden, which also helps to freshen the air. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Plant.jpg" width="450" height="382" width_o="450" height_o="382" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Plant_o.jpg" data-mid="4407998" border="0" align="left"/> Studies from organizations like the EPA, the USGBC, the Acoustical Society of America, and many others have demonstrated the measurable gains in learning ability that come along with improved air, light, and sound quality in the classroom. But equally interesting are the possibilities within these types of systems to illustrate new models for learning and interaction: closed loops, upcycled surpluses, and bundled micro-infrastructures. This project seeks to address those important qualitative issues in a way that also allows students to discover all of the teaching moments inherent in the demonstration of the principles of sustainability. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Baby-Chick.jpg" width="450" height="235" width_o="450" height_o="235" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/919116/Baby-Chick_o.jpg" data-mid="4408027" border="0" align="left"/> (this project was completed for Ziger/Snead Architects, special thanks to City Springs Principal Rhonda Richetta, and Alison Perkins-Cohen of the Baltimore Curriculum Project) with: Ziger/Snead Architects: Steve Ziger, Fred Scharmen, Sukanya Walsh, Doug Bothner partners: Baltimore Curriculum Project, the students, faculty, and... http://w-as.net/Evergreen-Commons http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Evergreen-Commons Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:22:46 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 893532 with: Eric Leshinsky, Ryan Patterson partners: Gary Kachadourian, Michael Benevento, Lee Freeman, Sarah Doherty, Jonathan Taube, Billy Mode and Services United, Evergreen Museum and Library 2010 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/_MG_6883.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/_MG_6883_o.jpg" data-mid="4279855" border="0" align="left"/> (photo courtesy of Marian April Glebes) Evergreen Commons was a site specific installation for Sculpture at Evergreen 6: Simultaneous Presence. This was an exercise in urban public placemaking, with work contributed by several Baltimore artists. This new public space was placed in a dialogue with an existing historic garden opposite, with the grounds of the 19th century estate within which it was situated, and, ultimately, with the city at large. In the summer of 2010, the artists held regular public events here, with games, music, and food. This project was awarded 'Best Site Specific Work' in the Baltimore City Paper's 2010 annual Best of Baltimore issue. For more info, see the project website at: http://friendsofevergreencommons.com/ <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/_MG_6735.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/_MG_6735_o.jpg" data-mid="4279950" border="0" align="left"/> (photo courtesy of Marian April Glebes) <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/_MG_6839.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/_MG_6839_o.jpg" data-mid="4279953" border="0" align="left"/> (photo courtesy of Marian April Glebes) <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/Evergreen Commons Map.jpg" width="670" height="682" width_o="1500" height_o="1527" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/Evergreen Commons Map_o.jpg" data-mid="4279956" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/Evergreen House Map.jpg" width="670" height="871" width_o="1500" height_o="1952" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/Evergreen House Map_o.jpg" data-mid="4279957" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/Baltimore Map.jpg" width="670" height="863" width_o="1500" height_o="1933" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/Baltimore Map_o.jpg" data-mid="4279961" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/fred.jpg" width="670" height="1562" width_o="736" height_o="1716" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/893532/fred_o.jpg" data-mid="4279978" border="0" align="left"/> The piece incorporated pre-existing and commissioned work from several Baltimore artists. Shown here are contributions from Jonathan Taube, Michael Benevento, Gary Kachadourian, and Billy Mode. Photographic collage courtesy of Annene Kay. with: Eric Leshinsky, Ryan Patterson partners: Gary Kachadourian, Michael Benevento, Lee Freeman, Sarah Doherty, Jonathan Taube, Billy Mode and Services United,... http://w-as.net/psNone-Sodscape http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/psNone-Sodscape Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:47:33 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 3624859 with: Marian April Glebes partners: Green Fields Nursery, The Loading Dock, Kimberthy Turf, Guppy Management 2011 (all photography by Marian April Glebes) <img src="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5710a.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5710a_o.jpg" data-mid="18779640" border="0" align="left"/> In 2011, as part of 'what about here?', the Working Group on Adaptive Systems collaborated with Marian April Glebes on a zero budget sodscape for Artscape, Baltimore's yearly three day free arts and music festival. <img src="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5724a.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5724a_o.jpg" data-mid="18779645" border="0" align="left"/> The goal of the project was to transform the streetscape in front of the Charles St. Parking Garage into a comfortable, inviting, open ended hangout space, giving Artscape visitors a chance to take a break from the hot asphalt of the street festival. <img src="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5739a.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5739a_o.jpg" data-mid="18779664" border="0" align="left"/> The installation also encouraged users to explore the garage's interior, filled with nonprofit and free institutional programming and art by Glebes, the garage's curator. <img src="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5775a.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5775a_o.jpg" data-mid="18779673" border="0" align="left"/> All of the building materials: pallets, rolls of sod, wooden scraps, salvaged windows, and potted plants, were donated. <img src="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5826a.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5826a_o.jpg" data-mid="18779684" border="0" align="left"/> The project creates a modular, pixelated landscape out of these components, using the key increments and dimensions of the sod, pallets, and windows to find new alignments and organizational systems with the streetscape. At the close of the festival, all of the materials were re-donated to other individuals and nonprofit groups. <img src="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5877a.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_5877a_o.jpg" data-mid="18779703" border="0" align="left"/> The low intensity ambiance of the constructed landscape was periodically keyed up with events programmed by Glebes in collaboration with the participating institutions: lectures, a marching band performance, dance party, and a fireworks show. <img src="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_6197_1a.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3624859/_MG_6197_1a_o.jpg" data-mid="18779711" border="0" align="left"/> About this installation at Artscape, and campcamp at Transmodern, Urbanite Magazine wrote: "These were the most fun things at the two festivals, respectively." For more information about the psNone Sodscape, and the 'what about here?' exhibition in general, see What Weekly's review here. For a sneak preview of this summer's Charles St. Garage installation, click here. with: Marian April Glebes partners: Green Fields Nursery, The Loading Dock, Kimberthy Turf, Guppy Management 2011 (all photography by Marian April Glebes) In... http://w-as.net/Codename-Dogpatch-A-Case-Study http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Codename-Dogpatch-A-Case-Study Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:56:39 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 3525927 partners: withheld by request 2011 - ongoing <img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Rancher Sod.jpg" width="670" height="426" width_o="1570" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Rancher Sod_o.jpg" data-mid="18215832" border="0" align="left"/> An ongoing research and design investigation into the nature and potential of contemporary semiurban living. What would it mean to live in an urban house in the woods? How can the empty signifiers of green domesticity, - the planted roof, the cistern, the garden, the solar panel - be reused and revitalized? How can permanence and dwelling be maintained while occupying and disturbing the earth minimally? <img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Precedent Board - Green Roof.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1440" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Precedent Board - Green Roof_o.jpg" data-mid="18216013" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Precedent Board - Mies Eames Cochran.jpg" width="670" height="396" width_o="1440" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Precedent Board - Mies Eames Cochran_o.jpg" data-mid="18216020" border="0" align="left"/> Reference images: from the top left: The Mikulski Center for Workforce Development on the Living Classrooms campus, by Alexander Design Associates (Fred Scharmen, Project Designer); Hobbitton Set, New Zealand, WETA Studios; intensive turf roof houses of Scandinavia; Farnsworth House, Mies van der Rohe, 1945-1951; Eames House, Charles and Ray Eames, 1949; Harrison Garrett House, Alexander Cochran, 1952; Dr. Milton Sacks House, Alexander Cochran, 1953. <img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-2.jpg" width="670" height="556" width_o="1985" height_o="1648" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-2_o.jpg" data-mid="18223987" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-3.jpg" width="670" height="556" width_o="1985" height_o="1648" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-3_o.jpg" data-mid="18223991" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-4.jpg" width="670" height="562" width_o="1957" height_o="1644" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-4_o.jpg" data-mid="18223994" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-5.jpg" width="670" height="556" width_o="1985" height_o="1648" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-5_o.jpg" data-mid="18223996" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-6.jpg" width="670" height="559" width_o="2034" height_o="1698" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-6_o.jpg" data-mid="18224001" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-7.jpg" width="670" height="565" width_o="1973" height_o="1665" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Untitled-7_o.jpg" data-mid="18224005" border="0" align="left"/> Research sketches explore potential strategies for light footprints and alternative relationships to a sloping ground plane. <img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Draft 03 1_16 color.jpg" width="670" height="747" width_o="2048" height_o="2284" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Draft 03 1_16 color_o.jpg" data-mid="18216634" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Screengrab 01.jpg" width="670" height="355" width_o="2048" height_o="1085" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Screengrab 01_o.jpg" data-mid="18224040" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Sketch 01 bw.jpg" width="670" height="487" width_o="2048" height_o="1489" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Sketch 01 bw_o.jpg" data-mid="18224048" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Sketch 02 bw.jpg" width="670" height="487" width_o="2048" height_o="1489" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Sketch 02 bw_o.jpg" data-mid="18224060" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Sketch 03 bw.jpg" width="670" height="487" width_o="2048" height_o="1489" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3525927/Greenberry Sketch 03 bw_o.jpg" data-mid="18224068" border="0" align="left"/> Design sketches for the case study seek to challenge the relationship between a house's image and the inhabitant's lifestyle. partners: withheld by request 2011 - ongoing An ongoing research and design investigation into the nature and potential of contemporary semiurban living. What... http://w-as.net/Mapping-Masterplanning http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Mapping-Masterplanning Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:28:47 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 3516965 The Working Group on Adaptive Systems has worked with many different collaborators on mapping and masterplanning projects, here are some recent examples. 2008 - ongoing <img src="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/Middle Branch Map.jpg" width="670" height="450" width_o="1024" height_o="689" src_o="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/Middle Branch Map_o.jpg" data-mid="18162910" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/coastlines_x s.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="1058" height_o="818" src_o="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/coastlines_x s_o.jpg" data-mid="18162798" border="0" align="left"/> These two maps were produced in collaboration with co-reasercher Eric Leshinsky, as part of the Middle Branch Case Studies project. The topmost map shows feral and public green space in the research area, the lower map traces 300 years of coastline change through erosion, planning, industry, and logistics. <img src="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/Poplar Neck Rec_Int Map working 02 s.jpg" width="670" height="517" width_o="1100" height_o="850" src_o="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/Poplar Neck Rec_Int Map working 02 s_o.jpg" data-mid="18162933" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/Poplar Neck Recreational Map UPDATED s.jpg" width="670" height="517" width_o="1100" height_o="850" src_o="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/Poplar Neck Recreational Map UPDATED s_o.jpg" data-mid="18162934" border="0" align="left"/> These above maps were created as part of masterplanning work with Morgan State University's School of Architecture and Planning for the Caroline County Office of Tourism and Development. The team had a mandate to inventory resources and produce an economic development, interpretive, and recreational masterplan for the Poplar Neck region, an area deeply connected to the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. <img src="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/RP Openspace REV 100406_2 s.jpg" width="670" height="433" width_o="1700" height_o="1100" src_o="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/RP Openspace REV 100406_2 s_o.jpg" data-mid="18163215" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/Wyndhurst Station Rev 100402 s.jpg" width="670" height="433" width_o="1700" height_o="1100" src_o="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/Wyndhurst Station Rev 100402 s_o.jpg" data-mid="18163223" border="0" align="left"/> In 2010, the community of Roland Park assembled a large team of designers, including Ziger/Snead, to help with the production of a new masterplan for the neighborhood. These two draft maps above are a small piece of that effort. <img src="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/MDFF Parking Map FINAL s.jpg" width="670" height="869" width_o="799" height_o="1037" src_o="http://payload60.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/3516965/MDFF Parking Map FINAL s_o.jpg" data-mid="18163307" border="0" align="left"/> For two years running, The Working Group on Adaptive Systems has worked with Guppy Management and the Maryland Film Festival to produce maps of Central Baltimore that help visitors to festival park and navigate. The Working Group on Adaptive Systems has worked with many different collaborators on mapping and masterplanning projects, here are some recent examples. 2008 -... http://w-as.net/ORDOS-38-100-w-Keller-Easterling-Architects http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/ORDOS-38-100-w-Keller-Easterling-Architects Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:04:10 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 953762 with: Keller Easterling Architects, Keller Easterling, lead designer, and team: Fred Scharmen, Robert Pietrusko, Andrew Lucia, Matt Lake partners: FAKE Design/ Ai Weiwei 2008 - 2009 This was one of 100 villas designed for the cultural center of Ordos new town in Chinese Inner Mongolia. In 2008, the artist Ai Weiwei, in collaboration with architects Herzog & de Meuron selected 100 architects from around the world to contribute to the project. For more information about ORDOS 100, see Keller Easterling's article in the Cornell Journal of Architecture here, watch Ai Weiwei's documentary about the project here, or view a flickr set from the project presentation here. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/Ordos Model Key.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/Ordos Model Key_o.jpg" data-mid="18160578" border="0" align="left"/> Above: the complete site model, showing all of the 100 villas, Villa 38 is in blue. Below: plans and sections of Villa 38 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_plan1.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1535" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_plan1_o.jpg" data-mid="18160340" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_plan2.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1535" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_plan2_o.jpg" data-mid="18160343" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_plan3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1535" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_plan3_o.jpg" data-mid="18160347" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_section1.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1535" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_section1_o.jpg" data-mid="18160349" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_section2.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1535" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_section2_o.jpg" data-mid="18160350" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_section3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1535" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/38_section3_o.jpg" data-mid="18160353" border="0" align="left"/> The scheme is organized as a series of boxes within a box, wrapped around a central tube of communal space. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/exploded axon2c S.jpg" width="670" height="578" width_o="2048" height_o="1769" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/exploded axon2c S_o.jpg" data-mid="18160418" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/Bedroom Box.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/Bedroom Box_o.jpg" data-mid="18160443" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/sectional perspective color switch.jpg" width="670" height="838" width_o="2048" height_o="2563" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/sectional perspective color switch_o.jpg" data-mid="18160461" border="0" align="left"/> Vented skylights, high performance insulation, layered sunshading, a built-in pool/heatsink, and radiant floor all contribute to the energy efficiency of the proposed villa. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/s perspective components.jpg" width="670" height="648" width_o="2048" height_o="1980" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/s perspective components_o.jpg" data-mid="18160524" border="0" align="left"/> The site for the project is on the edge of the Gobi Desert. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/DSC03472.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/953762/DSC03472_o.JPG" data-mid="18160613" border="0" align="left"/> "A magician'’s box has extra space and trap doors. The rare Mongolian antelope stores fat in unlikely places. Big villas need home entertainment. Most of China'’s Olympic swimmers are girls." - Keller Easterling with: Keller Easterling Architects, Keller Easterling, lead designer, and team: Fred Scharmen, Robert Pietrusko, Andrew Lucia, Matt Lake partners: FAKE Design/ Ai...