tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2180541844044126657.post5907485655672402901..comments2023-09-26T07:51:01.278-04:00Comments on boxed out: Boulevard of Broken DreamsMaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01365827324568440034noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2180541844044126657.post-50405915603077319522010-11-16T06:06:47.953-05:002010-11-16T06:06:47.953-05:00Andrew! I just noticed that I called you "Ma...Andrew! I just noticed that I called you "Matt" in the previous comment. Not too far off from "Manto", I suppose. That's what happens when you have a dog that refuses to recognize the legitimacy of daylight savings time... and wakes you up at 2:30.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01365827324568440034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2180541844044126657.post-68313209703571260892010-11-16T05:59:53.893-05:002010-11-16T05:59:53.893-05:00Matt-
No, I wasn't considering the PS1 instal...Matt-<br /><br />No, I wasn't considering the PS1 installations as I was designing, but it's interesting you should bring them up. I'm guessing you could be referring to <a href="http://ps1.org/yap/view/5" rel="nofollow">"Canopy"</a> by nArchitects, <a href="http://ps1.org/yap/view/2" rel="nofollow">"BeatFuse"</a> by OBRA, or <a href="http://ps1.org/yap/view/1" rel="nofollow">"Liquid Sky"</a> by Ball-Nogues. My thinking involved--yes--endeavoring to create a dynamic and compelling lightweight affordable structure... one that operated primarily overhead and touched down ever so lightly on the ground. <br /><br />If anything, I was thinking of the Tsunami memorial design that Maura, Peter and Hao built for the Asian Moon Festival 5 years ago. I'm not sure if you've seen it--I may post photos at some point. Anyway, for that, they had an even smaller budget, and even that was whittled down to next to nothing. They used readily available materials--plywood, lumber, wire and marker flags, and the final memorial was quite successful. <br /><br />A week before I submitted for the competition--and after the design was complete--Maura sent me photos of a colleague's installation for a party (DJ, art, etc.) in Williamsburg. It shared a lot of similarities to mine--there were no wood arches, but nylon rope was criss-crossed to form parabolic canopies spanning between masonry walls enclosing a courtyard. For the next day, I was completely deflated. "That was MY idea!" But then I realized it wasn't really the same... the arches were just as much of a central component as the rope canopy--they needed each other to work, and the structure was meant to be experienced from beneath, outside--above, even. And I liked my project, so why switch course?<br /><br />So that's a long way of saying that yes, I think it might be more related to the fact that it was a lightweight, affordable structure. Is it implicit in such a structure? Not necessarily. Is it a viable solution to such a scenario? Definitely. I noticed that one of the finalists' entries used rope (in a much different way... and I'm not exactly sure how it's strung), and another entry posted online used rope. Ahhh...<br /><br />One final note--in working with Jong (see link to his website in the main text above), I was forced to consider how much structure I really needed. He has actual experience in building temporary (up to 2 years) and lightweight wood sculptures. "Do those arches really need to be 6" wide and 18" deep?! I think they should be no more than 1 1/2 - 2" wide and 10-12" deep." In other words, Jong was great at restraining my heavy-handedness.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01365827324568440034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2180541844044126657.post-78686286202372178632010-11-15T22:45:11.463-05:002010-11-15T22:45:11.463-05:00Max, it seems that there are a few PS1 influences ...Max, it seems that there are a few PS1 influences in the manner that you treated the structural and shading systems. Was the likeness deliberate or is this aesthetic maybe somehow implicit in lightweight affordable structures?mantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09932918188830102664noreply@blogger.com