http://www.w-as.net Working Group on Adaptive Systems Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:43:15 +0000 http://www.w-as.net en http://w-as.net/Fells-Point-Green-Roof http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Fells-Point-Green-Roof Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:43:15 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 1770352 with: Kroiz Architecture, Gabriel Kroiz, Flying Colors, Daniel McCauley, partners: Kim Battista, Graydi, Blue Water Baltimore, Conservation Technology 2010-ongoing <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista Drawing Interior.jpg" width="670" height="541" width_o="2048" height_o="1654" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista Drawing Interior_o.jpg" data-mid="8717653" border="0" align="left"/> This project, currently under construction, is the latest step in the hundred year evolution of an urban carriage house. Converted to a garage in the mid-20th century, the space was used as a painting studio before the current owner dismantled the slab and roof to make a private backyard in the busy Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/historic photos.jpg" width="670" height="442" width_o="1637" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/historic photos_o.jpg" data-mid="8717658" border="0" align="left"/> In 2010, the owner commissioned Kroiz Architecture and the Working Group on Adaptive Systems to reconstruct the garage, and create a new backyard space on the roof. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Batista Rendering Exterior.jpg" width="670" height="517" width_o="1306" height_o="1008" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Batista Rendering Exterior_o.jpg" data-mid="8717649" border="0" align="left"/> This space is designed to take advantage of the runoff from the house to irrigate the green roof, container gardens, and vertical kitchen planting on the west wall. The rear portion of the green roof is dropped an extra 18", to allow the planting of more extensive berry bushes and small trees. This planted area provides passive cooling in the summer, reduces the urban heat island effect, and helps to keep rainwater from overloading Baltimore's antiquated storm drain system. The harbor is located only a few blocks from the house, native plantings can significantly reduce pollution that flows into the Chesapeake Bay. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista Water Reclamation Diagram.jpg" width="670" height="642" width_o="2048" height_o="1962" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista Water Reclamation Diagram_o.jpg" data-mid="8717657" border="0" align="left"/> A hardwood slatwall privacy fence is designed to screen out views from the sidewalk, and exposure to the parked cars below, while opening up to views of the skyline and waterfront beyond. Canvas sunshades, made from recycled sailcloth, further serve to tune exposure to heat, light, and air. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/110228 Battista CD 99_fells prospect_.jpg" width="670" height="406" width_o="2048" height_o="1243" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/110228 Battista CD 99_fells prospect__o.jpg" data-mid="8717648" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista View Diagram 3.jpg" width="670" height="323" width_o="1440" height_o="696" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista View Diagram 3_o.jpg" data-mid="8717655" border="0" align="left"/> The privacy screen acts as a second shell around the back of the house, a container that extends the living areas outward to create and shelter a new green space in the city. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista Diagram.jpg" width="670" height="223" width_o="2048" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista Diagram_o.jpg" data-mid="8896540" border="0" align="left"/> This project is being built by Flying Colors/ Conscientious Craftsmen, with green roof specifications by Conservation Technologies, construction is expected to be complete in August, 2011. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista const_Panorama1.jpg" width="670" height="538" width_o="1867" height_o="1500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/Battista const_Panorama1_o.jpg" data-mid="8717650" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/lattice.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/lattice_o.jpg" data-mid="8892882" border="0" align="left"/> (photo by Kim Battista) <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/YWCPMUYS4TEISYWV5GNRWV2HDZC2M0NM5ZLX054QLYP2R30S.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/1770352/YWCPMUYS4TEISYWV5GNRWV2HDZC2M0NM5ZLX054QLYP2R30S_o.jpg" data-mid="9090259" border="0" align="left"/> http://w-as.net/campcamp http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/campcamp Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:44:24 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 996833 with: Marian April Glebes, C. Ryan Patterson partners: Current Space, Transmodern Festival 2011 - ongoing <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/996833/campcamp.jpg" width="670" height="701" width_o="877" height_o="918" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/996833/campcamp_o.jpg" data-mid="4788285" border="0" align="left"/> Transmodern Festival 2011 | An Invitation to campcamp a concept | campcamp: no previous survival experience required campcamp is built of unpredictable partnerships and spontaneous relations, situations, and communities that evolve when diverse characters are localized on a confined site, existing under real or perceived parameters, articulated, here, in the campground. In response to varieties of niche conditioning, all of which are characterized by transplanting circumscribed routines to extreme environments or situations, a temporal, site specific habitat is formed that is simultaneously exposed while cozy, fleeting while grounded, ritualistic while celebratory, traditional while futuristic. Using these specific standardizations and perceptions of nomadic landing pads, campcamp assembles and erects an ever-changing stability in a fluctuating yet comfortable urban setting. a description | campcamp: an introduction to the campground For the 2011 Transmodern Festival, Marian April Glebes, in collaboration with Fred Scharmen and C. Ryan Patterson, are curating campcamp, an exterior exhibition and interactive multi-disciplinary installation for which no prior survival experience is required for participation. The exhibition will occupy the rear exterior courtyard of The Current Gallery, and potentially the alley adjacent to said courtyard. (See attached plat for reference). campcamp identifies the campground as an organizational and conceptual device, then extends the implications and activities related to camping into foundations for aesthetic and eccentric experimentation. Artists, vendors, and niche lifestyle-crafters are invited to participate in campcamp by responding to categories like the following: setting & landscape bathhouse arts & crafts games & activities flag pole ceremonies & rituals mealtime the campfire site markers & field guides <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/996833/tmodimgref.jpg" width="670" height="433" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/996833/tmodimgref_o.jpg" data-mid="5142192" border="0" align="left"/> Artists are encouraged to create environments or installations that embrace the participatory and the habitable while expanding on standard campsite deliverables. Each artist, vendor or lifestyle crafter is assigned a camp site designated by the thematic category of their work. These sites are identified with site markers, corresponding to a posted and distributable Site Map and an information notice board that hosts all contributors' information and other ephemera of, about, and relating to campcamp. The exhibition may be accompanied by a Field Guide, produced by the curators or a collaborating artist/designer. A path-like common area connects the sites of campcamp to guide viewers through the courtyard, while, along the way, they are met with opportunities to engage with activities or to linger in gentle spaces. Over the three evenings of the festival (Thursday night, Friday, and Saturday) and perhaps daytime Sunday, campcamp morphs and grows as it is influenced by attendants and participants and simultaneously maintains a consistent, hospitable habitat that encourages those who enter to make themselves at home. a site | Current Gallery Courtyard <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/996833/campcamp-site 1_32_REV.jpg" width="670" height="402" width_o="2048" height_o="1230" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/996833/campcamp-site 1_32_REV_o.jpg" data-mid="4788339" border="0" align="left"/> a list | campcamp: preparing for the campground Please, join us for camping! We are after your survival skills, urban critiques, tents, treasures, lessons, shrines, packing strategies, whittled sticks, archery bales, skateboards, sod, beaches, watering holes, tall trees, arrow heads, sleeping bags and patterned fabric. We also like lights that blink, movie screens, dining room tables, mess kits, and all other things on fire and prepared. If you would like to be a part of this survival experience, please submit the following information to a designated contact person: Marian April Glebes | marian.glebes@gmail.com C. Ryan Patterson | cryanpatterson@gmail.com Fred Scharmen | fred.scharmen@gmail.com - identify the category under which you propose your category to fall & briefly explain the classification - at least three images/sketches of what you imagine your site/installation/performance to look like. - a 250-500 word description of your site/installation/performance - space/size/installation/electrical requirements, wants, or concerns - your name and how to contact you - statement of intent to participate and short bio MUST be received by 5 pm SUNDAY FEBRUARY 13th to be included in Transmodern Festival's press and promotional material. Late statements of interest will be accepted and honored, but cannot be guaranteed inclusion in festival materials. - complete project description and proposal due by 5 pm TUESDAY MARCH 1st. The fine print: - campcamp will be open to festival attendees Friday April 30, 7-11 pm and Saturday April 31st, 7-11 pm. The courtyard may be on the parade route for Sunday's Pedestrian Services Exquisite, but campcamp will not be a part of the daytime programming. Artists are strongly encouraged to be on site during the open hours of campcamp. - Installation for campcamp will commence Saturday April 23 for larger-scale installation build and materials drop-off. Special needs for storage or installation must be addressed in your proposal as stated above. - Deinstall will commence Sunday May 1st. Special arrangements/requirements for deinstallation should be outlined in your proposal. - Original application materials will not be returned. All materials become subject for use for promotion of campcamp. - Neither campcamp nor transmodern festival will be held liable for any damage or bodily harm that befalls any participant or participant's artwork. - Bring your own sleeping bag. - about the Transmodern Festival: "Transmodern is a festival of provocative works by cultural experimenters from Baltimore and the World. The artists of the 7th Annual Transmodern Festival defy traditional genres and embrace radical innovation through transmedia, clashes of organic vs. artificial intelligence, psychogeography, dislocation of consensus reality, real politic and collective cultural action. The organizers promote / celebrate the diversity of experimental culture by highly representing artists from the following groups: women, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, the radical subculture." …more at www.transmodernfestival.org <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/996833/Egypt Camp.jpg" width="670" height="507" width_o="988" height_o="749" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/996833/Egypt Camp_o.jpg" data-mid="5142417" border="0" align="left"/> (image source: BBC News) http://w-as.net/Salsa-Bowl http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Salsa-Bowl Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:34:30 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 980358 with: the Salsa Bowl Task Force 2009 - ongoing <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/980358/Salsa bowl collage.jpg" width="670" height="418" width_o="1440" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/980358/Salsa bowl collage_o.jpg" data-mid="4706014" border="0" align="left"/> Coming Soon: 30 days and 30 nights of Salsa Bowl! http://w-as.net/Waterwheel-Trash-Interceptor-w-Z-S http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Waterwheel-Trash-Interceptor-w-Z-S Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:50:25 +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"/> 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 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:47:37 +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) http://w-as.net/Design-in-Baltimore http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Design-in-Baltimore Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:53:15 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 918229 with: Kristian Bjornard, Timmy Aziz partners: The Office of Kristian Bjornard, MICA's ENV Department, AIA Baltimore 2010 This show at the Baltimore AIA Gallery focused on socially engaged, collaborative design work from the Maryland Institute College of Art's Environmental Design Program. The show was planned, designed, and executed along with Timmy Aziz and Kristian Bjornard, who also created a small publication to accompany it. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/5340366968_ecd3064592_b.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1024" height_o="685" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/5340366968_ecd3064592_b_o.jpg" data-mid="4403697" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/5340362658_5e1c9661fa_b.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1024" height_o="685" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/5340362658_5e1c9661fa_b_o.jpg" data-mid="4403706" border="0" align="left"/> Wall text by Timmy Aziz: Design is a recognized part of the solution to some of the pressing problems facing us today. Problems such as global warming, rapidly deteriorating environmental conditions, or social inequity will all need and benefit from greater involvement of designers and design thinking. Models of design practice are themselves changing. In these models, the relationship of client and designer is less hierarchical and more participatory in nature. More often than not, the designer identifies and defines the design problem and the solutions emerge from the labor of a team rather than being authored by a sole designer. MICA, Baltimore City, and its neighborhoods provide an ideal context for developing a practice of socially engaged projects. MICA has long been committed to community engagement and socially responsible design. The academic year, 2009–2010, was a watershed in ENV’s practice of socially engaged projects. During this year, ENV collaborated with community groups and institutions, taking on big issues and small ones alike. The Architecture and Product Design students have helped communities around Baltimore and the department gained national recognition for its socially conscious design. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/5340344514_8210b486b0_b.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1024" height_o="685" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/5340344514_8210b486b0_b_o.jpg" data-mid="4403734" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/5340359862_f8c1e227d3_b.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1024" height_o="685" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/5340359862_f8c1e227d3_b_o.jpg" data-mid="4403709" border="0" align="left"/> In order to organize the diverse, multimedia work in a way that was simple to install and de-install, a blue chalk line served as a datum, forming centers for the project documents to cluster around. Explanatory text and project information were presented on cards at each origin point. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/cards.jpg" width="670" height="224" width_o="2048" height_o="684" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/918229/cards_o.jpg" data-mid="4403745" border="0" align="left"/> The opening also included a large table with brochures and other literature from the groups collaborating in the work. This became a space for social interaction that will hopefully lead to more collaborations in the future. (thanks to Kristian Bjornard for the installation photography) http://w-as.net/The-Plant http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/The-Plant Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:50:44 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 917862 with: Lisa Ferretto, Eric Leshinsky, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Prescott Gaylord, & Thibault Manekin partners: Baltimore Bioneers 2008 - ongoing <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917862/Plant Diagram 1.jpg" width="670" height="375" width_o="2048" height_o="1147" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917862/Plant Diagram 1_o.jpg" data-mid="4401992" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917862/Plant Diagram 2.jpg" width="670" height="316" width_o="924" height_o="436" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917862/Plant Diagram 2_o.jpg" data-mid="4401994" border="0" align="left"/> wireless internet - WIF rainwater collection - RWC solar hot water - SHW back garden (food) - BGF ground source heat - GSH thin film photovoltaic - TPV roof garden - RGN prefab construction - PFC apartment - APT cultural container - CON front garden (flowers) - FGF The Plant - PLNT current & future neighbors - NBR the block - BLCK investors - INV institutions - INS city government - CGV region - REGN The Plant is a sustainable strategic development masterplan proposal for Baltimore. At the the building scale, The Plant is a mixed use prefab construction, containing a small meeting, office, and retail space for a nonprofit cultural institution, with apartments above. At the scale of the block, The Plant generates surplus energy for its neighbors, food from an onsite garden, and improved water quality. Income from The Plant, along with added equity from the block’s other properties, is able to effect change at the municipal level, helping fund a prefab construction supply startup, which is then able to export new techniques and technologies to other postindustrial cities in the larger region. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917862/Plant Sequence.jpg" width="669" height="448" width_o="669" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917862/Plant Sequence_o.jpg" data-mid="4402224" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917862/The Plant Technology.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="687" height_o="508" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/917862/The Plant Technology_o.jpg" data-mid="4402298" border="0" align="left"/> The Plant was created for the Baltimore Bioneers Conference in the fall of 2008, by the Visionary Green Design and Development Panel. Click here for more information. http://w-as.net/Constellation-Energy http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Constellation-Energy Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:58:23 +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) http://w-as.net/Invasive-Species http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Invasive-Species Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:24:51 +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"/> http://w-as.net/Procedural-Buff http://w-as.net/following/w-as.net/Procedural-Buff Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:46:58 +0000 Working Group on Adaptive Systems 900031 2010 - ongoing <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Buff Sketch 1 10.jpg" width="670" height="173" width_o="793" height_o="205" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Buff Sketch 1 10_o.jpg" data-mid="4312082" border="0" align="left"/> Procedural Buff is a late entry to a 2008 call for mural proposals at Eastern Avenue in Southeast Baltimore. The project rewrites the creation of a neighborhood mural as an urban game, blurring the lines between graffiti, public art, and community interaction. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Prcedural Buff pg 58 cleaned.jpg" width="670" height="564" width_o="2048" height_o="1724" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Prcedural Buff pg 58 cleaned_o.jpg" data-mid="4312148" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Prcedural Buff pg 59 cleaned.jpg" width="670" height="564" width_o="2048" height_o="1724" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Prcedural Buff pg 59 cleaned_o.jpg" data-mid="4312166" border="0" align="left"/> When the mural is added to or modified (1), the artist is awarded points. The changes are detected by a webcam (2), and the image is uploaded to the online archive (3). The handheld devices of the other players are notified (4), and given information about the location, color, and configuration of the pixels (5) to update. The first players to get to the mural and make the updates are awarded more points in the game. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Prcedural Buff pg 60 cleaned.jpg" width="670" height="507" width_o="2048" height_o="1552" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Prcedural Buff pg 60 cleaned_o.jpg" data-mid="4312283" border="0" align="left"/> "There has always been one rule in the game that never falters, dont go over your history no matter how old or wack. I cant imagine going over a Vinny throw up just because, it is a known known here in NYC in which we try to adhere to, let the buff or time erase it, not to say toys dont kill shit but established writers know better." - MARE 139, South Bronx <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Prcedural Buff pg 61 cleaned.jpg" width="670" height="459" width_o="1449" height_o="994" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68901/900031/Prcedural Buff pg 61 cleaned_o.jpg" data-mid="4312319" border="0" align="left"/> Timeline of a classic beef: Banksy/Robbo1 - original Robbo piece, c. 1985; 2 - Robbo piece, c. 2008; 3 - Banksy over Robbo, 2009; 4 - Robbo over Banksy, 2009 Traditionally, the only neutral way that the wall can be refreshed is with a new coat of paint laid down by the property owner or law enforcement: "the buff". This project takes the elements of graffiti and street art that are usually deployed as deterrants: surveilance and concealment, and redeploys them as newly integrated components of a larger system, muddying the lines between rivalry and collaboration. The project outsources the production of the mural to the local graffiti and street artists in a combination of social network, internet archive, and street game. The mural is the constantly changing result of the interactions between the artists involved. The ephemerality of this kind of urban artwork is foregrounded, and the tendency toward competition between different artists and different styles is systematized and neutralized by the gamelike aspects. This is a mural that can never be vandalized. (shoutout to Gaia for his writeup of the Banksy/Robbo beef)