Category: representation
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Details: Light up the Streets
I am working on a couple of streetscape/Main Street redevelopment projects and it’s definitely focused my attention on the ways in which trends of street furnishings get adopted and perpetuated through environments. I think we all know about the unfortunate ‘cobra head’ and the ubiquitous ‘acorn’ light fixture – meant to span the utilitarian and…
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Veg.itecture #35
Sunday seems to be a prime time for summarizing the weeks Veg.itectural creations… as an aside, I had the opportunity to make a presentationon Veg.itecture to a diverse group of participants as part of the Summer Sustainability Series, which was a great success the past week… and it’s true – people respond to the concept…
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Unnatural Waters
This post stems from a fascinating post I spotted a while back on Treehugger. The topic was the Foreclosure Fish… a resultant reaction from the abandonment of homes, and more specifically swimming pools. “The mortgage crisis is not only wrecking peoples’ lives, it’s not doing much good for the environment, either. The swimming pools of…
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Fusionopolis by Ken Yeang
Well, it’s not a secret that I am an admirer of Ken Yeang, and his unique brand of Bioclimatic Architecture – mostly because of its reliance on multiple tenets of the Veg.itecture concept: 1) use of vegetation for environmental systems; 2) use of vertical and horizontal surfaces; and the mixing of these concepts for aesthetic…
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Veg.itecture #34
Time for another installment… a good amount of new projects, both interior and exterior vegetation. The first, shown a while back in Veg.itecture #31 has gotten a lot of press of late (and some new images) – under the moniker Xeritown. Sounds kind of dry…? :: images via Xeritown A little bit of greenery atop…
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Materiality: Textured Panels
As I mentioned back in March – the application of art, architecture and other detailing can have a significant influence on how we express landscape and urban interventions. While many materials are somewhat specific to architecture, or are artistically used in ways that aren’t typically functional – there are some great examples that have real…
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‘Agriculture’
This old(er) post from Tropolism offers some great maps of the US in relation to agricultural production. Linked from radical cartography (a great site!), this work by Bill Rankin: “Where does our food come from? (And where should we expect to find the “meat lobby”?) But notice the marked discontinuity in soybean production between the…
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Veg.itecture #33
Clearing the files of backed up projects (to make way for the new, of course)… a brief, in text, and long, in photos, version of Veg.itecture… it’s definitely got variety, although you can see the disparity between built and representative projects… A colorful green roof atop ECOSpace, in Dunfermline, United Kingdom, by RMJM (now about…
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Parc del Centre de Poblenou
Architecture as art. Art of Building. Vegetated Architecture. There are a lot of blurry lines out there between themes in design… and this often leads to cross-pollination and perhaps overstepping of turf sometimes. Taking the multi-disciplinary approach a bit further, Coolboom recently featured Jean Nouvel recently in the design for the Parc del Centre de…
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Veg.itecture #32
Time for another installment, and no slowing down of the Veg.itectural trend. As this phenomenon evolves it will be continually interesting to see the differences between the imagery that is presented in concept – and the actual project build-outs for these vegetated architectural creations. Starting with a recent post from my new favorite site, Arch…