Land Art Generator Initiative. The Land Art Generator Initiative is very pleased to announce that we are working towards the construction of WindNest (a design by Clare Olsen & Trevor Lee and a submission to the 2010 LAGI competition) for a site in Pittsburgh, PA.
We will announce our partners and the site very soon. The pragmatic and performative aspects of WindNest are provided through two means of energy collection. Each of the artwork’s cloud formations is fitted with a ducted wind turbine. In addition, one third of the surfaces are covered with solar fabric. The proposal utilizes low-impact, lightweight materials chosen in consideration of the full life-cycle of the project from material production to construction, maintenance and even after its role as a public art installation. Scaled for the Pittsburgh sites, WindNest will be designed to generate approximately 150MWh per year, or enough to offset the electricity used by 20 homes. CLARE J. TREVOR LEE Landscape Architect & Partner, SUPRAFUTURES.
Competition Prompt. The main goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is to design and construct public art installations that have the added benefit of large scale clean energy generation.
Each sculpture will continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid, with each having the potential to provide power for hundreds to thousands of homes around the world. Presenting the power plant as public artwork—simultaneously enhancing the environment, increasing livability, providing a venue for learning, and stimulating local economic development—is a way to address a variety of issues from the perspective of the ecologically concerned artist and designer. By nature of its functional utility, the work also sets itself into many other overlapping disciplines from architecture and urban design to mechanical engineering and environmental science.
Representational Technique. Moses Highway Diagram. Robert Moses’ legacy may be getting tweaked if organizers of three upcoming exhibitions have their way.
The NY Times’ Robin Pogrebin is reporting that the Museum of the City of New York, the Queens Museum of Art and Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery will unveil a three-parter over the next month on the master builder. Columbia University architectural historian Hilary Ballon says that Moses’ achievements have been overlooked. From the Times: Living in New York, one is aware there has been no evident successor or successors to Moses,” she said. “There aren’t master builders. EARTHWORKS Official Site. Earthworks Examples. Time.com Video Landfill to Landscape. Fresh Kills: From Landfill to Landscape For decades, New York's trash went to Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island.
The city is now converting it into a landscaped public parkland RELATED Fresh Kills: From Landfill to Landscape More Video Video by Topic Popular Topics Video Series See All Video Topics » Similar Videos for: Fresh Kills: From Landfill to Landscape Sign In Not a memeber? Email address or Password is incorrect. Can Landscape Architect James Corner Turn Fresh Kills Landfill Into a City-Changing Park? Let’s start at the end of one story, the story of the dump, with the view from way up on top of it.
Let’s start at the peak of what was once a steaming, stinking, seagull-infested mountain of trash, a peak that is now green, or greenish, or maybe more like a green-hued brown, the tall grasses having been recently mown by the sanitation workers still operating at Fresh Kills, on the western shore of Staten Island. Today the sun dries the once slime-covered slopes, as a few hawks circle in big, slow swoops and a jet makes a lazy approach to Newark, just across the Arthur Kill.
The sky, when viewed from atop a twenty-story heap of slowly decomposing garbage—the so-called South Mound, a Tribeca-size drumlin surrounded by other trash mounds, some as long as a mile—is the kind of big blue that you expect to see somewhere else, like the middle of Missouri. This idea of a park—a green, pastoral place to sport and play—hasn’t evolved much since Central Park was finished. Architecture Competitions, Events & News. The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) celebrates transformative urban places distinguished by their economic and social contributions to our nation’s cities.
Winners offer creative placemaking solutions that transcend the boundaries between architecture, urban design and planning and showcase innovative thinking about American cities. One Gold Medal of $50,000 and four Silver Medals of $10,000 will be awarded. Fresh Kills - Competition. Corner Entry. Freshkills Park. In 2001, the City of New York, led by the Department of City Planning and supported by the New York Department of State’s Division of Coastal Resources, conducted a master planning process for Freshkills Park that resulted in an illustrative park plan, also known as the Draft Master Plan .
In 2006, the Department of Parks & Recreation assumed responsibility for implementing the project using the Draft Master Plan as a conceptual guide. The basic framework of the plan integrates three separate systems — programming, wildlife, and circulation — into one cohesive and dynamic unit. Programming Freshkills Park will host an incredible variety of public spaces and facilities for social, cultural and physical activity, for learning and play.
The site is large enough to support many sports and programs that are unusual in the city, possibilities of which include horseback riding, mountain biking, nature trails, kayaking, and large–scale public art. Five Parks in One Aerial View of Creek Landing.