The Indianapolis Cultural Trail announces a public art installation. “Moving Forward,” by Indianapolis-based architect Donna Sink, (aka, archinect's great Liberty Bell) is a series of three custom-designed eco-friendly bus shelters that will showcase original poetry by published writers.
The Indianapolis Cultural Trail announces a public art installation. “Moving Forward,” by Indianapolis-based architect Donna Sink, (aka, archinect's great Liberty Bell) is a series of three custom-designed eco-friendly bus shelters that will showcase original poetry by published writers. The shelters will be located along the Cultural Trail on the south side of Virginia Avenue near Lexington Street, McCarty Street and Woodlawn Avenue.
Each shelter will be comprised of ecoresin panels, which are made using 40% post-industrial re-grind content, mounted in a stainless steel frame. The shelters will be installed on TX Active photocatalytic cement pads. These pads will be self-cleaning and will help reduce many pollutants deemed harmful to human health and the environment
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Thanks Orhan! The eco-resin panels are 3Form, not sure why that name wasn't included in the press release.
Call for poets is live now! The poem in the rendering is one my son wrote in kindergarten:
Candles
They're made to be
at a party
waiting
to be blown.
Also, the rendering is by Kyle Perry, a Ball State student, to whom I owe a huge thank you for turning my lousy free SketchUp image into a proper rendering.
can't wait to make my architecture pilgrimage to indy to see one of these!
really lovely news, Donna. This is great!!
if you're married to 'THE artist', does that make you THE Architect?
the shelters look great!
Love it!
i was down in fountain square on saturday morning. although this area is becoming hip it is still pretty vacant on a saturday morning. better at night. you can go duckpin bowling there however.
I'd love to hear some criticism here. They're not finalized yet, although my budget is. Let fly.
are the panels self cleaning? also, i'm curious to know if grafitti is a problem in this part of town and how that would be addressed. it would be annoying to have the shelter's poetry vandalized by a bunch of less-than-banksy wannabe's.
i like the way the resin panels and poetry reflects on to the ground surface expanding the overall shelter "enclosure" effect...changing it's form throughout the day as the sun reflects through it - as well as at night as moving vehicular headlights possibly interact with it's transparencies...simple and nice.
Thanks xaia. The 3Form panels are not TMK self-cleaning, however, painted graffiti can be washed off of them (hmmm...I suddenly have a vision of myself going down there every week to make sure they're clean....).
Scratched graffiti is another problem, and the goal in that regard is to make the words dense enough that there isn't a clear surface to make any kind of scratched graffiti legible. Small scratches can be sanded out, but the surface of the 3Form won't be the same after.
Thanks for your comment - I'm realizing now that the backs of the fins (the stainless panels on either side, where the inside surface will have bus info on one panel and the full legible text of the poem on the other) are also susceptible to scratching. I better look into a surface texture on those.
As to your second paragraph: that was exactly the intent. It's wonderful for me to see that you get it!! :-)
also like the way the shelter appears to be evenly located between the 2 lamp posts which seems to visually reinforce the poetry of symmetry.
very clean, very effective. thanks for sharing.
LB,
does the bus stop include anything for sitting on or resting against? can't see from the one image.
bus stops in London, tram stops in Melbourne have small, horizontal metal tube (approx 150mm dia) bracketed of the back wall, allowing you to at least rest your bum on it, to take a little weight off your feet while waiting.
just wondering - i assume the buses don't come round very often.
Yes, dlb, it's hard to see in the rendering! It's a little Landscape Forms bench called Stay, it's pretty, and is the Cultural Trail standard. Thankfully it fits well with the shape and materials of my bus stop.
Awesome. Is there any form of lighting?
I'd pay particular attention to the text, I recently saw pictures of a project where the artist's intent was to create a legible shadow with poems cut into a pergola, but unfortunately the installers put them in while they were BELOW them (therefore the poem was legible to the INSTALLER) and the resulting shadows were mirrored. Something to think about and play with.
Certain poems may only reveal themselves when the sun shines, the text at first appearing as a jumble reveals itself during the day.
Yes, Slart, there is uplighting. At night the crowds tend to move from Downtown south to Fountain Square, so the three differently-colored bus stops will be markers of the progression from one district to another. So the shadow casting aspect stops and the bus stop instead becomes an uplit beacon.
FOGlite, thankfully my lousy SU rendering already taught me that lesson! I love the idea of the shadows making various bits legible depending on the angle of the sun.
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