Dan Wood and Amale Andraos, the husband-and-wife duo behind Work Architecture, propose an urban farm for this year's PS1 Young Architects Program. NYT
Ms. Andraos and Mr. Wood were chosen over four other finalists, all of them based in New York: Matter Architecture Practice; su11 architecture & design; Them; and Monad Architects, which also has an office in Miami.
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OK, first: I love and respect the hell out of MatterPractice, and hope they get to do it next year or soon.
But Oh my GOD, I'm so excited about this one!!!! Finally a real (sorta) experiment in urban farming, in a really high profile venue! Fantastic! Can't wait to see it.
finally an interesting proposal for PS1!!!! I had all but given up on this event as anything but a sad canopy design project....but this is gonna be awesome.
I like Work AC and all, but this sure looks like a "canopy" to me -- check more images at Architect's Newspaper: link
It also looks a lot like that cardboard tube canopy thing built in NY last year, minus the plants...
shop's dunescape is still undefeated
either way, i look forward to the drunken reverly that will take place in that garden next summer, regardless of how successful the installation is.
Haven't we seen this before? Looks a lot like this thing: http://archinect.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=2
bumblebee, where'd the pic go? I was wondering if it was th same one I was thinking of...
Not sure what happened to that link, but here are a few more of the same structure I was thinking about (looks like this one was built in 2006:
http://www.archinect.com/gallery//displayimage.php?pos=-6075
http://www.archinect.com/gallery//displayimage.php?pos=-6082
Also, how wierd is the 2008 "Plagiarius Award winners" article link on the home page right next to this "look-a-like" winner of PS1. Is this all a big joke?
A bit off-topic, but this remind me about questions about 3dh mauch as "how will you keep out the rain ?
Great idear though , yet a bit disapointing.
I disagree with you meta, when you say that all forms have been done already. Its a fundamental question, "is originality (or creativity) dead." if it is dead now, as you seem to be implying, then was originality ever alive? Is there any such thing as originality? Perhaps I am a bit off topic, but I've been wrestling with this question for a while, and its no easy answer, but I dont think I would ever agree with originality being dead, it doesnt sit well with me.
and I don't think it would, or should, sit well with architecture as a profession. Although I have heard a few of my professors make comments along those same lines.
LA Architects do it better
bumblebee, I see little similarity in those two except in the material used. The forms are only vaguely similar in that they both have a "roof" on "posts" - but isn't that true of virtually every shade structure ever conceived?
Situ Studio's is seemingly meant to appear random, is much more decorative, and "trashy" in that it plays up the rawness of the material used as the predominant aesthetic. It is part of a bigger piece celebrating the reuse of materials and making them pretty in doing so. The project ends with this temporary use, the materials aren't projected into any bigger picture.
Work's proposal uses the tubes as a system towards another end - urban farming - so the decorative aspect of the tube system grows (get it) from their function. The appearance of the cardboard itself is much less important to the overall piece than Situ's, where the appearance of the cardboard IS the piece.
Please let's all use more rigor when comparing projects.
well put lb!
the concept and function of work.ac's proposal is what is so interesting to me. the form it takes in almost secondary, however, i think this form they've designed works very well with the context of and use of the space. it will be fun to watch this design take shape.
how does one go about weeding and/or harvesting? there do not appear to be any walkways and the tubes look thin-walled to the point that they'd be quite precarious to try and navigate with a hose, a trowel and a 40 pound sack of soil.
who is going to climb up there and pick the tomatoes? not me brotha...
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