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SLO Architecture

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Harvest Dome 2.0

Harvest Dome 2.0 (2013) is a giant diaphanous orb for the New York City waterways. A 24ft diameter cupola we designed and constructed from over 450 umbrellas frames, and made buoyant with a ring of 128 empty two-liter soda bottles, Harvest Dome transforms the eight-pointed steel frame, a quintessential piece of urban detritus, into the transcendent form of an architectural dome for the water, to float alongside and bring attention to the tidal salt-marshes of the City.

 
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Status: Built
Location: NYC Waterways
Additional Credits: Team:
Amanda Schachter & Alexander Levi; Sharif Anous, Jee Hyung Park, Nate Long, Hande Oney, Therese Diede, Gerard Joyas, Billy Rohan, Chris Maldonado, Arthur Shmulevsky, Rachel Mulder, and Eiji Jimbo