Design to construction

City council meeting went great, open house went great, and now its time to get on with building. Unfortunately, we haven't yet nailed down our material suppliers. The importance of finding recycled materials makes it a little trickier but there is plenty of stuff out there for us. The design seems to have come together and hopefully construction will be starting within a week.

Here are some pics of a water bottle study inspired by a design by emilio ambasz and a shadow/form study of the analogue panel/funnel model I built. I think it's important we keep these two concepts in mind even as we seem to be moving further away from them to make sure that we don't end up tacking them on in the end. The panels especially seem to have been forgotten as the structural form takes so much precedence. The water bottle is really just playing around with how a plastic bottle can start to become something more and how the ability to refract and bend the light moving through it can create some interesting opportunities.

stage design

This past weekend we decided to tackle the design of the stage since it seemed to be lagging as other phases developed. Beginning with concept of covering and revealing parts of the stage use decking, we began to develop a more experiential concept about how crossing in front of the stage might begin to connect a runner with the experience of the boardwalk later on. In addition we explored the concept of weaving the two decking planes together visually. By wrapping the wood around the edges we experimented with preserving the edges of the box as well as breaking away from it periodically. Other Adam and I constructed a model that would allow us to look at not only the aesthetics of the planes but also at how the construction details might begin to reinforce the overall concepts in play.