17,8 856 drinking sstraws 11,5 560 feet of fissh line 1,122 nails 13 people 7 days 1 am mazing experrience
STR RAW-B BLURR RY FIEL LDS an arc chitectural insstallation for a architect’s wee ek 2011 tulane sschool of arc hitecture february 2011
Pro oject Descriptiion ws, the team le ed by Tulane School of Archittecture Utilizing more than 17,000 straw rd aumgartner stru ung together a blurry 3 year students Yueqi ‘Jazzy’ Li and Eric Ba architectural spac ce that engage es touch, soun nd, and sight. Twelve panelss form o constantly moving m curtain walls and flu uidity the spacce in between n. The two tran nsparency and lightness of th he installation a allows itself to play with sun,, wind, and d light conditio ons. The ephe emeral projectt does not takke any static visual, aco oustical, or sensual s form . Instead, th he demateria alization of sstraws, cha aracterized by porosity and local interconn nectivity, creattes what Stan n Allen calls - ‘field cond ditions’ – whicch are defined d not by overrarching geom metrical sch hemas but by in ntricate intervalls, repetitions, and seriality. The e project was awarded a 1st pla ce of the archittects’ week com mpetition.
Cre edits Tea am Leaders: Yu ueqi ‘Jazzy’ Li, Eric Baumgarrtner Tea am Members: Amelia Steelm man, William Bradock, Chris Baker, Frank Xiong, Jam mes Ball, Jenn nifer Wickham , Kevin Frankklin, Lexi Tamm mer, Robbie M Mosby, Spe encer Knight, Will W Nemitoff Bud dget: $350 Arc chitectural Cons sultant: Solid O Objectives - Ide enburg Liu Pho oto Contributorrs: Alexandrra Bojarski-Sta auffer (images 1 and 2) Jill Stoll (image 3) e 4) David Armentor (image