Lift landscape illustrations

LIFT L A N D S C A P E

I L LU S T R A T I O N S

Annex

Alpha

Vortex

Tetragon

Matrix

Asterix

Axis

Delta

Vertex

Apex Tangent

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Alpha Ampli-shelter Tetragon Entry Green Visitor Parking Annex Vortex Stormwater Retention Stormwater Matrix Now Boarding Pet Facility Apex New Trees Prairie Matrix FAA Regional Office Tangent Lowland Forest Asterix MAC Corporate Office Cattail Matrix Knowledge Deck Steam Matrix Biodiesel Facility Axis Vertex Ethanol Facility

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Annex

Annex A

Annex Viewing Theater Section 0’

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A - A’ 10’

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A user might begin at the beginning, at the entry. Either by car exiting off Highway 62 or down 28th avenue into the ANNEX - a parking area designed around a raised gazing theater to witness the take-off and landing of flights from Runway 12L. The theater provides just 12 seats in sets of 3 in an attempt to create and maintain a rare intimacy with the aircraft, re-enacting the global act of plane watching on the angled gazing couches.

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Parking Lot Driveway

Lighting Bollard

Aluminum Gazing Frame Glass Gazing Panel 135o Aluminum Gazing Couch 5’ Gazing Raised Platform

12’ Chain Link Security Fence

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5’ Raised Gazing Theater

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135 Reclined Gazing Couch

Glass Inset Gazing Theater

12’ Security Fence

Airfield Biofuel Planting

Alpha

Alpha

Alpha Entry Plaza Section 0’

10’

B - B’ 20’

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The ALPHA entry is a space designed as though modern infrastructure were a treated with the sacred formality of an ancient temple in order to re-frame our visual understanding of these pieces of equipment as users enter from the neighborhood above, or Bossen Field Park during the fevered excitement of little league action on a Saturday morning.

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Overflow Lawn

Framed Infrastructure

DVOR

70’ Diameter Emitting Surface

3’ Diameter Support Column 15’ Diameter Central Column

Overly Dramatic Base Lighting

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Gathering Lawn

Street Entry

Tetragon

Tetragon C’

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Tetragon Dog Park Section 0’

20’

C - C’ 40’

The central promenade axis leads into the Tetragon dog park, a new version of a previously unfenced and unregulated use at the south end of the site, wrapping around and through these re-framed infrastructural elements of the DVOR, basically a large aircraft scaled GPS transponder unit with its two associated booster antenna. The form of the fence and tree plantings create a forced perspective, narrowing as they near the DVOR increasing the perceived scale of the structure as the central path is processed through a sea of frolicking pups.

Smalldog Area

Ampli-Shelter

40

2” Aluminum Bar

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3/8” Inset Safety Glass

12’-8” Clearance

9’-9” Radius Wood Platform 18” Concrete Footing 25’

-0”

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Booster Tower

Play Area

Frolicking Pup

DVOR

Security Fence

Vortex

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Vortex

Vortex Drain Bridge Section 0’

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D - D’ 40’

The entry splits into two directions, parallel experiential runways in the spirit of the footprint of MSP originating from similar circumstance but diverting into diverse tangent arcs like flight paths. The lower tangent moves first through the VORTEX bridge, an experimental wetland retention pond which captures the storm runoff from the hardscape of the corportate facilities before it enters the the Minneapolis sewer system. Designed for up to 150,000 cu/ft of water, the bridge bursts forth with aquatic effulgence during rain events to showcase and signify the act of its capture.

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Now Boarding

Infiltration Prairie

Matrix Paths

3’-6” Handrail Wood Plank Gangway Steel Support Structure 6” Embedded Drain Pipes 1” Exterior Drizzle Pipes

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Storage Pond

Drizzle Pipes

Vortex Bridge

Matrix

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Matrix

Matrix Planting Section 0’

5’

E - E’ 10’

This water is then utilized in one of the test pods of the MATRIX, the large biomass testing facility which runs down the central spine of the site, edged by existing parking areas on the east and the existing ridgeline on the west. This matrix will evolve over time as needs and science dictate, but has been initally set up for algaes, mixed prairire grasses, bamboo species, switchgrass, and cattails in conjunction with mother Lake.

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18” Seating Edge

Secondary Traipseway

First Date

Mixed Prairie Testing Plots

Pond Fed Drip Irrigation Experimental Planting Medium Rubberized Planting Bed Liner Filter Mesh Heated Steam Pipes Exterior Path Lights Aluminum Raised Planting Bed Overflow Drain Adjacent Walkway

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Primary Traipseway

Algae Stormwater Tests

Apex

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Apex

Apex Sky Bridge Section 0’

As one sinks below grade towards the cattails of Mother Lake, the second tangent arc stretches above. 22’ over the lower tangent arc and stretching almost 2000’ from end to end the APEX is a raised curving arc with an accessible stepped theater to separate the movers from the shakers. It is an epic place of theater for viewing the incoming aircraft from runway 12R and 17 over the shallow murky and now relatively bird-free waters of Mother Lake.

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Tangent Walkway

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Lower Platform

3’6” Safety Railing 12’ Wide Upper Walkway .3%

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Apex Peak 18” Step Down / 3 6” Risers 10’ Wide Lower Gazing Platform 22’ Support Beam 3’-6” Safety Railing 6’ Wide Lower Gangway

Cattails

Apex Peak

Landscape Students

Mother Lake

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Tangent

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Tangent

Tangent Cattail Walkway Section 0’ 20’

G - G’ 40’

The lower tangent arc leads deeper out into the marsh below, and as it narrows, provides provisions to step off the path to gather, wait, watch, think, chat, rest, or catch grasshoppers as they move through the marsh. It is a smaller more intimate place for the experience of aircraft and one another.

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Apex Peak

Waning Moon

Runway 12R

6’ Wide Lower Gangway

3’6” Safety Railing

10’ Wide Raised Gazing Platform 6” Step

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Tangent Curve

Lower Platform

Runway 17

Asterix

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Asterix

Asterix Celestial Storage Tanks Section 0’ 20’

H - H’ 40’

The lower tangent returns to shore into the matrix at the ASTERIX, a chemical and fuel storage tank yard designed to re-imagine the airport’s role in the atmosphere.

Despite being a landscape and infrastructure primarily concerned with the sky, the lights required for safe airfield operations create such dense light pollution that the stars are no longer visible in the night sky. Thus the tanks are given a floating exterior skin which is perforated with the patterns of constellations and back lit to provide a space a place for learning about the celestial vaccuum in a a landscape devoted to the sky.

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Biodiesel Facility

Storage Tanks

Floating Exterior Aluminum Skin Drilled Constellation Patterns

Internal Light Source Standard Storage Tank

Educational Experience

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Amateur Astrologists

Seating Edge

Celestial Diagrams

Axis

Axis

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Axis

Axis Education Theater Section 0’ 10’

I - I’ 20’

The asterix tanks are adjacent to the sited production facilities and the large dueling theaters of the AXIS. The space between the diesel and ethanol facilities each of which feature large viewing windows as the centrum to a small amphitheater both similar in evoking the invisible shapes of the airport landscape and different in their physical shapes much like the internal functions of their related structures. These spaces are meant to expose the process of fuel production and create accessible science and inate learning opportunities. Both buildings are designed conceptually to be more than a white box, but rather to be inviting and functional, and where appropriate, open to the public.

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Biodiesel Facility

Glass Hallway

Diesel Theater

Community College Chemists

Cellulosic Theater

The building shapes are reminiscent of these same invisible airport geometries, from outward radiating radar circles to the runway hashes forming repeating V’s.

The shapes are gestural, more as a question of what the structures could be if not the white box. But perhaps the tanks could appear as beakers and the building provide a puncture for their experience, in this case in the form of a large glass hallway which seperates the material storage, early processing, and production processing uses.

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Ethanol Facility

Chemical Beakers

Walkway Egress

Various Machinery Production Floor Sky Gazing Portal Production Gazing Portal

Floating Mesh Skin Garage Entry

North Elevation

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South Elevation

Material Storage/Receiving Room Vegetation Processing Room Internal Glass Walkway Processing Gazing Portal Production Room

Chemical Storage Tanks Production Gazing Portal

East Elevation

West Elevation

Production Facility Elevations 40’ 1”=20’ 0’

80’

Vertex

Vertex J

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Vertex Test Plot Section 0’ 40’

A central path leads out from the axis back through the descending matrix of steam-heated bamboo planters to test future viability of biomass plants given the impending realities of climate change through a stop off-gathering point called the Knowledge Deck down to the final theater, the VERTEX. Located as close as permitted to the edge of the runway 12R and shaped by the invisible forces of its associated runway safety area the viewing platform is nestled in a series of test matrix plots for cattails only a few hundred feet below the belly of incoming and outgoing aircraft. This is a spectacle earned through the long traverse and circulates back through the network to the entry.

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Viewing Deck

J - J’ 80’

Cattail Testplots

Cattail Planting Plot

Cattail Planting Plot Mesh Walkway

Gazing Theater

Flush Wetland Edge

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DVOR Disc

Apex Curve

Steamvent Testplots

Knowledge Deck

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