Art that unites the Earth with our urban environments is the organizing principle of this month’s issue. Design professionals and artists approached these projects with love and respect for the places we call home, wherever we are, city or country, urban or rural. This month, CODAmagazine highlights 25 works which care for our environments. https://www.codaworx.com/news/july-2015/earth-and-urbanism/
CODAmagazine: Earth and Urbanism
Shaping, caring for, and utilizing our landscapes: design + art projects that navigate or observe natural and urban environments.
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““Greenway Blueway Byway Skyway”, located on the Happy Valley Greenway, provides seating-in-the-round on a painted and galvanized steel platform cantilevered over the Yadkin River. Engineered like a diving board, the platform sways above the sounds of the water cascading over the rocks below. It’s a playful hybrid of a bridge, a scenic overlook, and a park bench, providing visitors an intimate way to engage with others or just enjoy a moment suspended in time and space in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.”
“Commissioned by Sound transit, in Seattle’s Rainer Valley, a 7.5'W x 12"D x 35 ft. H bronze sculpture of a giant garden shovel made from reporductions of plants, trees, and flowers, "Global Garden Shovel, sits in Edmonds Plaza, in the columia city neighborhood.”
“We were inspired by the mission of the garden to educate, enchant, and inspire an appreciation of plants, butterflies, and the beauty of the natural world. This led us to the research and inspiration of the life, anatomy and transformational experiences that certain butterfly species undergo. The Metaphotonic treePOD is not only inspired by the process of metamorphosis, but also by the structure of the chrysalis, and the photonic character of microscopic scales that cover certain butterfly species. In essence, certain butterfly wings structures are not pigmented but rather they obtain their colors by manipulating light though their wing structures.”
“The Artist’s conceptual plan introduces a major environmental feature, the living wall concept, which replaces traditional post-and-beam highway construction with MSE green walls. The project, sited between Lake Pend Oreille and Sand Creek, is the backdrop to downtown Sandpoint. Implementing the MSE Green Wall in place of traditional concrete structures allowed the Team to address the concerns of the community creating a park-like space rather than a freeway under-story at the backside of downtown. The project includes three entryway bridges, the Sand Creek boardwalk, bicycle paths, trails, retaining walls, lighting, drainage ponds, wetland mitigation, and fish and wildlife habitat mitigation.”
“The Magical Harp is a permanent, outdoor interactive instrument played by passing your body through the 24 low-voltage diode LEDs that shine from the top of the delicate arch to the ground. Much like plucking the string of a harp, passing through the beams triggers custom circuitry and sensors to produce musical notes. Users play to create an ambiance that is individual to the moment of interaction that reflects the broad idea of play that’s still fun and sophisticated.When crowds flock to it and people start to play independently, the group’s participation in a musical symphony.”
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