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Harvest Dome and SLO Architecture Recognized by AIA NY

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A discarded umbrella like this, which I photographed on the streets of Brooklyn last winter, serves as the building material for the Harvest Dome.

The Harvest Dome 2.0 first came across our radar when the Trespa Design Center featured the project during an event in April of this year as a segment in their “Visionaries” series. In this case, Amanda Schachter & Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture were the forces who envisioned and created the floating installation conceived for Inwood Hill Park Inlet, which calls attention to New York City’s waterways and watersheds. Here’s a wonderful video on the Kickstarter site shot by Chris Kannen:

Together with local teens, SLO Architecture gathered discarded storm-snapped umbrellas and assembled them into a giant dome as a revelation of the city’s accumulated waterborne debris. One of several of Schachter’s and Levi’s investigations along the City’s waterways, Harvest Dome furthers the team’s desire to reveal New York City’s primeval ecologies through architectural experimentation.

The Harvest Dome 2.0 being ferried into place.

The event at Trespa shed light on the fact that the Dome transfigures the workings of the ecosystem at Manhattan’s northern tip, the site of the island’s last remaining saltmarsh. The inlet at Inwood Hill Park, a remnant of Spuyten Duyvil Creek’s marshland, reconfigured and dredged in 1895 to create the Harlem River Ship Canal, is home to saltwater cordgrass, a species particularly adept at trapping and converting flotsam into the nutrient-rich mud called detritus, which supports abundant life on the marsh. During the course of a month, the buoyant sphere rose and fell with the tide, alternating between floating and sitting on the mud-flat which is uncovered twice daily, as it engaged the circadian action of the water and emerged from the mud-flat as a curiously out-scaled harvesting of urban flotsam.

Founders of SLO and the determined duo behind the Harvest Dome projects.

SLO has just been tapped for recognition by AIA New York for its exhibition presenting the “New Practices New York 2012” competition, which opened last Thursday at the Center for Architecture and will remain on view through September 8th. The Harvest Dome figured in SLO’s nabbing the recognition in the show at 536 Laguardia Place. You can keep up with the Harvest Dome’s evolution on the BRX Facebook page, and there should be plenty of progress to follow, as SLO Architecture is currently working to secure a location to construct the next rendition of the Dome closer to Inwood, with an anticipated exhibition date for August 2012.

Perched atop the water, the Harvest Dome 2.0 looks other-worldly. Photo by Andreas Symietz.

They have salvaged the destroyed remains of the first Harvest Dome from Rikers Island and will display parts of them with Harvest Dome 2.0, which was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign launched earlier this year by Schachter & Levi, and other generous donations made through the Architectural League of New York—the project’s fiscal sponsor. Kickstarter published this plea to help fund 2.0, and the images are definitely worth a look. Good luck to the futuristic minded team for its determination to make a statement far exceeding the act of merely making noise!

Refuse made beautiful! Photo by Andreas Symietz.

Next week we’ll be featuring Alva Noto, the sound architect (who is really the artist Carsten Nicolai who loves to explore the physicality of experimental sound). He uses the principles of Cymatics to imagine his multimedia creations that include mixtures of music, perception, video, awareness and visual art.

 

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