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The Wandering Harvest Dome

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Harvest Dome 2.0, Inwood Park Inlet, New York City.

The Harvest Dome 2.0, nestled into Inwood Park Inlet in New York City, glows at twilight.

It’s with great interest we’ve followed the wandering Harvest Dome sculptures, created from wayward umbrellas that landed—broken and scratching at the sky at the biding of the wind—on the sidewalks or in the trash cans of New York City. The project first came across our radar when the Trespa Design Center featured it during an event in 2011. Amanda Schachter & Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture envisioned the floating installation conceived for Inwood Hill Park Inlet, which calls attention to New York City’s waterways and watersheds.

Harvest Dome 2.0, Inwood Park Inlet, New York City, with kayaker.

Kayakers gets up close and personal with the Harvest Dome 2.0 in Inwood Park Inlet in New York City.

I am still as impressed with this video on the Kickstarter site, shot by Chris Kannen, as I was when I first saw it:

Together with local teens, SLO Architecture gathered discarded storm-snapped umbrellas and assembled them into a giant dome. You can see more of the initial story I wrote in an earlier post on the adroyt blog. What was fascinating about the project is that the Harvest Dome had two iterations, the first of which took a bit of an odyssey along Manhattan’s waterways, deflating at Rikers Island on its way to its intended home of 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). The second version, dubbed 2.0, did finally make it to its destination in 2013. I wanted to share the beautiful images of it because they are eerily haunting.

Harvest Dome Visual

A beautiful shot of the Harvest Dome 2.0 from the inside.

SLO was tapped for recognition by AIA New York for its “New Practices New York 2012” competition at the Center for Architecture when they were working on the sculpture but activity around it has died off. The BRX Facebook page was a source of news but there’s nothing being said about the project now. Have you heard of any news regarding the complex project? If so, we at adroyt would love to know. Every time I see it, I can’t help but wonder what Buckminster Fuller would think of the project!

Harvest Dome with Geese

These geese seem to be right at home with the Harvest Dome.

Initial photos: Andreas Symietz.

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