Bay Bridge Concept: Wind Techtonics

Mutable Structure

Problem:: Building and the Mono-Identity...thoughts on urban decay. Both buildings and urban planning are designed for a singular, specific purpose. Buildings' identities typically live long passed their initial engendered function. Thisphenomenon leads to "urban decay" wherein buildings, sites, and urban spaces die leaving behind their decomposing carcasses. The remaining carcass is a void in the cityscape-- a relic awaiting demolition. Decay, demolition, and development promulgate the issue of urbansustainability. How might one begin to address the issue of building/development mono-identity plaguing the traditional city to posit a "new" unstoppable (juggernaut) stereo-identity for the development/creation/birth of the non-city?

Solution:: A shape shifting melange of program, facade, and urban space? Stay tuned...

Bay Bridge Studio

An initial concept drawing reflecting upon the nature or rather anti-nature of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Dissected then stitched pieces of idyllic human imagery aggregate into a melange of possibility. A palimpsest of non-identity emerges yielding a cybernetic being. How is this non-creation situated in architecture. Or is the humanoid non-creation transcoded to become a urbanoid non-city that is neither here nor there? a mobile stealthiness, cyclical transmogrification, an unstoppable force, a Juggernaut architecture?

bridging la boca

rib structure

martha dont you moan

bridge study

clay bridge study

wildflower

postcard 

banks of the ohio

buoyant love written in cork, ink, and vellum

amazing grace

drift wood: berkeley shore

barbara allen

scattered slowly into a field of passion -- lust -- nervous fluid-- 

spinal tap, blockage -- cardio infarction -- flat line...beep

defibrillator...beep... pulse crack shock beep. 

burned home, exile and death -- love with caution

my country tis of thee

A SERVANT KILLED. MUCH HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT HER.

THE AUTHENTIC SOUND OF THE AMERICAN MAMA.

SHE HAS THE POWER OF THE NORMAL...

MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY, 

FOR THE SING LAND WHERE MY FATHERS DIED...

college of environmental design ( a note on sustainability)

this land is my land

FROM CALIFORNIA TO THE NEW YORK ISLANDS

FROM THE CONCRETE FOREST TO THE POLLUTED

DRINKING WATER, THIS LAND WAS MADE 

BY YOU AND ME

A CANVASED LANDSCAPE

Riachuelo bridge

STUDY FOR A MULTI-PROGRAMMED BRIDGE 

LA BOCA Y AVELLANEDA

mannequin ambiguity

LANDFILL CARCINOGEN BIONIC SOAK CONCRETE

PLASTIC BLISS REBAR TOXIC  SUNBLOCK  PLEASE

EL CHICO QUE LLAMA LOBO...

   

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY  ::    RIO de LA PLATA

community housing

A PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE...WELCOME

a leadbelly harlem

INSPIRED BY THE ROCK ISLAND LINE, HARLEM, & THE SOUTH

mary dont you weep

COLLAGE OF IMAGERY FROM JACKSONS THE DEEP TO MOSES ROCK

cigarrillo bendito or just desserts?

Buenos Aires 201 Experiments in Re-presentation

maniquí

una pelicula  de experencia de Buenos Aires.

BEACH PARK LANDFILL WATER

HYDROSECTION

INTRAVENOUS PORTAGE

ARTERIAL SUTURING

PHYTOREMEDIATION: ANTHROPOID BRIDGING

HYDROPHYTIC PABULUM

DIATOMIC PLASTICIZATION

down in the valley

  WORN SOBER EARTH WHISTLE DOWN IN THE VALLEY SO LOW