Straw-blurry Fields from Jazzy Li on Vimeo
...I know, I know- last week was about an inspiring design as well. But look at these straws! A 64 square foot max footprint, no more than 1,000 cubic feet of volume, and $350 became the incredible installation featured in the movie above. Tulane recently hosted its annual Architect's Week and the end-products, as seen in the video, showcased the work of groups of students paired alongside master designers, the need for sensory statement and an emphasis on green design. 17,000 straws later, the winning group produced the clear vertical wave that enhanced its natural space by day and night.
While SRG builds our innovation workshops to be eternally open to and in service of new ideas, visions, looks and feels, architecture students are often tasked with creating while confined in a box. A very small box. How resilient can you make a structure constructed from 300 sticks of gum and how many students can stand on it, design an installation from unlimited numbers of milk crates in this parking lot (please reuse all materials included), build an extension bridge from only this bag of soda cans... the list goes on and the pieces get more remarkable. An architect friend of mine claims his finest and most creative work to have been made from a single roll of duct tape his first year of architecture school.
Another project I particularly loved in this stead came from the University of Denver College of Architecture and Planning where one class was tasked with creating two farm structures made of out of shipping pallets. As part of the FEED Denver program, the students were given limited resources with an emphasis on reuse of materials. The buildings were designed to convey unique beauty as well as versatile usage possibilities (including yoga spaces, apparently).
finite resources + endless possibility + critical & creative thinking = beautifully innovative work
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