Sunny Days, Millipedes, and Airplanes

After an intensive couple weeks concentrating on wrapping up Superglow, I am finally back full time on the Oakland Airport Terminal. This past Monday the class took a short flight up to Oakland to get a behind the scenes tour of the facilities. We also were able to spend some time enjoying San Francisco on the nicest day so far of this year. The weather was sunny and in the upper 80's. Beautiful! The SF Federal building is nearly complete, and I was also able to see Pier Luigi Nervi's incredible church. It never ceases to amaze me what architects and engineers were able to accomplish fourty years ago using hand drafting and slide rules.

I've been studying examples of joints and scales in nature, looking a lot at millipedes and iguanas. Our airport terminal is developing around the idea of programmatic and circulation core from which grow jetways, much as many legs attach to a central skeletal system.

Pictures

Apparently "this evening" really means 4 am... I am posting some images from the past week of our project. I have some higher quality images of the final installed pieces that I will try to get uploaded soon.

Time for a breather...

I haven't been able to post for a while, the past two weeks have been incredibly busy trying to get our installation ready. After many nights of three or four hours of sleep, plus a couple all nighters, we successfully installed our project in Silverlake yesterday for the Nokia photoshoot. This was a sort of warm-up run for the final installation on May 25th, but it allowed us to complete fabrication and work out kinks in the lighting and connections before the piece went up for public display.
I'll be posting photographs of the final construction process as well as the finished installation this evening.