LIVING SIGNAGE

This one's for Kara.

We talked about this already...about how you could use the living wall as signage for your showroom... using the back wall of the property right? What happened to that?

A thought too: what happens to the signage during the winter?

http://www.contemporist.com/2009/11/18/the-pnc-living-wall-by-mingo-design/

CHECK OUT MY CRACK

Hey G,

I think you should consider this as a way of gardening/landscaping for your project. It's called Crack Gardening.

http://pruned.blogspot.com/2009/05/crack-gardens.html

MAYBE A PRECEDENT FOR KARA

Hey K,

here's something you might wanna take a look at as a possible precedent. it's by morphosis, one of greg's favourite firms. the link includes loads of information including systems, images, and floor plans.

http://www.archtracker.com/perot-museum-of-nature-and-science-morphosis-arhictects/2009/09/


here's a teaser:

“living educational tool featuring architecture inspired by nature and science”.

http://www.viabizzuno.com/

Bjorn
This company does strickly lighting its pretty cool, made me think of your project and your memorial pannels and how you'd light up the pathway ...

FOR KARA: Paradise Park Children's Centre

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/United%20Kingdom/London/Paradise%20Park%20Children%27s%20Centre

FOR CASS: Santa Catarina Market

http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Spain/Barcelona/Santa%20Catarina%20Market

AGAINST VERTICAL FARMING

While I know you guys aren't really making skyscrapers, I think it might be helpful to look into what the naysayers of vertical farming are saying. It might come up during a crit, and you should know what to say to them. Here's the article.

http://www.ecogeek.org/component/content/article/2984

Another similar one:

http://vegitecture.blogspot.com/2009/11/against-vertical-farming.html

It actually applies to me too, but instead of farming, I'm using valuable real estate to store dead bodies. To be honest, I can't think of an argument against what they're saying. =(