Chiaroscuro Stack - a passive design template for modular building with thermal mass and daylight harvesting
1998-1999, site specific assemblage, wooden boxes (Berry Fields LLC - Berryfields Rd.) United States / 1999
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Cratessemblage was a temporary installation in 1998-99, in Geneva (NY - USA) made up of industrial utility bins, stacked exactly as photographed. The assemblage was meant to delineate sun shadow angles in the winter months, adjacent to commercial shoppers in a suburban plot. The focus of this architectural form was to combine agricultural utility within a spatial grid while challenging the preconceptions of rural space influenced by the urban grid. It also ties in thermal massing within voids of crates, typically filled with a tree-fruit crop from neighboring land. (56) x 3'-8" x 3' x 2'-1" (91.4 cm x 1.1m x 55.9 cm) - approximate dimensions.
Cubic volume = 370 m³.
(56) individual fruit crates, stacked......
US Route 20, Geneva, NY, USA Finger Lakes.....
(dismantled summer 1999 - due to regular needs in seasonal use for apricot harvest....)
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Joseph J. Nicholson III
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Cratessemblage was a temporary installation in 1998-99, in Geneva (NY - USA) made up of industrial utility bins, stacked exactly as photographed. The assemblage was meant to delineate sun shadow angles in the winter months, adjacent to commercial shoppers in a suburban plot. The focus of this architectural form was to combine agricultural utility within a spatial grid while challenging the preconceptions of rural space influenced by the urban grid. It also ties in...
- Year 1999
- Work started in 1998
- Work finished in 1999
- Main structure Wood
- Client Berry Fields LLC
- Contractor none
- Cost $256.00 USD
- Status Completed works
- Type Public Squares / Adaptive reuse of industrial sites / Landscape/territorial planning / Feasibility Studies / Urban Renewal / Monuments / Structural Consolidation / Building Recovery and Renewal
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