Fresh is a group young Australian designers seeking to keep the profession of landscape architecture fresh, inquisitive, answerable and alive.
Fresh aims to broaden the depth of knowledge that young designers from all walks of life seek by holding regular seminars, informal chats, exhibitions and soirees.
Fresh is generously supported by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Lecture Tooosday! Hanne Bruun from Dutch landscape architectural office SLAwill be talking about their projects and approach as part of the RMIT Lecture Series...usual place usual drinks...
Swanston Street, Building 8 Level 11 Room 68, Drinks at 6pm, Lecture start at 6.30pm.
Draining designs for gutters? Not this one! (enough of the bad puns already!) This person has done something different to this edge treatment, enough of the boring black plastic or the iron grating...welcome a much prettier albeit possibly less efficient way of removing water...the 'Matrix', kind of a lame name but I didn't choose it, and frankly I can't think of a better name...yet...
Skyscape. Since we're on the topic of the sky. You may know light artist James Turrell, he likes to create pretty nice light projects, and this latest project is at Pomona College Museum of Art. It's interesting stuff...check it out.
Sky Not Blue. Bureau of Statistic Wrong. Taking it a bit further than necessary...BUT in The Age today there is an article on a crazy idea of pumping sulphur into the atmosphere to counteract global warming...thus eventually changing the hue of the sky. I imagine it to be a poo-ey green...yes the image is more a radioactive green, I'm not colourblind.
Sky is Blue. Australian Bureau of Statistics conclude. Well actually they didn't say that, but they may have well said it. If you read the paper on 14th March The Age had an article reporting on the ABS study on agricultural use on water and the reported concluded that Rice was the most water intensive crop per hectare. But anyway...if you're interested in some water stats...
Spatial Implications by Maximisation Imagine a picnic setting that takes up no space, or a bench that disappears into the ground.
Well someone has done it...Sandy Lam has created a picnic table and seat that is recessed into a decking, camouflaging it when not in use but just as easy to pull it up and relax. It's almost like those hidden trapdoors and secret chambers holding archaeological jewels.
Interactive Windows, Plays Pong. Shops will do anything to try get you inside and purchase their wares, from annoying scrolling LED signs to 42" Plasma tvs...well here's another one to top it all off, from what I can deduce from the google translation, the Centre for Advanced Visualisation and Imagery at the University of Aarhus have developed a window based on electrochromatic glass that essentially changes opacity depending on the position of a viewer. They have also integrated the ability for it to animate and entertain...
Some Pretty Wacky Stuff...Milan Design Week 2008 Take a look at some of the stuff that they are doing overseas...in particular the interni: Green energy design.
Solar Lily Pads Take Over River System - Power to the People...(lame) Remember those picture story books when you were little with images of jumping over a river by the means of lilies? Well this isn't quite it...but ZM Architects have proposed these little solar lily pads for Glasgow's Clyde River. Instead of taking up large tracts of usable land for power production these pads could line a water body, invigorating waterfront developments and looking pretty...think of the Landscape opportunities with this suckers...
Lecture Tooosday!
