26 February 2009

Labash 2009: Making the Matrix

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  An exercise in material space making, Making the Matrix was a one-day charrette and installation at the LaBash student conference hosted by Penn State’s Landscape Architecture Department. The charrette focused on space making through internal group communication, external collaboration, designing and building. Students used basic spatial devices (ground plane, wall, canopy) to produce life-size spatial conditions (i.e. enclosure + openness, sequence + stasis, dark + light).

  Students explored material manipulation (translucency, opacity, layers, texture) to inform and enliven their spatial creations. Assisted and guided by Michael Blier, Charlotte Barrows, Kris Lucius, and Tim Baird of Landworks Studio, students worked in independently driven teams to create dynamic and compelling spatial experiences using selected, ordinary modeling and installation materials such as fishing line, string, paper, cloth, wire, and plastic sheet. The sites were 10’ x 10’ x 10’ modules on a grid within a large room in the Penn Stater Conference Center. At the end of the day, the final product was as much about the individual spaces as interrelationships of the larger matrix.

  Artist and architect James Wines, artist Stacy Levy, and ASLA president Angela Dye juried the installation created by over thirty student participants from around the country and Canada.