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TOPOSINSTALLATION PROPOSAL
KENNY SPERLINGLA401
NOTE:as I have also developed a proposal as a part of a group, this proposal is unfinished and presented for the value of the concept only. Should this proposal be deemed interesting, appropriate, or otherwise, it will be developed further.
THE ASSOCIATED FACTIONS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTUREMapping the Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Curriculum at the College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
PROPAGATORS
TECHNICIANS
OVERSEERS
ADVOCATES
SUBVERSIVES
yr 1
CONCERNS
Plants
Data
Ecologies
Cultures
Questions
BIAS
Biological
Mathematical
Analytical
Interpersonal
Potential
METHODS
Inherent Qualities
Detailed Drawings
Extensive Perspectives
Resolving Deficiencies
Innovative Concepts
PRODUCTS
Botanical Compositions
Construction Documents
Systematic Interventions
Cooperative Societies
Atypical Interpretations
LEGENDSCALE
Personal
Any
Regional
Communal
Varied
yr 2 yr 3 yr 4
KENNY SPERLINGLA 401
WILCOXFALL-2012
sectional area represents the perceived percentage of instruction related to each faction across the department as a whole
placement of knowledge, skill, and value markers
indicate general associations with the
adjacent factions
Site Analysis
PublicSpace
Sustainability
Case Studies
Syntactic Design
Programmed Design
Site Design
Client Needs
Narrative Design
Ecotechnical Systems
Knowledge
Urban Design
Group Work
Watersheds
Grading Slope Analysis
Construction Detailing
EIRsSocial Impacts
Plant Characteristics
Surveying
Form Expression
Syntax
Plan Section Perspective
Narrative
Phenomena Criticism
Datum
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<scale>
<sketchup>
<topographic data>
<persuasive
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<plant identification
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<defending decis
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<plant functions>
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<communicati
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<interdiscip
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<infographics>
<charettes>
<advanced 3D modeling>
<rendering>
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<CAD detailing>
<irrigation
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<client prese
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<advanced fabrication>
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<navigating the rabbit hole>
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Make Progress Every Day
Work atScale
No“Plop” Art
PlantNatives
Values
DesignSustainably
ImproveSocial
Conditions
OverlapSystems
Embra
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biguit
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Interactionsare at
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IndividualPerspectives Becoming
Not Being
RevealDon’t Repeat
UnderstandThe Process
AddressContext
No InvasiveSpecies
Understand theSystems Behind
the Graphics
NoIrvine Co.
Craftsmanship
Interdisciplinary Work
AnalyticalUnderstanding Question
EverythingNothing
is Sacred
QualityGraphics
KeepRefining
NoBanal
NoGazebos
CURRICULUM MAPPING
INSTALLATION STATEMENT
topos - greek for ‘place’ - technical translation variously as ‘topic’ or ‘line of argument’
Of all the various interpretations of what it means to be a landscape architect, ultimately the derived work, regardless of the strategy, situates itself upon the landform — the topography. The conceptual understanding of topography is a uniting factor amongst the students of the landscape architecture department at cal poly pomona due to its inclusion in first year studio work. In later years individual strategies deviate and classifications for various approaches to landscape emerge, however topography is something to which they all can relate and respond.
This proposal suggests a single “topos” suspended in the env atrium. A large spandex rectangle would be fixed to the east and west railings of the second story walkways between room 203 and the atrium stairs. Grommets would be attached to the fabric in a grid with strings threaded through them. Weights of various strength would be attached to the strings causing the spandex to deform in different intensities across the field resulting in an expression of topography. The system of weights would be dynamic allowing for the continuous reshaping of the total form. From above images of the various strategies of approaching landscape could be projected down upon the fabric allowing the individuals below the form to see those same images as distorted by the landscape. The projected images would cycle, overlap, and bleed into one another as an expression of the dynamism and heterogeny of the profession of landscape architecture.
INSTALLATION PLAN AND SECTION
not to scale not to scale
RM 203 atriumstairs
walkway railings
ground floor
INSTALLATION PERSPECTIVE
PROJECT MATERIALS AND BUDGET
spandex sheet:
grommets:
string:
weights:
CONCLUSION
this propsal is an attempt to address both the differences and commonalities between the “factions” of landscape architecture by associating their individual strategies with the common horizonal plane — the topos