LA438 Botanical Bricks-Angled Green Roof-C.Kim

Here is a video that shows the process of making green roof!!!

Thanks guys and Professor Richard L. Hindle :)

Final

Final installation in the stock pavilion.

Thinginess of the Thing

Vegetated structure

Using the CNC router (and a little help from the shop guys) I was able to cut 3/4" plywood into 20 pieces of boards for the project.  Each board had several notches that would enable the pieces to fit together into a triangular pattern.

After the inner frame was assembled, I continued with the outer framework which consisted of 3/4" boards made from cedar.  Cedar because it does typically does well outdoors and has a beautiful color.

I have learned a lot over the course of this studio, including how to make a wooden bracket (see image above).  I was able to drill screws through the cedar boards and attach it to the bracket to add extra support.  Thanks again to the shop guys for teaching me new tricks.

I am putting inside the framework stained acrylic and also garden plants (see above).  I started the plants over spring break as seedlings and now they are getting really big!  I have sweet peas, scarlet runner beans, tomatoes, radishes and onions.  Hopefully the peas and beans will start climbing up the framework for a cool effect.

Next I am going to cut patterns on acrylic using a laser cutter then and insert them into the framework...

Family Fun Time

The stock pavilion was transformed into a garden with lots of hard work by Kealan O'neil and the Horticulture club this last weekend.  The hedge was used to divide the floor space and help direct the visitors.  The Hort club did an excellent job transforming the SP.  Very Impressive.  

My Mom and Dad came from downstate to see what all the commotion was about; I got some labor out of them.

ALGAE_TECTONIC PARTITION: PROGRESS IMAGES

All the pieces for the wall are cut and ready for assembly. You can see the different types of pieces that were cut and a small sample of how they will fit together. The small triangles will function as the substrate for planting. I've cut 135 of the triangles so far. It looks like ill need about 100 more.

Trost Progress

Acquired 6 12' sections of 1" steel tubing. Cut to desired lengths and Drilled 1/4" holes for wire connections and upright support.


Welded top and bottom sections of frame.


Frame fully assembled and ready for wires.


CNC cutting out 10" diameter circles as the backing for 10" planters.


Cutting 10" diameter pvc pipe for planters. (makes a huge mess)


All sections of pipe cut and spray painted hunter green.

Mirror Making

Creating our own two way mirrors using plexiglass and mirror film........a LOT harder than it looks

Invasive Textile

The wire woven hedge has become a strange creature.  After turning the first weaving results on its head, I decided to make a more or less indeterminate form.  The wire pattern below, produced with mathematical precision in Illustrator but with galvanized wire on the porch, flexes and distorts and to some degree conforms to a space or site.   

The wire ties allow me to produce units which can be added one at a time to the weave.  This is a photo of 84 units which subsequently became the Elaeagnus Umbellata (Autumn Olive) textile. 

Resolution, Production, and Remains

Apologies for the blurry photos.  Getting an idea of what the hedge will look like with the vertical pieces in place.  I have cut pieces to rough specs, bundled, and tagged to help make installation a little easier.  Did not want to leave the Salix sections in the warehouse too long as many of them are leafing out.  

Beginning to produce the wire sections that will be necessary to weave the larger verticals; need 580 total and you are looking at 210. The hand cramps when its mind thinks of the remaining 370.

I have continued to experiment with different wire bending techniques for bundling smaller sections.  The second photo of the group above shows one of several solutions but the one which i will use.  This is important as i have quite a lot of thinner sections which are aesthetically very pleasing and which can now be woven into a kind of textile and incorporated into the hedge.  

I discovered the charred remains of a hedge row near De Land.  The specimen above is a Maclura Pomerifera (Osage Orange) which once marked the boundary of an agricultural field. New boundaries are being made; old boundaries are being erased and disputed as agriculture continues its encroachment upon the uncultivated remains.  The image top right is a totem to erasure.  

Building a Bee Nesting Box

I have using 1x10" dimensional pine for my nest boxes.  Each piece is cut to 6".

I am clamping together 6 pieces for each box.

I am also making marks at every inch longitudinally for future drilling.

Then, I begin the drilling process at every mark along the seams of the 6 pieces  of wood.  I am using drill bits from 1/8" to 1/4" for the nesting holes.

MORE MIRRORS!! AHHHHH

 It was cool bringing them all out to see what the hell we were even doing

The backbone!

Adam and Shaun and Mirrors

 Creating the frame with recycled scrap wood

 Trying to figure out what we just made

 Positioning the angles of our mirrors on the frame

12 mirror boxes complete......