At this Lunch 'n Learn, Christy Langendoen from Water Storage Tanks, Inc. walked us through each step of the rain catchment process, focusing on the necessary components for an effective system.
Material and product highlights included the following: CorGal, their flagship water tanks, and its related materials and processes (20-gauge steel, potable-grade liners, and hot dip galvanization); 3P Technik in-tank integral filters; and Viqua's UV water disinfection systems.
Patrick Bixler, Ph. D.
The Materials Lab hosted a workshop on hydrographic printing, a simple method of applying printed designs to three-dimensional surfaces. Participants learned how to transfer material patterns (including carbon fiber, marble, and wood grain) onto a steel camper mug.
To learn the step-by-step process used for hydrographic printing in this workshop, please refer to the Materials Lab Hydrographic Printing Methodology Report.
Jungyoon Kim is the founding principal of PARKKIM, Seoul-based landscape architectural firm, and the Design Critic Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD. She founded the firm with Yoon-Jin Park in Rotterdam, upon their winning of Taiwan Chichi Earthquake Memorial Design Competition (2004), and completed projects with diverse scale and nature, ranging from corporate landscape to civic venue, including Yanghwa Riverfront (2011), CJ Blossom Park (2015), SBS Prism Tower (2012) and Triple Street Shopping Mall (2016).
Jungyoon Kim is the founding principal of PARKKIM, Seoul-based landscape architectural firm, and the Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD. She founded the firm with Yoon-Jin Park in Rotterdam, upon their winning of Taiwan Chichi Earthquake Memorial Design Competition (2004), and completed projects with diverse scale and nature, ranging from corporate landscape to civic venue, including Yanghwa Riverfront (2011), CJ Blossom Park (2015), SBS Prism Tower (2012) and Triple Street Shopping Mall (2016).
At this Lunch 'n Learn, Melissa Henao-Robledo discussed different materials and processes used by from Landscape Forms in manufacturing outdoor furnishings.
Material highlights included the following: Meldstone™, a proprietary Ultra High Performance Concrete; PolySite™, HDPE made from 100% recycled post-consumer plastic; and thermally modified wood materials that are high-performance replacements for exotics such as Ipe and Jarrah.
Born in Alabama, Jennifer Bonner founded MALL, a creative practice for art and architecture in 2009. MALL stands for Mass Architectural Loopty Loops or Maximum Arches with Limited Liability—an acronym with built-in flexibility. By engaging “ordinary architecture” such as gable roofs and everyday materials, Bonner playfully reimagines architecture in her field.
Air: the mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide that serves all forms of terrestrial life; that carries a million other compounds and particles; that we feel on our skins and breathe and smell; that vibrates with sound; that carries birds and planes; that foams water, feeds fires, and fills tires; that moves curtains and removes roofs; that presses in on everything without our noticing. Air invisible, essential, shapeless, shaped: how might we see you? Air, brother of Space, how might we design with you in mind?
Ingrid Quintana is the author of Hijos de la Rue de Sèvres. The book discusses all of the Latin American collaborators who worked at the legendary Rue de Sèvres, Le Corbusier’s studio in Paris. The rigorous field work in the archives of more than ten countries; and the proposal of a renewed vision of Latin American architectural historiography makes this an extraordinary and indispensable book that invites its reader to reflect on the contributions of these former collaborators to their own countries’ architecture.