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One Day Poem Pavilion

My friend Ann Sieber sent me a link this week to Jiyeon Song's site Experiential Typography, saying she thought I might like it. I do!

"The One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow. Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar...."

The poem Song chose is a sijo, a form from classical Korean poetry.  Here's the breakdown:

You can learn more about this form here or here.  And you can see the pavilion through time-lapse photography on YouTube.

Song did this project as part of a master's thesis at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Bloxes

  Bloxes 
by aikoto via Flickr

From the official Blox website:

What are Bloxes?

Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight .

Check out their website for more information.

Move Into Your iPod

u+a + neil m. denari architects: useful + agreeable house

(via a daily dose of architecture)

Poetry and Architecture

Or, to be more precise: Lautréamont and Gaudi.

A Daily Dose of Architecture runs an intermittent series of posts comparing specific poets and archiitects.  I always enjoy it.  Here's a link to a recent one.  The idea is not to make an argument about the two artists but rather to juxtapose their work side by side.  It's up to us to make our own conclusions.

Most Po Mo Bus Stop

Here's a real DNA of a design.   Dennis Oppenheim provided this idea and plan for this bus stop in Ventura, California.  You can read the architect's vision statement here.  According to the blogger at kavefish, it is a functioning bus in Ventura to this day.  If you've seen it with your own eyes, please let me know.

(via kavefish)