Materials & Applications; Architecture and Landscape Research, a non-profit group of two, Jenna Didier & Oliver Hess, and many more interns based in the heart of Silver Lake. M&A offers the exploration of keen design in function, usually inspired and encountered by the environment.
This evening I experience a most informative lecture from the San Francisco based collective, ReBar and father founders of PARK(ing) Day, a project that has spread globally just a year after its first instillation in downtown SF. Park(ing) Day started by taking over one parking space at a time to make green space in the area of the city that otherwise had no public parks . . . . a concept I fell victim to its leafy lure a year ago when it came to downtown LA.
After the lecture, we went for some good burrito's, then had a walking tour of Silver Lake architecture, where we condemned a haunted house made out of cinder block and cheap home-depot materials, experienced the reservoir full of these black plastic balls used to keep direct sunlight from penetrating the waters surface for anti-carcinogen purposes, and walked all about reviewing every house we passed . . . . . . turrets with tiny windows and all.
Currently on display from street level, is the Yakuza Lou robot cloud and corresponding earth.
see the youtube video on their site then head on over to see it in person;
www.emanate.org
