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Category: Exhibitions and Critiques

  • C10: Alexsandra Jovic, Mannahatta

    Chumash Architecture Show, 2010: Tom Di Santo

    Exploring bringing ecological diversity back to the island of Manhattan.

    Audio interview coming later this week!

  • sloArch Reports: I’m Outta Here

    Chumash Architecture Show, 2010

    If you haven’t heard, right now, as you read this the 2010 Chumash Architecture Show is going on!  There is only one day left, so if you haven’t gone yet make sure you stop by the Chumash Auditorium between 10am and 5pm tomorrow, Sunday May 30th.

    Over the next week we will be posting a lot more content to the site, including pictures, video, and audio recordings.

    We want to give a big thank you to Henri de Hahn, Barry Williams,  Sean Graff, and the entire Chumash Show committee for putting on what may arguably be the best show yet.  It makes us more than proud to say that we are Cal Poly Alumn!

    While you wait, here is a picture of the Architecture class of 2010.  Sorry for the couple people who didn’t fit in the picture, next time try to sit in the middle.

  • Design Village 2010


    The Design Village 2010 competition took place during the thr­­­ee days between April 16th and April 18th.  Over forty teams participated in this year’s event with a maximum of 6 students per team.  They were required to carry all construction materials a mile into the canyon and there assemble the shelters in a timeframe of a few hours.  Teams were required to sleep in their shelters Friday and Saturday nights of the event.

    Landfill Luxury was the theme for this year’s competition.  The inspiration for it came from the makeshift shelters that were built in Central Park during the great depression.  As people became displaced from their homes because of their inability to pay rent, they began constructing shelters of whatever materials they could find.  Teams who participated in this year’s design village competition were encouraged to use no less than 80% reused materials in the construction of their shelters.

    The following pictures represent nine of the shelters.  The teams are labeled according to the numbers assigned to them.

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