Student Project: Open Pollen
High school students at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall school in Massachusetts got an early lesson in architecture and design when they built a site-specific sculpture on the grounds of their school last fall.
The piece, called "Open Pollen," is a low, open spiral made of layered flat wooden shingles that resembles a slice of honeycomb. The four students in Cindy Ludlam’s Advanced 3D design class aimed to echo both the natural surroundings and the native architecture of Waltham, Massachusetts, in their choice of building material, cedar siding tiles. Cedar siding is a common feature of Waltham homes, and the wood panels reflect the tree-studded campus. Cedar is also non-toxic, which will keep the sculpture from damaging the soil beneath it even after time and weather have worn it in.
"We were trying to blur the lines between what is handmade and what is prefab," Ludlam said. The students experimented with illustration, digital drawing and computer animation to design their work. They had to alter their original design when their model wouldn’t stand up by itself. Now the sculpture stands (successfully) at nine feet in diameter and eighteen inches high, by the front entrance to the school.
Check out a slideshow of the students' design and building process by clicking in the upper right corner of this page.
Students are Sun Jung Jung, Yoon Soo Kim, Colin Yip and Dan Benson.
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If I didn't have to take care of 500 school gardens in Los Angeles, my students would be able to give the kids in NC some design competition. Very inspired work!
I am so proud of you all, the piece looks great as does the article! Congrats to Cindy and our young Charger artists!
This is fantastic. I love the design and the way it sits in its surroundings. Congratulations to Cindy Ludlum and her class.
This is fantastic. I love the design and the way it sits in its surroundings. Congratulations to Cindy Ludlum and her class.
as an architect I find this very compelling, sensual and fun ! great job !
This is very Andy Goldsworthy. What a great project for these students!
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