Link: Cardboard Bicycle

http://news.yahoo.com/cardboard-bicycle-change-world-says-israeli-inventor-090732689.html

Building Day

Workshops this weekend:

Wearable/Portable Architecture

A WORKSHOP BY MARY MATTINGLY

1-5pm, Saturday, October 13 and Sunday, October 14, 2012

Green Papaya Art Projects

41B T.Gener St., Kamuning, Quezon City

How can we respond to the current disasters of our environment and inquire if portable architecture/design can be applicable within our urban landscape?

We've had significant and surprising response from a diverse range of groups that has been participating since last week! 

Paulo Alacazren (Of BluPrint Magazine), environmentalist and UP Mountaineer Ross Arayata, NDRRMC (Workshop 1), Best teacher awardee (for Quezon City) from QC High School Rose Perez joined in, artists Marc Gaba, Mica Cabildo, Marika Constantino, Shireen Seno and Christina Quisumbing Ramilo are involved, as well as Architecture students from UP and UST, Fine arts students, Art Teachers, and High School students from QC High School, Infanta Quezon (Province) National High School and Philippine Science High School - participating and building a design for (Workshop 2).

The third phase will happen on Saturday, October 13 (Building from 1pm-5pm at green papaya).  And an intervention on Sunday, October 14 wherein the participants will link all 20 individual portable design creating one sphere (which can be attached to small solar panels) so that it can be a charging source.  This sphere will be parked at QC High School in Scout Ybardolaza rolling its way from 1pm -3pm on Sunday. It will stay at QC High School until 12 noon of Monday, October 15.

Attendance to the workshops is limited to official participants. Observers are welcome on a pre-arranged basis.

An exhibition/reception on October 24, Wednesday 6pm will be free and open to the public presenting the documentation and process of the workshops and interventions.

For inquiries text/call smARTpower^TM Manila Team LIAN LADIA +63999 3811217 or MERV ESPINA +63921 6653943 or email smartpowermanila@gmail.com 

Fo more information about smARTpower and Mary Mattingly you may log on towww.greenpapayaartprojects.org and www.bronxmuseum.org/

Around Manila and at Papaya during the week

Temporary/mobile architecture around Baseco:

    

Near Green Papaya:

Supplies for flotation:

Site Visit for our procession:

Testing Wearable Portable Architecture at Green Papaya during the week:

Solar Pocket Factory: Manila

We are happy to be working with Solar Pocket Factory in Manila to introduce solar power to our portable units.

http://solarpocketpages.com/

Brainstorming, drawing, patterning, prototyping

At Green Papaya

Notebook of ideas

Cloud/Inflatable floatation device

Foldable water bag

Origami

Testing a collaborative cocoon/cart

Everyone is working hard here

Designing a wearable case for tools and weapons

Expandable shelter

Shoulder bag

Part of a human energy-saving "bat cave" that grows plants

At the end of the day

Presentations by Roslyn Arayata of the British Embassy in the Philippines, Architect Paulo Alcazaren, and NDRRMC's Major Reynaldo Balido Jr.

Roslyn Arayata's presentation can be downloaded here: http://www.marymattingly.com/pdfs/CC101presentation.pdf

Architect Paulo Alcazaren

 A selection of Paulo Alcazaren's slides:

NDRRMC's Major Reynaldo Balido Jr. 

Uploaded videos:

 
Architect Paulo Alcazaren

  NDRRMC's Major Reynaldo Balido Jr. 

Workshop 1: Saturday, October 6: Describing the workshop

PORTABLE SPACES

Consider incorporating design that elevates your living unit

Elevated "Cocoon"

Super Adobe: It's possible to create sandbags from 

your unit for building homes or stopping water.

Like the spheres we will be creating, 

consider a unit that unfurls when it rains.

A tent/backpack.

A jacket/bag.

A poncho/sleeping bag.

Building for our own needs: If we start with what we know we need, we can usually reach a need that is universal.

A portable boat?

Waterpod

Flock House

Malong

Vinta Sails

Water Systems

Tarps and Rope

Tarpoline

PREEXISTING MATERIALS

Our substructure.

COLOR

Symbolic Color

Pattern and Color (Subverting Royal Colors)

Josef Albers and color: Like Albers, some of our parameters 

involve not mixing color, so we have to design with "flat" colors.

Albers "Homage to the Square" (Different tonalities of yellow and orange.)

Questions about site:

What features do we want our site to have?

(trees or buildings to hang our structure from so it looks

like it’s floating, open space or many obstacles?)

Where were migratory spaces within the city

that have since changed use?

What memories should our site evoke?

Where are sites of sanctuary in the city?

Additional questions:

What are our human needs?

What do we want to be able to carry with us?

What problems could the wearable nature of these structures provide solutions for?

What is sustainability when it comes to design, architecture, and even art?

What is the life-cycle for the things we will build? 

Where could this project eventually go?