We had an extremely interesting workshop on Monday, and subsequently the designs moving in a slightly different direction.
We initially were running with our previous ida of a basketball hoop constructed from I beams and various other building matterials, and discussed some possible changes to it, such as having a lower hoop attached to the back for children to use, and the possiblity of securing the base within some kind of oild drum or simialar container, from which greenery could be grown.
However, after discussing our idea with Alex and Rory from StudioAR, they suggested simply taking the top section of our of our basketball hoop assembly and rather than supplying the I-beam which forms the majority of the structure we find a way to secure the board to lamposts and other fixtures around the city. The hoops could be used for street games of basketball, and moved around to different locations on the different days of the festival.
Its a bit of a departure from our previous idea of focusing on recycling building materials, but still meets the brief of reuse/recycle in that its reusing elements in the city such as trees lamposts etc for a new purpose, and its reusing the space where the games would be played. The hoop itself would be being reused everyday, rather than having some huge permanent structure left over after the festival.
This is just a brief summary of the idea, setting out where its comefrom, but its something we're very excited about and feel has a huge ammount of potential. When Alex and Rory were discussing the idea with us Alex mentioned other schemes like Street ping pong, and Street pianos which have worked a bit like this at using space in a new way by installing things which you wouldn't usually find in the middle of london. I remember seeing one of the street pianos in London once and being pretty impressed by the whole thing, hopefully our proposal can have the same effect.
We initially were running with our previous ida of a basketball hoop constructed from I beams and various other building matterials, and discussed some possible changes to it, such as having a lower hoop attached to the back for children to use, and the possiblity of securing the base within some kind of oild drum or simialar container, from which greenery could be grown.
However, after discussing our idea with Alex and Rory from StudioAR, they suggested simply taking the top section of our of our basketball hoop assembly and rather than supplying the I-beam which forms the majority of the structure we find a way to secure the board to lamposts and other fixtures around the city. The hoops could be used for street games of basketball, and moved around to different locations on the different days of the festival.
Its a bit of a departure from our previous idea of focusing on recycling building materials, but still meets the brief of reuse/recycle in that its reusing elements in the city such as trees lamposts etc for a new purpose, and its reusing the space where the games would be played. The hoop itself would be being reused everyday, rather than having some huge permanent structure left over after the festival.
This is just a brief summary of the idea, setting out where its comefrom, but its something we're very excited about and feel has a huge ammount of potential. When Alex and Rory were discussing the idea with us Alex mentioned other schemes like Street ping pong, and Street pianos which have worked a bit like this at using space in a new way by installing things which you wouldn't usually find in the middle of london. I remember seeing one of the street pianos in London once and being pretty impressed by the whole thing, hopefully our proposal can have the same effect.
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