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Tracey Miller •
Detailing
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For this exercise we were asked to build an element of the design at a scale
that relates to the human body that would inform the composition and structure
of the larger design. This detail relates to two excavations that are part
of the design. One excavation, at the site of the Victory Gardens, will
dig to the level of the fill that the gardens are built upon. Material from
the fill; rocks, railroad ties, old boilers will be used as retaining structures
for part of the sediment necklace. The other excavation, the Muddy River
dredging, is already planned for the site. Soil and sediment from the dredging
will be used as fill for the abstracted drumlins and kames of the sediment
necklace. In some areas the retaining structures will support the fill as
shown in the detail. Both excavations will be designed by artists as art
installations. The Victory Garden installation will be permanent. The dredging
installation will be temporary. The walls and mounds, designed by the landscape
architect, will be permanent. |
