Concept and Design: Darío Núñez Ameni and Thomas Siegl, with Atelier dna
Narrative and Poetics: Gabrielle Jesiolowski
Structure and Engineering: Radhi Majmudar PE, with ISSE Innovative Structural and Specialty Engineering
Ecology and Renewable Energy Strategy: Ian Lipsky, with eDesign Dynamics
Design Submission for the 2010 Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition
Second Place Mention from the Jury
Our project starts out as a desire, a whisper, like grasping at straws, clenching water.
Our project takes clues from the way the wind caresses a field of wheat, or reeds in a marsh; our hair on a gusty afternoon.
Our project consists of 1203 stalks, 55 meters high, anchored on the ground with concrete bases that range between 10 to 20 meters in diameter. The stalks are made of carbon fiber reinforced resin poles, 30 cm in diameter at the base and 5 cm at the top. The top 50 cm of the poles are lit up by an LED array that glows and dims depending on how much the poles are swaying in the wind. When there is no wind–when the poles are still–the lights go dark.
The bases that support the poles are arrayed along the site following a logarithmic spiral, the kind we see in the center of a sunflower. The bases all
touch each other, forming a kind of carpet, a kind of fabric.