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| It's not easy making a glass atrium appear bright and light-filled when outside it's dark and grey... Photo ©Darren Bradley |
I recently shot San Diego's new airport terminal as part of the annual San Diego Architectural Foundation Orchids & Onions awards. The project is called "The Green Build at Terminal 2". It's part of a multi-million dollar expansion of our dinky airport to bring it up to modern standards, to account for both the draconian security measures that are now the norm at any airport, and to simultaneously try to bring a bit more comfort and humanity to the place by providing fewer chain restaurants and more local fare. I had a short window of about an hour to photograph this place. Naturally, it turned out to be a really crappy, dull, grey day with terrible light. So it was a challenge, to say the least.
The award was for the interior design and the art installations, so that's what I focused on. This one here is called "Taxonomy of a Cloud" by the artist Stuart Keeler of Toronto. It apparently explores the linear architectural creation of the cloud form – creating a sculptural drawing in the air. Or something like that. It reminds me of the current Serpentine Gallery pavilion by architect Sou Fujimoto.
This isn't an elevator. It's a relativator. It is essentially a gravity meter that calculates weight and movement effected by speed while traveling between floors. It shows the relation between people riding in the elevator and the movement of the elevator. Got all that? I guess it's what happens when science and art collide. The calculations are different every time and displayed in binary code in theelevator relativator. This piece is by Living Lenses (Po Shu Wang and Louise Bertelsen) of San Francisco.
Another stand-out piece is a 700-foot ribbon of LED lights called "The Journey".
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| My escort made for a great model. Photo ©Darren Bradley |
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| Taxonomy of a Cloud by Stuart Keeler. Photo ©Darren Bradley |
This isn't an elevator. It's a relativator. It is essentially a gravity meter that calculates weight and movement effected by speed while traveling between floors. It shows the relation between people riding in the elevator and the movement of the elevator. Got all that? I guess it's what happens when science and art collide. The calculations are different every time and displayed in binary code in the
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| Don't call it an elevator. (There's my model again!). Photo ©Darren Bradley |
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| Photo ©Darren Bradley |
It depicts very low resolution birds in motion flying down the length of the ribbon. It's by Jim Campbell of San Francisco.
And the last one I'll show here is Sublimare by Merge Conceptual Design (Franka Riehnelt and Claudia Reisenberger) of Los Angeles.
And the last one I'll show here is Sublimare by Merge Conceptual Design (Franka Riehnelt and Claudia Reisenberger) of Los Angeles.
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| Photo ©Darren Bradley |
This installation is mostly on the underside of the elevated departure roadway. It's a literal interpretation of a giant kelp forest that alludes to the industrial kelp harvesting in the 1940s and its significance to San Diego’s environment and economy. The kelp fronds and schools of fish are illuminated aluminum cut-outs that transform the ceiling into a “kelp canopy” of sorts. In the not too distant future, the glass on the elevated walkways will be transformed to reflect an abstract projected light. The light projection will be developed from real time wave data received from a National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) buoy located in San Diego Bay. We'll see...
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