Concrete Rubble

Queens Plaza Reuse of Concrete Sidewalks

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Queens Plaza Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project

Treehugger Article on Queens Plaza

willowpatcheight

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WPWeir2Construct

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Folds

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folds suggesting what shape within
are they plagued by things not working or are those working as plague

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post found
post unkempt
post disorganized
post random
post garbage
post debris
post waste

post health
post remediation aesthetic

Plum Creek Map

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and was
a mask
with life not
behind but
tenuously
gripping its surface

a slow
and sensitive
moss

Concrete Rubble: slab

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Concrete Rubble: slab
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobiahhorton/sets/72157624458389872/

slab

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combination of
cut out parking lot and placed
cut slabs from bldgs.

are piles
tied into
floor slab?

can we set up a shop on site to process materials?
Fine processing for furniture, and retaining wall pieces
and pavers.
cutting pieces, broken parts
attaching steel to concrete, pouring new concrete around
steel, adding new pours onto older pieces
drilling, inserting rebar forming around it
need rubber seal type piece to bend and make up the
gaps in irregular “receiving” pieces

construction phasing
roughing up the site
general deconstruction/demolition
(partially completed) much must be
left on site to work with.

Initial construction impulse
building as if with heavy gloves
only the biggest largest of gestures
structural, things that will have
to be altered to become detailed and
specialized later on.
or consider what is
already there as the
first built phase –
that should be altered
built with, not demolished.

prevention of new pours
is a good thing,
slab use is
higher order reuse
can yet be crushed
does not use the energy of crushing nor transport offsite nor…

you need a certain amount of hard materials for a site design. Receive delivery of hard materials as in slab poured in place – as one covering of entire site area. Once cured cut slab into appropriate pieces in areas where softscape or other material treatments are desired. Build walls or use as other paving materials the concrete mined from the initial overzealous pour. One Delivery, Subtractive Method
cost could be on par with other mined materials.

reused concrete slabs:
contact prevention/reduction during phytoremediation

overbite
shipping
slabs
of concrete
cut to order
well come
springs
solliloquy
service
sentence
sartorial
sanguine
solipsism
sundry
sleepless
surrender
symbolic
because
sensible
supremacy
one sense
planned
planters
plutocratice
plasir
plastic
pluto
plunder
placeless
plank
plus
plunk
plank
plural
purse
pop
pal

quotes on the infinite library
on the endless recycling of knowledge etched in the recycled concrete
(slabs pinned together and mortar in bore hole)
the islamic garden is textual
climbable, playable as climbing seating structure or as fountain elements
must be hardest concrete slab available
pages sawcut into exposed edges of concrete slabs

erosional effect upon the word, what words are more durable
opening book, rising bedrock tilt then erode

integrated with stormwater harvesting system
runnels as lines of text
pools of reflection, narcissus awareness [return to Bachelard’s Water and Dreams]
integrated with planting pockets
Study Ian Hamilton Finlay’s use of text in the garden
cycling of materials – cycling of knowledge

language as physical material
material as poetic language

construct large letters using cut concrete slabs
for some reason I think of the letter ‘R’ … reading riting rithmatic?
material language
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historic dumps
archaelogy

library (ct.)
the microchip is the page becoming increasingly thin
the library no longer being solely a repository of printed matter as we see this matter dematerializing what happens at the physical site of the library? It continues to function as the site of growth and transformation – embodied in what programming…?

there we witness the parallel change in media, parallel to the

the stacked or leaned slabs because of the irregular bottom will never be a solid mass with clean well joined seams. Thus, the dissolution of volume or its collection by the closeness or becoming closer of fragments is what is of interest

this geomancy approaches the same or similar organization as the aggregates within the concrete matrix. And can be seen either as world formation or world dissolution same as abstraction (or an example thereof) either as becoming or as deconstruction.

how many slabs of concrete to collapse the writing desk, school desk, end table, architectural model, television set, screen…

Text Sketch

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08.05
using a dead box truck
as a wall a barrier
a gate when the truck can
be moved with winches
on either side for opening
and closing

imbed truck, sink to permanently
install.

build wall
using packed earth
in places instead
of stone awaiting
in advance of
erosion that will
collapse the wall see diagram: stone/cake/stone/cake/stone/cake
accele …. controlled collapse

forced ruins
accelerated ruination

father they’ve
a field
(near their home)
of rising stones
to be plucked and
stacked

09.05
fill brush-filled container
with concrete
substitute rebar for brush

some of the squares/rectangles
are blocks of grass

the cleaned line of
the adhoc wall
i.e. rubble vehicles
vegetation debris

Between objects there was
a blurred quiet
micro landscape

the site as factory for the transformation
of a found condition to an altered set of relations
(or) for the processing of materials

in not aggressing vertically
but laying that, underfoot
or betw.
objects of note or recognition

(laid down skyscraper. the mines of western pennsylvania. mining the skyscraper for copper and concrete. conclus architects. stealing aluminum garbage cans.)

and was
a mask
with life not
behind but
tenuously
gripping its surface

a slow
and sensitive
lichen
above the scaffolds burning
up stone coal vaults

people underneath,
where
everything else is not

10.04.05
p1 scan
draw change
p2 scan
write draw over
p3 scan
erase collage
p4 scan
cut paste
p5 scan
revisit remove overlay
p6 scan
redraw revive remove
p7 scan
replenish restore
p8 scan
reconcile obliterate

ruin
dimensional unrest