26.10.08

First Three Guests

The Cliff:
  • The ecology of the cliff as seen in the Antartic. Alaska, with melting glaciers.
  • Reality of the Inuit having to relocate due to their environment melting and becoming unstable.
  • Like a domino effect the melting of the Polar Ice caps leads to effects elsewhere --> coastal zones (California, Florida & seasides) will slip underwater.
  • With the cliff itself the sheer sides can provide a dwelling. Ie: rapelling and hanging pads.
  • challenging the verticality of a cliff in a perpendicular manner like the Anasazi who live inside the cliff.





The Swamp:
  • Idea of above/below --> Florida swampland where only the ghost orchid grows versus danger of alligators pikes and snakes.
  • mire/stuck/heat/floating/heiarchy
  • the Swamp was the end result of Hurricane Katrina breaking levees: --> Military Hydrology
  • cult movie: The Swamp Thing . 1982





The Forest:
  • Environmental canopy - shade
  • ground dwellers - live in roots on forest floor often without sunlight
  • canopy dwellers - rotate from tree to tree oftentimes not even going to the ground at all
  • Large net where several scientists live for months documenting the Amazon or in Madagascar
  • hierarchy within the verticality similar to cliff
  • a collection - repitition forms the whole


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