What the Audience Brings:
Empty Cans
Project:
We will create a city out of beer cans. There will be ‘buildings’ of various size and structures. We will construct the town hall of our city, which will be the center of the skyline, before everyone arrives.
Audience Participation:
The audience will be encouraged to build their own structures. They can create buildings to stand in line with ours, or they could make cars, trucks, plane, or helicopters. We will have created the basic structure of the city, and they will populate it.
Materials:
1. Beer Cans
2. Glue/ Glue Gun
• time before map layed out in plan city grid, some scale of city, have put in place holding structures, varied can facades
• do some drawings
4 comments:
This has a really good beginning. I think the beer cans
can be treated as if they are concrete or stone or some massing kind of substance but in order to get beyond the sheer beer canness of them you need to add other substances. Greenery, clear poly, paintings, the cans are the back ground and the cohesiveness but you need to use that canvass, also glue
will not be enough. Other structure will probably be necessary
Have you thought about cutting the tops and bottoms off and unrolling them into rectangular sheets? From there you can generate a lot of different shapes to work with besides cylinders. I know - sharp edges, but there's gotta be a way around it.
I think the beauty of this project is that it is JUST beer cans. Although to get height, Russ is right, we will need an armature of some kind. The hot glue worked well in our tests, so it should be enough.
I would give more thought to the aerial perspective. Spend some time with Google Earth and have a clear layout in mind. The open spaces in this project will be important and you may want to have an idea of their location as you begin.
last year clear tape worked very well for adhesive. of course, cleaning that up wouldn't be fun.
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