SLO Architecture’s “Harvest Dome 3.0” is a floating dome project in Grand Rapids, made with local materials harvested from the Grand River industry. The 20-foot-diameter orb features brightly colored surplus seat-belts and studded with rearview mirrors, set atop a ring of 128 repurposed two-liter soda bottles.The project explores the city’s legacy of manufacturing and a history of production.While the river's energy propelled Grand Rapids to become a center for logging, furniture fabrication, and automotive industries, the possibility of the river also engendered changes to landscape ecology, leading to flooding and contamination.The transcendent abstract form of “Harvest Dome 3.0” emerges from a flotsam of accumulated materials, its bright blue seatbelt lines and sky-and-water-reflecting rearview mirrors shimmering like a bubble coming up from the surging rapids, transfiguring the river's power and possibility.SLO Architecture earlier built “Harvest Dome 2.0” (2013) for the New York City waterways.A 24ft diameter cupola was designed and constructed from over 450 umbrellas frames, and made buoyant with a ring of 128 empty two-liter soda bottles. Harvest Dome transforms the eight-pointed steel frame, a quintessential piece of urban detritus, into the transcendent form of an architectural dome for the water, to float alongside and bring attention to the tidal salt-marshes of the City.“Harvest Dome 2.0” was the winner of 2014 AIANY Design Award, and 2013 Dwell Vision Award.Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi are architects and principals of SLO Architecture, based in New York City. SLO Architecture realizes designs for wide-ranging private clients, public agencies, cultural institutions, and grassroots initiatives.The breadth of their work links realms of urban and architectural design with artistic production and social action, bringing together multiple partners, including local practitioners, youth, fabricators, and public officials. SLO’s public projects envision the reforging of links among natural ecologies embedded within the city including waterways disfigured by outsized infrastructures of industry, settlement, and transportation and seek opportunities to amplify social, artistic, and entrepreneurial ambitions of urban neighborhoods in the context of the resurgence of nature.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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