A silt workshop, taught by Cosanti Foundation staff member Roger Tomalty, is part of DOCOMOMO UK Annual Lectures . This series focuses on master architects and their use of concrete. Workshops and lectures are presented at The Gallery, 70 Cowcross St., London EC1.
[Photo: Roger Tomalty & text: sa]
Roger uses a small example of the silt cast vault panels at Arcosanti to explain the process. Alumni Nicola Maggiaioli came from Italy and Christopher Brown from the UK, to assist.
[Photo: Roger Tomalty & text: sa]
Part of the workshop is a video conference with Paolo Soleri.
[Photo: Roger Tomalty & text: sa]
Some of the students silt-cast projects.
[Photo: Roger Tomalty & text: sa]
On Sunday, October 2, 2005 at 3 pm Sonya Kumiko Lee will play works by Bach, Beethoven, Ginastera , Tchaikovsky and Chopin to celebrate the 24th annual Colly Concert at the Colly Soleri Music Center Amphitheater. This concert honors the memory of Cosanti Foundation Co-Founder Colly Woods Soleri who with Paolo Soleri founded the Cosanti Foundation. Colly was an avid supporter of art and cultural events during her lifetime and the tradition has continued through the Colly Soleri Music Centers Concert Season which continues to bring excellent music to the high desert.
Concert-goers may choose to follow a complimentary one hour tour at 11, 12, 1 or 2 and enjoy a gourmet luncheon between noon and 2 pm consisting of Roasted Red Pepper and Coconut Soup, Mixed Green Salad with Sweet Pecans, Blue Cheese, Pears and Arcosanti Peach Vinaigrette Dressing, Butternut Squash with Orange Cranberry Glaze, Broccoli Rabe with Roasted Garlic, Portobello Pizzas with Fresh Tomatoes and Goat Cheese, Flank steak on Greens with Mango and Pepper Sauces and Hazelnut Custard with Chocolate. Tickets are $30.00 for Luncheon and Concert , $15.00 for Concert Only, $7.50 Student Concert Only. Reservations are required.[Photo: Sonya-Kumiko Lee & text: Cosanti Foundation]
Part of the Construction crew works on the interior finish of the south-facing apartment on the second level of Unit 6 in the East Crescent Complex. Crewleader Brenday Scott and workshop participant Lindsay Clark install electric outlet cover plates.
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Drywall has been installed, mudded and painted.
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The bathroom, with a small window into the keystone, is ready for tiles and fixtures. The walls are straight, photo squewed.
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This is a big open room with a large set of windows facing the Colly Soleri Amphitheater and with an entry and window to the north balcony walkway.
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This continues the restoration story of the Double Cantilever Bridge model. For previous reports on this see postings from 8/19, 8/26 and 9/21. The cavity between the cast of the top of the stand and the bridge connection has been carefully painted with a soap releasing agent. A line of screws are inserted into the bottom of the cavity [see last photo in 9/21 report] to provide reinforcement. Plaster is poured into this cavity and over the screws.
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The surface is smoothened.
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The bottom cast is complete and the model has been carefully sanded down to its plaster surface. The next step is a completely new coat of silt sprayed from a solution of silt, glue and water.
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The model restoration of the Double Cantilever Bridge model is complete. It has been an exciting and rewarding experience for Planning and Construction Intern Kim Young Soo and Workshop participant Joseph Murray.
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The Double Cantilever Bridge model is already in Rome, but we want to continue the story of its restoration. For previous reports on this restoration see postings from 8/19 and 8/26. This model was originally cast by Paolo Soleri at Cosanti in the 1960's. Planning and Construction Intern Kim Young Soo files details on a restored part of the bridge.
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A plaster cast of the top support of the bridge stand is inserted into the connecting cavity at the bottom of the bridge. A plaster bandage support is wrapped around the cast.
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The support plaster bandage has set.
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Workshop participant Joseph Murray paints the inside of the cavity with soap. More on restoration of this model on 9/23.
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Different Skies 2005 participants: [top from left] Dave Fulton, Paul Nagle, Giles Reaves, Brian Good, Doug Wellington, Greg Waltzer, Tony Gerber, Paul Vnuk JR., Jeff Kunzelman, John Duval and Howard Moskowitz. [middle from left] John Goff, Bill Fox, Different Skies founder and organizer Mike Metlay, Jim Combs and David Tristram.[front from left] Otso Pakarinen, Tim Walters and Russel Foster.
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The delicious menu was planned and executed by Arcosanti chef Eleanor Gilles with help from staff and workshop volunteers: Pea and Carrot Soup, Mixed Green Salad with Sweet Pecans, Blue Cheese and Pears, Peach Vinegarette, Spicy Beets with Orange, Roasted Zuchini and Herbs, Leek Tart, Tuna Medallion with Tomatos and Olives and for desert Lemon Curd with Fresh Berries.
[Photo: Kim Young Soo & Text: sa]
David Tristram stunning live video VIVIOGRAPHY was part of the event for the third year.
[Photo: Kim Young Soo & Text: sa]
A week of collaboration, rehearsal and all sorts of set-up adventure, see Mike Metlay blog, culminated in an amazing performance. The group presented a series of linked musical vignettes in various styles. Each piece had a leader from within the group who organized and conducted it, either solo or with collaborators. And again, words fail to do justice.
[Photo: Kim Young Soo & Text: sa]
The second shipment of artwork, to be exhibited in Rome, left in the early hours this morning.
Craters & Freighters provided crates and packing services. Thank you to Jesse and Dave for a diligent effort.
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Acosanti Planning team stenciled identification on all 14 crates.
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This large crate with the Urbis et Orbis Space model crate seemed unmanageable, but many hands carried it all the way from the East Crescent, uphill through the keystone, to the truck.
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The - awesome effort - crew.
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Archive chief Tomiaki Tamura accompanies the shipment on trucks and freight plane and will stay in Italy to be part of the effort of putting the exhbition together. The exhibition opens on October 8. 2005 until January 8. 2006. For previous reports on this exhibition see postings of 7/25, 7/27 and 8/29.
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Different Skies is an electronic space music festival, a workshop for artists in these and related experimental music genres, a working vacation, an intensive and rewarding creative environment. A group of 20 musicians gather at the Colly Soleri Music Center for this third annual festival.
[Photo: sa & text: sa and excerps from the 2004 Different Skies brochure
As in previous years, the musicians play an afternoon session for a class of young students from the neighboring Orme School. Event organizer Mike Metlay gives a detailed explanation of the many exotic instruments and synthesizers.
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Students join the musicians on stage for more questions and demonstrations.
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Different Skies on the Arcosanti Vaults. For details on the upcoming concert on Satuday, Sept. 17., see Music by Different Skies.
[Photo: Jim Combs & text: sa]
Units in Phase 5 of the East Crescent complex will be insulated with a natural material, POST INDUSTRIAL COTTON. Note the beautiful silt ceiling design, here in the Unit 6 northfacing light-scoop apartment.
[Photo: Mika Kawai & text: sa]
The cotton insulation was purchased from BONDED LOGIC in Chandler.
[Photo: Mika Kawai & text: sa]
THANK YOU to Jerry Westin at Bonded Logic for a generous discount on this innovative new insulation material.
[Photo: Mika Kawai & text: sa]
Welcome to September 4. workshop participants.
[top row from left] Pablo Boutyette, Annamary Shaffer, Kieran Fox and Sarah Britton. [front row from left] Poul Anderson, Lindsay Clark, Georgia Putnam [seminar week only] and Melissa Soluski.[Photo & text: sa]
19 architecture students and 2 instructors from the OCT University in Osaka, Japan, arrived for a 7-day workshop.
Welcome to: [top from left] Yuki Hirashima, Jun'ichi Urano, Yusuke Nagai, Shin'ichi Ueya, Yoshiaki Nakao, Professor YasunobuTanigawa, Tomoko Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yano, Keiko Kitada, Shotaro Kumagai, Omura Shinya and Professor Ken Kobayashi. [middle from left] Toshiyuki Sakamoto, Hiromi Uemura, Saichi Takehara, Yoshinori Awata, Ryosuke Okabe and Ryo Imanara. [front from left] Takuro Taira, Takuya Nakazawa and Hideyuki Umehara. The group visits for a full schedule of classes, slideshows, activity tours at Arcosanti and Cosanti, meeting and discussion with Paolo Soleri, field trip to Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, and a day trip to the Grand Canyon.[Photo & text: sa]
Interior work proceeds in the East Crescent Complex. Some of the apartments will be used as dorm rooms for workshop participants, starting in February 2006. The light-scoop apartment in Unit 6 is almost complete.
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All stages of interior work on this apartment have been experienced by the last workshops. Utilitiy lines were installed, which include hydronic floor heating. Walls were framed ....
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.... and insulated with natural cotton material. More on insulation installation to be posted on 9/12.
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Drywall is installed, taped and mud applied before painting.
[Photo: Noh Hyun-Suk & text: sa]
Congratulations to the July 31. Workshop upon their graduation:
(top from left) Miriam Lea Ziven, Human Resources coordinator Matteo Di Michele, Ai Koboyashi and Giovanni Avosani. (front from left) Noh Hyun-Suk, Haley Jovi Cazarini Bueno, Saori Komuro, Cecilia Gramazio, cafe volunteer Silvia Pazzanese, David da Pra and Joseph Murray. Also graduated, not in photo: Mohammed Al-othman.[Photo: Kip Hersted & text: sa]