ON ASH CLOUDS
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Harvard GSD/Landscape design department.
Course at the Master in Landscape design program. First year. JTERM January 2011

Location: Eyjafjallajökull. Southern coast of Iceland.
Ash cloud observatories. Harvard GSD, January 2011.

Students:Emily Elise McMillan, Alexander Arroyo, Siobhan Aitchison, Erik Andersen, Kunkook Bae, Senta Burton, Sherry Chen, Rachel Cleveland, Tracie Curry, Heather Dunbar, Lauren Elachi, Michael Easler, Katie Hotchkiss, David Kunugi, Kara Lam, Jack McGrath, Connie Migliazzo, Emily Milliman, Madeleine Murphy, Chris Myers, Eunsae Park, Andrew Leonard, Michael Luegering, Lindsey Nelson, Mia Scharphie, Erika Schwarz, Kate Smaby, Heather Sullivan, Xiaowei Wang, Yuyu Wang, Anne Weber, Yizhou Xu, Xin You, Jeongmin Yu, Chuhan Zhang

Instructors: Luis Callejas, Sebastian Mejia (Paisajes Emergentes, Med Colombia)
Teaching assistant: Lukas Pauer (ETH Zurich)
   CONSTRUCTION OF ASH CLOUD, AS TURBULENCE.  INK AND WATERCOLOR ON MYLAR. the title of this collection is aska blæja the author of this  project is M.K. Smaby.    Geysers, waterfalls, and steam swell and veil the extraterrestrial  geologic landscape. Aska Blaeja proposes to reconfigure the intutive cadence and opacity  this particular landscape event, activating the ash as a persistant  installation of thin, layered veils  in a variety of locations across the island. MARA KATHERINE SMABY, born March 17th 1985, is studying Landscape  Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has a background in  landscape history + field botany + festivity. 
the title of this collection is aska blæja (ash veil).  the author of this  project is M.K. Smaby.  Geysers, waterfalls, and steam swell and veil the extraterrestrial  geologic landscape. Aska Blaeja proposes to reconfigure the intutive cadence and opacity  this particular landscape event, activating the ash as a persistant  installation of thin, layered veils  in a variety of locations across the island. MARA KATHERINE SMABY, born March 17th 1985, is studying Landscape  Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has a background in  landscape history + field botany + festivity. 
 Construction of ash cloud, as turbulence.  Ink and watercolor on mylar. MARA KATHERINE SMABY, born March 17th 1985, is studying Landscape  Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has a background in  landscape history + field botany + festivity. 
MARA KATHERINE SMABY, born March 17th 1985, is studying Landscape  Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has a background in  landscape history + field botany + festivity. 
 Construction of ash cloud, as turbulence.  Aska Blaeja proposes to reconfigure the intutive cadence and opacity  this particular landscape event, activating the ash as a persistant  installation of thin, layered veils  in a variety of locations across the island. the title of this collection is aska blæja (ash veil).  the author of this  project is M.K. Smaby. 
 Construction of ash cloud, as turbulence. 
From upper-left, moving  clockwise, Julie Mehretu, Jasper  Johns, Cy Twombly. 
 Aska blaeja moves between stratification and animation of the material composition of the ash. Without significant air currents or disruption, the ash would likely gravitationally sort according to parent material, size, density, and electromagnitude. This suspended, compositional matrix would be routinely shuffled and fluffed by inevitable atmospheric disruptions caused by winds, animals or any nearby ambient movement. 
the title of this collection is aska blæja (ash veil).  the author of this  project is M.K. Smaby.    MARA KATHERINE SMABY, born March 17th 1985, is studying Landscape  Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has a background in  landscape history + field botany + festivity. 
MARA KATHERINE SMABY, born March 17th 1985, is studying Landscape  Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has a background in  landscape history + field botany + festivity. 
collection: veiling/techniques + technologies  research on representation of atmosphere as event
the title of this collection is aska blæja (ash veil).  the author of this  project is M.K. Smaby.   Aska Blaeja proposes to reconfigure the intutive cadence and opacity  this particular landscape event, activating the ash as a persistant  installation of thin, layered veils  in a variety of locations across the island.    MARA KATHERINE SMABY, born March 17th 1985, is studying Landscape  Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has a background in  landscape history + field botany + festivity.  collection: veiling/techniques + technologies  research on representation of atmosphere as event
the title of this collection is aska blæja (ash veil).  the author of this  project is M.K. Smaby. Aska Blaeja proposes to reconfigure the intutive cadence and opacity  this particular landscape event, activating the ash as a persistant  installation of thin, layered veils  in a variety of locations across the island.  MARA KATHERINE SMABY, born March 17th 1985, is studying Landscape  Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has a background in  landscape history + field botany + festivity. 
Airplanes as observatories.  the author of this project is  Michael Luegering.  Research and technologies applied to flight systems eventually find their way into the cabin - case and point the flat pannel monitor, or the airphone. The Heads-Up Display (HUD) presents a key oportunity for using the existing window structure as the base point for observation and interaction with the clouds outside the window.  As a transparent projection, it allows the viewer to observe both data and the wold to which it is being projected. taxonomy / research    It was vital to explore the variety of experiences the HUD and cloud types provide  through the framed view of an airplane window.   There seems to be an infinite number of striking experience that come with the observation of the environment out the window of a plane.  These experience can be enhanced through the intentional activation of an otherwise impasse or forgot- ten assets of the plane - the window.  First class seating options include rotating and locking FAA approved seats which allow the most refined and sophisticated user a level of unparralleled viewing enjoyment.     image  Coach seats include active window HUD’s with highly interactive touch screen monitors based in the headrest.   Boeing - 737-8hx  Boeing - 767-230  Boeing - 767-328  Airbus - A330-223  Boeing - 767-223er  Michael Luegering, is studying Landscape Architecture at the  Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has a background in Planning-Urban  Design and has participated in a number of collaborative design works. In addi-  tion he has been involved in freelance design and rendering with S2LÜ, as well as  urban research on aged and forgotten fragments of midwestern cities.
The launching of sensor instruments coupled with guide lights  to create the airplane highway landscape.  The instruments are held within clouds whose change exceedes the minimum particulate level needed for safe flight.     Michael Luegering, is studying Landscape Architecture at the  Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has a background in Planning-Urban  Design and has participated in a number of collaborative design works. In addi-  tion he has been involved in freelance design and rendering with S2LÜ, as well as  urban research on aged and forgotten fragments of midwestern cities. 
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