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Etude Atlantis
Etude Atlantis
Atlantic City, NJ, United States
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Etude Atlantis
Atlantic City, NJ, United States
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Étude Atlantis is imagined as a visual instrument for the social and philosophical exercise of “finding Atlantis.” This project is inspired by a complex matrix of sources including: the work of the musician John Cage, the architect Arthur Erickson, the mathematician Ivars Peterson, the global position of Atlantic City, oceanography, renaissance church floor design and camouflage ship painting, among others. The antipode of Atlantic City, or direct line through the center of the earth, emerges from the sea floor off the SW coast of Australia, near the underwater Naturaliste Plateau, considered by some to be a southern Atlantis. Étude Atlantis presents to the participant a stage-like environment where participants may traverse and explore a gigantic graphic of illusionistic decent and a complimentary central “cistern” reflecting the sky above and conceptually that of it’s antipode. These visual elements can be imagined as a theatrical playground and puzzle-space to consider mythic quests, cognition and geopolitical relationships.
The central graphic area, which is sloped 4 degrees towards the boardwak, is framed by landscaping and seating. Trees are planted in a row at either end at an approximately 10 degree slope away from the center of project. The site has active wifi, through which the viewer may engage with a aerial video camera mounted on a nearby building, pointed at the site.
Project Management: John Talley, Jamila Glapion, and Layman Lee, Fung Collaboratives; Landscape Documents/Consulting: Cairone & Kaupp, Inc., Philadelphia, PA;
Structural Engineering: Czar Engineering, Egg Harbor Twp, NJ; Architectural Documents/Consulting: ORE design+technology, NYC, NY; Project Construction: Aliano Brothers General Contractors, Inc., Vineland, NJ;
Graphic Painting, International Union of Painters & Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, CLC 71,1 led by Todd Mitrush; detali painting, Sue Daly, Atlantic City, N.J
The central graphic area, which is sloped 4 degrees towards the boardwak, is framed by landscaping and seating. Trees are planted in a row at either end at an approximately 10 degree slope away from the center of project. The site has active wifi, through which the viewer may engage with a aerial video camera mounted on a nearby building, pointed at the site.
Project Management: John Talley, Jamila Glapion, and Layman Lee, Fung Collaboratives; Landscape Documents/Consulting: Cairone & Kaupp, Inc., Philadelphia, PA;
Structural Engineering: Czar Engineering, Egg Harbor Twp, NJ; Architectural Documents/Consulting: ORE design+technology, NYC, NY; Project Construction: Aliano Brothers General Contractors, Inc., Vineland, NJ;
Graphic Painting, International Union of Painters & Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, CLC 71,1 led by Todd Mitrush; detali painting, Sue Daly, Atlantic City, N.J
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