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Ol' Glory - Filling the Void
Ol' Glory - Filling the Void
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Ol' Glory - Filling the Void
Philadelphia, PA, United States
There is inherent history in the streets of Philadelphia, a history that inspired us to design an installation that would both serve as a cultural marker, and as an architectural component.
Located in Philadelphia, a cornerstone of American foundation, the bricks become the foundation for an installation. Ol’ Glory is a reinterpretation of Betsy Ross’ Flag in the city where it was first created. However, other than what the flag itself stands for, this installation has the capability of acting as an acoustical wall, lowering the reverberation in the marketplace of the Sugarhouse Casino through the brick’s and the wood’s unified material properties.
Ol’Glory is composed of 4550 dowels manually cut by DMAC’s design team into 50 different lengths. The dowels were then, one by one, dipped in a bucket of colored paint, and tumbled in a concrete mixer through a process that weathered them similar to the city’s streets. Each one of the 4550 dowels was installed individually into a 20 feet tall wall made of roughly 300 bricks. The brick’s unique trait - its perforations - are exposed, becoming the support and foundation for the dowels and the enabler of the installation. Once installed, the dowels formalize as an undulating Betsy Ross Flag. Hundreds of hours of intense team work transformed simple dowel rods into an activate element within this casino
Installed in the Sugarhouse Casino’s Marketplace, one of the busiest areas of this building, Ol’ Glory is able to bring the strong ad robust urban streetscape of Philadelphia into the interior of the building through the use of Wood and Brick.
Located in Philadelphia, a cornerstone of American foundation, the bricks become the foundation for an installation. Ol’ Glory is a reinterpretation of Betsy Ross’ Flag in the city where it was first created. However, other than what the flag itself stands for, this installation has the capability of acting as an acoustical wall, lowering the reverberation in the marketplace of the Sugarhouse Casino through the brick’s and the wood’s unified material properties.
Ol’Glory is composed of 4550 dowels manually cut by DMAC’s design team into 50 different lengths. The dowels were then, one by one, dipped in a bucket of colored paint, and tumbled in a concrete mixer through a process that weathered them similar to the city’s streets. Each one of the 4550 dowels was installed individually into a 20 feet tall wall made of roughly 300 bricks. The brick’s unique trait - its perforations - are exposed, becoming the support and foundation for the dowels and the enabler of the installation. Once installed, the dowels formalize as an undulating Betsy Ross Flag. Hundreds of hours of intense team work transformed simple dowel rods into an activate element within this casino
Installed in the Sugarhouse Casino’s Marketplace, one of the busiest areas of this building, Ol’ Glory is able to bring the strong ad robust urban streetscape of Philadelphia into the interior of the building through the use of Wood and Brick.
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