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0 Alpha1 Ampli-shelter2 Tetragon3 Entry Green4 Visitor Parking5 Annex6 Vortex7 Stormwater Retention8 Stormwater Matrix9 Now Boarding Pet Facility10 Apex11 New Trees12 Prairie Matrix13 FAA Regional Office14 Tangent15 Lowland Forest16 Asterix17 MAC Corporate Office18 Cattail Matrix19 Knowledge Deck 20 Steam Matrix21 Biodiesel Facility22 Axis23 Vertex24 Ethanol Facility

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Design Elements

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Annex

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Lighting Bollard

Parking Lot Driveway

5’0’ 10’Annex Viewing Theater Section A - A’

A user might begin at the beginning, at the entry. Either by car exiting off Highway 62 or down 28th avenue into the ANNEX - a parking area designed around a raised gazing theater to witness the take-off and landing of flights from Runway 12L. The theater provides just 12 seats in sets of 3 in an attempt to create and maintain a rare intimacy with the aircraft, re-enacting the global act of plane watching on the angled gazing couches.

Annex

Airfield Biofuel Planting

5’ Raised Gazing Theater

135 ReclinedGazing Couch

o Glass InsetGazing Theater

12’ Security Fence

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Aluminum Gazing Frame

Glass Gazing Panel

135 Aluminum Gazing Couch

5’ Gazing Raised Platform

12’ Chain Link Security Fence

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Alpha

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DVORFramed

InfrastructureOverflow

Lawn

Alpha Entry Plaza Section B - B’10’0’ 20’

The ALPHA entry is a space designed as though modern infrastructure were a treated with the sacred formality of an ancient temple in order to re-frame our visual understanding of these pieces of equipment as users enter from the neighborhood above, or Bossen Field Park during the fevered excitement of little league action on a Saturday morning.

Alpha

B

Street Entry

Gathering Lawn

70’ Diameter Emitting Surface

3’ Diameter Support Column

15’ Diameter Central Column

Overly Dramatic Base Lighting

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Tetragon

Smalldog Area

Ampli-Shelter

The central promenade axis leads into the Tetragon dog park, a new version of a previously unfenced and unregulated use at the south end of the site, wrapping around and through these re-framed infrastructural elements of the DVOR, basically a large aircraft scaled GPS transponder unit with its two associated booster antenna. The form of the fence and tree plantings create a forced perspective, narrowing as they near the DVOR increasing the perceived scale of the structure as the central path is processed through a sea of frolicking pups.

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20’0’ 40’Tetragon Dog Park Section C - C’

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Frolicking Pup

2” Aluminum Bar

3/8” Inset Safety Glass

Wood Platform

18” Concrete Footing

12’-8” Clearance

9’-9” Radius

40’-0”

25’-0”

Booster Tower

Play Area

Security Fence

DVORC’

Vortex

Now Boarding Infiltration Prairie

MatrixPaths

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D’ 20’0’ 40’Vortex Drain Bridge Section D - D’

The entry splits into two directions, parallel experiential runways in the spirit of the footprint of MSP originating from similar circumstance but diverting into diverse tangent arcs like flight paths. The lower tangent moves first through the VORTEX bridge, an experimental wetland retention pond which captures the storm runoff from the hardscape of the corportate facilities before it enters the the Minneapolis sewer system. Designed for up to 150,000 cu/ft of water, the bridge bursts forth with aquatic effulgence during rain events to showcase and signify the act of its capture.

Vortex

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3’-6” Handrail

Wood Plank Gangway

Steel Support Structure

6” Embedded Drain Pipes

1” Exterior Drizzle Pipes

Storage Pond

VortexBridge

DrizzlePipes

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Matrix

Secondary Traipseway

FirstDate

18” Seating Edge

Mixed Prairie Testing Plots

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E’ Matrix Planting Section E - E’5’0’ 10’

This water is then utilized in one of the test pods of the MATRIX, the large biomass testing facility which runs down the central spine of the site, edged by existing parking areas on the east and the existing ridgeline on the west. This matrix will evolve over time as needs and science dictate, but has been initally set up for algaes, mixed prairire grasses, bamboo species, switchgrass, and cattails in conjunction with mother Lake.

Matrix

E

Pond Fed Drip Irrigation

Experimental Planting Medium

Rubberized Planting Bed Liner

Filter Mesh

Heated Steam Pipes

Exterior Path Lights

Adjacent Walkway

Aluminum Raised Planting Bed

Overflow Drain

Primary Traipseway

Algae Stormwater Tests

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Apex

TangentWalkway

Lower Platform

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Apex Sky Bridge Section F - F’20’0’ 40’

As one sinks below grade towards the cattails of Mother Lake, the second tangent arc stretches above. 22’ over the lower tangent arc and stretching almost 2000’ from end to end the APEX is a raised curving arc with an accessible stepped theater to separate the movers from the shakers. It is an epic place of theater for viewing the incoming aircraft from runway 12R and 17 over the shallow murky and now relatively bird-free waters of Mother Lake.

Apex

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3’6” Safety Railing

12’ Wide Upper Walkway

Apex Peak

18” Step Down / 3 6” Risers

10’ Wide Lower Gazing Platform

22’ Support Beam

3’-6” Safety Railing

6’ Wide Lower Gangway

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Apex Peak

LandscapeStudents

Mother Lake

CattailsF’

Tangent

Apex Peak

Runway 12R

WaningMoon

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Tangent Cattail Walkway Section G - G’20’0’ 40’

The lower tangent arc leads deeper out into the marsh below, and as it narrows, provides provisions to step off the path to gather, wait, watch, think, chat, rest, or catch grasshoppers as they move through the marsh. It is a smaller more intimate place for the experience of aircraft and one another.

Tangent

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3’6” Safety Railing

6” Step

10’ Wide Raised Gazing Platform

6’ Wide Lower Gangway

Tangent Curve

Lower Platform

Runway 17

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Asterix

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BiodieselFacility

Storage Tanks

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Asterix Celestial Storage Tanks Section H - H’20’0’ 40’

The lower tangent returns to shore into the matrix at the ASTERIX, a chemical and fuel storage tank yard designed to re-imagine the airport’s role in the atmosphere. Despite being a landscape and infrastructure primarily concerned with the sky, the lights required for safe airfield operations create such dense light pollution that the stars are no longer visible in the night sky. Thus the tanks are given a floating exterior skin which is perforated with the patterns of constellations and back lit to provide a space a place for learning about the celestial vaccuum in a a landscape devoted to the sky.

Asterix

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Floating Exterior Aluminum Skin

Drilled Constellation Patterns

Internal Light Source

Standard Storage Tank

Educational Experience

Celestial Diagrams

SeatingEdge

AmateurAstrologists

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Axis

Axis

Biodiesel Facility

Diesel Theater

GlassHallway

Community College

Chemists

Cellulosic Theater

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Axis Education Theater Section I - I’10’0’ 20’

The asterix tanks are adjacent to the sited production facilities and the large dueling theaters of the AXIS. The space between the diesel and ethanol facilities each of which feature large viewing windows as the centrum to a small amphitheater both similar in evoking the invisible shapes of the airport landscape and different in their physical shapes much like the internal functions of their related structures. These spaces are meant to expose the process of fuel production and create accessible science and inate learning opportunities. Both buildings are designed conceptually to be more than a white box, but rather to be inviting and functional, and where appropriate, open to the public.

Axis

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EthanolFacility

Chemical Beakers

Walkway Egress

The building shapes are reminiscent of these same invisible airport geometries, from outward radiating radar circles to the runway hashes forming repeating V’s. The shapes are gestural, more as a question of what the structures could be if not the white box. But perhaps the tanks could appear as beakers and the building provide a puncture for their experience, in this case in the form of a large glass hallway which seperates the material storage, early processing, and production processing uses.

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North Elevation South Elevation

Production Gazing Portal

Sky Gazing Portal

Production Floor

Various Machinery

Garage Entry

Floating Mesh Skin

Material Storage/Receiving Room

Vegetation Processing Room

Internal Glass Walkway

Processing Gazing Portal

Production Room

Production Gazing Portal

Chemical Storage Tanks

East Elevation West Elevation

1”=20’

Production Facility Elevations40’0’ 80’

Vertex

Cattail Testplots

Viewing Deck

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Vertex Test Plot Section J - J’40’0’ 80’

A central path leads out from the axis back through the descending matrix of steam-heated bamboo planters to test future viability of biomass plants given the impending realities of climate change through a stop off-gathering point called the Knowledge Deck down to the final theater, the VERTEX. Located as close as permitted to the edge of the runway 12R and shaped by the invisible forces of its associated runway safety area the viewing platform is nestled in a series of test matrix plots for cattails only a few hundred feet below the belly of incoming and outgoing aircraft. This is a spectacle earned through the long traverse and circulates back through the network to the entry.

Vertex

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Cattail Planting Plot

Cattail Planting Plot

Mesh Walkway

Gazing Theater

Flush Wetland Edge

DVORDisc

Knowledge Deck

Apex Curve

Steamvent Testplots

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