New Trenton B Bench

Less talk

More walk

B home explained

We hold this premise to be self evident

All people are deserving , of adequate shelter, food ,clean air and water.

The b home utilizes ubiquitous materials from the waste stream to create simple yet efficient spaces.

They range from small single outdoor seating units to multicellular constructions to house scores of people.

The design enables people with limited carpentry skills ,tools and financing to create a safe , comfortable space.

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein

"America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice." - Albert Einstein

Getting prepped for pi day

Spit and glue

In an effort to emulate original

We scored a bit of cellulose pulp from Richard and Warren over at Homasote
 932 Lower Ferry Road, West Trenton, NJ 08628-0240
Our local organic processor of waste paper to product.
Started by our good man Outerbridge

Replicatable

From what is right here right now

And seeing what sticks

It's a blunderful life

Still getting that gusset joint 

Cnc'd 3/4 ply painted and sandwiched to stringers.

Excessive racking

Beating a well worn path to this drawing board

Innie outtie gusset

http://youtu.be/SLL-6SEzKwo

One size it's downfall

Shoving that hexagonal peg into any hole that appears.

Wether it b the global conflicts with the surfeit of refugees, or the local Anchor house bike ride to support runaway youth.

Or perhaps a cell could be constructed for a friend who provided countless meals and spiritual sustenance at the TA , now suffering from the ravages of substance abuse .

Or cells could be constructed along D&R Greenway trails as a rest stop / space to appreciate the scenery.

Or perhaps a backyard folly, to get one outside of the box of habitat , and offer a new perspective .

All of these , and more are what drives this project.

More being the operative word,

As they transcend shelter or sculpture in my vainglorious mind.

Creating compassionate community, I see it

I see it every day 

In every way

Healing helping with a humble hand 

An enclosure to contain and maintain.

Tangents and Pale Comparisons

Spinning out of entropy

Realizing that perhaps this spindle devise , designed and built to make the manufacturing process easier, doesn't

Perhaps clearing and leveling an area to roll the structure may have been more efficacious  and safer.

Wondering what a Pupa Spinng Spindle Truss will fetch on Craigslist.

Getting Stonehenge

Wait wait 

Counter weight

After much debate regarding the efficacy of pallet jacks, come alongs,ratchet straps and hot air balloons , we settled on rocking the pupa back and forth old school style.

Should have it chained and hung by the weekend 

Should , being the operative word...

Swinging through

Two trees  sling pupa

Crossing the180 backflip

What r rules,

But suggestions writ large?

Armand chops

The world hops

Hoff and the flying hammock

Diddler on the roof

Working this week on creating a waterproof ,sustainable yet light filtering canopy for the B home @d&r.

Going for the jaunty mortarboard ,

Got Flip back on the team

This is the present design

Lacks a certain" element"

Progress to follow.

Sculpturtonic classes by appointment.

After school events as well.

As of sept 3 2013

Sept 4

Undisturbed earth

First of a series

Where impossible works

Now in Shangra la 

Developing a full scale mock up out of up cycled materials

Working towards a manufactured product

As the lotus unfolds.

Made men

                                          Uncle Al Greens' Soul Food serving up the masses
                    Made men show was off the hook, the start of a great weekend in Trenton

                           Biodiesel unit moving to the D & R for the sustainable structure series

                                 Priming the foundation pallets under the guidance of Mr. Yang

                                         Group shot of the lastish day for some of the interns

who were brave enough to answer the somewhat sketchy notice hanging at school .

Thank you so much for hard work and dedication .

and most importantly, putting up with me.

A man obsessed with designing and building structures that provide safe dry comfortable space.

Opiary of the masses

Impromptu tour of Opiary Studio

There goes the neighborhood

German engineering 

Moore art

Untitled

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Slight detour as I d dived metal studs off Scott Anderson's new restaurant in Pton.