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Urban Air To Transform Billboards into Wi-Fi Connected Bamboo Sky Gardens in LA
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Glassman started taking notice of billboards after the Northridge earthquakes because the sturdy metal were still standing. He has long worked with billboard art work and public art, but also with bamboo. And so Urban Air was born, a concept for billboards transformed into lush bamboo gardens complete with water misting systems and climate monitoring capabilities. Partnering with Summit Media, a billboard company, and Arup for the engineering, Glassman has designed all of the elements to make the project possible. Summit Media has donated a billboard next to a freeway in LA on which to install his vision.
First, Glassman will remove the traditional advertising elements to leave behind the skeleton of the billboard. Then he will install specially designed planters and fill them with bamboo, which will be watered with a special misting system. Next sensors and monitors keep track of air quality, temperature and other pertinent data. What was once a tool for marketing will be a work of art, an urban forest and a symbol for a green future. Glassman hopes that after his initial prototype is completed he can install more Urban Air gardens in cities around the world. Find out more through his Kickstarter Campaign.
Billboards are like watches – you look at them frequently without really ever actually noticing they’re there. But what if billboards were composed of lush gardens instead of inane advertisements? LA-based artist Stephan Glassman wants to turn everyday
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Glassman started taking notice of billboards after the Northridge earthquakes because they were still standing.
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He has long since worked with bamboo, public art projects and billboard art work.
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His latest project is Urban Air, a billboard turned into a lush bamboo garden complete with a water misting system and climate monitoring capabilities.
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Partnering with Summit Media, a billboard company, and Arup for the engineering, Glassman has designed all of the elements to make the project possible.
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Summit Media has donated a billboard next to a freeway in LA on which to install his vision.
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First, Glassman will remove the traditional advertising elements to leave behind the skeleton of the billboard.
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Then he will install specially designed planters and fill them with bamboo, which will be watered with a special misting system.
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Next sensors and monitors keep track of air quality, temperature and other pertinent data. What was once a tool for marketing will be a work of art, an urban forest and a symbol for a green future.
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Glassman hopes that after his initial prototype is completed he can install more Urban Air gardens in cities around the world. Find out more through his Kickstarter Campaign.
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