Honor Award
Boxed + Shipped
Miguel Jimenez, Student ASLA; Sergio Lopez, Student ASLA and Samnang Thang, Student ASLA, Undergraduate, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Wilcox, ASLA
Close Me!Interior view showcasing the many items that constitutes "“in the box" thinking.
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Close Me!A visitor examines curriculum mapping poster and browses through the installation proposal booklet, both of which that laid the framework for installation.
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Close Me!A mock packing slip template was created and used for the installation concept statement. On a clipboard nailed to the box, a visitor reads on about the installation concept.
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Close Me!Visitors discuss and explore the interior and exterior of the exhibit.
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Close Me!The many guests who turned out to the opening of the exhibit.
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Close Me!The many samples of student created work which constitutes "outside the box" thinking.
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Close Me!Silkscreen printed takeaway posters were hung on red yarn for all to take.
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Close Me!Visitors examine the exterior and interior items on display.
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Close Me!A freshly prepped aluminum silkscreen sits on the gallery floor as it eagerly waits to be used to press takeaway posters.
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Close Me!A box in a box, the exhibit is in a gallery and this is the view passerby are presented with as they walk into building.
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Close Me!Construction details. A diagrammatic breakdown of how the box was constructed.
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Close Me!Installation diagram. Process diagram
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Close Me!Our initial vision for the installation showed via perspective. Some changes were made along the way but it did not deviate away from the concept.
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Project Statement
Boxed + Shipped was an installation which invited the viewers to explore the concept of "in the box" thinking. The 15'x10'x8' cardboard box is symbolic of an undergraduate landscape architecture curriculum. Within the box are the various materials, concepts, and techniques that have been expressed to us as the definition of landscape architecture. Outside the box, the viewers are exposed to the many means and methods students undertake to reinterpret the curriculums ideologies.
Project Narrative
—2011 Student Awards Jury
Boxed + Shipped is an installment conceived by thinking outside of the box or developing ideas that deviate from the more conventional forms of landscape architecture. Found within the box are elements that traditionally have come to define the discipline of landscape architecture. These techniques, methods, processes, concepts, and skills reach a specific educational end providing a framework for instructions; hence the box. Exhibited outside of the box are pieces that utilize different modes of creative expression to convey ideas that cannot be easily communicated through standard methods; Film, photography, graphic design, painting, sculpture, animation, and music inform and influence the discipline of landscape architecture in a broader sense. It is the combination of what is inside, as well as outside of the box, that begins to form a deeper understanding of what can be realized in the field of landscape architecture.
Additional Project Credits
Jonathan Austin, Student Affiliate ASLA, Alexa Pok, Student ASLA, Jason Tang & Senior Landscape Architecture Class of 2011