Design, research, and fabrication completed as a part of the team at LANDING STUDIO. Photos coutesy of Landing Studio unless otherwise noted.
These wharfs, common sights up and down the New England seaboard, are commonly now in states of disrepair. “Marginal” recycles a wharf made of oak piers and reconstructs a grid of 18 new wharf totems. In a 12’ x 12’ room in Somerville, hundreds of pieces of pier, thousands of fasteners, tensioning cables, custom spacers, electronics, and acrylic tubes were combined to create a collection of characters remembering historic seafront architecture while producing a contemporary park installation. I designed and built a lighting system concealed within the totems that are charged by a photovoltaic cell and transform the installation into a glowing ghostly wharf at night.
