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The Baseline Group is an interdisciplinary collective of student artists and faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The group focuses on developing and realizing community and site-based art projects. During the spring and summer terms 2011, The Baseline Group will be working in Yuma County, Colorado.
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ChickenShack Village at BMoCA September 09
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- The wide variety of public art
- Materials
- 5 Basic Building Materials
- Marshall Visit
- T.C. Woods
- weekend site research
- 12 Tips for a Successful Coop Design
- 24 Hour Fitness
- Green Roofs
- Tired Chickens
- Reasons to love chicken poop
- Info from "Chickens in Your Backyard"
- shipping palette give away today!
- Materiality...
- Beetle kill gives industry new life...
- Colorado beetle kill pine forest
- Coop made from old pallets
- Singing for the Beasts
- palette shack follow up
- The Renegade Lunch Lady
- Answers to the questions
- Palette Barn
- Straw Bale Chicken Coops
- Onix, Community Roots & Resource Presentation
- Onix Website
- defining our sense of "place"
- Virtual Tour
- One way to move a coop
- Washington State's Living With Wildlife Tips
- Sod Chicken Houses?
- Boulder Historical images
- Straw Bales
- Working Collectively
- more coops
- Fixed the link to the indoor coop
- Links
- New Take On City Coop
- Materials, Forms, and Regional Identity
- Land Use Issue
- Phone Conference with Onix
- Presentation Post
- Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
- For those dealing with signs
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I think we should use some local natural materials however materials at resource (things people choose to recycle and reuse) can also be considered local. Lets say we choose to use the palettes, when could treat the palette as a skeleton type structure and then make it 'fancy' by treating with a skin. I think we can use this way of working with other materials at Resource. I was just on the site earlier today and I saw a bunch of filing cabinets/drawers, perhaps thinking of those as nesting boxes but then alter them in a way that is cozy for the chickens. I'm not sure if everyone thinks of the local material in that way but if it came from a family or building that is local to boulder then in my mind that seems local. Maybe we could get some old signs from buildings and alter them in a way that relates to the coops/chickens. I also think about the door knobs and shower heads, what could those be used for or how can we alter them or combine them to be functional and interesting. I think if we only use basic materials then we will have a basic coop but if we step outside of the basic material then our design and village will stand out and be interesting as well as staying true to the local material. I know I have mentioned this in class but I like to think about the structure as 3 types of boulder's vernacular architecture meeting together. The mining structure which boulder was founded on, the A frames (similar to the homes in Chautauqua), and the new types of modern/industrial like green buildings. I think that relates the structure to the past and future.
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