Toward a Cybernetic Site

The artist Mary Miss and architects Marlon Blackwell, Kierantimberlake Associates, and Lake/Flato radically reinterpret site construction in three new projects

July 2007

[ Page 7 of 7 ]

By Russell Fortmeyer

Instructions

Read the article "Toward a Cybernetic Site"
Complete the questions below, then fill in your answers .
Fill out and submit the AIA/CES education reporting form in the magazine, securely online, or print the form to receive one AIA learning unit.

Questions:

Program Code: 077EDIT1
LU: 1

1. Which is not the design idea for the bridge across the canal at the Indianapolis Museum of Art?
a. to confront the viewer with nature
b. to get people to notice what they take for granted in a landscape
c. to keep people separated from the water
d. for the bridge to be an innovative viewing device

2. Since the Indianapolis park lies in a 100-year floodplain, the architect’s approach was to do which?
a. keep water out
b. keep water in
c. construct a path for water flow
d. understand how water will travel

3. The architect refers to the Interpretive Center as a “leaf” for which of the following reasons?
a. the structural steel resembles a tree
b. the porosity of the roof and deck material allows water to flow through
c. the building’s canopies collect leaves for composting
d. the color of the building changes with the seasons

4. What will be done with most of the water used by the Experiential Center and the Interpretive Center?
a. it will be channeled into the canal
b. it will be recycled through a constructed wetland
c. it will be drained into a cistern
d. it will be drained into a septic tank

5. The Sidwell Friends School reuses the building’s wastewater for which purpose?
a. to water the grounds
b. to supply a decorative fountain
c. to flush toilets
d. for fire standpipes

6. Before the Sidwell wastewater enters the wetland, it goes through all except which?
a. a trickle filter of rocks
b. plant root systems
c. a primary treatment tank
d. a tank consisting of anaerobic bacteria

7. What color pipe is required by the Uniform Plumbing Code for gray water?
a. gray
b. yellow
c. blue
d. purple

8. The wastewater from Government Canyon flows into which?
a. sewers
b. wetlands
c. septic tank
d. river

----- Advertising -----

9. The architects raised Government Canyon on pilotis to allow the stormwater on-site to do what?
a. flow naturally through the site
b. pass into moats around the perimeter
c. percolate into the landscape
d. flow into storm sewers

10. The author of this article contends which about sites and watersheds?
a. a pristine site most likely will not be found
b. most sites experience the effects of other development in the region
c. a site’s topography may represent decisions made decades ago
d. all of the above

[ Page 7 of 7 ]