SHADOWALK
Derived from Indio’s history with date palms, this ¾ mile shade structure on Jackson St. joins the new CV Link to the new park. Local school children drew shadows of palms and we translated those drawings onto perforated shadow-casting panels. An undulating structure reflects the surrounding mountains.
Completion in 2024.
AAD Faculty Show
Wes Heiss’s exhibition at the Art, Architecture and Design Faculty Exhibition, showing models & mockups of Civic Space Llc projects.
January 28, 2025 – May 23, 2025
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A SENTIENT HEDGEROW
Hedgework is an urban landscape intervention that takes the form of a sentient hedgerow. It is a community of native plants and environmental sensors that create a biodiverse habitat that supports the butterflies, bees, birds and squirrels that inhabit it, while engaging the community members, workers, cyclists, pedestrians and others that surround it. But the essential and unique transformational relationship the Hedgerow creates is the real conversation between human and more-than-human stakeholders. Its infrastructure helps to generate a series of feedback loops that provide many opportunities for playful response and interaction. Hedgework seasonally transforms over the life-cycle of its installation, growing, generating data, building knowledge and writing a soundtrack that reflects the climate and disposition of the site.
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THOUGHTBALLOONS
Working with the community to develop source material, the piece generates amusing & profound conversations relevant to the new Stapleton population.
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14TH STREET OVERLAY
Each instrument combines a real-time view of the streetscape with an ‘overlay’ slide that adds an additional narrative. We identified locations & stories that combine into a ‘treasure hunt’ of 23 somewhat hidden artworks.
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ANIMALS EYES
Animal sculptures are placed throughout the Berry Center, each highlight a specific Wyoming ecosystem.
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STAPLEFIELD
A dynamic model that expresses the state of the building & its occupancy.
An array of sensors analyze movement in the various parts of the Center & respond through a living light choreography.
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ABOUTFACE
AboutFace is a record of a time & place, a way to eulogize the present & look forward. The roundabout is a pivot into the college. On this roundabout we place a drum with profiles of people at the school – anyone who signs up can get their profile placed there – a welcoming committee to all.
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AGRIKULTURA
What is our present relationship to the land?
How can we engage with a nature we push ever further from our lives?
How can we effect our cultural & emotional connection to a nature that we have over-extended?
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