Gimme Shelter

International Design/Build Competition. Spring 2009

Gimme Shelter is a showcase of six temporary, functional woodland shelters to enhance the experience of visitors to the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, a 350-acre nature preserve in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia. The project is meant to build awareness of the applied possibilities and meaning of sustainability and its impact on our lives and our connection to the natural world. The competition encouraged collaboration between artists, designers and architects, in order to demonstrate and promote new, unique, and inspiring approaches to sustainable design and building techniques.

Opening Reception
Saturday May 9th, 2009
2-5 pm
With a tour of the shelters led by the design/build teams at 3 pm
This event is free and open to the public


FINALISTS:

Bambooze! | Rebecca Popowsky & Riggs Skepnek | Philadelphia, PA
Bird/Seed Shelter | XLXS: Julia Molloy & Taka Sarui | Brooklyn, NY
Firefly | Rashida Ng, AIA, Nami Yamamoto, Max Lent, Greg Charnock | Philadelphia, PA
RainSail | Alexa Bosse & Ari Miller | Philadelphia, PA
RainShelter | GCArchitects: Gabriela Sanz Rodriguez & Carlos Martinez Mediero | Madrid, Spain
Woodland Canopy | FORM Design Collaborative: Joseph Scarpa, Rochelle Curley, Benjamin Nia, Jerome Siedlecki, & Stephen Jack | Philadelphia, PA

GIMME SHELTER WAS JURIED BY:
Mark Hughes, Philadelphia’s new Director of Sustainability
William W. Braham, PhD FAIA, Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
Jeanne Jaffe, Professor and Chair of Fine Arts, University of the Arts
Laurie D. Olin, Olin Partnership
Libby Rosof and Roberta Fallon, art critics, artblog and Philadelphia Weekly.


The six shelters will remain open to the
public through the Fall of 2010

To learn more, visit:
www.schuylkillcenter.org/gimmeshelter

Gimme Shelter is being coordinated by The Schuylkill Center’s Art Program Director, Mary Salvante, and Art Program Manager, Zoë Cohen.

Gimme Shelter is funded by the William Penn Foundation, with additional funding by the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, and is presented in partnership with The Center for Architecture and the American Institute of Architects-Philadelphia, The Engineering and Design Institute at Philadelphia University, Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia, and The Delaware Valley Green Building Council.