Olmsted’s Blank Snow
Olmsted’s Blank Snow is a design for a winter landscape in the parking lot of Front Park, one of the six Olmsted Parks in Buffalo, New York.
As a prototype, this project seeks to transform standard snow plowing practices into creative tools for generating new landscapes. Holes of Matter designed and implemented this winter landscape by proposing a snow plowing master plan to locate the snow mounds resulting from daily plowing. The proposed design artistically exploits the spatial conditions defined by these typically overlooked snow mounds and exposes the hidden potentials of snow removal as a winter practice that can positively transform public space.
Project Data
Built work
Front Park, Buffalo, USA
2011
Designers
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
Nicole Halstead
Consultants
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Buffalo, USA
Sponsors
New York
State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York, USA
Awards
Honorable Mention in ColdScapes Competition organized by the Center for Outdoor Living Design (COLD), Kent State University, Cleveland, USA (2013)
Publications
Bracket
Presentations
Studio-X NYC
Features
Broken City Lab
mammoth
The Boston Globe
The Dirt
