Category Archives: Michael Jantzen
Michael Jantzen’s Eco-Seed Sowing Machines
The Eco-Seed Sowing Machines are solar powered structures that contain a large amount of flower seeds. Whenever evidence of environmental degradation is observed, a signal is sent to the various structures, and a small amount of flower seeds are automatically released onto the earth below. Eco-Seed Sowing Machines are a symbolic public art response to [...]
The Entangled Pavilion by Michael Jantzen
The Entangled Pavilion is one in a series of my design studies that explore new ways in which architecture can be reinvented in order to become more responsive to the people who use it. This is a design study for a new kind of interactive architecture. The structure consists of a large steel support frame [...]
The Solar Winds Gathering Place by Michael Jantzen
The Solar Winds Gathering place is a design proposal for a large, prefabricated, modular, public art project. In this specific formation, the entire gathering place consists of a cluster of 15 specially designed steel wind turbines. Each of the turbines has a large solar cell array mounted on the top. All of the turbines are [...]
FUTUREWATCH: Michael Jantzen’s Stair-Scape House
The Stair-Scape House is a small functional art structure intended to be used as a weekend retreat, studio, office, or guesthouse. It was designed to explore ways in which one might interact in a very specific physical way with their built environment, and at the same time, generate some of the energy needed to power [...]
Michael Jantzen’s Sun Altered Cube
The painted steel Sun Altered Cube is a large solar powered kinetic art installation designed to be placed into a public park. An array of solar cells is mounted on the top of the cube. These solar cells power two electric motors that are connected to two corners of the cube. The corners have been [...]
The Hideaway House Concept from Michael Jantzen
I was inspired to develop this as a result of various observations regarding certain advancements in high tech fabric structures. The fabrics used to create many of these structures will last for many years in very harsh environments. They are very tough, will hold their color, and are fire resistant as well. I thought it [...]
Stair-Scape Cubes by Michael Jantzen
Stair-Scape Cubes are large public art structures made of steel. They are designed to encourage people to gather together and exercise by climbing on the stairs that weave through the giant support frame grids. As people climb the stairs, electricity is generated for the communities in which the Stair-Scape Cubes are installed, through the piezoelectric [...]
The California Canopy House by Michael Jantzen
The California Canopy House was designed to embrace Southern California’s sunny temperate climate. As a result, the structure is primarily made of a series of large, overlaping, curved and slotted canopies. Thesecanopies shade the majority of the enclosed portion of the house. They, along with fence-like extentions of theenclosed portion of the house, form shaded [...]
The Transmutation Pavilion from Michael Jantzen
The Transmutation Pavilion is a design proposal for a large, solar powered, interactive, public,functional art structure. The structure consists of three interlocking cylindrical forms, supported byfour horizontal planes, which in turn are supported by eight vertical columns. Each of the cylindricalforms are different sizes, and are woven together one inside of the other, in different [...]