scheme 2: farm walls - ants vs. birds

we're contemplating scheme 2: farm walls, as a proposal that mixes existing park programs [birds, insects, nature] with new programmatic ideas that can be related to urban farming... maybe this is a stretch, but we'll get there.

as to antfarm:
we've already discussed the image of the antfarm as architectural partition and i think we can all appreciate it's potential.
we could probably knock this one out in photoshoppe pretty quickly once we find some good antfarm images. not these:

nice pattern on this one

this one's a bit gross. are those piles of food or dead babies?

this gel colony is kinda fun... wonder if it tastes like lime jello?

as to the bird farm:
i suppose it would be more of a bird feeder than a farm, but the trope is still there.

here are some generic DIY bird feeder dwgs.


can we produce a wall pattern out of these receptacles that doesn't look retarded?

depending on whether the feeders themselves can be repeated to produce an attractive facade treatment, the seeds themselves may offer an interesting textural component to the final image.


the u.s. fish and wildlife service website is also a good reference for seed images and different feeder types.

maybe the tubular plastic feeders could produce something interesting too...





but there's something kitschy about the traditional wood bird feeder w/ pitched roof that i like; maybe coz it'll look like a little iconic house structure, made up of hundreds of littler wooden houses?