River project at PMA by BuildaBridge

I wanted to share these images I saw in the ed wing at the PMA 2 weeks ago from a summer project focusing on Takoony and Wissahickon water sheds created by students of Buildabridge. Specifically the painted rivers on the wall- what color is a river, really? They illustrate the rivers that were studied.

buildabridge painted river model PMA Sept 2010

They also created a river model sculpturally like we haveplanned. There's is large, collaborative, and uses layers of cardboard to make the topography and wood blocks and cylinders to represent the city around the river. Interesting for comparison sake. These were completed by 5-8th graders I believe.

buildabridge river model at PMA Sept 2010