2023 AIA Northern Nevada Green beans, sweet corn, tomatoes, oh my! With 15 teams descending on Meadowood Mall in Reno on May 3, over 31,000 pounds (29,551 cans) of non-perishable food were freed from their cardboard carton prisons to become displays of art in AIANN’s 20th annual Canstruction® Reno event. From 8 am to 8 pm, operating like mimes trapped in a 10’x10’x10’ box, these teams methodically positioned cans piece by piece as their creative art rose from the tiled floor. Seven of those teams were student teams, grades six and up, who were keeping pace with the design professional and construction teams building structures next to them in an effort to help bring awareness to growing food insecurities in the community through imagination and creativity. Able to withstand gravity’s intentions, and four days later, the structures were decanstructed with the equivalent of over 26,000 meals being ferried off and donated to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada (FBNN) for distribution to those in need. Most Cans: Snoopy and Woodstock, Mountain View Montessori Structural Ingenuity: Giving Hunger the Boot!, Henriksen Butler/One Studio D+A/ClarkSullivan Construction 24 Northern Nevada Architecture .23
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