(12 Sep 2025)
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Phoenix – 9 September 2025
1. Various of a red Sombra structure in a park
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture:
“So, the goal of Sombra Experiments In Shade is really to experiment, to try new materials, to try a new design methods, to alter the way things are fabricated so that we can really test out what’s gonna work best here in Phoenix to reduce extreme urban heat here that we experience.”
3. Various of a Sombra structure providing shade in the middle of a park
4. Close of the shade provided by a Sombra structure
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture:
“Phoenix is known for being hot. In the summer months, we can sustain temperatures over 110 degrees. And so, we have to be very careful of our exposure to that heat. And it’s so important to have shade, whether that’s built or natural shade throughout the city because we need to be out and about and we take transit and we’re walking to our offices. And so, we really need to think about the comfort level from that perspective.”
6. Close of a sign explaining the Sombra structure, Chinese Chorizo
7. Close of the Sombra structure
8. Close of the shadow casted by the Sombra structure
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture:
“Chinese Chorizo by Feng-Feng Yeh is inspired by Chinese shadow puppetry. She used a UV-resistant material that she then laser cut into. So, she worked with the community to gather stories about this park in particular, but also the history of this area. And by using that material, she was able to create this beautiful imagery that gets cast onto the ground when the sun is overhead. But it’s the material itself that’s UV- resistant that’s really that experimental part and really bringing down the temperatures underneath the structure.”
10. Various of the Chinese shadow puppetry inspired design of the Sombra structure
11. Mid of the shadow casted by the structure
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture:
“We have partnered with ASU to bring MaRTy on board and really look at the data and how these are affecting human bodies. So, we are looking at surface temperatures, we’re looking at humidity and how a human body would actually be improved by being under the structure.”
13. Various of Muhammad Abdullah, doctoral student at Arizona State University preparing MaRTy 3D+, an advanced mobile weather station
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Abdullah, doctoral student, Arizona State University:
“In simple terms, MaRTy 3D+, it’s kind of, you see like a human body that has been translated into electrical circuits and into a programming language. So, this is basically a human, almost the size of like an average human. And it tells you how actually a human-body feels. And we can vary the parameters, like what are you wearing, what activity that you are doing, and your weight, your age. So, this is basically just a virtual human body.”
15. Close of a rack focus shot from MaRTy 3D+ to the Sombra structure
16. Wide of Abdullah rolling MaRTy 3D+ towards the Sombra structure
17. Various of MaRTy 3D+ next to the Sombra structure
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Abdullah, doctoral student, Arizona State University:
“We are working with the City of Phoenix. We have conducted a couple of experiments. We conducted the experiments at the various Sombra structures, to try to see how powerful the shade structures are, and we found out that it makes a really huge difference.”
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