(12 Sep 2025)
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Phoenix – 9 September 2025
1. Wide of a red Sombra structure in a park
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture:
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“So the goal of Sombra Experiments in Shade is really to experiment, to try new materials, to try a new design methods 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
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture:
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“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.”
5. Wide of a red Sombra structure
6. Close of shade produced by the Sombra structure
7. Close of a sign explaining the "Chinese Chorizo" Sombra structure
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture:
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“Chinese Chorizo by Feng-Feng Yeh is inspired by Chinese shadow puppetry. So she worked with the community to gather stories about this park in particular, but also the history of this area. It’s the material itself that’s UV resistant that’s really that experimental part and really bringing down the temperatures underneath the structure.”
9. Various of the design of the Sombra structure
10. Close of the shadow casted by the Sombra structure
11. Close of the MaRTy 3D+, an advanced mobile weather station
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture: ++COVERED++
“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 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+
14. Wide of Abdullah rolling MaRTy 3D+ towards the Sombra structure
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Abdullah, doctoral student, Arizona State University: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“MaRTy 3D+, it’s kind of 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. We can vary the parameters, like what are you wearing, what activity that you are doing.”
16. Various of Abdullah preparing MaRTy 3D+
17. Mid of a meter connected to MaRTy 3D+
18. Wide of Abdullah rolling MaRTy 3D+ under the Sombra structure
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Abdullah, doctoral student, Arizona State University:
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“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. Our results have shown that even a small shade structure can reduce the heat load on a particular person by 20 to 40 degrees.”
20. Various of instruments part of the MaRTy 3D+
21. Mid of MaRTy 3D+ under the Sombra structure
22. Mid of a rack focus from MaRTy 3D+ to the Sombra structure
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Brown, City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"That’s actually one of the goals of the project is to take what we’ve learned from these experiments and not only implement them here in Phoenix, but make them in a way that is scalable for other cities like ours to utilize."
24. Close of a map of Sombra structures
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