The Trestles is a strip along the California coastline cherished by surfers and nature lovers alike, and its extreme popularity threatens the area with erosion, while also being a public safety hazard. (You have to cross an active railroad to reach it.) Constructing a secure and environmentally friendly walkway to the Trestles is the latest challenge of the Open Architecture Project, and Studio Wikitecture, the Second Life-based, wiki-powered architecture group, is submitting a collaborative design to the competition. The group's last Open Architecture submission, for a medical clinic in Nepal, won a "Founder's Award", garnering praise "for embracing a truly collaborative way of working using online crowd sourcing and Second Life as a way to create a highly participatory design approach." I can't wait to see what they innovate for this new project. However, they need help completing it, particularly more space in Second Life to iterate the design. Read more about the project and is needed for it here.

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