COMMUNAL COLUMNS
Communal Columns provides the experience of being outdoors, whether it be for solitude or sociality.
Truths
GES 621
The Fall 2017 semester was welcomed with the Global Engagement Studio (GES) trip to Switzerland.
- Underutilized Outside gathering space
- Monochromatic
- Natural air, ventilation
- Adequate lighting/shading for plants
- Space for low-key activities
- Connection to the lower public realm below
- Verticality to the space produced by columns
- Columnar verticality
Latencies
- Enhancing outdoor qualities through biophilic elements
- Enhancing colors for influencing moods
- Improved evening lighting
- Solitary and sociable seating
Suppositions
- Enhanced outdoor experience
- Constructed forests of vegetative columns
- Cool the space through evapotranspiration.
- Various ergonomic seatings
- Interactions with outside organisms
- Enlightened evening atmosphere
Fall 2017
Design Excellence Nomination
In collaboration with:
Drew Carlson
Yi Zhao