Mockup of design #1 on concrete
Mockup of design #1 in environment.
Plan drawing of design #1. The text is a quote from civil engineer Samuel Florman.
Mockup of design #2 in environment.
Plan drawing of design #2. The text is a few lines from Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise."
Mockup of design #3 in environment.
Plan drawing of design #3. The text is from Ha Jin's poem, "A Center."
Mockup of design #4 in environment.
Plan drawing of design #4. The text is from Langston Hughes' poem, "I Look at the World."
Mockup of design #5 in the environment.
Plan drawing of design #5. The text is from Tishani Doshi's poem, "How to be Happy in 101 Days."
One idea for "easter eggs" to place at various seating areas was a set of simple dots with quotes on them.
Possible locations for the dots, all at the foot of benches and seating areas.
Another idea was to use a spiral motif, encouraging the viewer to look outwards from where they were.
The spirals reflect the idea that our actions impact others, and this can be used in a positive way.
The third idea was to connect people to each other by using wide ribbons on the ground.
The ribbons would lead from one bench to another, or from one side of the bench to another.
Drawing from the same inspiration as the spirals, these radiating dot patterns draw the eye outward.
Plan view of the dot patterns, which reflect a message of joy and hope.
The final idea, developed for the rest of this project, was to emulate ripples in a pond when a stone or drop of water is dropped in.
These ripples represent the positive changes that can be created when we act on something we care about.
Instead of nesting the text inside the concentric rings, longer quotes and pieces of poems form the rings themselves.
These five designs ended up in the final mockups.
