Wednesday, March 21, 2012
"Urban Intervention: The Howard S. Wright Design Ideas Competition for Public Space which invited designers to re-envision a nine-acre site in the heart of Seattle Center and use it to explore innovation in public space in the coming century. With their entry Seattle Jelly Bean, Boston architects PRAUD (Dongwoo Yim & Rafael Luna) were one of the three finalist teams which have now been invited to compete in the second phase of the competition through April until the final presentation in May...
Because of its previous use, the site creates a discontinuity in scale from the surrounding blocks. In order to scale it down to a more human scale, similar to the general grid of Seattle, the architect introduced a new pattern onto the site. The logic of the pattern connects different access points from around the site. The pattern for pedestrian passage is not only down-scaling the site, but also improving accessibility to the site...
The Jelly Bean is proposed as a new way of creating a dialog between the park and the city, park visitors, public at the Center Core, and communities in distance. It is a device that can control micro level climate, and thus, depends on the weather or public demand. It can create fog, cloud, rain and sunshine effects..." to find out more...
Images & passage via Bustler
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