Design Detailing Graduate School - 1.5 Weeks

This exercise focused on redesigning a bridge connecting a parking lot to an academic building. My concept was to strengthen the sense of detachment from the parking as one traverses the bridge by evoking the feeling of entering the surrounding woods. This was done by gradually enveloping the user in wooden archways that sprouted from the bridge’s side rails. These archways grow tightly spaced as the user moves towards the building, offering only glimpses of the surrounding trees between the wooden panels as one goes deeper into the abstracted forest. The climax of this sequence comes when the user passes through the densest and most visually compressed part of the bridge that then opens up to the sky and the cantilevered building above in a floating meadow-like plaza surrounded by trees.