PARK(ing) Day is an annual worldwide event where artists, designers and citizens transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks. This year my design was chosen to represent the firm!
Early morning setup outside of the Independence Mall Beer Garden
The design inspiration relates to the formation of mountains and hills seen in our nation’s treasured State and National parks. Often you can see evidence of their topographic formation which took place through glacial movements thousands of years ago. Glaciers slowly moved across the terrain and with tremendous friction, left deep parallel grooves carved into the land mass. This parking day design used this as inspiration and creates similar linear movement which rises up from the ground via CNC’ed plywood seating. The design also utilized the negative space of the plywood seating cut-outs and arranges them into a screen framework to hold plantings, helping to create a buffer between the vehicular and pedestrian zones. The arrangement of elements were configured for musical performances to draw in passers by and engage with the temporary park.
