Last week's project was to design a Bus/Shelter on A&T campus. The shelter was located on East Market, between A&T campus and St. John's Lodge. We were challenged to create a shelter that fit with the site, but could also potentially be built. For this particular site and shelter, I pulled cues from the buildings on A&T campus and from the Church across the street. On campus, I noticed that the buildings are very modern looking, in that they emphasized rectilinear forms and structural severity. The main building materials seemed to be glass and steel. The church across the street was stone, and emphasized triangular forms on the facade decoration. In designing for this shelter, I thought that it was very important to recognize these two very obvious influences for the community in this area, the campus and the general community, embodied in the church. I wanted to pull influences from both together to create a cohesive design.
The concept for the shelter was Geometric Illumination. I used rectangular forms horizontally and vertically to reflect the architecture on campus. These forms are articulated by natural light during the day. Then I used the triangular forms from the church across the street, and articulated them by backlighting plexiglas cutouts inside glass columns. By emphasizing the two elements in the same structure, the design presents a combination of communities.
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