Convergence
UIUC Sesquicentennial Design Competition: 1st place / Teammates: Marco Nieto, Melanie Iverson, Yazmine Carbajal
The idea is to tie the entire campus together with a similar design language. We used Kevin Lynch's urbanism theory to study the campus, and instead of focusing on a certain location, we wanted to include the whole campus across the three quadrangles. We wanted to create a focal point at the south quad with the oldest existing structure on campus, the Mumford House. We avoided adding more focal points at the main quad by scattering installations around in the buffer zones. Lastly, for Bardeen quad, we overlapped the installation with the focal point since we wanted to further improve it.