A Forest of Buildings

A new planned community serving thousands of new homes in mixed-use development will have as its central feature a large park that borders a regional transit line station.  INTERSTICE was asked to design a series of five separate park structures from a shared Community Center, Food kiosk, Community Garden Trellis,  Art Focused Orientation Beacon, and Transit Shelter that would be distributed along the 32-acre linear Park Promenade. The Park is to be a new forested amenity for the many medium-density buildings planned over the next ten years serving as the heart of the community-shared public commons.

 

In this early design phase, three of the structures were developed to be complementary multi-use public pavilions with a shared architectural expression and formal language designed within the evolving forest and its maturation over time.  The soft curvilinear forms clad in reclaimed woods from the surrounding landscape will blend into and extend the forest canopy of shade and filtered light.

 

 

 

 The porosity and shape of the pavilions allow for them to be read as both inhabitable “trunks” within the larger forest, and as porous social filters allowing space to flow between and around them;  merging inside and outside spaces through dynamic walls and deep overhangs – while at night becoming lanterns that sparkle and glow within the parks seasonal vocabulary of change.  

 

 

 

 

 

• Landscape
• Residential