Our student team at the Boston Architectural College thanks you for visiting us online.
If you've reached this page, we hope you've found the results of our design work as useful as our gorilla finds it.
When we signed up for an architectural studio class, little could we have guessed that we'd be playing with plastic bags the whole first week. And you may be asking, what do bench warmers made of plastic bags have to do with architecture?
In one sentence, it's about the relationship between design, urban space, and the social.
Our Assignment:
During the span on one week, design an intervention that affects others in a positive way, construct it in the public realm, and document both the process and the results.
Questions to Consider:
What does it mean to construct something that's explicitly meant to perform a service for people?
How does craft and choice of materials come into play?
How do presentation or representation techniques convey concepts?
What are the realities of constructing in the public realm?
How do you gauge a project's success?
How can individuals use the design process to engage and educate the public?
We hope you appreciate our efforts, and we'd love to see the idea grow and proliferate. We invite you to leave comments on this blog, improve upon our design, and make more bench pads for public use.
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