Norris Street Bus Stop, from Making Connections
© 2016
Location: proposal
laser-cut steel and polycarbonate with LED lighting
This was the part of the design for improving the connection between two disparate neighborhoods in North Philadelphia. I collaborated with a team of architects, lighting designers, and other disciplines drafted by the Community Design Collaborative.
*** For those of you with low vision:
This is a photo-real rendering of a shiny stainless steel bus shelter comprised of a back wall beside a tall cylinder that both support a roof. It is pictured at night on a sidewalk at a street corner. Every surface is typeset with lines of text from or about legendary community leaders, like Cecil B. Moore. The text is cut out of the steel, making it like latticework that gives it transparency, a lightness that defies its weight. The cylinder glows with interior lighting that pours out through the cut-open text in a dramatic, 360-degree pattern of shadows and light splayed onto the ground around it like a deck of cards fanned onto a table.
