Expo 2020 Public Realm
A public realm precedent featuring rhythmic slender columns, a high overhead canopy, and high-contrast striped paving that unifies a large open-air pedestrian concourse.
- What we like about this project
- The high-contrast diagonal striped paving visually extends the ground plane, shifting perception of scale across the massive concourse.
Materials
- white-steel
- paving-stones
- native-planting
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- striped-paving
- slender-columns
- overhead-canopy
- public-concourse
- wayfinding-signage
Style tags
- contemporary
- civic
- infrastructure
- minimalist
Visual tags
- public-realm
- urban-plaza
- pedestrian-zone
- landscape-architecture
- canopy-structure
- paving-pattern
- Geometry
- A wide pedestrian concourse framed by a dense grid of slender white columns supporting a high canopy, featuring diagonal striped paving patterns.
- Structural guess
- Slender tubular steel columns supporting an expansive overhead structural grid.
- Spatial scale
- Vast public plaza scale; slender columns rise multiple stories to a high overhead canopy with human figures providing direct scale reference.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight filtered through overhead canopy structures, creating soft striped shadows on the ground.
- Atmosphere
- Bustling yet airy open-air atmosphere shaded by a rhythmic structural canopy.
- Environmental context
- Expansive outdoor public realm with dense landscaping, integrated seating, and wayfinding signage.
- Spatial experience
- The deep shaded plaza creates a porous, open-air public room where visitors move fluidly beneath a rhythmic forest of structural columns.
- Composition rhythm
- High-frequency diagonal stripe paving contrasted against a regular grid of slender white structural columns.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic landscape and infrastructure
- Program
- Civic public plaza and pedestrian concourse
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- white-steel, paving-stones, native-planting, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- striped-paving, slender-columns, overhead-canopy, public-concourse, wayfinding-signage
- Style tags
- contemporary, civic, infrastructure, minimalist
- Visual tags
- public-realm, urban-plaza, pedestrian-zone, landscape-architecture, canopy-structure, paving-pattern
- Geometry
- A wide pedestrian concourse framed by a dense grid of slender white columns supporting a high canopy, featuring diagonal striped paving patterns.
- Structural guess
- Slender tubular steel columns supporting an expansive overhead structural grid.
- Spatial scale
- Vast public plaza scale; slender columns rise multiple stories to a high overhead canopy with human figures providing direct scale reference.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight filtered through overhead canopy structures, creating soft striped shadows on the ground.
- Atmosphere
- Bustling yet airy open-air atmosphere shaded by a rhythmic structural canopy.
- Environmental context
- Expansive outdoor public realm with dense landscaping, integrated seating, and wayfinding signage.
- Spatial experience
- The deep shaded plaza creates a porous, open-air public room where visitors move fluidly beneath a rhythmic forest of structural columns.
- Composition rhythm
- High-frequency diagonal stripe paving contrasted against a regular grid of slender white structural columns.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic landscape and infrastructure
- Program
- Civic public plaza and pedestrian concourse
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape