This project was a quick two week design charrette that encouraged us to analyze a site and create a non-architectural interactive site intervention. Peavey Plaza is located in downtown Minneapolis, along the popular transit/pedestrian Nicollet Avenue.

 

I began by exploring the hard and soft surfaces at the site, mainly concrete versus vegetation. This gave me a lens to analyze the monuments on the site, located in the “hard” zones. These monuments were always fountains on the site. Looking at these, I noticed there were three distinct colored concrete elements holding them. However only two of the three had fountains so adding a fountain to the third was my design solution. I created a water pipe organ fountain, the original goal of the architect included having sounds to block out the noise of the city.