NCAR Landscape Design in Boulder: Alternative 2

This is landscape design alternative 2 I submitted to NCAR for their rooftop plaza.

2nd Alternative Landscape Design for NCAR in Boulder, CO

This alternative is the most radically different of them all. Its design is aligned with NCAR’s mission of doing research into atmospheric streaming patterns. This mission is reflected in a blue tile wave-like pattern representing water, which is similar in its dynamics to currents in the atmosphere. I gave a presentation at NCAR about water as the element of life, and the fluid dynamics of our design work with its close relationship to archetypal movement patterns in nature. Offices in NCAR’s towers look down on this rooftop plaza, so their employees could look down and see this fluid wavelike pattern–a representation of their mission. However, they chose a different, simpler design alternative.