LA-5 Plaza Redesign
My university held a competition to redesign a public plaza. In the midst of midterms and all-night binges, my good friend and roommate Kaoru Toyokawa agreed to join me on the project. What started initially as “just a couple quick sketches” quickly blossomed into hours of research, paper-crafting, and exacto-cutting. Luckily it paid off with a first-place landing.
The layout is designed around desire paths we observed, to maximize functionality.
Our approach was to design a comfortable and functional plaza first, before anything else.
The competition involved two formal presentations to advance through, after which our work publicly displayed on campus.
Design by Nicholas Orie & Kaoru Toyokawa · 2018
photography by Kaoru Toyokawa
LA-5 Plaza
Redesign
My university held a competition to redesign a public plaza. In the midst of midterms and all-night binges, my good friend and roommate Kaoru Toyokawa agreed to join me on the project. What started initially as “just a couple quick sketches” quickly blossomed into hours of research, paper-crafting, and exacto-cutting. Luckily it paid off with a first-place landing.
The layout is designed around desire paths we observed, to maximize functionality.
Our approach was to design a comfortable and functional plaza first, before anything else.
The competition involved two formal presentations to advance through, after which our work publicly displayed on campus.
Design by Nicholas Orie & Kaoru Toyokawa · 2018
photography by Kaoru Toyokawa