Chamberlin Courtyard
This project will produce a design for the courtyard between Chamberlin and Sterling Hall as an outdoor sustainable instruction and performance space for university use. The project requires an interdisciplinary team of students from the departments in Chamberlin and Sterling plus students in landscape design, art, human ecology, theater and drama, music and architecture.
Inspiration
Get outside – it’s good for you http://www.news.wisc.edu/21889
Ideas
Design a model outdoor lightly covered instructional space (The Chamberlin Courtyard) taking advantage of the sloped roof of the underground auditorium. Include a theatrical stage for theater and drama, music, and performance art productions. Include an elevator for physics demonstration shows and to load performance equipment. As a general assignment instructional space, the theater moves classes out of doors saving energy. The green design serves to model concepts of sustainability.
Suggestions and feedback can be solicited via a blackboard (grab one from Garage!) ala http://www.news.wisc.edu/21868 and also drawn on the courtyard concrete with chalk supplied.
Hammocks (see blackboard image above) https://www.google.com/search?q=hammocks&client=firefox-a&hs=D3D&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=UIkjUqq9Ocf-4AOekoCQCA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1185&bih=580
Solar powered USB ports.
Water fountains.
Collect water for neighboring garden. (If not the courtyard, then the roof of CH? BTW, why don't I see any solar heat collectors on the roofs in the image above?)
The historical baryon decuplet of planters could be replaced by quarks and leptons plus vector bosons and the Higgs and Sag A*: an art student project.
Ice skating and volleyball. In Steve Rader's honor, batminton?
More photos
Resources
Gary A. Brown, PLA, FASLA Director, Campus Planning & Landscape Architecture Director, Lakeshore Nature Preserve
Facilities Planning & Management 610 Walnut Street Suite 919 Madison, WI 53726 Phone: 608-263-3023 Cell: 608-334-2417 Fax: 608-265-3139 gbrown@fpm.wisc.edu
Photo credits: The image of the buildings is from GoogleMaps. The blackboard image is from OnWisconsin.
-Carlsmith