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UPPER MUSE
ALLEY

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One of several public plazas at Pike+Rose, a 23 acre live-work-play center, Upper Muse Alley sits tucked between a parking garage and a mixed use building, boasting restaurant spaces and a residential entrance to the above multi-family housing units. As designed it was largely acting as a transition space from the parking garage to the central spine of the site, Grand Park Avenue, struggling to catch users attention and largely leading the restaurant spaces to struggle. C+RLA was tasked with re-vitalizing the plaza to create a destination within Pike & Rose that would help capture users of the site and provide a unique experience for the patrons of the restaurants in this plaza and larger development.
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Playing into a central motif of the placemaking of Pike & Rose, abstraction and celebration of art, C+RLA devised a series of concept designs that culminated in the origami ribbon approach. The ribbon, folding and bending to mimic the steps of an origami creation, interact with the building façade and ground plane at specific points to help direct traffic, highlight entrances into the plaza, create cover for restaurant café seating and even integrating raised planters with benches. Trees planted within the void space of the ribbon, further help provide canopy above while also interacting with the ribbon as it bends between the crowns of the trees. Below the ribbon, new movable seating with richly planted containers would create a flexible plaza space to support both café seating by the restaurants and gathering moments for users of the site.

This project remains on the boards after the concept design phase.

ATTRIBUTIONS

Owner

Federal Reality Investment Trust

Renderings

C+RLA

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