Background on the PARKit Design Challenge here.
The winning design submission is Gingham Style, and the team of Liz Nguyen and Mike Wartman, who are awarded up to $15,000 to fabricate and install their design.
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Gingham Style will be installed on July 7, 2013, and remain activated until mid-September. The installation will be accompanied by a small pod of food trucks featuring a variety of tasty treats.
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Gingham Style by Liz Nguyen and Mike Wartman
The classic concept of an outdoor picnic, inspired by the quintessential gingham checkered fabric pattern. The concept of ‘Gingham Style’ utilizes a ribbon of red gingham pattern to connect a series of family style picnic tables and a fabric canopy to create a space that plays on the notion of an outdoor picnic. The result is simple, yet creates a warm and inviting social space that will encourage social interaction and outdoor dining.
Review the Gingham Style Submission Package
Download the Gingham Style Site Plan & Renderings
Runners-up and honourable mentions below the fold:
First Runner-Up
Bluem
By Nicholas Doering, Alex Honeywell, Joshua McGee, Stephanie Taniguchi and Yan Zang
BLUEM’s design centres on the idea of growth, transforming the adjacent SkyTrain pillars into a root structure with an interactive canopy of responsive blue flowers. When visitors activate the recycling bin, the flowers bloom, when they toss trash into the garbage bin, the flowers wilt. BLUEM’s creative team are all students at SFU’s School of Interactive Art & Technology (SIAT).
Review the BLUEM submission package
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Second Runner-Up
Pal-at-a-ble
By Chelsea Louise Grant and Steve Gairns
A nod to enjoyable meals ‘en plain air,’ the pal-at-a-ble submission references the act of enjoying a picnic in the park, creating a variety of opportunities for social engagement. Stacked, recycled palettes create a pixilated, temporary landscape with a series of structures that create seating opportunities interspersed with live plantings and grassy areas.
Review the Pal-at-a-ble submission package
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Honourable Mentions
Hang Out
By Hanako Amaya, Nell Gasiewicz, Aline Meylan and Lisa Lang
Inspired by the vacant space created by the SkyTrain guideway, Hang Out offers refuge and a unique way for people to relax in an otherwise busy transit hub. It consists of a matrix of hammocks threaded like ribbons through a light scaffolding structure, emphasizing the verticality of this social space.
Review the Hang Out submission package.
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Palletopia
By Zhaleh Moulaei, Sophie Steer & Brendan Hurley
Pelletopia’s deliberately modular design offers a space that comfortably and elegantly connects the people of Surrey with their urban centre and to each other. Modular forms on stacked pallets are arranged to create a multitude of social spaces and seating options that create both a visual impact and act as a buffer to protect the spaces from vehicle noise.
Review the Palletopia submission package.
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About 2014 PARKit Design Challenge
The 2014 PARKit Design Challenge was a public call for the design and installation of a summertime pop-up park located adjacent to Surrey Central SkyTrain station, in the North Surrey Recreation Centre parking lot. The submission deadline was May 16, 2014, with an installation date anticipated for July 7, 2014. Review the Design Challenge Design Brief.
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