A Theatre of People

This new parking garage structure turns its vehicle nature inwards, keeping its stairwells outwards to create a permeable landscape “skin” of shadow and light, which is activated by the pedestrian circulation contained within it. INTERSTICE designed  the corresponding streetscape to received the various  activities of its surroundings, on sidewalks & plazas, the restaurants and local community animate the edges. INTERSTICE created a streetscape of smart infrastructure deploying custom precast seating that matched the terra cotta screens of the structure, and leveraged the required storm water bio-retention planters to create deep edges along the buildings periphery where people can occupy the “working” landscape, that provides habitat and larger plantings to frame and complement the future public plaza across the street.

 

 

 

Location: Palo Alto, California

Owner/Client: City of Palo Alto / RossDrulisCusenbery ARCHITECTURE

Scope: Landscape & Streetscape

Status: Completed 2020

Photography: Kyle Jeffers