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Title:

Roosevelt-Green Lake Art Corridor: Columnseum Project by Sheila Klein

Accession Number:

01333491

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Completed in 1967, the construction of Interstate-5 created Seattle’s Roosevelt and Green Lake neighborhoods from a single residential and business district. The thoroughfare joining them passes under the interstate, where a park-and-ride facility affords commuters access to bus transit. The 10-acre site, with its forest of poured-concrete pillars was vilified from the start by neighborhood groups as unsightly, chaotic and unsafe. They eventually organized to lobby for mitigation of the site, with a stated goal of site cleanup, improved safety and creation of a visual and aesthetic connection between the neighborhoods. The City of Seattle funded an Art Plan that identified scope for the project and was used as a tool for political and departmental discussion. King County Department of Transportation % for art dollars funded design and implementation of the final art project by Sheila Klein. Columnseum uses graphic application of painted dots and ovals on structural columns in the vernacular color palette of the site (white road striping, yellow loading and blue handicapped curbs) to create zones within the structure that assist in wayfinding on both a micro and a macro scale: for the user parking a vehicle and for vehicular traffic entering or passing through the neighborhood. Green dots on perimeter columns make a visual transition to the surrounding landscape. Overhead lighting is pending. Columnseum is sculpture as painting, an unexpected site treatment that in its application brightens and reflects light as well as bringing order and clarity to the site.

Monograph Accession #:

01329018

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-3617

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Hoggatt, Tina
Brunner, Cath
Fox, Willow

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2011

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Photos (10)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Public spaces

Geographic Terms:

Seattle (Washington)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Public Transportation; Society; I15: Environment; I73: Traffic Control

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-3617

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 6:35PM