This small park relates to the urban retail and residential areas adjacent. Within the larger park are smaller human scale spaces, integral to the whole. This design responds to the drought that the Front Range of Colorado had been in for some years. Water became the main design driver. See the “Build” and “Outdoor Places” for further info and images.
The design process started with sketching the project space in plan view. Based on the ideas that came from this a model was made. The model made it easy to re-arrange the stacked rocks in ways that created interesting spatial arrangements, while screening views to the parked cars. See ‘Build’ and ‘Outdoor Places’ for more detail on the Hoodoos project.
Concepts that became part of the design, and were built into finished outdoor places.
See ‘Build’ and ‘Outdoor Places’ for more information on the Eldorado Canyon project.
In November 2008, Bruno and Christian Muller teamed up to win an open design competition, based on a proposed bike park facility in Valmont City Park, Boulder, Colorado. The design is conceived as a series of conceptually related spaces throughout the park.
The Hub Plaza forms a central gathering space, both for cyclists using the park, and for the adjacent residential community.
Thematically linked to bicycling and its inherent forms, the center of the plaza is made of spaces – walking suspended above space, between tall stones that have been bisected, a space made between them etc. The implication is that “the wheel is useful because of the space at the center.”
The entry sculpture aims to capture the energy, tension and dynamism integral to mountain biking and BMX riding, while suggesting abstracted bike componentry. The form also realtes to a key piece of racing infrastructure – the start finish line.
Landforms will provide viewing opportunities (and incidental riding opportunites), along the start/finish. These are inspired by flow forms resulting from movement. Racing energy writ large.
