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Cochran Park  

Cochran Park

Council Bluffs, IA, United States

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Cochran Park

Council Bluffs, IA, United States

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2015
This project extends the function of a sign to create a public place.

This competition-winning public art installation reconceives urban signage as a place in itself. The sign is an active entry portal to Cochran Park and a meeting place for the neighborhood – “meet me at COCHRAN”. The sign is large enough and broken into separate sections to become a spatial feature in the park – visitors can inhabit its diffuse interior and be inside the text. In addition to identifying Cochran Park with its super-graphic, the bench|sign is a social condenser, an area for small gatherings and spontaneous interaction. This permanent installation affords a new public space for individuals and small groups not necessarily interested in the specific sporting activities already accommodated in the park.

The sign’s text is an anamorphic projection, an image (text form) that is fully legible only from a privileged orientation. The separated planes of the sign hold portions of the letters of “COCHRAN” and as one moves east <–> west, the word gradually comes into focus and then breaks apart again as one passes. This feature emphasizes the location of the park on the busy 2nd Avenue thoroughfare where the sign engages drivers and passersby on foot. In a sense, the sign is like the train cars that once passed by the site.

The clear powder-coated bench|sign is fabricated from welded 3/8” aluminum plate with flanges anchored to concrete footings. The letters of the name “COCHRAN” are formed from a diffuse pattern of holes cut through the panels with a CNC-plasma cutter.

Fabricated in Bellevue, Nebraska by Brand Metal Works.

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