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Harvey Milk Plaza
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Harvey Milk Plaza will serve as a welcoming door to the city’s historic Castro District and a destination to learn about the life (and times) of Harvey Milk. We envision the Plaza as an unified and integrated experiential memorial to inspire generations to come. The proposal consists of a new street level plaza incorporating a panelized ribbon of fluid visual content, a commemorative gesture that evokes the memory of Harvey Milk’s life and extends beyond the boundaries of the plaza to create a new gateway to the Castro. The new Harvey Milk Plaza will be a welcoming place and safe destination where people gather, learn and share in an enduring sense of “home.”
Strategically positioned throughout the space are art interventions that offer points of discovery as people move through the plaza on the way to Muni, gather to have coffee, or simply visit the plaza to experience the memorial. The contiguous ribbon of filmic content touches all programs of the plaza and transforms from: bus canopy to elevator enclosure, interpretive entry wall, and entry archway to the public transit. Abstracted photographic imagery of the candle light vigil is embossed into the metal ribbon forming a textural skin. Several civic scaled “hero images” mark key moments in Harvey Milk’s life and are imbedded in the surface of the ribbon at strategic points. At sundown, the Plaza is illuminated by a sprinkling of lights to create a safe night-life experience.
The art component incorporates a series of cast glass pink triangles, a reclaimed international symbol of the gay rights movement. A new elevated triangular platform at the center of the plaza serves as a soap box for future social political gatherings. This sculptural platform also functions as a triangular oculus to the subterranean level with the Harvey Milk quote “Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard” etched into the glass. There are five additional sculptural cast glass “pink triangles” imbedded into the pavement of the plaza. Each one is associated with an entry to the plaza. A short poetic film like strip, of visual content tells the story of Harvey Milk in two locations: on the plaza level an educational wall etched in stone, and on the lower level of the Muni station imbedded in the metal ribbon. These photographs will memorialize the social and political history of Harvey Milk.
Promoting connectivity and place is a key driver of our design proposal and expands the usable area of the plaza to provide new pathways that connect to Market, Castro and Collingwood Streets. A space for a coffee cart or food truck is located at the western edge of the plaza, as well as a new accessible public sidewalk along the southern edge of the plaza provides an unencumbered pathway to Castro Street. A new well-lit bus stop at Market is marked by a bench and canopy along the widened sidewalk with direct access to the central area of the Plaza via staircase and an elevator stop.
Strategically positioned throughout the space are art interventions that offer points of discovery as people move through the plaza on the way to Muni, gather to have coffee, or simply visit the plaza to experience the memorial. The contiguous ribbon of filmic content touches all programs of the plaza and transforms from: bus canopy to elevator enclosure, interpretive entry wall, and entry archway to the public transit. Abstracted photographic imagery of the candle light vigil is embossed into the metal ribbon forming a textural skin. Several civic scaled “hero images” mark key moments in Harvey Milk’s life and are imbedded in the surface of the ribbon at strategic points. At sundown, the Plaza is illuminated by a sprinkling of lights to create a safe night-life experience.
The art component incorporates a series of cast glass pink triangles, a reclaimed international symbol of the gay rights movement. A new elevated triangular platform at the center of the plaza serves as a soap box for future social political gatherings. This sculptural platform also functions as a triangular oculus to the subterranean level with the Harvey Milk quote “Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard” etched into the glass. There are five additional sculptural cast glass “pink triangles” imbedded into the pavement of the plaza. Each one is associated with an entry to the plaza. A short poetic film like strip, of visual content tells the story of Harvey Milk in two locations: on the plaza level an educational wall etched in stone, and on the lower level of the Muni station imbedded in the metal ribbon. These photographs will memorialize the social and political history of Harvey Milk.
Promoting connectivity and place is a key driver of our design proposal and expands the usable area of the plaza to provide new pathways that connect to Market, Castro and Collingwood Streets. A space for a coffee cart or food truck is located at the western edge of the plaza, as well as a new accessible public sidewalk along the southern edge of the plaza provides an unencumbered pathway to Castro Street. A new well-lit bus stop at Market is marked by a bench and canopy along the widened sidewalk with direct access to the central area of the Plaza via staircase and an elevator stop.
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