Project Details
The design for Conversation Plinth takes inspiration from the conversation pit in the Miller House and the plinths that elevate the landmarks immediately surrounding the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library.
Large shifting timber discs compose a series of plinths that rise upward towards the west and encourage dynamic circulation around the sculpture, allowing the plaza to be experienced in new ways — even by night, thanks to dramatic lighting.
Structure Details
The structure was analyzed and designed in RFEM utilizing the RF-LAMINATE module. RF-LAMINATE allowed for custom and unique CLT layers to be defined apart from the widely used APA PRG 320 material. These custom compositions were further assigned to 84 curved surfaces connected vertically with smaller segment dimension lumber members. A stress and deformation analysis was then performed in RF-LAMINATE for the CLT surfaces.
| Design | Engineering | IKD i-k-design.com/ |
| Engineering | Build | Bensonwood bensonwood.com |
