"Gateway" Group

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Access-Crossroads-Gateway.
As the group dubbed the ‘Gateway’ we decided that our name needed more then just the noun of a gateway, though through discussion we decided that in a way gateway was something we had to keep. Our advising professor, Stoel, suggested that we think about the word ‘crossroads’ as a add on and as a group we kept gateway and researched other words for entrance, which was basically what our group was. We ended up with the word ‘access’ and dubbed ourselves Access-Crossroads-Gateway to complete the name.



When first looking at the space one of the first things brought up was the worn down areas of dirt within the curb where people had walked the most to get to the Gatewood building or throughout the parking lot, Sharon took it upon herself to become our official ‘people watcher’ and watched the patterns in people to tell us where exactly people where walking throughout the week. We already knew that this would be one of the things we needed to address in out project, a designated pathway for people to use to direct them. Next we thought a lot about seating on our space, the ‘butt receptacle’ was located on our island and we wanted in a way at first to make the smokers more comfortable so they would stay the designated 25ft away from the building. While we did not want to encourage smoking we didn’t want to neglect that part of the population. From these idea we began to form ideas on what all could we could accomplish, what sculptures, seating and pathways would be needed and in what way they would be accomplished, organic or geometric? In brainstorming we started out with a geometric idea based on the connection with the Oasis group’s path