LASN is a photographically oriented, professional journal featuring topics of concern and state-of-the-art projects designed or influenced by registered Landscape Architects.
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34 Landscape Architect and Specifier News contributing to the design, marketing and project implementation. The goal was to complete Risman Plaza and the Student Green during the summer months to limit disruption of campus life. Design elements such as the transit station, water wall, campus art, seat walls and paving patterns all respond to the existing architecture. The new campus public transit center, significant reductions in impervious surfaces and provisions for pedestrian movements and public spaces all work to encourage outdoor activity, social collaboration and campus sustainability. Space for a Growing University Risman Plaza was historically a pedestrian thoroughfare, void of campus activities. The space that is now the Student Green felt left over and sometimes unsafe, with no pedestrian crossings and truncated views from Summit Street into campus. The 2013 freshman class is the school's largest. Today, theses spaces accommodate upwards of 40 annual events, including Back to School Blastoff, folk festivals, summer concert series, Hispanic Heritage Festival, Arts and Sciences Homecoming Alumni Reception, lunch time concerts, alumni college concert, Flash Fest and the school's newest tradition—the homecoming Kiss on the "K." With participation ranges anywhere from 200 to 4,000 attendees per event, it's clear this new front door is the heart of the campus. Above The dynamic fountain and water wall at Risman Plaza is the design of SmithgroupJJR. Scheeser Buckley mayfield did the engineering and fountain Construction & Co., built the fountain. The façade is a curved hanover granite-clad water wall with stainless steel post-mounted letters. The water feature has a stainless steel spray bar with 319 brass ½-inch nozzle fittings and 319 ¼-inch adjustable brass nozzles. Bordering the wall are limestone piers sporting custom stainless steel 'KSU' logos. Papyruses flank the piers. Perched atop the piers are eight fluted 'Talisman' concrete light poles (Stresscrete) with 'Aurora' K829 luminaires (King Luminaire). PhoTo: JAmeS hAefneR PhoTogRAPhy, TRoy, miChigAn 30-35.indd 34 5/23/14 10:46 AM