Client: San Francisco Arts Commission
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Completion date: 2012
Artwork budget: $750,000
Project Team
Artist
Bill Buchen
Sonic Architecture
Artist
Mary Buchen
Sonic Architecture
Overview
Artwork enhancements for 7 platforms on San Franciscoís MUNI Third St. Light Rail in the Mission Bay area.
Goals
Platform designs include kinetic Helix marquee pole and shadow caster panels based on the Fibonacci spiral at the UCSF biotechnology campus station, Turbine marquee with shadow casters based on historical train yards, Flight marquee pole and shadow caster canopies of laser cut native bird silhouettes. Paving embedments and windscreens are based on historical train names, native birds, and Long Bridge, a horse car rail line that once traced the same route.
Process
This project took 7 years to complete and required careful coordination of all stakeholders. Commissioned by the SF Arts Commission. Structural engineer: Paul Endres, Endres-Ware. Fabrication by Eastern Sheet Metal