Storylines: Exterior at dusk
Patterns traced on concrete wall, lobby in-ground lighting and window patterns.
2015
Storylines: Exterior Wall
Ititimat string pattern with "beads".
2015
Storylines: Interior lobby view
Student text string patterns and projected lighting.
2015
Storylines: Lobby window detail
Ititimat string patterns in lobby doorway.
2015
Storylines: Glass details with shadow
Ititimat string patterned glass and shadows.
2015
Storylines: Model
Model of lobby with patterns.
2010
Storylines: Yakima Valley Community College
Storylines, commissioned by the Washington State Arts Commission for Yakima Valley Community College Palmer Martin Building, houses the language, communications and fine arts departments. Using the metaphor of Ititimat string diaries historically kept by Yakama tribal women, lines of knotted rope imagery with colored porthole "beads" etched on a large exterior concrete knife wall, embedded as pattern with in-ground lighting in the exterior lobby plaza, and expressed as strings of student textfritted on lobby glass. Design team collaboration with BORArchitects and Hough Beck & Baird Landscape Architecture.