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SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY Studio Course 124 TEAM m+j^2 Mitchell Fredrickson Jamie Gaspar Jiahao Zhu CONTENTS

PHASE I Project Brief Market Research Early Sketch Ideation Fountain Alley Research Broad Sketch Ideation

PHASE II Co-Design Workshop Focused Sketch Ideation Full-Scale Concepts

PHASE III Design Freeze Full-Scale Prototype Final Community Presentation

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Studio Course 124 PROJECT BRIEF URBAN ACTIVATION As a team, design a solution to activate a public for downtown San Jose, specifically in Fountain Alley. MARKET RESEARCH DESIGNED SPACES 4 categories to design within -- gardens/wind chimes/bird houses, parklets/stages, seating, and mobile solar hubs. GARDENS/ WIND CHIMES/ BIRD HOUSES PARKLETS/ STAGES SEATING

MOBILE SOLAR HUBS

EARLY SKETCH IDEATION IDEA BLIPS Log any creative ideas and insights in a designated sketchbook to come together as a team to share and bounce ideas.

FOUNTAIN ALLEY SEARCH AND STUDY History, city districts, observations, and RESEARCH demographics of San Jose and the alley. “DO NO HARM.” - SAN JOSE CITY PLANNING DOCUMENTS

San Jose aims to preserve its historic and unaltered Spanish city grids. DOWNTOWN DISTRICTS

Tiles line the wall with various artworks that represent San Jose.

LOCATED IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT The area resides around between nightlife, the arts culture, the historic Bank of Italy building, and general stores. WHAT IS FOUNTAIN ALLEY? A PUBLIC PASSAGE

VTA Lightrail

Parking Lot

Pedestrian Detour

Businesses

Anzo’s Cafe and Deli: ● 2 people looked in, but no one was there to operate the cafe.

Destiny’s Attic: ● A man was measuring something ● 4 people standing in front talking, 3 men and 1 women. PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC BROAD SKETCH WILD IDEAS Present 20 concepts from categories: gardens, IDEATION parklets, seating, solar hubs. TEAM

CO-DESIGN WORKSHOP SWITCHING DESIGN ROLES Help develop one concept per community member with low fidelity modeling materials to gain insight on what they can imagine in a public space. We provided the community with presentation boards of concepts as a whole class in the category of SEATING.

FOCUSED SKETCH THE COMMUNITY IN MIND Present 20 concepts for seating only that IDEATION resonate with the chosen and insights from the community co-design workshop.

5 CONCEPTS CHOSEN TO MOVE FORWARD WITH FULL-SCALE PROTOTYPES FULL SCALE CONCEPTS GAINING A SENSE OF SCALE Build 5 full-scale prototypes of potential designs. SPINNING GEARS ELASTIC TUNNEL HANGING WIND CHIME PLANET SAT-ON WATER DROPLET DESIGN FREEZE REAL-WORLD Propose one highly refined design and how it will activate the space and how it will look. 1:12 scale aesthetic prototype MATERIALS

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B FULL SCALE PROTOTYPE HOW IT’S MADE Build a proof-of-concept to test the functionality of the user interaction. WE STARTED WITH A SINGLE SWING AND BELL TO TEST THE STRENGTH OF OUR MATERIALS AND HARDWARE. THE COMPLETE MODEL WAS BUILT IN LOCAL COLOR AND DESIGNED TO BE TAKEN APART EASILY AND INSTALLED OUTSIDE. FINAL LOOK FINAL CAD RENDER BILL OF MATERIALS FOUNTAIN ALLEY GOING LIVE Set up the final prototype in Fountain Alley for PRESENATION the community to test and vote for their top 3 favorite concepts. SETTING UP REQUIRED THE ADDITIONAL HELP OF COLLEAGUES FROM OTHER TEAMS WHO WAS THERE?

The district attorney’s office SJ Downtown Association The provost of SJSU Professional and alumni Communivercity Local Color associates Community members and children They voted on our designs to see which one the city of San Jose would give funding to.

RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF THE ALLEY COMMUNITY FEEDBACK PEOPLE FELT INVITED TO SHARE THE SPACE PEOPLE JUST ENJOY SWINGS

SHOULD WE JUST GET RID OF THIS SLIDE? Ok CAUSE IT’S DUE AT 12:15 RIGHT . DONE. SAVE! COOL SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Studio Course 124

TEAM m+j^2 Mitchell Fredrickson Jamie Gaspar Jiahao Zhu