Community Entry Features – Part 1

This is will be the first in a series of posts on community entry features. Those of us in planning firms who’s hearts are firmly set on being site designers, cherish the small moments we have to create intimate park like settings. The community entry feature offers us a valuable opportunity to give a structure that is normally just seen as a sign, a more comprehensive solution. In my work i seek to create structures that are placed in usable settings, while providing some benefit to the users of the site beyond its face value. In the illustrations below, i tried to create a destination for the community while separating the users of the park from the incoming traffic.