BOREN AVENUE
Boren Avenue Parking Garage
1989-1990, Seattle, WA
Vicki Scuri SiteWorks
Architect: Elaine de Latourelle Architects
Engineer: Abam Engineers
Sponsored by 4Culture
This project features a four hundred car garage; sited adjacent
to the Hilltop Retirement Home. The artwork incorporates tire tread
formliners to enhance the parking garage, creating scale and relief, while
referencing the automobile culture and creating cross-cultural references
to the Yucatan's indigenous populations. Curiously, tire tread patterning
resembles stone carvings of the Maya Palace of Columns. Women carvers
derived their stone patterning from basket weave patterns and natural
structures. Tire tread patterns share similar motifs and geometries. Relief
is 1.25". Concrete is cast-in-place and precast. Wall heights extend to 40'.
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