Bridge Memorial Arch

Did research for the origination Home for All during fall semester at Bradley University in 2024. Worked with the clients on how we can spread awareness about homelessness through either visual media or an experience. We also worked in small groups of 5 to conduct research and surveys on what would be the best way to communicate the unknown issues that homeless people faced. At the end, we all individually created some sort of visual media or experience to the clients at Home for All.

The Bridge Memorial Arch was my awareness concept I presented to the clients. The thought process behind this was wanting an experience akin to a museum’s, by having a structure to walk through and into with some interactions. If the user’s were to look closely at the steel bars that makes up the structures, they will be able to read quotes and stories of real experiences homeless people has to faced.

One main quote throughout this projected, coined by a team member of mine, “It can happen to you.”

If I were to expand this idea further, I would look into architectural workings. Specifically bridges and tunnels. Earlier concepts contains bridge like imagery. And there are real situations where people may have to reduce themselves to even live under bridges; furthering the overall message we are portraying.