Bus Shelters

The bulk of our work this semester will involve development of a project begun last summer through a faculty-student collaborative research project Emma Cook's (AC alum '12). Emma did preliminary

research and planning for a bus stop at Asbury Manor 

in Meadville's 5th Ward. Art-En 301 will research a range of

options with a goal towards creating a kickstarter campaign 

to raise funds for the project. We will be exploring options for adaptive

reuse and/or repurposing materials; but more, we will be exploring how public/community-based/environmental art can develop social capital and lead to enhanced visioning for community design and transformation. Below are a few bus 

shelters to inspire our thinking.

Sculptor Christopher Fennell created the shelter in 2007 out of three retired school buses dating from 1962, ’72 and ’77. The shelter is located in Athens, Ga. See link for details. 

See link for details and discussion and more examples of this sort

This bronze sculpture is a bus station shelter made to look like a table - it was made by David Cerny [wiki] of the Czech Republic.