BUS RE-VIEWED is an architectural folly completed as part of my Master of Architecture program at Clemson University, within the Community Build Studio. The project was exhibited at the 2018 Community Build Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, hosted by Professor Dan Harding, alongside other follies engaging the city’s discourse on non-car transportation.

The studio brief asked us to imagine architectural interventions that celebrated the ways Charleston residents move without cars—by bus, bike, on foot, or using accessible transportation. Each folly in the series responded to these modes of movement while referencing the picnic table as a shared design element. The table—simple, public, and symbolic—served as a metaphor for gathering, dialogue, and the shared effort needed to create change.

BUS RE-VIEWED is a forced-perspective abstraction of a bus—walkable, climbable, and perceptible from a distance as a full form, yet fragmented up close. It invites pedestrians to engage with it both physically and visually, reframing how public transportation is perceived. After the conference, the folly was designed to disassemble into three vibrant picnic tables, which were distributed into the community to become everyday sites of connection and conversation.

These are early concept for the project drawings exploring the ideas of creating movement with simple geometries: