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Facilities CAMPUS SPACES
Planning for Movable Furniture
An outdoor furniture installation on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology is the result of a desire to increase the use of campus spaces...
and a helping hand from a coalition intended to strengthen community.
BY TODD ROBINSON, RLA, ASLA
AS THE landscape architects in the Office of Campus Plan- ning, my colleagues and I try to increase the use of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s open spaces by incorporating movable furniture onto our Cambridge, MA, campus.
However, project sponsors at institutions can be wary to include them in the design; along with the cost of the materials comes the supposition that movable furniture will “walk away” from the intended locations.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF TODD ROBINSON/MIT