Transforming Outdoor Community Design: The Impact of Architectural Formliners

Transforming Outdoor Community Design: The Impact of Architectural Formliners

Enriching community spaces with architectural art in everyday places. Join us for this one-hour course on architectural plastic, semi-elastomeric, and urethane form liners. Taking traditionally flat, uninspired structural spaces, form liners bring immense value through cultural, historical and naturescape art possibilities. Focused through a community inspired lens, form liners give every project the ability to construct a unique identity worthy of cherished celebration, creating memorable landmark legacy. Offering more than beautification, form liners provide noise reduction by design, buffering sound waves promoting community wellness. In this course, participants will explore the designed for abandonment concept which supports aesthetically pleasing landscape management. Throughout this course, participants will deepen their understanding of the array of patterns, designs and artistry available architectural form liners as well as the design process and materials used to create them. Limited only by imagination, form liners profoundly enhance the outdoor built environment and when incorporated into project design alter the landscape supporting community health and wellness.

Learning Objectives: 
  1. Establish the benefits of customizable architectural form liners, establishing the contributions they make to community, culture and landscape projects.
  2. Investigate aesthetic functionality of architectural form liners including the best practices, design process and transformative artistic possibilities.
  3. Discover how architectural form liners contribute to noise reduction, end user safety and landscape and community design standards.
  4. Appraise case studies related to the architectural form liners to determine their usability in landscape design projects and specification.
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Design Category: 
(03) Concrete
Applicable Credits

This Course Is Included In Upcoming Events

18 - 19 Dec
8 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour(s)
3 GBCI General Hour
1 ADA Accessibility / Barrier-Free Req.