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Home My WebLink About8.1 SanRamonVillageArtwrk CITY CLERK File # DI91[{1][ll] ..[1ì1tiJ AGENDA STATEMENT CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: May 3,2005 SUBJECT: San Ramon Village Plaza Development - Public Art Report Prepared by John Hartnett, Heritage and Culrural Arts Supervisor ATTACHMENTS: 1. Artwork Rendering 2. San Ramon Village Plaza - Layout Plan RECOMMENDATI0!>J. ~ ÐU' . VV''' 1. Receive presentation from Staff. 2. Approve artwork or provide alternate direction. FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None DESCRIPTION: Tn May, 2004, the City Council approved the site design for the San Ramon Village Plaza development, located at the comer of San Ramon Road and Alcosta Boulevard. The project is a mixed-use development of commercial and residential property. The project consists of 56 walk-up style townhouses, on approximately 3 acres, adjacent to 15,000 square feet of renovated retail space, on approximately 2 acres. The 3 and 4 bedroom townhouse units are located within 3-story split- level buildings, each with their own private front porch and two car garage. As a condition of approval, the City Council has required the developer, Braddock & Logan. Inc., to inelude a public art element in the project. The developer has selected Sunnyvale artist, Rachel Davis, to create the artwork for the project. Ms, Davis, Statf and the developer have met on two occasions to refine the potential design for the artwork. Ms. Davis received her B.F,A., specializing in Spatial Art, from San Jose State University, in 2004. She has done several solo and group exhibitions in the Bay Area and has created site-specific commissions for a number of cities ineluding the recent piece 'Tip", which was installed at Gordon Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ms. Davis has also served as an assistant to world renowned sculptor, David Middlebrook. Ms. Davis is experienced in all phases of metal casting, labricating, and finishing. Ms. Davis has proposed a concept that would incorporate the idea of a growing community, as well as pay tribute to one of the City of Dublin's founders, the Irish. The proposal, entitled "Entwined", is to use three curved steel panels of different sizes placed near one another to fonn a spiral. 'fhe spiral, found in many examples of ancient Irish works of art, honors the Irish immigrants who settled here. Images of local trees ._M~____~R~~~__._~.___________________________________-_____________ø..______________________________________ COPIES TO: Braddock & Logan Rachel Davis ITEM NO. 8./ G:\CITY COUNCILIAGENDA_STMTS\2005\5-3-05 Sa" Romon Villoge - Puhlic Nt.doc IGb2 rv sueh as the oak and syeamore would be used as a metaphor for the growth and expansion ofthc City. The tree branch designs would be water-jet cut outs of sheets of steel and appear to be growing in an upward motion. Each panel of steel with branch imagery would look like its own unique piece of artwork, but when viewed all together, it would fonn a single tree. Thc location of the artwork will be at the comer of San Ramon Road and Bellina Street. The three panels will be four, six, and eight feet high and made of hot-rolled mild steel 3/8 inches thick. The panels wj]] be mounted on a cement pedestal and will be illuminatcd with lighting from ground levcL The steel will bc coated in a green color that will compliment thc tcxturc and colors of the commercial and rcsidcntial clements of the project. On April 14, 2005, the Heritage and Cultural Arts Commission reviewcd thc artwork and unanimously recommended approval by the City Council. RECOMMENDATION: It is the recommendation of Staff that the City Council receive the presentation from. Staff and the artist. Following the presentation, it is recommended that the Council approvc the artwork or providc alternate direction. , 2croL- Rachel Davis Entwined \~'- ~ ATTACHMENT 1 5--~'O'::::, ""6.1 ~, , I I I I I I I ~ ~ · · · · · · · · þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ . -< ?.- Db í ¡I N ì !J i j R i !! I! i ~ . ~ t hI!! 1 ~ ~ 1 ~ I 'In Ii I! ~ 1 I ¡ ~ í 1 I! Z t.:' II Ii;: ~! h H II . ! ' . ~ ,! H <: r- -< I I "H Ii M ä ~ ¡ I I '. g. H ,.;:¡.... ~ . ., ¡'iil!ï~i I~ I ¡!jiJI]j ¡=,,;!~! ~~ ~i =i EH J I ¡! II :~ II šI šl!1 ////~O<"~" ,/' s t ;;: ! ß z ~~ h ~ ~ ~ ~I! ~ In:I~! ~ì !~//·/~./4~~;f·/ft(f" ~ ~ Zo ~ ~ ~ ~ ~LlJ rm ~ . I(jf;;:;/II,;.:;?/ JI! 1 ,.;:¡ ~!.. :.:¡ /.,- )J({ ,{,' " '-. H ,~ ~" ~~ ./I~-!0!i , \I,!''::,!j I ,..~ W / 1:" II'l! j, It j en ~ 1,/M1t./ ¡tII.' ,ì l{i~Î~11 . in ._y, / +f! . '-. .. " / ,L"J / /ll - .'. / /(1 \) \ / /) , / /1/ '\ Ayl 1/4 j/ ~0 /,; ,'" >[;1' I ,-; ,r t '/ ~ ' . j _ .._ .:,::;;;;:,;;':~ .",::;,~,o.-, - .,.." -.,.,.=. ATTACHMENT 2