Designer Marshall Prado clearly would have to have his head in the clouds to try to outdo architect Eero Saarinen’s trademark sky-high, 192-foot needled spire of North Christian Church.
“I’m not meaning to compete with that,” Prado said, speaking by phone from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is assistant professor of structural technology at the University of Tennessee School of Architecture.
Prado’s plans a 30-foot, carbon fiber structure known as “Filament Tower” on the church grounds on Tipton Lane for the 2019 Exhibit Columbus exhibition, a design meant partly to complement the tower.
Prado is among the University Design Research Fellows set to play a significant role in the three-month Exhibit Columbus event opening Aug. 24. The fellows are designing six temporary installations meant to “converse” with permanent structures locally.
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