St. Olaf College: Ole Avenue Project

Environmental Graphics

while at Workshop Architects

Tile mosaic by Mercury Mosaic

The Ole Avenue Residence Hall is a new student life district for St. Olaf College in Minnesota, MN. While at Workshop Architects, we conceputalized and designed a environmental graphics packaged to create a home away from home for the students. 

In addition to exterior building signage and illustrations for the study lounges, the highlight for the project was a three-story tile mural. The background of the wall features a pattern using ASCII text — the binary computer language — that spells out a the school rally cry, “Um! Yah! Yah!” and reflect the changing seasons.

IMG_0891 2

ASCII computer code creates Oalf rally cry - Um Yah Yah

Olaf_Mosaic 2
Olaf 2_0001_Background
Olaf 2_0000_Layer 1

Entry Signage

Olaf_0003_Background
Olaf_0002_Layer 1

Study Lounge Biophilic Wall Graphic

Olaf 3_0002_Background
Olaf 3_0001_Layer 1
Olaf 3_0000_Layer 2
LPWShorz

Copyright 2018
LP/ws Design Studios 
All rights reserved.
All wrongs reversed.