Confetti Urbanism transforms the 73,470-square-foot California College of the Arts Back Lot into a multifunctional environment, blending the "Designing Material Innovation" exhibition with active student workspaces and social areas. By scattering infrastructures like shipping containers and workstations across the pavement, the project creates a non-hierarchical, "confetti-like" arrangement that fosters interplay between experimental design prototypes and daily campus life. The installation uses a vibrant, graphic, and functional layout to animate the space, turning a standard work yard into a lively, temporary social landscape.

At once, display venue, work yard, and social space the back lot is a layering of institutional operations, public landscape, and art experimentation, and pavilion exhibition, all underlaid by a super-sized graphic confetti landscape painting. 

Rather than impost a singular order on these disparate operational and social infrastructions, Confetti Urbanism celebrates the diversity of the back lot’s many components.  Strewning these components across the black top as though they were tossed confetti creates a loose, yet carefully calibrated framing for the prototype pavilions, which explore new architectural materiality, assembly, and technology.  

Painted discs, ribbons, bands, and shapes cue visitors to move, stand, and look in particular ways. Subtle tensions and alignments among the back lot elements draw out the nuances in the five pavilions, animating the experiemental landscape with a pervasive back-and-forth between autonomy and engagement, environmental effects and graphic image, and function and festivity.