Florida Atlantic University Retention Pond Policy and Design
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 2002-2003

For the academic year 2002-2003 Michael Singer was appointed the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair for the College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. During the year Singer developed the "Creative Thinking in the Public Realm" seminar for advanced students in the Comparative Studies Doctoral Program. The seminar addressed the issue of FAU campus policy and design of storm water retention ponds. Singer included a team comprised of Oest Associates Engineers, Shepley Bulfinch, Richardson Abbott Architects, Richard Rabinowitz of American History Workshop and others to collaborate with the seminar on the design of specific retention pond and adjacent public spaces. Strategies developed for the project area include the addition of planted wetland edges, re-vegetated upland trails, and floating gardens to filter water run-off from the nearby parking lots. The results were compiled in "Transformations: Integrated Landscape Concept for the Visual Arts Building Deck and View Corridor".

Florida Atlantic University Schmidt Visual Arts Building Expansion
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 2005-2006

During the 2005-2006 academic year the Dean of the School for the Arts and Humanities asked Michael Singer to provide a concept vision for an addition to the Visual Arts building, an interior space plan, and an integration of the building with the landscape and public space proposal of the Transformations project. Singer engaged the College of Engineering in a research of structural and civil engineering issues along with a cost analysis that helped guide a collaboration with Oest Associates, Shepley Bulfinch, Richardson, Abbott, and the Singer Studio. The new 11,0000 square foot building incorporates student gallery space, new offices for the Visual Arts Department, seminar and studio classrooms, and outdoor roof gardens. Proposed additions to the current Visual Arts Building help define the use of the large deck overlooking the Transformations Project.

Artist/Designer: Michael Singer
Architecture: Michael Singer, Peter Nobile and Hernan Schlosman at Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Architects
Environmental Design:
Tobin Hindle and Jason Bregman
Conceptual Renderings:
Jason Bregman and Trevor Lee
Engineering: Calen Colby at Oest Associates Inc., Dan Meeroff, Fred Bletcher, Eli Brossel, and the 2005 FAU Engineering Senior Design Class
Project Concept: Creative Thinking In the Public Realm Seminar, Florida Atlantic University, Michael Singer Eminent Scholar, Elizabeth Atterbury, Jane Day, Tobin Hindle, Marc Rhorer, Ilaria Serra, Malti Turnbull, Sandra White

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