Portland State Magazine Spring 2014

4 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2014 Park Blocks An artful entrance A CANOPY of three-dimensional twists that create abstract, cloud-like formations now hovers over the main entrance to the Science, Research and Teaching Center (formerly known as Science Building 2). Inspired by the lighting and layering of trees in the Park Blocks, Faulders Studio designed the sculpture, Entrium Light Cloud, as “a corollary to the open-ended twists and turns encountered during the process of creative research and innovation.” The art was funded by Oregon’s Percent for Art program, which sets aside at least one percent of the cost of state legislature-approved construction—in this case the remodel of the science center—for public art.