BEACON Pavilion
The University of Texas at Austin is home to a student volunteer-run program called SURE Walk. SURE Walk aims to reduce the risk of sexual assault and other forms of interpersonal violence on campus by providing companionship to members of the university population walking home during late hours. The primary design concept of BEACON is to provide a designated safe and well-lit area near the University of Texas at Austin Student Activity Center building for students to wait for SURE Walk pick-up. The pavilion is constructed of an air-compressed ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) membrane that sits atop a waffled timber plywood frame with CNC-machined members, each measuring 4-inches thick.110V remote-controlled LED lights illuminate the ETFE membrane at night.