DESERT GALLERY
Montello Foundation Competition
Honorable Mention
Partner: Victoria Graziano
Traditionally, an exhibition space serves to frame presented works of art. Here the structure exhibits both the artwork "within" produced by the artists, and the artwork without, being the natural world. As one approaches or passes by , the structure maintains a continuously changing opacity where the desert environment and the core materialize and dematerialize to the viewer. This renders the desert environment as an active participant in terms of exhibition, where it simultaneously frames the structure and is framed by it as a work of art.
Space and people filter through the field of timber elements towards the art that is nested within the rammed earth core of the structure. The timber elements touch the earth lightly and the rammed earth core of the space is made of the same soil as the surrounded desert. This responds to the site in terms of building economy and sustainability and it generates an osmosis of light and space that guide one through a procession
DESERT GALLERY
Montello Foundation Competition
Honorable Mention
Partner: Victoria Graziano
Traditionally, an exhibition space serves to frame presented works of art. Here the structure exhibits both the artwork "within" produced by the artists, and the artwork without, being the natural world. As one approaches or passes by , the structure maintains a continuously changing opacity where the desert environment and the core materialize and dematerialize to the viewer. This renders the desert environment as an active participant in terms of exhibition, where it simultaneously frames the structure and is framed by it as a work of art.
Space and people filter through the field of timber elements towards the art that is nested within the rammed earth core of the structure. The timber elements touch the earth lightly and the rammed earth core of the space is made of the same soil as the surrounded desert. This responds to the site in terms of building economy and sustainability and it generates an osmosis of light and space that guide one through a procession
DESERT GALLERY
Montello Foundation Competition
Honorable Mention
Partner: Victoria Graziano
Traditionally, an exhibition space serves to frame presented works of art. Here the structure exhibits both the artwork "within" produced by the artists, and the artwork without, being the natural world. As one approaches or passes by , the structure maintains a continuously changing opacity where the desert environment and the core materialize and dematerialize to the viewer. This renders the desert environment as an active participant in terms of exhibition, where it simultaneously frames the structure and is framed by it as a work of art.
Space and people filter through the field of timber elements towards the art that is nested within the rammed earth core of the structure. The timber elements touch the earth lightly and the rammed earth core of the space is made of the same soil as the surrounded desert. This responds to the site in terms of building economy and sustainability and it generates an osmosis of light and space that guide one through a procession
DESERT GALLERY
Montello Foundation Competition
Honorable Mention
Partner: Victoria Graziano
Traditionally, an exhibition space serves to frame presented works of art. Here the structure exhibits both the artwork "within" produced by the artists, and the artwork without, being the natural world. As one approaches or passes by , the structure maintains a continuously changing opacity where the desert environment and the core materialize and dematerialize to the viewer. This renders the desert environment as an active participant in terms of exhibition, where it simultaneously frames the structure and is framed by it as a work of art.
Space and people filter through the field of timber elements towards the art that is nested within the rammed earth core of the structure. The timber elements touch the earth lightly and the rammed earth core of the space is made of the same soil as the surrounded desert. This responds to the site in terms of building economy and sustainability and it generates an osmosis of light and space that guide one through a procession
DESERT GALLERY
Montello Foundation Competition
Honorable Mention
Partner: Victoria Graziano
Traditionally, an exhibition space serves to frame presented works of art. Here the structure exhibits both the artwork "within" produced by the artists, and the artwork without, being the natural world. As one approaches or passes by , the structure maintains a continuously changing opacity where the desert environment and the core materialize and dematerialize to the viewer. This renders the desert environment as an active participant in terms of exhibition, where it simultaneously frames the structure and is framed by it as a work of art.
Space and people filter through the field of timber elements towards the art that is nested within the rammed earth core of the structure. The timber elements touch the earth lightly and the rammed earth core of the space is made of the same soil as the surrounded desert. This responds to the site in terms of building economy and sustainability and it generates an osmosis of light and space that guide one through a procession
DESERT GALLERY
Montello Foundation Competition
Honorable Mention
Partner: Victoria Graziano
Traditionally, an exhibition space serves to frame presented works of art. Here the structure exhibits both the artwork "within" produced by the artists, and the artwork without, being the natural world. As one approaches or passes by , the structure maintains a continuously changing opacity where the desert environment and the core materialize and dematerialize to the viewer. This renders the desert environment as an active participant in terms of exhibition, where it simultaneously frames the structure and is framed by it as a work of art.
Space and people filter through the field of timber elements towards the art that is nested within the rammed earth core of the structure. The timber elements touch the earth lightly and the rammed earth core of the space is made of the same soil as the surrounded desert. This responds to the site in terms of building economy and sustainability and it generates an osmosis of light and space that guide one through a procession
CHAPEL OF THE EARTH
Being commuter school, City College generally lacks spaces of introspection. The built environment disengages students from any deeper forms of understanding. Students rush in and out, seemingly occupying the very surface of space and consciousness. As such, a spiritual space is in order to engage the spiritual sensibilities of the occupants of City College.
Here, a rammed earth structure is introduced within the yard of Randolph high school. Through a process of molding a perforated dome with the use of a sand mound and excavating the ground beneath, students can then engage in a form of study that is deeper and profound.
The space itself diagrams the human experience within the universal, the world of forms, and the particular, the natural world. It is in-between the articulated juxtaposition of platonic and natural geometry that space is woven for contemplation and meditation.
