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
HART ISLAND - SACRED SPACE
Hart Island is a one mile long Island located on the east river on the northern edge of New York City. The island first was used as a place for war prisoners during the civil war. Over time, a host of institutions were placed on the Island such as a workhouse, a hospital, prisons, a reformatory, and even a Nike missile base during the cold war. Today however, most of these structures are abandoned and in ruin. The most critical and lesser known aspect of the island cannot be seen by the naked eye. Throughout much of the last century to this today, the City of New York buried the unclaimed bodies of people that have passed away on Hart Island. In total, there have been around one million burials here, most of which are unmarked. The city recycles the soil with new burials every 25 years as the old bodies decompose and are replaced and is currently managed by the Department of Corrections. The objective of this project is to create a sacred space and visitor’s center for the deceased on Hart Island with proper respect to both the dead and the living.
To move is to narrate. This project narrates the human experience of life and death. Movement among different planes of existence translate to sectional and planar transformation within the project. The meditative element within this lies in its circulation system with important moments of stasis and recollection. The user occupies and moves through spaces with the express goal of simultaneously circulating “within and without” one’s own consciousness while doing so physically through plan and section. The scale and form of the building manifests the journey of mortality, where one experiences the concept of liminal space everywhere and therefore understands that both life, and death, consists of a journey to be actualized.
