DESIGN IV

This studio was structured around two sites, an urban site in New York City between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge and a rural site located in Harriman State Park. Its goal was to explore how design is affected by an identical program applied to two very different landscapes.

The program consisted of the design of a John Cage music institute with the intent of seeing how context manifested into different formal and spatial relationships. The Urban responds directly to one’s experience of the city, playing with orientation from room to room. While the rural explores the peeling of the earth’s surface, carving into the ground and extending up above the treeline. Both sites attend to a specific expression of orientation through a response of context.