After a 5-year hiatus, Arch Design + Build is back!
We began with a visit to the site, which right now is just a (not quite) square concrete pad with a crappy plastic shed on it.
We have bigger plans.
At its best, good design is a poetic response to place and circumstance.
So, we sketched, observed, and measured. We were interested of course in the dimensional site conditions. But maybe more importantly, we tried to understand the more transient aspects of the place.
- Where is the sun, and how does it move?
- How do people move through and occupy the site?
- What is the history of the Prairie and the Fuel Garden?
- What else makes this place unique?
- What are the latent aspects of the site, and how can they be revealed?
These questions will become the starting point for the design process, encouraging us to think deeper about the spirit of place.
Can our design exist only here, and nowhere else? Can it engage? Create place? Reveal?
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