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M.Arch.1 2010
A sense of arrival never happens, a visiting professor only indefinitely slows down. In this sense they are subject to a condition of placelessness. I purposed a dwelling for the pathos of such a life that not always has the possibility of giving root. Emplacement of a body within a sense of displacement.
A building for existing squash courts in Central Campus allowed for material and site precedents. The structure of the existing building is so grossly apparent it appears to be the bones of a building that was, the bones of what remains. Reducing the building to its structural posts and beams and using what remain of the remains as a point of departure for a series of passages that are fluid within the grid structure.
The passages are sensitive to the topography, in that they engage the void in front of the building by bridging it to the sidewalk and in effect to the public. The passages also acknowledge tree growth on the hill between the sidewalk and building. This creates individuality in the presence of the entrances to the passages.
(Arch 511 – Professor Jim Williamson)
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