Fuller’s Spaceship on Mother Earth

Contributors

Guorun Yang (M.Arch. '25)
Maosen Xu (M.Arch. '25)

Class

ARCH 5111

Instructors

The project strongly emphasizes the separation between humans and wolves, visitors and researchers, creating an intense experience that could lead to a change in visitors’ understanding of the red wolves, in which ultimately they are a dangerous species. However, it would not provide a reason for humans to kill.

The project features three parts: one for visitors, one for researchers, and one for both to interact, though many spaces are reserved for the researcher and the red wolves. A red wolf viewing platform above ground sits on top of the clinic. It hides behind a perforated skin and is unconventional to other zoo-like institutions as it separates people from the wolves sectionally to leave space for the wolves. The project, overall, acknowledges red wolves’ physical freedom as much as it can by providing a loose boundary, which encourages better change for family interaction and reproduction.