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projects: Archives / April 2008
mediation
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April 30, 2008 |
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April 30, 2008
The existing library is an excellent example of truly “modern” architecture- based on pure geometry. The building’s extended steel frame grid, while astutely designed, stands as an opposite to the landscape growing around it. An exterior environmental classroom is desired within the garden to teach about the natural world. Benches are placed in a flowing line at the landscape’s existing edge, and a vertical shade is added, yet sensitively cut away as a recording of where the plants momentarily come into contact with the new structure. The shade screen and benches mark a moment in time and mediate...
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