2007 | critic: Michael Dennison | Columbus, OH
Located in the Short North district of Columbus, behind “The Cap” is a small gravel parking lot who’s site was severed diagonally by the construction of I-670.
On this small, almost triangular site, the task was to design a multi-use building that would provide additional housing for the area, while serving as a small art gallery and community gathering area. Due to the unusual bisection of the site, a normative building type becomes nearly impossible, requiring multiple readings that lead to new forms.
Taking an attitude from Russian Constructivist artwork, Wassily Kandinski in particular, the project begins to program shapes, masses, and voids that come together to form the whole.
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