Description:
The project redefines the courtyard space os PS1 Contemporary Art Center by creating new perceptual and occupiable landscapes throughout the summer. THese new woven landscapes are continually reassessed programmatically throughout the day, week and month through the interaction of environmental pressures such as sun and shade, as well as through occupational pressures. As the density of occupation expands and contracts, the structural landscape forces change both the occupational and perceptual understand of the project. In this sense, both the changing natural environment and the people interacting with the structures become material influences in the projects use. The occupiable field of the project utilized the entire space eof the courtyard by allowing areas of privacy and publicity to swell, expanding and contracting to create degrees of interaction and activity.
The entire project was encoded with this information digitally and then re-informed/filtered through the physical process of making. Perceptual and occupational studies, digitally and physically, led to both a formal and perceptual construction system that was flexible, structural as well as embody a dynamic effect. The spatial system weaves the space of the courtyard through itself to produce multiple degrees of privacy/publicity, while the surface tectonic creates an intense perceptual field. As these two landscapes continually swell, a new third experimental landscape emerges.
Contact:
Jefferson Ellinger
Clinical Professor of Architecture
Architecture Rensselaer
ellinj@rpi.edu
