In this charette, I designed a space for refuge. A facetted undulating floor is broken by walls to create a switchback path. Slits are cut into each of the walls so that a visual corridor is seen beginning to end.

One enters the space in front, and as they traverse the switchbacks, the floor gains undulation depth thus becoming increasingly steep and difficult to traverse. By the end of the path one might take solace against a steeply angled valley or atop a plateau. One might glance through the wall slits now from end to beginning, from which they came.

At once an allegory and a metaphor. An allegory of an increasingly difficult path, and finding new refuge in difficulty. A metaphor of increasing clarity and retrospective.

Currently beginning design work for the AIDS Memorial Park, in NYC’s West Village as part of a competition push to open up the site to possibilities. Was rehashing through some sketch books and found two pages which carry two seperate perspectives for who and what the memorial might pertain to.

Ritual Burden

Coping with Destruction

Construction in progress for permanent exhibition we designed for Hyundai America’s Industrial Design Showroom… more to come.

We have just moved offices, but were still waiting for some of the pieces to be fabricated… so heres a preview.