BEHIND
One Site, Infinite Solutions Ideas Competition - Haynie's Corner, 2013, Indiana, PA, USA
AIA Indiana
AIA Indiana
Our proposal for Haynie's Corner is a glass cube installation to house vegetations to replace the existing introvert, windowless and mysterious single storey brick building. The design was a direct result from the unique condition of the site and context.
“Architecture must produce places, where desire can recognize itself, where it can live." Jacques Derrida.
A green plot of vegetation on the site, covered with a glass box Plants are behind the glass, behind the touch, behind the smell and mind. Grass and trees express nature, and our native longing for it. While the glass box represents the uncrossable, it marks as an ambiguous boundary.
So the contrast between the glass, the vegetation and the existing context along with the function it develops as both a public and a private space, is meant to provoke a sense of intrigue and curiosity on passers-by that would make them ponder what the building may contain inside its premises, what is behind the cold glass.
“Architecture must produce places, where desire can recognize itself, where it can live." Jacques Derrida.
A green plot of vegetation on the site, covered with a glass box Plants are behind the glass, behind the touch, behind the smell and mind. Grass and trees express nature, and our native longing for it. While the glass box represents the uncrossable, it marks as an ambiguous boundary.
So the contrast between the glass, the vegetation and the existing context along with the function it develops as both a public and a private space, is meant to provoke a sense of intrigue and curiosity on passers-by that would make them ponder what the building may contain inside its premises, what is behind the cold glass.