Integration Center

Starkville Strong Center

Research, Technology, and Economic Development Park Studio

2022 Spring Semester | 14 weeks

Starkville, Mississippi

The Thad Cochran Reasearch Park is partnered with Mississippi State University and provides a multitude of research through technology driven agriculture. The site is surrounded by fields and a rose garden that ultimately becomes incorporated in the orientation circulation of the Integration Center.

I aimed to provide a space that integrates with the surrounding land as in this realm, agriculture rules the world. Fields swarm atop and vegitated walls climb the side of the building letting visitors experience what it means to integrate modern buildings into nature. The Programs include trial gardens and expierimental labs, showcase rooms, an agricultural history gallery, classroom spaces, and offices all connected to one pathway. An intuitive way to expore our agricultural past is sown through that singular passage way as a way to wing back the time clock as you walk through the building. Modern construction materials shift though the circulatory route and end with natural and earth building materials to help one travel through time as they venture the gallery space.