Problem 1 documentation project revised

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MONTEZUMA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE VISITORS CENTER

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While examining the Montezuma Wetlands Complex and its natural processes, a series of sketch models were created in an effort to decode some of these processes and conditions the site inherently holds.

Model A investigates animal circuation as an expanding and overlapping system

Model C examines vertical transparency and difference in ground plane

Model B examines mechanical slotting as an interpretation of natural soil erosion

Model D is an operable model aimed at mimicking currents as they flow around themsleves or static bodies

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Andrew Thomas Wong | Projection through Gradient and Path

Model E was created to investigate boundary and building envelope. In such an expansive site, it was important to experiment with any existing boundary restrictions

Model G is based off a simple 1X1 grid that transforms from surface to volumed forms, suggesting that ground plane and object may be the same material or part of the same base fabric

Model F compares bodies of land and aims to suggests a pre-existing uniformity, much like the breaking up of islands

Model H is a conceptual combination of models D and F, suggesting that animal circulation is directly related to a slower, tectonic morphology.

Andrew Thomas Wong | Projection through Gradient and Path

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1”=10’ plan

sections and program

GALLERY

ENTRY

STORAGE

COAT ROOM

SHOP

CAFE

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exploded axonometric

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Andrew Thomas Wong | Projection through Gradient and Path

Final Model 1”=16’