5A VERTICAL STUDIO: COMPETITION 2

Fall 2018

The project entertains the idea of dynamic connectivity and thresholds as it produces new ways to experience context. In this way, the project maximizes the experience of understanding the natural environment through the choreography of movement through both man-made and natural spaces. Within the Kemeri National Park is situated the New Kemeri Visitor Center operating as an advancing destination to foreign bodies. People, Automobiles, Objects and Nature are invited to experience the formal gestures transmitted by the visitor center. Visitors experience natural scenery through the perspective of the project as it appears to resist the physical forces of the site planet and its nearby objects.

The plinth, the circulation tunnels, and the foreign objects participate together in acknowledgment of nature. The plinth produces a physical detachments from the site but very well provokes interaction by natural forces. By mimicking the gestural maneuvers of the Kemeri Bogs boardwalks, the elevated tunnels prescribe users to the natural sites beauty adventures in the immediate vicinity. Embraced by the tunnels and sustained by the plinth, the foreign objects introduce an unfamiliar effect to the site pronouncing its presence. The Kemeri Visitor center responds to context in various ways that ultimately produce an eccentric performance.

3 Micro Climates

Behaving as a hub, the Kemeri Visitor Center becomes an intersection of different social micro-climates. By elevating the visitor center on a plinth, the project acknowledges the urban accessory that is the automobile and for a time being ignores it. The center welcomes visitors to oscillate internal and external moments through the meditation of three different elements that produce tensions and thresholds which distinguish the type of experience a visitor can have.

Camp Site

Camp Site Bogs

Parking Bogs