context

While endless consideration can be put into the form of an architectural project, that form does not exist in a vacuum; all built work interacts with a context. Be it natural landscape or an artificial urban fabric, buildings are positioned on sites that present unique character, each with their own respective rules, challenges, and opportunities that the designer must consider. Some opt to reshape this context in their own vision, as with residential builders clearing a perfectly flat yard for a house, while others may decide to engage with the site's context as an inherent design feature. The latter is clearly exemplified in Atlanta's Peachtree Center MARTA station. While many other subterranean stations opt to construct distintc, built walls that enclose the train platform, Peachtree Center's uniquely leaves the rocky undergroud exposed, adding to and enhancing it as the primary enclosure to the inhabitable space.