Sushwala Hedding selected works
shift and release submerge to retreat down and away cut through the trees liquid flooded stepped horizons out brought within reflection heightened humid and heady cool and breezy dappled in shade the bright and the fade water immersed weightless suspend vast sky above a view without end escapist space senses trace out to the edge awash in place
Thermal pools cut into the bluff of the Mississippi River in St Louis, MO. The rhythm of a planted forest registers below ground in excavated bathing areas that wind down and eventually deliver the visitor to the edge of the bluff overlooking the river.
section e-w through lower bathhouse level
early investigative drawings, paintings, collages, models
section n-s through main bathhouse level
conceptual site section - ink
main bathous
conceptual site plan, glass and cardboard model.
section w-e through stepped pools and the Mississippi River
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clockwise from top left: entry view with forest to left, changerooms to the right; floatation pool with view to sky at the end of the circulation spiral on the lowest level; ramp through main bathouse level; tunnel access to lower level with view to river.
street elevation
infinity pool at lower edge, overlooking the river
expansive sky on harrowed ground empty desert canvas for miles around cut into the earth below move the mountain make high of low from dawn til dusk the sun is marked a giant’s line traced light in dark rational minds at work in an unthinkable place you’re in earth’s cave and out in space.
milled model
conceptual plan - charcoal.
site drawing - pastel
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looking east at hilltop
EARTH MOVE
A Research Institute in the Malheur Wildlife Refuge of the Oregon desert. The program includes laboratories, a public exhibition component and residential units for researchers and scientists.
conceptual section - charcoal, pastel
section through residential spaces, laboratory area seen in elevation
walkway level plan
section through main walkway and laboratory area
I am twice the figure I was before dancing the streets on a single pair of feet carrying the weight of history with celebration’s levity I am familiar and I am a mystery between doorways and sky my story is bigger than I today I am larger than life
VEILS & MASKS (plaça de las Bestiari)
A foundation for the Giants (Bestiari) of cultural festival in Barcelona.
view from museum atrium to exhibition space and plaza
main elevation concept images, models, collages
entry to plaza
dynamic screen system and plan diagram
The program hosts a food pantry, dining facilities, worker residences, administration, storage, greenhouse and growing fields. The built program is imagined as a buffer between river edge and site where the buildings are arranged linearly beneath a canopy that captures energy and shades outdoor spaces and roof areas. Water from the river is filtered and flows through reed beds that weave between the buildings and out to irrigate the fields. The building is placed here to energize the riverside and connect to a river walk extended from the city center. In this way, the building itself acts as a permeable filter and buffer to the river, re-imagining the nowdisused waterfront as a place of great potential and beauty and a life-giving source to the city’s food supply.
early schematic section of river edge with reed bed filters
FILTER to FOOD An Urban Farm and Food Pantry on the Chicago River, Illinois. view along main walkway beneath canopy
east elevation
section w-e through building, reed bed filter and fields
entry view
filtration, irrigation and circulation plan diagrams
green roof (seedlings) reed bed
materials map
water system diagram
Final model is a series of layered planes surrounding a single ‘void’ space. Desintegrating earth is a light solid above. The layers beneath ground converge slowly to create a simple, deep volume while the layers above fragment quickly into many parts. Layers of clear plexiglass form the framework. At the plane of the original image, both coexist as solid contrasting components to a single filled plane.
layered plexiglass model of system from above and below
drought
1. dry surface with extruded cracks beneath 2. inversion of figure ground from saturated and dense below to desiccated and disintegrating above 3. single instance of a system from saturation to fragmentation
‘Shifting from Lines to Surfaces’, a seminar in 3d and physical modeling. Investigating solid-void earth relationships; liquid to disintegrated dry. A 2d image is the basis for a 3d exploration and interpretation of a natural system.
Water imagined seeping between angular cracks in dehydrated earth as vertical lines extruded to create curved forms beneath. Layers created between these conditions to suggest a transition from dry to wet. This process is repeated, making a larger field.
final plexiglass model
exploded axon of surfaces
a precise cube of space vanished from within an angled body a self-obsessed object false shelter of distortions swallowing itself away every side points inward inside there is only out drawn into an empty focal point to be projected out at every warped side at it’s heart it disappears a stage at the still point every eye directed in and through exposed by the enclosure every direction a warped view pushed out,down,up,every way from you
IntraSpecter
a big fuss of frames tapered to an absent center the background is the fore composition incomplete with a hole for a core
A playpiece at the occupiable meeting place between spatial calm and distortion that is at once frivolous and thoughtful. It is a multiframe for an absent artwork. It is a folly, self centered and empty. Submission to Folly 2014, a competition held by the Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park.
elevations
view of Folly on site in Socrates Sculpture Park
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SURFACE SURFACE PLAN PLAN surface plan
plan above
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perspective
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concept model (burnt timber slats and reclaimed wood)
SOKOL BLOSSER WINERY A new Allied Works Architecture designed tasting room for Sokol Blosser Winery in Dundee, Oregon that opened in July, 2013. I was involved in design studies, construction drawings and construction administration. The building is conceived as a carved block in a series of stepped terraces moving through the site. Constructed of cedar, the light, smooth interior surfaces are held within a rough dark-stained exterior shell. Carvings draw the view through the building to the vineyards beyond and host the must public spaces in the ‘voids’ in continuation with the landscape while more specialized rooms (library, cellar, kitchens) fill the ‘solids’. Angled surfaces and finishes pull the viewer’s gaze out and through the cuts to the building’s spectacular surroundings. Photograph and rendering of building at arrival photograph byJeremy Bitterman for AWA
building plans
south elevation
landscape plan
photographs by Jeremy Bitterman for AWA
north elevation
first level gallery space with view up to third level gallery
section through entry courtyard and auditorium with main gallery above
conceptual presentation model - stained basswood, brass and oak
COLUMBUS ART MUSEUM Allied Works Architecture was asked to submit a proposal for a new ‘kunsthalle’ and veteran’s memorial in Columbus, Ohio. I was involved in conceptualizing the projects and producing drawings, images and models for submission. The art museum is pictured here. The art museum is imagined as a simple box containing a series of stepped galleries that pinwheel from a central point. A courtyard open to the sky breaks up the composition at each level and anchors the museum to both site and sky. A perforated outer skin acts as a veil to shroud the heavier volume and modulate the light within.
view along main street
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