CENEX_NATURES
Aidan E. Galloway
ARTS 115: ARCHITECTURAL NATURE(s) OF THE HUDSON VALLEY (Fall 2019)
Professors Ross Exo Adams & Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco
“Often we imagine architecture’s relation to nature as one reduced to its immediate context—something private, romantically benign, silent. […] Tied into global supply chains and extractive industries, [architecture] is always embedded in larger networks that operate at multiple scales from the intimate to the infrastructural to the planetary.”
A monument to architecture’s abstractive, extractive relationship to “nature,” CENEX_NATURES is designed as an isolated object—symbolized by the cube— carved away by its context. Situated at Kingston Point Beach, where the water level of the Hudson River is forecast to rise, CENEX_NATURES sits motionless on the ever-changing, elusive boundary between industry and leisure, nature and culture, self and other — between rocks, trees, water, and beach, but also between an old brick production plant and petroleum tanks.
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Context informing the form beyond the immediate
obssesed with abstraction
a transfer of mass: from 0.1 to 22’ above sea level
Northeast Elevation
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Northeast Section -8’
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Northeast Section -10’
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Northeast Section -14’
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Northeast Section -20’
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Northeast Section -20’
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Northeast Section -44’
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Northeast Section -54’
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Northeast Section -107’
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Southeast Elevation
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Southeast Section -54’
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Southwest Section
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