crystal palace
led by architects and academics colby vexler (office heuler), belinda yang,
louis horne, b+w+ of baracco+wright, guillermo fernandez-abascal and photographer
rory gardiner, rooms and corridors: a plan for tending and untending is a
document compromised of some planimetric drawings, site survey photographs and
short essays outlining the provisions for a subtle architectural proposal for a
park currently under construction.
"a revised mowing plan outlines the provisions for some sparser, more specific clearings and openings to be made within the current site: rooms and corridors primarily for their respective inhabitants or visitors. yet here, relationships are not necessarily binary; these are rooms for people to sit in, plants to congregate and animals to pass through. corridors run within and around these rooms – both mown and unmown – some are places for animals to inhabit and move along, plants to congregate and people to step over or stay out of."
"a revised mowing plan outlines the provisions for some sparser, more specific clearings and openings to be made within the current site: rooms and corridors primarily for their respective inhabitants or visitors. yet here, relationships are not necessarily binary; these are rooms for people to sit in, plants to congregate and animals to pass through. corridors run within and around these rooms – both mown and unmown – some are places for animals to inhabit and move along, plants to congregate and people to step over or stay out of."
drawings from rooms and corridors: a plan for tending and untending