Areas
Orchard Campus
The orchard campus is an exploration into the distinct barn building typology and its intersection with the industrial and institutional building types. Borrowing from Rosalind Krauss’s Klein diagram structure, the project studies the spatial transformations between these three typologies in the expanded field. The barn as a highly vernacular typology, lends itself to the project as the central axis, from which the project expands toward the industrial and the institutional. Each space in the project can be located as a single volume on the Klein diagram, and though having distinct qualities, consistently rejects singular readings. Moreover, while the barn building type puts emphasis on the economy of materials, the industrial type on the economy of labor, the institutional type puts emphasis on the economy of organization. Orchard campus is not only a single project, but it also establishes a framework in which these relationships can be interrogated in a quantifiable manner, as well as a study into the architectural/spatial meanings of methods of construction and planning.