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CRITICS: DIANA BALMORI & JOEL SANDERS _ PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH YIJUN QIAN _ YALE UNIVERSITY _ FALL 2008
CRITICS: DIANA BALMORI & JOEL SANDERS _ PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH YIJUN QIAN _ YALE UNIVERSITY _ FALL 2008
Nominated for the H.I. Feldman award, considered the highest honor at Yale University School of Architecture. Click to view full project explanation video.
The project utilizes the equal distribution of solid and void existent in the pattern of the jali screen, deploys it at a new scale that allows landscape and building to have a permeable relationship, and allows the program, site, and ecological issues to influence and manipulate this relentless pattern into a responsive interface of landscape and architecture, inside and outside, public and private. The differentiation occurs through a figure-ground reversal, strategic voids for sun and wind, a geometric and spatial pattern analysis, and a program analysis (focusing on a comparative study of office and retail space). It draws on the precedent of the traditional Mughal gardens of India and attempts to render a new, inhabitable and highly responsive architectural solution of gradient conditions.
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