This project called for the design of an urban club for the training, socializing, accommodation and adoption of animals. Each student was dealt a different set of constraints, opportunities, and precedents. Using the precedents of Le Fresnoy and the De Young museum as a departure point and taking into account the urban nature of the site and desire for light, the project integrated separate programmatic entities under a common roof with possibilities for light to penetrate - both through punctures and skin apertures. All program is elevated off of the ground plane to liberate it for use as an outdoor dog run. Program volumes shift within their structure for other considerations such as surveillance to the dog run below. The punctures taper or expand as they pass through the floor plates to allow light to pass to the ground.

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CRITIC: MARK GAGE _ FALL 2006 _ YALE UNIVERSITY

This project called for the design of an urban club for the training, socializing, accommodation and adoption of animals. Each student was dealt a different set of constraints, opportunities, and precedents. Using the precedents of Le Fresnoy and the De Young museum as a departure point and taking into account the urban nature of the site and desire for light, the project integrated separate programmatic entities under a common roof with possibilities for light to penetrate - both through punctures and skin apertures. All program is elevated off of the ground plane to liberate it for use as an outdoor dog run. Program volumes shift within their structure for other considerations such as surveillance to the dog run below. The punctures taper or expand as they pass through the floor plates to allow light to pass to the ground.

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