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Perrysburg, NY, United States
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Softcore-Hardform
Perrysburg, NY, United States
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Type
YEAR
2014
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
Due to their resilience while threatened by a blizzard, students successfully designed, fabricated, and constructed a seven-person sweat lodge over the course of three-and-a-half days. As students constructed the lodge on a mountain of snow, nasty weather didn't slow down the fast-paced, all-hands-in collaborative design and construction process. The project located on 300 acre farm in Western New York, utilized the adjacent 1860 farm house as a design and fabrication studio. Through design and work sessions and focused discussions with metal fabricators and craftsmen, the sweat lodge intended to spark new life into the old house and nearby apple orchard. The farmers also wanted a structure that was visible from the road and reverent to the surrounding fields. Although the area is predominantly farmland, the sweat lodge seeks to enhance an emerging relationship with secondary user groups such as those involved in the arts, providing an opportunity to connect their interests with an unlikely context.
The sweat lodge establishes a relationship between tradition (material and construction) and technology (analogue and digital) that enables the architecture to engage directly with its surroundings. Considering the harsh environmental conditions, a hard stainless steel exterior was selected to contrast with a soft cedar interior. Directly parallel to the iterative, form-finding design process with materials were selected upon their performance and property behaviors. Softcore-Hardform blurs the line between architecture and engineering by considering body comfort, size, social interaction, wind and snow loads as well as changes in temperature.
For more information please visit: www.plusfarm.org
The project team includes:
Christin Hu
Lavender Tessmer
Stephanie Vito
Michael McDowell
Solomon Oh
Joseph Vidich
William Haskas
The sweat lodge establishes a relationship between tradition (material and construction) and technology (analogue and digital) that enables the architecture to engage directly with its surroundings. Considering the harsh environmental conditions, a hard stainless steel exterior was selected to contrast with a soft cedar interior. Directly parallel to the iterative, form-finding design process with materials were selected upon their performance and property behaviors. Softcore-Hardform blurs the line between architecture and engineering by considering body comfort, size, social interaction, wind and snow loads as well as changes in temperature.
For more information please visit: www.plusfarm.org
The project team includes:
Christin Hu
Lavender Tessmer
Stephanie Vito
Michael McDowell
Solomon Oh
Joseph Vidich
William Haskas
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