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Title
Misaligned Beinecke
Project Description
This project seeks to interrupt the direct communication of power through the iconic buildings occupying the plaza by exposing its devices. It seeks an ineloquence and muteness that demands a close reading of the site as a means of undermining the conveyance of power. The most dominant organizational device existing on the site is the cross-campus axis, which terminates in the Commons colonnade. This project uses the symmetrical axis as a device to expose the site’s existing relationships and asymmetries. The building is articulated as two masses joined on the axis. The misalignment accentuates the positioning-difference of the site’s main masses, Beinecke Library, and Woolsey Hall. With these buildings, our building creates two new plazas, which reorient and subvert the existing plaza condition. These new plazas each have a proportional relationship to the building with which they align, creating additional relational axes.
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