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Project Type: Campus Research Center
Location: Santa Catalina Island, California
School: University of Southern California
Professor: Andy Ku
Semester: Fall 2015
All five senses of the human interface: sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch are interacted with the naked landscape of the USC Wrigley Institute site. Providing a seamless relationship between man and nature with a sense of nirvana within these elements is the main design objective. An amphibian-like structure developed both on land and in water is strategically located to interact with all three elements of air, earth, and water. Displaying the qualities of air with a smooth sense of lightness and movement, earth with heavy ridged form displaying the role of gravity, and water with a sense of motion and flow with attributes of buoyancy, the design form respects the existing untouched landscape seamlessly connected to the newly built, low resolution/pixelated landform, displaying hierarchy to the existing landform. The morphology of the landform is revealed within a fragmentation of ground to expose built structure. The new form of the structure becomes an art form as it symbolizes the beauty of earth and time with erosion as it imprints its everlasting mark on this planet.