"Echoes"
Urban Event Space and Pavilion.
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Located in Downtown Syracuse, this pavilion aims to activate the barren scar of the Everson Plaza. While the museum and its environs possess programs and events sparingly throughout the year, the spatial, formal role in the urban fabric is completely overlooked.
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Formal derivation from the pitched house typologies reconnects the Downtown and its suburban residents, bridging the disconnected sense of belonging to the city. Multiple forms are juxtaposed with one another to create a system of a more appropriate scale, especially noticeable in the long winter months that isolate the Everson as a singular monolithic object. The intimacy of this ‘village’ thus challenges the overwhelming open-ness of the plaza and anticipations of gathering. By re-appropriating the material language that gives this site its character, it subverts the normative understanding of the unified space to read as a continuous yet independent intervention in the site.
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ARC108 | Spring 2019 | Prof. Nicole McIntosh
