When Light gathers weight, space is formed.
This project, located north of NYC in Hudson Valley, is dedicated to the Bard Prison Initiative. The program is simple: a 5000-square foot office space plus a 7000-square foot gallery space. Our proposal places the entire building underground and introduces a green, walkable platform on the rooftop. Several cast-acrylic “weights of light” are embedded into the building’s surfaces. Light reflects, refracts, and passes through the uneven surfaces of these lighting devices to create unique atmospheres and spaces for people to experience. People can go up, down, in, and around these artifacts: The ground floor serves as a garden where the acrylics act as natural sculpture, The B1 acts as an office that allows ample natural daylighting and unique coworking spaces within the acrylics and the B2 act as a gallery where the refraction and reflection shape the most dramatic light dance.
all spaces provide an honest depiction of the lighting conditions outside, allowing these spaces dedicated to light to serve as educational tools for the institute.
