© J. Goldberg/ESTO
The idea for this project is similar to our idea for the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at Ohio State University in Columbia, Ohio. The important differences are twofold: the first is a question of scale; the second is the idea of an internal insertion which ultimately both disrupts and unifies. The site for this project is a 4000 square foot loft in Lower Manhattan. The space is essentially a rectangular parallelepiped in the proportions of 100 to 40. The idea was to insert a foreign body into the existing context in such a way as to produce a disorienting relationship between old and new, with the context providing a non-right angle geometry.