DIGITAL ASSETS [DRAWING, RENDER, DIAGRAM]

render [night], render [day], section, diagram01, diagram02, sitediagram01, sitediagram02

02 PHYSICAL ASSETS [MODELS]

presentation model, iterative sketch models

FALSE GRIT

CRITIC[s]: RICHARD SARRACH + SCOTT SORENSON

FALL 2021

What do you do with an audience that has time to spare, in a holding pattern, or time to waste? The answer is found by exploring the confluence of infrastructure and leisure in America’s cultural, and geological landscapes. Situated in the rural landscapes of America, the flyover spaces, the in-between spaces traditionally seen as laminal spaces or “non-spaces,” and with the Super-Charger Station as an anchor, this proposal investigates and hypothesizes how a rest stop in the middle of White Sands National Monument could enhance the roadway journey and what that would manifest itself as.

Programmatically, the project serves as an electric vehicle rest stop that intends to interrupt the driver from the road and to immerse them into the surreal landscape of White Sands National Monument for a brief moment along their period of traveling. Using the detail language, imagery, and form of mining town and western false fronts, the facade begins to modify in accordance to the parameters, scale, and velocity of the automobile; an exploration of the threshold as it relates to the vehhicular and corporal experience.