garden of objects
program: health club
location: greenpoint, brooklyn
instructors: cristina díaz moreno + efrén garcia grinda (amid.cero9)
princeton soa, fall 2019
Historically, architects have placed gardens within, adjacent to, or on top of buildings, to fulfill the desire to contain “nature.” Alternatively, architecture has also become the object contained within the garden. The meaning of the garden and its relationship to architecture has changed throughout its history, From the modernist promise of the roof garden reclaiming the built land to recent grassroots movements converting rooftops and vacant lots into community gardens. In this proposal the garden lies within and becomes the architecture itself. The proposal contains objects that allude to digital space, and rely on pushing against the material hegemony of New York to introduce new aesthetics to the city. The cones of vision that the subject would experience at vital points in the project are the drivers of the design, built as a vision for a new kind of communal leisure space for the public.