Created with a series of ribs, programmatic spaces float throughout the boathouse to facilitate the three key users of the space: the Visitor, the Spectator and the Rower. Following the boat-shell transportation rail, Buoyancy, Tread, and Cage builds a logic of circulation and program perforated by transparencies and opacities. Unraveling tread stairs divert the three users to their respective program while uniting them in an airy light filled semi-enclosed, caged interior. Visitors, Spectators, and Rowers alike are hugged and enclosed by light boxes--buoyant as the rowing shells transported along the horizontal rail system.
buoyancy, tread, + cage
community boathouse on Cayuga inlet
May, 2016
integrated design / year 2