Associate Professor Sharone Tomer’s Second Year Lab Fall Semester Pin-Up

On November 21-22, Associate Professor Sharóne Tomer’s Second Year lab exhibited their Fall semester’s work in the Cowgill lobby. The lab has spent the semester working on a site along the New River Trail in Allisonia, VA, designing a set of small architectural interventions that will serve visitors to the trail. The interventions have asked the students to study how to architecturally support human activities–movement, pause, shelter, ablution–while meaningfully responding and contributing to a place’s built, ecological, and cultural condition, and developing robust and tectonically expressive architectural languages. The students have worked intensively through model-making, while also exploring mapping and architectural drawing modalities. The exhibition showcased the many models the lab has made, as well as representations the students have made in order to develop their understanding of the site and their interventions.