Building for a Philosopher’s Retreat

Last Tuesday and Wednesday in the Cowgill Lobby, second-year students in Professor Markus Breitschmid's lab presented their projects for a "Building for a Philosopher's Retreat" located in the Jefferson National Forest. It is the second of three projects for this semester. The first project was a "Building for an Architecture School" in Chicago; the third project will be a "Building for Paintings by Agnes Martin" in Brooklyn, New York.

Pedagogically, the very small building for the Philosopher's Retreat serves as an exploration and discovery of human inhabitation on the scale of one human being with a room. The students fabricated plan, section, and elevation drawings as well as drawings of a door, of the floor, and of the building's gutter system. The deliberately dematerialized volumetric models do not present the surrounding landscape.