Second Year Lab Designs

Sharóne Tomer's Second-Year Lab has spent the semester designing interventions for the New River Trail State Park in Allisonia, Virginia. The students have explored creating architecture connected to place by designing a set of small works of public infrastructure which would enhance visitor and residents' experience of the trail, and facilitate engagement with the New River. The students have worked with questions of architectural order, form, materiality, assembly, inhabitation, and tectonics. Designing a series of structures, each increasingly complex, on the same site, has enabled students to develop a deep understanding of site and architecture's potential means of engaging with place.