Rendering of the flowing concrete landscape juxtaposed with the existing installation and proposed visitor center.
Rendering of the flowing concrete landscape juxtaposed with the existing installation and proposed visitor center.
Botanical Garden
Along the northern edge of North Dakota on the site of an abandoned Cold War radar installation, this project considered the intersection of the the imposed context of the jeffersonian grid in contrast with the otherwise completely barren landscape. By looking at the platonic nature of the truncated pyramidal radar and contrasting it with a deconstructed structure the project is knitted together with a freeform flowing concrete landscape to highlight the contrast of contexts while producing intricate spaces for the botanical program.
Spring 2016, NDSU Design Studio 
Regin Schwaen
Site Plan Diagrams illustrating the intersection of context of the site and the Jeffersonian grid that gives order to the barren landscape.
Site Plan Diagrams illustrating the intersection of context of the site and the Jeffersonian grid that gives order to the barren landscape.
Rendering of the flowing concrete landscape juxtaposed with the existing installation and proposed visitor center.
Rendering of the flowing concrete landscape juxtaposed with the existing installation and proposed visitor center.
Unfolded Axonometric Drawing depicting the interconnection within the deconstructed visitor center.
Unfolded Axonometric Drawing depicting the interconnection within the deconstructed visitor center.
Rendering of the proposed visitor center within the deconstructed form providing intricate and inhabitable space.
Rendering of the proposed visitor center within the deconstructed form providing intricate and inhabitable space.
Rendering of the proposed visitor center within the deconstructed form providing intricate and inhabitable space.
Rendering of the proposed visitor center within the deconstructed form providing intricate and inhabitable space.
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