Yale School of Architecture, Fall 2020.

Supervised by Peter DeBretteville.

This project considers how a large waterfront in Fair Haven, Connecticut can be seen as an arts campsite where a canopy creates fields and meanders about them as part of a process of experiencing arts creation.

The lot presents itself as a wide open field and my instinct was to preserve and highlight that condition alongside the arts program, which I considered through sunlight, ways of meandering, and buildings that register as part of a campsite.

The canopy provides not only circulation but also places to gather beneath shade without losing a sense of being outside, while the liminal space created by the tension between the form of the program and canopy allow for sunlight to create sensations of clearing and a highlighting of each program.

What exists in the buildings are a reflection of the unique needs and specifications of the site and through a dialogue between enclosure and canopy; a series of liminal spaces of light, field, and gathering is formed.