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The Head and Sack House | St. Paul, Minnesota
Winner of the Whazit! Idea and Design Competition, the proposal for this endangered St. Paul landmark did not proposed inhabiting the building with any new program at all. Instead, the building's current state is enhanced through three subtle moves. The first treats the building as a beacon, a participant in the city's skyline, by the insertion of glass boxes moving in and out of the building's existing openings. The second move is a path stepping below the structure, exposing its tectonic base. The third move treats the building as a ruin, allowing native species to overgrow its interior transforming it into a passive, public garden.
collaborators: Lucas Alm + Peter Vevang |
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