Atlanta, Georgia [2022]

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heavy timber mixed-use commercial and cultural

ACSA Timber in the City Competition Winner
AIA Southeast Region Student Design Award

This studio was done in collaboration for ACSA’s Timber in the City Competition 2022. Out of over 600 group submissions, our project was one of eight selected projects that interpret, invent, and deploy numerous building systems all focused on innovations in timber design using a real site - the Arts Center MARTA Station in Atlanta. Diffusion examines the forest condition and the interior-dominant scheme prevalent in Atlanta in order to blur the relationship between street and interior. Utilizing variations in opacity and the interplay of skylights generates the notion of walking underneath trees in the forest. This system produces soft and diffused light throughout the enclosure. Thus, the process sought to reject the discrepancies of the interior-facing building archetype, allowing the complexities of Atlanta and the forested city to come into play. The programmatic layout is diffused within three volumes, generating communal zones underneath and above a connecting floor and around cores of light.