FROM SCROLL TO SCREEN
JPDA Internship
Collaborators: JPDA, MESH Architectures
Summer 2017
The world’s first writers pressed, stamped, and scratched simple marks into malleable surfaces. Over multiple milennia, characters have continually evolved as their users retrace their forms onto new materials. The National Museum of World Writing references this history by carving a trefoil, a shape created from an infinite gesture, into the landscape of Songdo Central Park.
a swirling concrete
glyph encircling
all museum functions
Floor plans: the wall thickens, lifts, and lowers to allow for structural cores, entrances into the structure, and habitable roofspace
Permanent exhibition sequence tracing the trefoil and rising to the light
Sectional perspective showing the interweaving of
the museum, library, and archive experiences
the museum, library, and archive experiences
Interior renderings showing the wide range of programs encompassed by the concrete wall
Exterior renderings showing the juxtaposition of
the digital media dome and the concrete glyph
the digital media dome and the concrete glyph
