Silos Reclamation
Design Concept Competition
Competition Objective | ‘Vision of Home: Architects Exploration of Dwellings and Community’
Location | Washington | DC
Awards |
Selected for display at the Building Museum in Washington, DC.
Design Concept |
- RECLAMATION -THE PROCESS OR INDUSTRY OF OBTAINING USEFUL MATERIALS FROM WASTE PRODUCTS.
Colossus; mysterious facades with the ability to cover, conceal, and keep, figurative monuments that symbolize neglect and deterioration of society and its representations.
“There is where we are like nomads and here we are where we turn what is alien into the familiar: but there, we also come to know that what is familiar is never tamed truth, and that behind it steadily lurk signs that have to be interpreted and not simply understood.” Daunt
Images | Courtesy of and with permission from Group Goetz Architects (d. 2o11).
