Intersections

This project seeks to integrate the geometric indifference of the city grid with the natural phenomenon of erosion, flow, and motion. Inspired by both the city grid of downtown St. Paul and the ceaseless motion of the Mississippi river, this project proposes to envelop the entirety of the site in the formation of an integrated park and pavilion -  one in which there is little discernible difference between the two. Its geometry is derived from two sources - first, the “vector” motion of both implied pathways and programmatic pressures created by the site and its surroundings; and second, the marching geometric rigidity of the city grid, for which this site acts as a terminus. The project is thus an integration of two geometric opposites - the decidedly non-euclidean curvature of natural motion and the strict, rigorous abstraction of a perfect mathematical grid.