M.C.A.D. Intervention

Conceived of as a merging of landscape and building in order to retain as much outdoor space as possible while allowing the Minneapolis College of Art and Design to quadruple their functional space. The program is arranged in the manner of streets and plazas with units pushing, pulling and puncturing the "Torn Prairie" above. Rammed earth bearing walls and massive beams carry the prairie, which pulls apart at the seams to allow light to penetrate work spaces. Display and critique functions are enclosed in channel glass "light boxes" that punch up through.