The One More Traveled

My studio design project has been process-driven from the ground up by first creating shape, volume, and experience, and then using circulation and pathways to translate these into a legible building. The A+A building is in many ways a similar abstract space, traversed by pathways attempting to connect point to point in interesting, unconventional, but useful ways. A study of these pathways and their usage (or lack thereof) reveals the success or failure of the realization of these connections, and I found this revealed most profoundly and simply through a photographic study of the paths taken through the building as illustrated by the footprints of hundreds of salt-encrusted student feet on a snowy day.