With little in the way of immediate context, this flat plane of marsh- fill, bound on all sides by freeway and adjacent to a sewage treatment plant, needed to be re-envisioned as a vectorial nexus. A series of path-inputs were designated for the proposal to respond to: entrance, exit, view, wind (scent), and a mile-long test track (that cuts through the building).

These vectors along with programmatic needs became the guiding framework to deform a simple tessellated sphere into a “high performance” blob. Using a simple script each panel in the now-deformed tessellation was randomly extruded between zero and three feet. Glazing was applied to all panels from .1-1, a hollow panel to those from 1.1-2, and a clerestory window to those 2.1-3. This random arrangement became baseline data for further manipulation to acknowledge program needs.






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