If a map of all the intersections in Fort Green Park were to be inverted, there would be one stand-out moment where multiple paths converge and loop, defining a void.  A green roundabout, pathways branch out to link to other main arteries within the park and to the outer street,


Analysis of the existing paths revealed a complicated network of possible pedestrian movements and flows around and within this defined site.  People are the main dynamic factor, with projected paths guided by understanding the combination of origins and destinations, with careful manipulation to avoid existing trees, carving through and creating both intersections and conversely uninterrupted moments of openness.


The intervention is an extruded ground plane, voids carved by extrapolations of movement.  Remaining solids function as a series of separate spaces for reading and gathering, webbing together by the paths of users moving from one space to the next, within the building, or between building and site.


These solids are inward looking, submerged within the site in elevational play from one form to the next.  Acutely angled walls provide a sense of enclosure interrupted by select glass surfaces that look outwards; to the sky for optimal diffused light, to the park in select moments that frame nature.

From outside, from in-between, obtuse unfolding walls highlight the cavernous effect of carved space.  Intersecting pathways are roofed by a glass ceiling that mitigates the varying rooflines of adjacent solids, creating a translucent webbing of the structures and illumination of the voided breaks between them.