Delgersaikhan Davaadorj
Selected Works
If architecture is to address humanity’s need for connection with natural systems, it must accomodate the flow of forces local to its context. This accomodation requires a change in attitude towards nature, which allows its forces to shape the form, structure, material and function of the built environment. By anticipating and reacting to the forces, architecture achieves a legibility that precedes cultural and symbolic meaning, which reveals simple and sensible truth through direct experience.
The singular and sculptural form, located on the Hudson River Palisades, creates this relationship between the natural and the built environment. Rather than disrupting the ancient landscape, structure rests on top of it, engaging the site through contrast, it proposes that architecture as the completion of nature.
The main volume is inverted circular roof supported by reinforced concrete columns, designed to collect water and reflect the sky. By elevating the viewer from the horizon and engaging the site through contrast, it focuses attention on light, weather, and the passage of time, inviting people to reflect on life, death and miracles of nature and our existence.