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