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  • new harmony grotto


    houston TEXAS

    suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

    METALAB architecture + fabrication: An open air structure next to a pond on campus. The lower cells will be filled with growing medium and vegetation will grow into the frame over time.



    sP: what or who influenced this project?

    METALAB architecture + fabrication: It was based on historic research and tectonic resolution of Frederick Keisler’s unbuilt Grotto for Meditation from 1963.

    sP: what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project? Frederick Kiesler, Endless Space

    Other credits: Ben Nicholson, Visiting Critic; University of Houston College of Architecture and Mrs. Jane Blaffer Owen, Donor