laurel canyon CALIFORNIA
LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
Second Place — $800
Hirsuta Architectural Design and Research
Project Team: jason PAYNE and timothy CALLAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Hirsuta: On The Turning Away: Crater 308
There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.
—Pink Floyd, 1973
los angeles CALIFORNIA
Installation Brief: Rawhide explores Hirsuta’s critically-acclaimed project Raspberry Fields, a residential project sited in northern Utah, focusing on its signature use of curled shingles as exterior cladding.
The Problem: Architectural Surface, From “Skin” to “Hide”
The architectural “skin” is, by now, a rather well-worn path through the conceptualization of built exterior surfaces. And as is typical of well-worn paths, this one has become hard and dry, no longer particularly interesting underfoot. Building surface as “hide,” however, seems a fresh new way to push the dialogue of cladding toward an expanded array of associations and models less well-known to the discipline. Possible interpretations abound: where the skin is bald and shaven, the hide retains its thick fur.
Photographs by Josh White
[MORE]
