Diller Scofidio + Renfro

This competition entry was for the central park in Aberdeen, Scotland.  We won the competition and the commission only for the government to cancel the project.  I was involved in the competition from the conception all the way through to final deliverables.  I was in charge of the plans and sections as well as contributed to diagrams and renderings.

The Aberdeen City Garden will fuse Nature and Culture into a vital social network at the heart of the city.  Rejecting the classical model of the cultural building isolated on the green, the Garden extends the surrounding urban fabric as an elastic web of 3-dimensional interconnections across its site.  The warp and weft of urban lines support both park and cultural activities within a resilient fabric of layered programs, conjoining history with the contemporary and the urbane with the pastoral.  Stretching across the historic river site, this parkland web is permeable, revealing a multi-tiered archeology while connecting to the city’s emergent future as a technological hub for art, performance, leisure, and commerce.  Collaboration with Keppie Design and OLIN.