Keywords

Landhuggers studio; Visual computation; Typology; Variation; Shape grammars

The I-75/85 Midtown corridor is a fourteen lane strip of Interstate that runs parallel to the campus of Georgia Tech and serves 289,000 vehicles per day. It is an incessant flow of vehicles, goods, and people and still a divider of the main campus of Georgia Tech and its new Midtown extension. This divider provids for an incredible opportunity for a marker of the institute to be grafted. Within this marker which takes form as a singular line pulling away from retaining walls of the interstate, traditional mediums of learning in the form of reconfigurable study spaces and lecture hall are negotiated to heighten the experience of fluid movement at the human scale. Joined to the pavilion of traditional learning by the makers’ garden, a new mode of academic engagement emerges in the form of a lightweight makerspace which fosters education as learning-by-doing which contributes to the culture of experimentation present on Tech’s campus. Through architecture which better connects the existing campus to Atlanta, Georgia Tech will gain new academic spaces for students and faculty and simultaneously embed itself in the eye of the traveler as an institution dedicated to bringing the future.