Friday, April 8, 2011

Space for Listening: potential site #2

CARPENTER CENTER @ Harvard VES, Cambridge, MA

 

There is an interesting area located below the curved section on the west side of this Corbusier building here on the Harvard Campus that may lend itself to some kind of acoustic intervention.  The experience of walking along the delineated pathway is characterized by a feeling of compression as one enters a space of shadows, moves beneath a portion of the building and past a subterranean zone that drops 3-4 feet in elevation to one side.  Here in this cool belly of concrete and within a grid of columns, the sound of the street, the trees and the sky are collected.  In this space it is impossible not to feel the architecture.  




 



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