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Gallery 45387

Location
Yellow Springs, Ohio

Date 2003

Description
This is a design for an art gallery in the small town of Yellow Springs, Ohio.  The site is a 7,000sf wedge-shaped parcel of land that sits between the campus of Antioch College and the Glenn Helen Nature Preserve. The site borders several distinct types of open space: the Glenn, the picturesque park directly across the street, and the new sculpture yard.  As such, the building straddles three distinct classifications of landscape artifacts:  the forest, the picturesque green, and the geometric form of the sculpture yard.

In response to the scenic nature of the site, and to stimulate unusual opportunities for the installation of art, the architecture has been conceived as an instrument that draws the outdoors into the interior realm of the gallery. The building not only frames different exterior views, but also something of the distinctions and classifications by which we structure the natural and human artifacts that surround us. The gallery brings the outside in and prompts new relationships between exhibitions and location.