This is a student project by Joshua Kuhr for ARCH 342 in Winter 2011. Ark City is a Mat Building that acknowledges the unstable territory of the Kaskaskia region. It implents a design strategy that lifts the landscape off the ground while respecting key moments on the site. The Mat is instituted on a rural scale that responds with implementing urban program. The Mat Building will be treated as scaffolding that allows program to evolve and not be specified. Settlements will develop around the site as the Mat responds to different site conditions. These nodes will present many oportunities to the future employees of the company town that will be able to enjoy the Island of Kaskaskia while being protected by the Ark. This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present.
