This was a graduate student project by Manish Lal Kayastha for Michael Cadwell's ARCH 842 course, Winter 2006. The design called for a 16 bedroom hotel and an organic restaurant on an agrarian landscape associated with Louis Bromfield. The project aims to tie Bromfield's ideas of production with the entertainment associated with a rural hotel. The artificial landscape, a steel trellis ribbon, hovers over the ground. This ribbon is used to grow samplings on trays arranged in a pixilated manner on the ribbon. These samplings are planted on the larger agrarian Malabar farm. The conceit is of the earth being lifted up. A new typology arises from the section as the rooms hang from the ribbon with the true landscape beneath the rooms. The ribbon both encloses a space below and behind it as well as opens itself to panoramic views over the valley it stitches. One is always negotiating between the ribbon (gardens) and the rooms, and the section created by the pulling of the ribbon down the valley. The bedrooms have both a view of the valley and a more private view of Mt. Jeez behind. There are two points of entry where the ribbon meets the earth, one for the hotel and the other at the top for the bar and restaurant. Trees are planted between the ribbon and the surrounding site like fingers between the natural and artificial landscape. This creates a field which makes a larger connection with Malabar and the dense trees along Mt. Jeez. ---- Manish Lal Kayastha 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. This effort was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation. Keywords: student work, KSA, models.
