Wright Brothers Flight Memorial

Description: This was an undergraduate student project by Zakery Snider for Beth Blostein's ARCH 341 course, Autumn 2004. This project involved investigation of fundamental contextual, formal, and tectonic issues of wood as a building material. The project recognizes and utilizes the ground plane to negotiate the experiential dichotomy of space below as well as above ground at the vast airfield site. Formally, the building emerges suspended by the ground plane while blurring the dichotomy along three experientially diverse paths through a system of coated glass and semi-transparent fiberglass layers of skin. These layers work in conjunction with reflection pools in the lower rock garden that simultaneously provide a serene environment and reflect images of the sky around three replica Wright Brothers airplanes making experiential the timeline from history to future while blurring the condition from land to sky. -- Zakery Snider 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. The effort to preserve and digitize drawings in the Student Archives was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation.
Notes: Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives Collection