Emergence Culture Center

This project is for the Indigenous tribes that used to thrive and reside in a one point in time or another the area along the Kaw river. 

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My main goal was in this project was to reintroduce the connection between the indigenous tribes and the the land in which they inhabited. In order to do that I focused on the building being not only a place of vast interior spaces for them to encompass but a volume that is able to reform the land into a space of permanence and surrounding the unbuilt site in a way that facilitates the togetherness that the culture strives for. 

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The building was pulled up from the ground in a way that allows it to be accessible for all walks of  life and shows how two opposing forms can build a connection. The connection being between the massive sheer wall and the cantilevering shell giving the community a continuous flowing space to further push the merging of the indigenous peoples and those who came later.