This project attempts to imagine a process for scientific study and healing in a landscape devastated by strip mining. Over a period of decades, a series of volumes would be built along the rim of these other-worldly craters, first to be used by environmental scientists, and then later, by visitors. The stadium-like landscape offers a platform for looking inward, the sequence of spaces encouraging quiet moments of reflection.
My design process began with a series of sketched "moments" -- apertures onto the landscape -- to which I then added textures and color. Rooms developed around the moments, and the building developed from there.