The purpose of the design course is to execute a project that takes into consideration not only what has been learned through the integration course but also addresses the
issues of program and site.

The Metal Sculpting Facility is located near the Wheland Foundry in Chattanooga, TN. The design is based on the initial responses to the nature and topography of the site. It works with the revealing and concealing of spaces as well as engagement to the site in a small and large context.

This project takes the detritus of the Old Wheland Foundry (est. 1866) and the US Pipe Works, along the banks of the TN River in Chattanooga and asks what might begin again in this place that has a deep history within the physical fabric of the city, even as its presence was a limit, an impediment to the evolution of that city. When the only remainders are decaying shells, and a vast landscape of concrete pleateaus, what is the place that remains? What is the golden dust through which we sift, making a new story of ‘the city’, a new story of ‘a place’, a new story of ‘creation’? ~ Scott Wall

2009

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