Massive Effect // massing / organisation

Boarding School
South England
Studio GREG LYNN, University of Applied Arts Vienna
with Katarina Barunica, Melina Angelina Girardi and Siim Tuksam
spring 09

Challenging the relation of landscape to building, this campus offers undulating exteriors inside a monolithic block. The surrounding nature is straightened.
Plain, cubic interiors serve focussed activity while the continuous sequence of courtyards and transition spaces offers a variety of places to stay, gather or escape.
As interiors get excavated and deformed, the landscape breaks through the mass and creates apertures through which it penetrates and reorganizes the interior.