RISE, REPEAT
BuildFest 2024. Bethel Woods Art & Architecture Festival
RISE, REPEAT is a semipermanent wood pavilion constructed at the site of the Woodstock 1969 concert – located adjacent to an open, outdoor space for camping and recreation. RISE, REPEAT functions as an autonomous porch – it does not attach to a larger architectural object, but it provides a space of gathering, rest, semi-conditioned shelter and controlled engagement with nature and the public realm.
The prototypical American porch is elevated several feet, offering a protected place to sit and an elevated view of the street from which to engage passersby or observe the life of a site. RISE, REPEAT shares these qualities of the American porch, using our architectural protagonist – the stair-stringer – to rise up in the landscape, produce a semi-enclosed space, and offer a place to sit and rest together.
The prefabricated, pine stair-stringer is an embodiment of post-war industrialization in American construction – a natural material transformed into a uniform product which is cheap, easy to deploy, and simple to transport. The physical construction of RISE, REPEAT leverages these qualities and was trucked to site and assembled in four days, architecture students and faculty. The stair-stringer is iconic in its profile and nearly universal in the typical, middle-class American home. RISE, REPEAT recontextualizes this familiar element, moving the stair-stringer from the realm of domestic construction to the public domain, and seeks the unexpected from within the everyday, the familiar, the mundane.
Design Built: Balsa Crosetto Piazzi, Michael Stradley, and Claire Moriarty.
Construction Team: Preston Kwok, Zonglin Li, Eric Diaz, Emily Zheng, Eben Negro, Isabel Montes, Marcy Sushynski, Chantal Celis, Gunnar Thoose, Isaiah Mercer, Camilla Dominguez (SoA RPI).
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Katie Soule and Owen Lawler
