Q: How does a building meet another building?
A: In certain
situations, a building is built in a location where a building(s) already exists. Therefore, the new construction must consider
how it will meet the existing buildings.
Considering how this meeting occurs depends on the desired interaction
between or among new and old. At Cornell
University’s Milstein Hall, by OMA, three existing university buildings border
the site. It was the intention of the project
to directly connect to two of these buildings – Rand Hall and Sibley Hall – to
create an interaction among the programs within the existing and new buildings.
In the space created by the four-story
Rand and Sibley Hall OMA inserted a three-story ‘plate’. However, they way that Milstein Hall
meets the two existing buildings seems to lack delicacy or regard for
their presence. Unfortunately, Milstein Hall
abruptly crashes into Rand and Sibley making it appear as though these two
buildings are disrupting the formality of Milstein.
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