On the corner of Colorado Ave. and 19th St. in Santa Monica, California is a concrete manufacture. Silos with corroded facades on supports that do their job adjacent to a standard warehouse shed are confidently situated on site. Despite the manufacture's obvious visibility from vantages across the neighborhood, there is a common acceptance of the industrial environment and a tacit (un)acknowledgment by its surroundings. Unacknowledgment of the site insofar instructed by the acknowledgment that the space the manufacture occupies is a non-place for the everyday person.
This project reconciles with the vantage in which sites such as this concrete manufacture are usually viewed: from the aerial perspective. Using various sun studies, the concrete silos have been renegotiated back to ground level. In doing so, the public is unable to accept the space as off-limits. As the sun moves, the building responds eliciting the capacities of its presence.
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This project considers questions of projection, transparency, interception, and scalar mobility.
