The Digital Monolith


Type:         Cultural - Public Space
Location:   Washington D.C.
Size:          5,000,000 SF
Status:       Concept Design by Robert Becker
Team:        Sean Rucewicz, Matthew Schneider, Ryan Barney




A public monument & digital archive for the National Gallery of Art.

A new sculpture set in Washington D.C. assimilates amongst a row of buildings lining the National Mall that appear solid & substantial in presence but are pseudo-stereotomic in construction.  This sculpture presents a solid edifice that maintains on the exterior a civic demeanor while inside, its fragmentation reveals the artiface of its construction.  While the structure above is bound by rigid site conditions, constantly expanding data stored in servers below forms an imperceptible subterranean monolith whose physical nature is only experienced through the long descent into a chamber for public art.






Mark
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