Humboldt did not think that a university was either a machine for producing professional persons or for tuning out scientific knowledge. He thought that fundamental to both of these was the cultivation of the ideal of the pursuit of truth and the ordering of life around that pursuit. This project represents this condition literally, the ordering of this pursuit and living within this pursuit, and in this newfound literalness purges the institution from its state of conflict and compromise by means of material, circulatory and living immersion.

The Indoor as Exchange

1 : 100 Ground Floor Plan

1 : 100 Mezzanine Floor Plan

1 : 100 Roof Floor Plan

The Field as Indoor

The Roof as Outdoor

1 : 2000 Site Plan

1 : 2000 Site Section

1 : 500 Typical Sections

1 : 25 Enclosed Field Section

Living

1 : 25 Semi-Enclosed Field Section

Bildung

1 : 25 Field Section

Indeterminacy

Light Indeterminacy

1 : 500 Roof Plan

1 : 500 Reflected Ceiling Plan

1 : 500 Ground Plan

1 : 1000 Roof Plan

1 : 1000 Roof Plan

1 : 1000 Ground Plan

Site Image

The Indoor University