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Reflects Folly in Cleveland
New Ohio Building, North America – design by SILO AR+D
Mar 10, 2019
Reflects Folly
Architects: SILO AR+D
Locations: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Reflects Folly is the winner of an architect-led design build competition for a temporary structure that became a centerpiece of the Cleveland Botanical Garden?s summer show. The brief called for an innovative Treehouse design that reconnected guests of all ages to the outdoors through interactive experiences that reveal the physical, emotional and developmental benefits of staying engaged with outdoor environments.

The chosen site was the Secret Garden, a walled court with no trees surrounded by manicured gardens. The design emerges out of considering possibilities for Treehouse architecture on a tree-less site?a unique object that retains essential qualities that make Treehouses memorable. As a point of departure, an abstracted gabled house archetype floats above the surrounding walls in suspended animation, offering panoramic views out to the surrounding botanical garden. To create the ?trees? that the house rests on and within, reflective surfaces are introduced, and the house profile is symmetrically mirrored down to generate a series of periscopes, transforming the Secret Garden into a Secret Forest.
The resulting abstract, planar, and porous architecture, in combination with the surf...
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