PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Found within Savannah’s Historic Landmark District, the Curtain of Difference is developed through fragmentation as both an observation of convention in architectural urban practice from historical precedent and in formal-experiential organization. A datum and external east-west promenade, a curtain of difference punctuated by a seemingly decoupled concrete wall with regulated porosity, divides the site between an institute dedicated to urban research and spaces dedicated to leasable, social, and dining functions. The urban research institute, comprised of labs and offices, reifies the conventional urban block edge at the zero lot line oriented towards Orleans Square, while its counterpart Informalizes the southern boundary through mat-like stacking and slippage of planar pathways and partitions that pull intermittent access from the primary dividing promenade. In turn, the curtain of difference divides a single tything lot into two types of fragmentation; one analogical and one explicit.