ABSTRACT
Dunescape was constructed in 2000 as the inaugural winner of the Young Architects Program, an award given to a design firm to construct a temporary installation for a “beach party” in the courtyard of the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY. Dunescape established a process for design as a section-first exercise. SHoP mapped the human occupation of space through a series of sectional diagrams and organized those sections on the site to generate a form. Each section cut was developed to express typical activities found at the beach (cabana, beach chair, umbrella, boogie board, and surf). The forms were delimited by the material constraint of layers of 2" x 2" cedar wood members.
