“Students of the Highwire”
1st Place
Second Year Student Competition
Virginia Tech
2010

The competition prompt called for the design of school for tightrope walking. Proposed was a plaza consisting of five “chasms” of varying depths. Wires cross over these voids at ground level. To the walker, the wire becomes an ethereal extension of the earth. To the spectators below, the walker is framed by the vastness of the sky, accompanied only by his shadow, which dances along the wall.