Holden Sho Miles




Architecture

Chimborazo Cultural Center
Cascading Library
Q-Bert Stairs 
The Florida House
A Necessary Reminder
The St. Augustine House
Neotopia
Folio & Folly
Memory of Space
Building Project
Made in Livonia


Explorations

Kabuto
Deepfakes
Affordance
Ruins, Ruination, & Reuse
Formal Analysis
The Corner at Wooster
Pliant Bodies
Fractured Impressions
Groundwater Earth
Enfilade House
A Day in the Life of a Utopia
About
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 Holden Miles





Folio & Folly


Containers of Life and Image

    The aim of this project is to house two ontologically disparate yet synthetically similar entities under a single structure: The endangered Purple Martins native to New England (reliant on human intervention to survive) and an elephant folio of John Audubon’s beautifully rendered images of the same birds. Juxtaposing these paradigms results in a proposal that considers a unique relationship between two ideas which were once at odds with one another. The result is a fictional folly which provides nesting for the birds while containing a folio within the center. Situated within an abandoned factory island, the comparatively minuscule structure juxtaposes the great aging industrial presence with a smaller, more humble symbol of regeneration.