Three Part Projects is a traveling exhibition of recent work and design research by Clark Thenhaus, lecturer at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and director of Endemic. Included in the exhibition are three architectural proposals developed through a triptych of form, drawing translations, and context. This work revisits the anachronistic typologies of a belvedere, wishing well, and bell tower in order to offer them new expressions through a form-making palette of spheres, cones, and cylinders. A series of drawings composed with ink, wax, dye, salt, and water are mediums for translation into landscapes of berms, labyrinths, and ‘bumps’. The context for these speculations are three post-military landscapes of the unsuspecting American pastoral and urban periphery.  This work has been generously supported by University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning.

Team: Katie Donahue, Nate Oppenheim, Ryan Doidge, Tyler Smith, Danielle Tellez, Alexandra Bernetich, Samantha Okolita.