Ashley Concannon

This project responds to Angel Island’s layered history, geology, and landscape experience. The design is shaped by the former military parade grounds, surrounding tree barriers, sloped terrain, and the island’s rare blueschist geology, formed through subduction. Architecture becomes a quiet extension of these conditions, using descending terraces, angled circulation, rammed earth walls, green roofs, and framed views to express compression, movement, permanence, and change. Climate strategies include southern glazing, shading, roof overhangs, lightwells, and low-mass construction. A natural watershed is integrated through planted filtration and cistern reuse. The proposal creates a humble moment of pause, discovery, and connection.

Faculty Gilberto Rodriguez, Ines Martins de Brito