project: aeCenter
location: Muncie
involvement: full, student
date: 2002 June

An intent gaze into the context of the area will reveal.
Muncie seems to be a bewildering muddle of individualistic ideas either never entirely realized, or never entirely conceived. The structures bypass contending with populace, and instead labor toward absolute functionality, which manifests each diversely. The robust constrain for function in its unadulterated state has instigated the flouting of the river.
In the purest methodology of its rationale, the container should be the foremost building in Muncie to acknowledge the White River’s existence, and should scrutinize the river’s drive as it pierces through the often-stagnant city. Conversely, in order to be truly contextual from an historical and present day account, the river should be thoroughly, and preposterously disregarded. Thus, the design involves meshing these two opposing ideologies capably into a singular, cohesive container.