© 2023—Laurie Larson

LAURIE ANNE LARSON

Salt Lake City based artist and designer; currently pursuing my masters of architecture.









LAURIE ANNE LARSON


Salt Lake City based artist and designer.












︎     Architecture
︎     Furniture
︎   Environmental Humanities
︎   Painting






07    MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS
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FALL-22: P8/11
PARTNER:   Keaton McCargo
The Buildner architecture competition Museum of Emotions requires a single A2 board entry with no text. The brief calls for the design of two halls, each dealing with a different opposing emotion: a “positive” and a “negative”. The halls are intended to induce opposing emotions. My design partner, Keaton McCargo, and I took the Great Salt Lake and Great Basin as the subject and designed our halls in response to the recession of the lake body.


The halls are oriented on a linear vertical axis from the Little Sahara dunes to the shores of the Great Salt Lake. The dunes are a remnant left in the last receding body of water in the basin, Lake Bonneville, and the hall located in the dune is intended to induce feelings of peace and safety. This hall is cocoon-like and encloses a small basin of water full of lake creatures: shrimps, algae, eukaryotes, pickleweed on a small sandbar. The other hall on the shore of the lake invokes a sense of insecurity and rapid change. The structure is made from wood and biocomposite curtains, which decay rapidly. The wood structure is designed to be covered and petrified by salt water, should the lake return to safe levels, or desiccate into a skeleton marking the shoreline at its tipping point if our lake disappears. 







Competition Board Entry


    © 2023—Laurie Larson