Common Ground is an intervention designed to be built in collaboration with students from Pratt Institute’s Interior Design program. Constructed from 28 reclaimed stair stringers and 28 reclaimed pressure-treated studs—material remnants of previous BuildFest structures—the installation takes a radiating form emanating from a dense core that becomes backlit at night. Crouching to enter, hierarchies dissolve as visitors ground themselves collectively on the same soil that 400,000 people occupied in 1969; a temporal connection that collapses the distance between that two historical moments. The collective experience is not incidental but structurally inevitable: the architecture makes togetherness a condition of full encounter with the work.
. Typology: Art Client:Buildfest Program: Installation Location: Bethel, New York Size: 20’ x 20’ x 8’ Status: In progress (2026)