UC Berkeley
Geoff di Girolamo
Fall 2018

Type: Individual design project
Location: Tassajara Zen Monastery, CA
Skills: Topography, sketching, Adobe suite

This project creates a new bath house and guest cabins, providing inhabitants with connections to the secluded, hilly site and natural hot springs.

My site strategy used four main points:

• Duality: Exemplifying Zen practice; inside/outside, enclosed/exposed, inward/outward

• Connection to the water: Fluctuation and embracing of change

• Topography and vegetation: Creating exterior rooms and framimg views

• Embracing change: Another Zen teaching; project blends into the wild California landscape