rise, repeat

Architectural Pavilion | 20’ x 15’ x 12’

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts | Bethel, NY | 2024

Design Team: Claire Eileen Moriarty, Leandro Piazzi, Michael Stradley

Build Team: Claire Eileen Moriarty, Leandro Piazzi, Michael Stradley, Katie Soule, Owen Lawler, Preston Kwok, Zonglin Li, Eric Diaz, Emily Zheng, Eben Negro, Camilla Dominguez, Isabel Montes, Marcy Sushynski, Chantal Celis, Gunnar Thuss, Isaiah Mercer

Photo Credit: Preston Kwok

Rise, Repeat is a permanent pavilion for the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, NY. The structure elevates and misuses an everyday material found in the American construction industry – the pressure-treated stair stringer – which drives the overall form of the piece and allowed for quick deployment on-site. Apart from its role as a test bed for material and construction research, Rise, Repeat, will function as a place of rest and gathering for concertgoers and visitors to the Bethel Woods campus.

The protagonist of this pavilion, the stair stringer, is the embodiment of post-war industrialization in the built environment – a natural material transformed into a uniform product which is cheap, easy to deploy, and simple to transport. The element is iconic in its profile and ubiquitous in context of American building, and yet, the humble stair stringer is commonly buried within the many thin layers of stick-framed buildings or fastened to an existing building as an appendage, outside of the architecture both literally and figuratively.