SkyRoom Community Square / McClain + Yu Architecture & Design

The SkyRoom presents an oasis for relaxation, contemplation, and gathering, while embodying a spirit of New Mexico. The SkyRoom embraces the surrounding plateaus and escarpments and subtly references the Zia by tracing these lines on the ground through light and shadow. Its bicilindrical intersection is a latent interpretation of the four cardinal points and navigates the precipice between the south and the north: the result of a subtractive intersection of a large shed-roofed structure with two cylindrical volumes that create a surprising, although Euclidean-ruled surface.