GRADUATE WORK Void to Form Fall 2011 Dogtown, St. Louis, Missouri 25,000 sq m
This proposal is a ceramics studio located in the Cheltenham historical clay mining district. The studio draws from the adjacent educational and manufacturing/industrial programs. Two voided forms represent the two general sets of program. One is focused on the ceramic studio process and the other on exhibition of the historical and contemporary products of this process. The interlocking forms of the building create a reciprocal relationship that captures space and achieves optimum solar exposure. The project is oriented to take advantage of seasonal winds, and draw from existing site lines and contextual scalar references. The resulting structure employs voids on multiple scales and planar directions. In keeping with the program, the physical nature of the voids is simultaneously functional and sculptural, sensitive to natural environment, and built context.
CRITIC: Kathryn Dean
ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION
STUDIO WORKSPACES
FEEDBACK ABSTRACT CONCEPTULIZATION
NEW DATA
REFLECTIVE OBSERVATION
EXHIBITION SPACES
PARTICULATES
MATERIAL
POROUS
+ WATER
FORMABLE
FORM
PERMANENT FORM
- WATER
PERMANENT FORM
FINAL FORM
SEMI-POROUS
VITREOUS
fluxes ground silica silicates feldspar & frits
clay GATHERING OF RAW MATERIALS
MIXING OF RAW MATERIALS
PREPARING CLAY BODY
FORM MAKING
DRYING OUT OF FORM
BISQUE FIRING cone 08 (1700 F) cone 04 (2000 F)
COOLING
GLAZING / FINISHING
DRYING
LAST FIRING cone 6 (2,150 F) cone 10 (2,300 F)
FINISH
17% CLAY
17%
stoneware/terra-cotta
8% 17%
CLAY
8%
porcelaneous bodies
25% CLAY porcelains/talc bodies
8% SPATIAL REQUIREMENTS
NORTH SIDE
WORK
DRY
FIRE SOUTH SIDE
HEATING STRATEGY
KILN 1000 F
COOLING STRATEGY
KILN 1000 F
ABSORBTION CHILLER
Section 2 SECTION 2
N
S
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N
SECTION 2
N
SECTION 1
scale: 1/4” = 1’-0”
scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”
TRANSVERSAL SECTION
UNIT PLANS
ROOF PLAN
FLOOR PLAN TWO
FLOOR PLAN ONE
FLOOR PLAN TWO
FLOOR PLAN ONE
EAST
WEST