OBSCURA North Easton, Massachusetts Event Pavilion
The lens that lets the past reflect into our present...
OBSCURA G OVE R N O R A M E S E STAT E
North Easton, Massachusetts Event Pavilion
Obscura Pavilion is a modern reenactment and celebration of camera obscura, the ancient and ingenious method of obtaining reflected images for art and entertainment by placing a pinhole in the side of a darkened room or box. Its variable façade with dichroic windows and highly flexible internal structures and projections readily adjust to fit the season, the event, and the emotions of the hour while always still intertwining with the existing landscape and promoting the historical legacy of the Ames family. Obscura employs repetitive modular wooden structural elements with height-varying arches. Projected still and animated images on the arches captivate guests for both entertainment and education. Moveable structural elements stretching toward the existing structure cube, an exterior fireplace, and projections on the cube’s south façade incorporate the cube into a dynamic multipurpose area while a gift shop and optical, obscura laboratory blend its interior. Obscura provides a malleable venue for celebrations, exhibitions, entertainment, and education while functioning as a lens that lets the past reflect into our present, showing us some of what was, some of what is, how they connect, and perhaps stimulating thoughts on how to make better what is to be.
Lyceum Traveling Fellowship 2021
SITE
50 f
200 f
400 f
400 f
50 f
200 f
400 f
600 f
Elevation lines
Scenic View Parking
P
1 ft
Water bodies
Access path
Envelopes
Street
Other path
Trees
Driveway
Designed path
Orthographic plan Scale: 1/4000”
Bulding
Canada Mayflowers Western Hemlock Eastern Hemlock
European Beech Copper Beech Red Pine
Western Hemlock Pitch Pine Jack Pine Red Pine Fir
White Spruce Black Spruce White Pine Balsam Fir Tamarack
Rhododendron: ‘White Angel’ ‘Elviira’
Western Hemlock Eastern Hemlock Nordmann Fir
Small Crabapple Weeping Beech Huge Catalpa
Shovelshop Pond Lotus Pond Fish Pond Bog rhubarb Cattails Lotus
LANDSCAPE
20 f
Master plan of Obscura pavilion Scale: 1/280”
30 f
Variety moss
Lighting
Garden paver walkway
Grass with bushes
Stone decoration
Designed unloading parking
Bark mulch
Pavers concrete walkway
Interlocking pavers walkway
40 f
MOSS
VARIETY MOSS • Mood
• conserve water
• Fern
• control erosion • filter rainwater • sequester carbon • bioindicators for air pollution and water
BARK MULCH • Pine
BARK MULCH • slow moisture evaporation • more water for plant roots • weed control • sequester carbon • water and air movement through the soil
ROCKS
• nutrients for soil
• Diorite
ROCKS • protect plants • aesthetics • support spreading plants • low maintenance
GREEN PLANTS
• facilitates drainage
• Bushes
• controls erosion
• Ogon spirea • Grass
SHRUB OGON SPIREA • wispy, golden leaves • white flowers in spring • growing vigorously
ZONING
• deep resistant
Pavilion area Cube area Bathrooms Storages Kitchen Unloadng area Tend Lighting
• attracts butterflies • easy adapting • tolerates heavy soils • seasonal interest: spring through fall
GEOLOGY
existence of rocks
SOILS
sledding hills
well-drained soils formed on sands
sienite
and gravel on nearly level or irregularly
dedham granodiorite
sloping terrain
TYPOGRAPHY the highest point 189’ the lowest point
113’
THE CUBE
CU RRENT FIRST FLOOR
CU R R ENT S ECOND F LOOR scale 3/32” = 1’-0”
36'-3"
36'-3"
36'-3"
24'-3"
36'-3"
24'
24'-3"
24'
scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
36'-3"
36'-3"
PROPOSA L FIRST FLOOR
PR OPOS AL S ECOND F LOOR
scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
36'-3"
24'
6
16
8
7
8
24'
4
24'-3"
10
3
24'-3"
10
36'-3"
17 2 9
1
5
9
11
12
11
12
EXPLICAT ION
S Q. F.
1.
34
Main entrance
2. Bathroom
42
3. Storage # 2
43
4. Shop
390
5. Bathroom
34
6. Entertainment optical lab
132
7. Photoshoot studio
307
8. Closet
43
9. Elevator
36
10. Staircase
78
11. Movie projection 12. Exterior fireplace
13
Installation of an outdoor portable movie screen on the south facade of the cube:
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providing entertainment and educational leisure activities a taste of the magic of watching movies under the stars creating vivid audiovisual impressions folding up into a compact mass easy to install and setup
Creating a double-sided fireplace from a one-sided indoor fireplace:
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creating a gathering spot, enhancing get-together increasing usage of yard space in colder seasons an attractive outdoor setting, music, and lighting keeping flying insects away due to a wood-burning fire greater ability for outdoor entertaining allowing to heat two spaces at once aesthetic appeal of the stonework providing cooking potential
Using the indoor cube as a place for creativity, education, and craft:
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entertaining and educational place for children and adults experience using different methods of the camera obscura practical training in crafts, arts, and cultural programs perception of the historical place through drawing photographic studio with a historical context
OBSCURA PAVILION
FI R ST F LO O R
35'-7"
scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
SQ. F.
1.
150 1246
3. Catering kitchen
180
4. Food unloading entrance
82
5. Storage # 1
64
6. Women Bathroom
105
7. Men Bathroom
88
8. Outdoor seating area
770
9. Movable stage
92
10. Outdoor food line
170
12'-2"
Main entrance
2. Banquet Hall
12
23'-5"
PROGR AM
9
11. Movable panels 12'-2"
795
12. Existing building
8
13
13. Outdoor space
1823
14. Pavillion
1950
11 12'-2"
GEN E R AL
36'-2"
12'-2"
10
5'-5"
5
6
1
7'
7
7
B
7'
7'
14'-
6"
5'-5"
15'-5"
7'
A
14
6
4 20'8"
3
-8"
12' 18'-
1
-8"
2"
20'
20'-0" 2
4 3
5
The design of the Obscura pavilion, with its shape, creates dynamism, rhythm, and pattern
• dynamism • rhythm • pattern
Obscura employs repetitive modular wooden structural elemets with height-varying arches
12'-1"
R2'-6"
R4'
2'-7"
wood modular design logical sequence process and material efficiency greater return on investment
17'
• • • •
5
13'-1"
2'-2"
The movable part of the Oscura structure stretches in length, moves on wheels, and folds when not in use
moves
• • • •
stretches
overhead shelter for festivals, weddings, parties physically transform for different events frame outdoor public gatherings serves as a shadow device
folds
DICHROIC GLASS
Dichroic glass is modern composite glass that included micro-layers of metal that show a change in color depending on the lighting conditions, time of the day, or season. The process of coating glass allows some wavelengths of light to bounce off the surface while other wavelengths pass through the surface of the glass producing different visual effects and introducing the ever-changing facade (Vladana Petrović).
Glazing Adhesive Dichroic Film Adhesive Glazing
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Transmission
Reflection
Transmission
Reflection
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A dichroic material shows two different colors whether it is illuminated from the front (reflection) or from the back (transmission). Dichroic nanoparticle solutions show two different colors depending on the incident light. Observer 1 will see the two solutions of gold and silver nanoparticles as brown and green respectively, while observer 2 will see them as violet and yellow (Floris Dekker, et al.).
dynamics pattern SIGNIFICANCE
STRUCTURE
APPEARANCE
images projection
Works Cited Dekker, Floris, et al. “Syntheses of Gold and Silver Dichroic Nanoparticles; Looking at the Lycurgus Cup Colors.” De Gruyter, De Gruyter, 1 Mar. 2021, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/cti-2019-0011/html Petrović, Vladana, et al. Application of Dichroic Glass in the
Architectural Design of Buildings. doi.org/10.2298/FUACE191209014P.
OBSCURA
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