OBSCURA PAVILION | May 2021 | Karalina Shastavets

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'

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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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