Project 1 - Cube
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ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
Project 2 - Carpenter Center Learning Space The prompt for this assignment was to create an outdoor learning space that accommodated individual, small group, and large group learning spaces. In developing this design I started by taking an existing element from the design of Le Corbusier’s Carpenter center: the column. I utilized the column in two ways. The first way was that I put the column to use in this learning space was by placing columns onto where they would be if the established column grid were extended. I then continued to saturated the area with more columns to create a forest effect that implies many spaces, without creating any definite spaces. This allows for a person or group of people to define the spaces which they would like to use. The second way that the column is used in the learning space is as the carrier of mass. In this case the case is either a bench or as one of the platforms which spread out to create the large group learning space which is elevated above the “forest” of columns beneath. Within the field of columns beneath, this concept of rotating mass is also applied by way of moveable benches, which add to the user defining the space which they occupy beneath. A single person can turn one of the benches away into their own individual space, or the same bench could be turned to face two other benches which creates a space for a group to engage with each other.
William Fox
ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
William Fox
ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
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ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
Project 3 - Pavilion at Christian Science Center For this project,, the challenge was to design a pavilion which would display two sculptures, as well as explore the concept of aperture to change how the existing site and its surroundings are viewed. This pavilion uses the sculptures as a dominating design consideration. The sculptures are placed within a central viewing space, surrounded by the path which leads in and out. The goal was not to use the sculptures as ornamentation or as architectural elements, but rather to allow them to be displayed in a neutral space where one can think about the art without associating it with its surrounding environment. The path which wraps around the central space utilizes the heights of the walls, as well as their angles to phase the user in and out of the surrounding context. The simple and ornament-free walls force the gaze of the inhabitant up to the continuous aperture, until they find themselves in the main viewing space where the focus has shifted slowly from the context of the Christian Science Center to the artworks on display.
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ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
William Fox
ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
William Fox
ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
William Fox
ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
Project 4 - Museum Stair The design question for this assignment was to develop a stairway or mode or circulation between three existing volumes. I established routes between the rooms such that one can always go from one room to another, and it not required to go through the third room. Subsequently, no room is a dead end, and no room requires that it be exited the same way it was entered. This creates a strong flow within the system of rooms, and makes it easy to get back where the system was entered. Using the pathways developed by this reasoning, stairs (the method of vertical circulation) were “poured� into the building. Within these masses of stairs, defined ground planes are established along with additional walls to define settled spaces where the two paintings are to be displayed. It is within these spaces that the circulation takes a pause, and the artworks can be displayed. In a final step to facilitate movement and circulation within the spaces, the shapes developed by the large masses of stairs are reflected onto the ceiling. This directs the people within the space towards the art on display, and towards the other rooms in the system. As a result, the collection of rooms becomes a landscape of stairs facilitating movement, and settled spaces where the user is meant to pause and engage with the art on display.
William Fox
ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
William Fox
ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
William Fox
ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith
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ARCH 1110 Fundamental Architectural Representation Instructor: Michael J. Smith