Lauren McLean Syracuse University School of Architecture ARC 107 Professor Kyle Miller Fall 2018
Table of Contents: Cartesian Prism
4
Action Space
8
House, Home, Habitat (HHH)
12
Ground Control
16
Exercise 1: Cartesian Prism The Cartesian Prsim exercise was a projects that deals with defining spaces using linear, planar, and/or solid elements. Starting off with a 4in x 4in cube, the objective was to capture and suggest spatial volumes. In Phase 1, the exercise started out with only using one element and one material and evovled intio using multiple materials and multiple elements. In Phase 2, the size of the cube was doubled (8in x 8in) and the concept of an activated space was introduced.
Phase 1: Defined
Phase 2: Prism Activated
Exercise 2: Action Space The Action Space excercise was the studio’s first introduction to human scale. In this project, we created three spaces meant for a well known individual and proceeded to use sequence, formal order, and spatial volume to help create spaces that intereact well together.
Exercise 3: House, Home, Habitat The House, Home, Habitat exercise (HHH) was essentially a house analysis. In thia analysis a house (shown below) was assigned and with a partner we analyzed and brokw down the work into its simplest elemnts. From these elements we creted strategies that were used in our house and that can be used in another design. These strategies were used later to devlop the design for exercise 4: Ground Control.
Hanselmann House by Michael Graves (1967)
Exercise 4: Ground Control The Ground Control excerise was a project that used all of the previous projects as a basis for a new design of our own making. In this project , the ground was sloped to create a challenge and the design was manipulated in any way we chose, while simultanelously using the strategies created in excercise 3.