The main purpose of this de-
sign is creating an exhibition structure for Herberger Institute to exhibit students’ design works. The structure is located between Payne Hall and Farmer Education Building on Mall. It needs to provide a major exhibition space, a minor exhibition space, a cafe area and two restrooms. The considering start point is the purpose of building for this design: exhibition building of students’ design works. Therefore, “wings” are used as the actual start point of this design to show the meaning of “flying”, which shows design students’ utmost pursue to the dream, also sends the best wishes to design students and their works.
F r e e d o m T t o F l y
Exterior Rendering 1
riangles folded together in this work to show the meaning of “wings”, thus became the basic elements of design. Triangles are not only to express the abstract pattern of “wings”, but also to create more interesting, more three-dimensional and more effective spaces after overlaying and folding together effectively. At the meantime, it reasonably meets the design requirements of multiple functional partition. Whatever acquiring a broad space for the exhibition building itself, or good wish for students to realize their dreams in the future, there is no doubt that this design gives them freedom to fly.
Major Exhibition Rendering
Figure 1 is the site plan. The red highlighted area is the construction area. Figure 2 is the function partition floor plan of the structure.
Figure 3 is the building and site exploded diagram. The underground level of Coor Hall plays a connect-
ing role. If this element can be extended to wider area, there will be more and richer space being created. It makes the campus more stratified and creates more optional choice for students to cross the campus. The red area is the underground area in the site, which can be extended. There are two slopes less than 8.5 degrees going down from the ground level, which are provided for people (include disabled people) to access to the underground level. They are combined with the entrances of the structure effectively meanwhile, making the functionality better.
Figure 4 is the exploded diagram of the three parts of the structure and two in the structure, and the Figure1
figure on the bottom left shows the two exhibition spaces. The lower-right slope divided two exhibition spaces. When visitors walk along the slope, they can see all the exhibits in both of the two exhibition spaces. At the same time, it also plays the role of connecting the underground level with the coffee shop which is on ground level (the middle-left figure). In the coffee shop, the joint of the slope and ground has also successfully separated the counter and the seating area. The slope in the upper-right figure is set in the coffee shop. It connects the coffee and the roof garden (the upper-left figure).
Figure2
Exterior Rendering 2
Figure3
Cafe Rendering
South Elevation
West Elevation
Figure4 East Section
North Section
Model Photos
ALA 225: Fall 2015 Design Fundamentals III
Student: Yuchen Zhao Instructor: Joe Pritchard