Arch 200 Exercise 3

With each exercise we get thrown a new part that makes it more complicated than the last. With this one, we got to use planes and lines (isn't that awesome?). For this we had a site, 48'x36' with a berm on two sides at 8' wide and 12' high. The pieces we could use were 9 planes 12'x6', eight 16' boards, eight 12', twelve' and twenty 6'. With this pile of supplies we had to define a building 12'x12'x16' for Henry David Thoreau to think transcendental thoughts on, and of course keep all the poché, hierarchy, and engage the site by making the building a part of the site rather than an object in it.

I created a pretty straight-forward platform that connected to a trellis system in the open area. I created a circulation space along the long side of the berm and used the doubled sticks to create thickness. Overall I was happy with it, but the trellis system became a sort of 'shopping mall', or so my studiomates joked.

Organization of Space

I placed the raised viewing platform (red) on the corner, farthest from the berm and made a processional/covered walkway (blue) leading up to it. This covered area can be accessed anywhere along the lower side from the circulation space (green). As with exercise 2, I used the double-stick technique to create thickness between each of the modules (yellow).

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