Architectural "Folly"
Graduate | Undergraduate
Studio | Non-Studio
1st | 2nd | 3rd Year, 1st | 2nd Semester (Fall 2019)
Instructor: Vedanta Balbahadur
For the first part of this unique studio, I performed the five transformations on the top- and middle-right to a two-dimensional triangle: translation, rotation about one's own axis, stretching in one direction, rotation around a common point and translation along a curve, in order from left to right.
I then generated the final drawing on the bottom-right, incorporating all of the transformations.
In the final stage of the first part of this project, I translated my two-dimensional drawing into three-dimensional space by rotating the triangles in the z-plane, off of the paper.
The photographs on the left showcase the final "Spatializing" model built for Part 1 of this studio.
For the second part of this studio, I was tasked with creating an architectural "folly" using the rules determined in the previous segment of the project. I created follies for two sites, one rural and one in an urban setting.
I envisioned the rural intervention as a linear museum, where the architecture alone has perceptible effects on its visitors. The building forms are largest and allow the most light in near the entrance, creating feelings of openness, as opposed to claustrophobia toward the exit, as the triangles become smaller, closer together and even dip underground, letting in even less light.
On the other hand, the urban intervention can be imagined as both a roof covering for a market below, and a floating landscape on top.
The model below depicts the existing buildings as outlines
Renders:
The final deliverable for this course was a design proposal for an "architectural intervention" between the Redpath Museum, the Leacock Building and Morrice Hall on the McGill University downtown campus.
The goal of my intervention was to create exciting outdoor spaces for students and staff in this area which was previously only used for circulation. It is tailored to the first two levels of the surrounding buildings, the more social spaces, and aims to create even more of these spaces outside.
The gaps between each metal beam vary depending on the purpose of the spaces they are in. For example, the beam spacings widen toward building entrances, and narrow where people slow down, in four key areas, becoming so narrow that the beams can be used as seating.
