The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It

Some projects from my first year in architecture school back in 2006-2007.

Challenge: Design a public entry space (staircase) where students should consider the entry sequence and the arrival experience.

Concept: Bring the outdoors into the indoors while allowing the client (s) to glide up the stairs in a peaceful serenity.

Resolution: Bring in steel cable for handrails and steel for steps. Use stone to create pond and waterfall, along with walls painted in outdoor scenery murals to create a sense of nature.

  

Challenge: Design a semi-enclosed space that has within it a smaller, more intimate space. The smaller space is to have a design relationship with the larger space, and the larger space is to suggest a relationship with the space surrounding it.

Concept: Create a space in which the smaller intimate space allows for ultimate flow throughout the larger space and the outside surrounding area.

Resolution: Design equilibrium amongst building size and room size. Create a roof line that looks like a fan to give an idea of flow. Place sliding glass doors throughout to suggest flow.

Challenge: Design an intimate space that is an abstract sculpture in a designated site and fits in with its surroundings and evokes light and airiness.

Concept: Create a piece of work that’s one with its surroundings, but stands out on its own. Make fit into nature, but not be a site for sore eyes. Allow the piece to have flow through it, but be able to block it. Unique and never thought of, yet functional and diverse.

Resolution: Find what stands out to you at the site and build off of it. Design an abstract dandelion that is interactive and shows interpretative wind.