Fall 2014

Making of Design Principles 

Instructor | Sarah Dunbar 

Began the course experimenting and scripting ways to define a cubic volume with threading elastic string and introducing planes.

Defining the scripted cubic void

A theater derived from a generative script. The area of the theater and its programs within are informed by intial observations of opposing forces such as unwanted weed germination on site and the large retaining wall. The search of spaces are also informed by the overal compression of the three buildings in plan view. An indirect and circulartory movement is generated. Users are involved in an unaware performance in which they experience a series of juxstaposing spatial qualities before entering the performance viewing zone. Such as a narrowing corridor followed by a dramatic large lobbying area, an upward ramping open space going through a 3ft wide slit on a wall, entering a fully enclosed performance area. 

Plan drawing

 

Plan detail - searching programatic spaces.

Section drawing

Diagram drawing to show transitioning enclosed, semi-enclosed and open spaces.

Process 

Project - measure and document a threshold. 3ft x 8ft doorway. 

Initial plan drawing, searching for theater stage placement within given site. 

Circulation and pragmatic program sketch

Progress plan sketch

Model making process - templates