Architecture 201 Project 1
Diagramming through models
Arch 201 Project 1 Exercise 1
The Salk Institute
The purpose for this exercise was to abstractly model an existing building, the Salk Institute by Louis Kahn, in a way that emphasizes the strong elements and ignores the trivial ones. Important considerations about this building included orientation, materiality, hierarchy, transparency and volume.
Arch 201 Project 1 Exercise 2
La Casa del Fascio
To achieve an extreme level of abstraction the program was limited to 8 layers that had to represent space and void, structure skin, circulation and geometry. A solution was to create a grid to represent, structure, with solids and voids to show circulation and usage on alternating layers.
All four elements, structure, skin, geometry and circulation are represented as different colors and built back into a digital abstraction of the Casa del Fascio. Each system has been pulled apart and shown in the upper left.
Arch 201 Project 1 Exercise 3
The Middleton Inn
For a study of materials, the program called for a unique design based on the materials and principle elements from the Middleton Inn. The four design considerations included skin, structure, earth and hearth which have been assembled in a new way.