HARVARD GSD DESIGN DISCOVERY (2019)
P02: TRANSFORM
[WITH JULIO TORRES SANTANA, SAMPATH PEDIREDLA, & SAMUEL MADDOX - STUDIO INSTRUCTORS, ARCHITECTURE; WITH JENNY FRENCH - COORDINATING FACULTY, ARCHITECTURE]
Project 02: Room requires the design of a circulatory system within the confined space of a single room that is radically transformed when the room’s orientation and scale is altered. The goals for this project are 01/ to understand the volumetric dimension of a room as a frame for movement and occupation, and 02/ to design and experiment with readings of narrative sequence, spatial hierarchy, and volumetric boundaries in flux.
The intention in Project 02 is to capture the transformation through reinterpretation studied in Project 01: Crop, translated into a 3-dimensional set-piece. The project posits that a ‘both-and’ design of a space must consider horizontal and vertical surfaces to be of equal importance, and that certain architectural elements (stairs, doorways) belie specific scalar readings. Surface orientation and scalar readings are intentionally thrown into conflict, to be productively, concealed, revealed, frustrated, intensified, compounded or obliterated in the design process.
