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THE ANGLED PAVILION
TO BEGIN THE PROJECT THE ANGELED PAVILION, A STUDY OF THE HUMAN BODY WAS DONE TO DEVELOP A SENSE OF SCALE AND MOVEMENT.
THIS WAS DONE BY BREAKING DOWN THE BODY INTO SEGMENTED GROUPS AND MEASURING EACH OF THOSE GROUPS TO CREATE AN AUGMENTED BODY FORM.
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AFTER THE BODY WAS STUDIED, STUDENT GROUPS WERE FORMED TO CREATE A DEVICE THAT WOULD ALTER THE BODY AND ITS MOVEMENTS AS IT WALKED UP AND DOWN A SET OF STAIRS. THIS DEVICE, CREATED AND SHOWN ON THE LEFT, PROHIBITS THE USER FROM BEING ABLE TO LOOK DOWN AT THEIR FEET WHILE WALKING. THIS SLOWS DOWN THE USERS MOVEMENT MAKING EACH STEP INTENTIONAL. AS ONE FOOT IS RAISED TO TAKE A STEP, THE TOP OF THE DEVICE TILTS.
FROM THIS, THE DEVICE GOT IT’S NAME, SEASAW.
DEVICE’S EXTENSION AND AREA
BODY RHYTHM
GRAVITY AXIS
THE MOTION OF THE BODY WITH THE ALTERATION DEVICE WAS STUDIED IN THE ABOVE MOTION ANALYSIS THAT IS BROKEN INTO FOUR SEPARATE TOPICS.
THREE DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF THE FOUR ANALYSES WERE DONE TO FIND RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE DEVICE.
BALANCE AXIS
(GRAVITY TRIANGLES + GRAVITY AXIS + LINES OF EXTENSION)
THE BALANCE AXIS OF THE BODY SHIFTED THROUGHOUT MOTION IN RELATION TO THE MOTION OF THE DEVICE
CONTAINMENT
(ALTERATION DEVICE + LINES OF EXTENSION)
THE BODY WAS CONTAINED TO THE SPACE CREATED FROM THE DEVICE, THEREFORE THE BODY REMAINED INSIDE THE AREA OF THE DEVICE THROUGHOUT ALL MOTION.
MOTION
(BODY STRUCTURE + DEVICE + REGULAR GRID)
THE BODY’S MOTION ROTATED AT THE HIP IN RELATION WITH THE TOP OF THE DEVICE. WHEN MOVEMENT OCCURED AT THE HIP, THE DECIVE WOULD MOVE. THERE WAS A LIMITED RANGE OF MOTION.
CHRONOPHOTO OF MOTION MOTION ANALYSIS
A STAIR PRECEDENT, THE TRIANGLE STAIRCASE AT YALE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, WAS STUDIED. THEN USING THE MOTION ANALYSIS OF THE ALTERED BODY, ITERATIONS COULD BE MADE TO THE PRECEDENT TO THEN HAVE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ALTERED BODY AND IT’S DEVICE.
Stair Orthographic Drawings
SCALE: 1/8” = 1’-0”
BELOW ARE CHANGES TO THE PRECEDENT STAIRCASE THAT SHOWCASE THE THREE COMBINATIONS OF THE MOTION ANALYSIS. THESE INDIVIDUAL CHANGES WILL THEN BE USED TO CREATE ONE COHESIVE STAIRCASE, THE LOOKING STAIRS.
Precedent Stair_Ortho
Yale University Art Gallery Traingle Staircase
OBLIQUE VIEW
HIERARCHY OF ELEMENTS
THE ANGLED PAVILION
CIRCULATION TO USE-SPACE
EDGES AND ENCLOSURES
