Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio 2010

For the Pride in Place Charrette our team focused on the idea of a banner as a means of broadcasting information, ideas and goals from the student architecture community to the greater university. It is our idea that our proposal be a temporary showcase and celebration of the school of architecture and its productions. It is a way of letting the greater student body identify the school of architecture and to encourage them to experience the work of the design curriculum and perhaps partake in the some of their activities.

The banner is a curvilinear surface that is constructed of laminated bending birch. The pieces are woven through the existing columnar structure of the UF architecture building. The structure provides large surface areas that face the courtyard for projecting information, platforms for displaying physical models, and areas for seating. The construction of the laminated planks can be accomplished through creating four separate jigs constructed out of two-by-fours. After creating the jig for each plank section, a sheet of bending birch would be applied to the jig, and then the subsequent layers would be glued to that to achieve the correct form.

The process would be finished after vacuum packing the jigs and planks in plastic.