Ribbon Colosseum

Outdoor learning space addition at Clemson University

Arch 2510

Architecture Foundations 1

Shan Sutherland Sophomore

Fall 2020

This is the second project assigned to our sophomore studio during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Professors encouraged the studio to design an outdoor classroom setting in an open lot on campus, south of Cooper Library. Everyone was still a mess from Covid, so the work that was assigned was light work and electronic using softwares like Rhino and Adobe Suite presented to us for the first time this semester. Still inspired from the previous project, I set out to take another try at a lightweight pavilion style with large moves and topographic transformation. I saw a particular image from a lecture by our professor as he was explaining the relationships of topographic line elements. The picture displayed geometric weaving and creasing lines like the topography was art rather than data imagery. I set out to immitated this in such a way that the topography would influence the way people move with the space. This project became an exercize in organizing circulation in a creative way through inspired drawings of spunwoven geometries.