Design IV

Laura Ellis

University of Florida

College of Design, Construction, & Planning Discipline: Architecture Design IV Spring 2020 Professor Sarah Gamble

TABLE OF CONTENTS Grafting.......................4 Tower..........................10 Desert...............................................16

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Grafting 2 weeks

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This quick project was to focus our attention on how measure, rhythm, and repetition is important in architecture. Focusing on the idea of pacing, our class started off this project by videotaping us pacing back and forth. From this video, we create a diagram. Each layer was to represent something different that we noticed in our video. From the diagram, we went through various revisions of a model to represent our pacing.

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After that, we connected our pacing of our model one of the University of Florida’s parking garages. Using the same idea of rhythm, repetition, and measure used in the parking garage, we altered and revised our final model. Our final model latches to the parking garage. My model is used to be a space for reflection and contemplation going to and from class.

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Tower 4 weeks

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This project caused us to think and create a vertical datum to hold spaces for a particular sport. My class started with mappings of different cities and put them together to start this process. After various quick models seen above, different versions of bigger models, sections, and perspectives, we found the beginning to the end of our sport. We used this information to first start with the ground of the tower and then let the ground dictate our model.

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Once entering the vertical armature, individuals and racers will walk up the stairs to see the spontaneity, culture, and daredevil effect of motocross.

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The first node I created was a room for storing the race bikes. The floor is made of glass. Looking at your feet, you can see the race bikes lifted above on the ceiling. The ceiling is extruded horizontally from the rest for the race bikes to be storage. These openings let the light from the sun and the noise from the races above filter through. In the middle of this room, there is a vertical pully system for the race bikes to lift to perform to release down for maintenance. Below your feet, is the maintenance room. With stacked structure floor, the noise from fixing the bikes is deluded from the races above. Leaving the storage room, you have one last look at the room for storage once again before walking up the staircase on the other side.

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Crossing over to the other staircases and continuing up, you are welcomed into the node for practice. This room is known for speed. The horizontal elements above press the racer to push faster and faster like how they would have to in the race. The staircases now push back into vertical armature and continue upward.

The last node has many different viewpoints for the non-racer, non-daredevil to watch. Here, the racers are put to the test to perform.

Starting at the top of the node, they are pressed close together and go down ramps, jumps, levels, and obstacles to see who will win.

Non-racers can watch from the starting line and at the end. The starting line viewpoint is more condensed for the non-racers to get a feel for what the racers are feeling. At the finish line, the viewpoint is more pulled and spread out. The floor above is stacked so the finalist won’t be deluded from the noise above. The finish line is praised vertically to show the at last effect.

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Desert 4 weeks

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To start this project, my class thought about ground and how it shapes spaces above, on the surface of, and below the ground line.

My class created various diagrams and both physical and digital ground models to push the idea of measure, subtraction, and rhythm.

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The space created embodies a small part of a journey on a continuous prairie between depth and surroundings and how they are interconnected through a system of rhythm, measure, and modulation.

Once entering this part of the continuous prairie, individuals are guided by the depth of the ground.

The first node I created by modulation is a place marked with repetition and rhythm to represent the individual’s need for resting. The main gesture of the node is reflected from the context of the ground.

The node is impressed in the ground to not be distracted from surrounding landscape. The light here is blocked and diluted specifically to create moments of resting and regenerating. The first height of the walkable surface is used for hibernating, while the other is for refreshment.

Continuing in the depth of the prairie causes the individual to turn. This brings us to the second node.

This moment is for the use of studying the prairie and what lives above it. Guiding up the stairs, the stairs reflect the rhythm the node has. Built heavier, this node has a feeling of consideration, thought, place to ponder, and contemplation. This node is built with framed views to help the scientists view the surrounding prairie. This node is higher than the ground for scientists to study the birds and where they nest. There are other places for different needs in studying: more enclosed side for those who need silence to study and a more pulled and open side for those who need to be with others to study.

The last node pulls you in by walking up the prairie. There are two sides. One for going to and one coming out of the place for gathering. Although individuals here are separated, they can see each other’s faces from the cut in the wall. Approaching it: you see those happy faces leaving it; coming from it: you see the awe of those walking to it. Once up the stairs, you are guided to the right by the repetition of the overhead condition. The further you go in the structure, the greater heaviness you feel due to the amount of people intaking it all in. This space is mainly enclosed to keep the noise contained and powerful. Light is used here to bring more of an intensity and awe to the gathering itself.

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