This project was designed and built by 16 community college architecture students during an eight week summer design build studio. This course became a hands-on, experiential learning opportunity for students to explore space and the built environment through the design and construction of a creative, spatially innovative structure. This project allowed students to have a firsthand experience designing, and then building a structure. The necessity of building a design forced students to consider both the poetic and the tectonic simultaneously, adding a richness to the design conversation.
For an aspiring architect, there is perhaps no greater opportunity than to see a design you worked on become realized, especially for the first time.
Conceptually, the ‘FRAME’ pavilion is an exploration of “framing” - framing space, framing views, and framing experience. The design is a series of five sectional bays, or frames, which are positioned adjacent to one another. While all of these sections are based on a consist
