THING INSIDE A THING

The culmiination of a three project series where the first, an object that explores an aspect of design relationships. Second a container for the first object which actively reacts and manipulates the aspects of the object. Finally, the object and container are scaled to architectural size where they inhabit the site in downtown Cincinnati and manipulate it to settle within the realm of realistic plausibility.

Through the investigation of super-imposed carved primitive objects and the relationships and geometry created the project became a boutique hotel, situated within a site in downtown Cincinnati. By taking this set of identifiable primitives, super-imposing them, and eroding them to the beginning of unintelligibility I was able to coordinate their erosions into a series of dynamic spaces. Manifesting strongly in the areas attributed to public gathering such as the main gallery space in the bulk of the gold cube, the lobby of the hotel (near the bottom left in the section on the next page), and the public urban courtyard under the building. The gallery takes on the majority of the most aggressive geometry, while the hotel plays a more reactive role. Within the gallery volume the gold interior signifies a series of moves separate to that of the white drum, to both create yet another layer of incomplete figures as to also programatically separate the gallery from the circulation space surrounding it.

pulse is about drawing urban life towards the Ohio River while infusing the city with the landscapes shaped by the river. Feel the pulse of the city and nature in this mixed-use development where community, entertainment, and wellness are in rhythm.