ENDURING THE AUTOMATA

ARCH 205 | FALL 2020 (2nd year)

Role: Design | Drawings | Respresentation

Software: Rhino, lllustrator, Keyshot, Photoshop

Bessie Coleman was a black woman who became an amazing aviation pilot. Her story reminds us of the relevance of race and gender in the discourse of Architecture, which was the basis for the design of this aviation school for women in Atlanta. In this project, we worked with a collection of objects from the previous precedent studies (St. Peter’s Basilica, Diamond House), and sectional explorations inspired by Japanese wood joinery. Confronted by this variety of parts, we began picking out the objects that correspond best to the program specifications of our project, aiming to challenge the standard typologies dictated by function and emphasizing the idea of found objects, assemblage, and kit-of-parts. This way, the different systems and narratives come together in order to enrich the meaning of the site and the buildings overall.

The result is the 3 buildings: a gallery, an aviation center, and a library which are formed by combining discrete objects in plan and section. This technique creates new object relationships through the act of joining as well as enriches the meaning of the overall assembly by introducing a variety of narratives associated with the original parts.