Studio Description
This interdisciplinary research studio takes a materials-based design approach to architecture with projects developed by collaborative teams of architects and digital media designers. Students will design and build lightweight textile pavilions with interactive displays on the site of The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Lynching Memorial) in Montgomery, Alabama. These pavilions will serve as extensions of the memorial, our sensory experience, and an understanding of these events through architecture and augmented reality. Pavilions shall be transportable - educating different publics on America’s past, its present, and the future. What would you have done if you were there? How do we prevent this from happening today? The aim of this project is not to reinforce these acts of violence, but instead to transform it, and highlight the contributions, meanings, lives, and stories of those silenced.
Architecture and Digital Media students designed an interactive lightweight pavilion that brought together elements of architecture and meaning. Architects developed conceptual and material connections, transformed and enrich architecture through hands-on experimentation and physical making, and a close study of the memorial’s purpose, people, and the public. Media designers created augmented reality interactions that connect architecture with the memorial, the stories, and the human experience.
--------- TEAM 1 - PROJECT NAME: TRANSCENDENCE -------
Team Members - Phuong 'Karen' Tran, Tia Calhoun, Montana Ray, and Morgan Lee
Project Description: The pavilion symbolizes spirits escaping from history’s earthly sins into freedom. It builds upon the memorial’s narrative by introducing visitors to the experiences of one specific narrative, the story of Jesse Washington.
Board #1 - Textile Catalog, Experiments, and Studies
Board #2 - Design Analysis and Synthesis of Machines
Board #3 - Textile Analysis and Synthesis
Board #4 - Spatial Design studies and synthesis
Board #5 - Physical machines designed and fabricated to manipulate textiles
Board #6 - Design Variation and Project Site Plan
Board #7 - Exterior Renderings + Design Plan
Board #8 - Interior Renderings of the Pavilion
Board #9 - Site Section, Design Section, and Axonometric Drawing
Digital Media Team: Morgan Chin and Daniel Phelps
The Digital Media Team worked closely with their architecture team members and came up with a story for the project and developed a video to tell the stories of both the architecture and the media experience. They also engaged in studio activities of making.
-------------
------ TEAM 2 - PROJECT NAME: RECONCILIATION -----
Team Members - Monica Rizk, Dominique Dawson, and Victoria Olaogun
Project Description: The pavilion provides people an outlet for catharsis, reflection and the means for emotions to be reconciled, after having confronted the dark history of lynching. It curves, twists, and converges to simulate how different people and different perspectives must come together to produce actual and sustainable change in society.
Board #1 - Folding Studies A
Board #2 - Folding Studies B
Board #3 - Spatial Concepts + Studies
Board #4 - Textile Catalog, Experiments, and Studies
Board #5 - Site Plan, Design Variations and Final Design
Board #6 - Axonometric Drawing and Renderings
Board #7 - Digital Media Technologies and Experience
Board #8 - Sections & Renderings
Video by Monica Rizk
Digital Media Team: Daniel Ethridge and Robert 'Zee' Doehling
