Jessica

JESSICA HUANGFall 2015 | First Year Portfolio| Studio Miller

Table of Contents

Cube City

Case-Study of Esherick House

Primordial Pavilion

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Cube City

II. Case Study

III. Primordial Pavilion

CUBE CITY

These exercises explored the concepts of tectonic and stereotomic (or “atectonic”) space-making as introduced by Frampton’s “Studies in Tectonic Culture,” first as solely tectonic and stereotomic, then moving into a merging of the two.

CASE STUDY: Esherick House, Louis Kahn, 1961

The diagraming and analyzing of the Esherick House, first by program, then hierarchy of spaces, then by formal structure and alignments.

PROJECTIVE MODELS:Esherick House, Louis Kahn, 1961

The creation of several projective models came about by taking the main concepts of the Esherick House: alternating program, ad-jacent strips of space, and height changes.

(Above)Projective model #2, which keeps constant the adjacent strips of space and varying heights drawn from the original Esherick house, while changing the programatic organiza-tion

(Below)Projective Model #1, which keeps constant the alternating program and adjacent strips of space drawn from the original Esherick house, while removing the height differences.

(Above)Projective model #3, which keeps constant the alternating program and varying heights drawn from the original Esh-erick house, while changing the adjacent spatial set-up.

PRIMORDIAL PAVILION

The primordial pavilion is a freestanding object and a synthesis of the fundamental concepts of tectonic/stereotomic space-making, figure-ground compositions, and precedent analysis.