CARR CHAPEL REDUX - Monday November 1st - Friday November 19th, 2021:
This project explores the design of a small gathering space located on a site next to Carr Chapel. The primary objective of this gathering space is to provide a community-focused outdoor extension for activities related to Carr Chapel; including outdoor meetings, performances, opportunities for casual gatherings, or specific events and programs.
For this project, we were assigned to design a pavilion correlating to Carr Chapel. My structure was based solely on Carr Chapels geometry, using its different geometric figures to compose a new, creative building.
EASURE - DRAW - BUILD - Friday September 3 - Friday September 10 2021: “...When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; It may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of Science, whatever the matter may be.” “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.”
- William Thompson Lord Kelvin, 1883
Drawings & Models: The assignment inspired by this quote resulted in a pair of massing models and their relating drawings comparing two of the most iconic buildings on the IIT campus. Using ourselves as a measuring tool, we had to take accurate measurements of Crown Hall and Carr Chapel. Using them, we created this project, which would later help us with our following assignments.
INTRODUCTION TO GEOMETRY - Friday, September 10th - Wednesday, September 15th, 2021: Geometry is at the heart of architecture; it is the language that makes possible a dialogue between the natural world and our desire to build through drawing. In this assignment, I practiced drawing over 15 various geometric figures which all began as circles. I learned how these figures are formed and how to make each of them perfectly equal.
“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.” - Euclid, ‘Euclid’s Elements’
APPLIED GEOMETRY - Wednesday September 15th - Friday September 24th, 2021: The geometry studied in the previous assignment is at the very heart of architecture. In this next project we explored how these geometries applied to real-life buildings, comparing Carr Chapel to buildings around the world. Here, I compared Carr Chapel’s geometries to a chapels near my hometown; MIT Chapel. I recognized how these different figures connected in multiple ways, creating a path across these structures and most significant findings I made.