Studio 1111: Project 1.2: Building a topography

Exercise 1.2 was to take a small pavilion (for me, Lot-ek's shipping container) and insert it into yet another famous park (for me, Roberto Burle Marx's Praça Salgado Filho) We were to create 2 landforms to connect the top of the pavilion to the ground plane. We then flipped one of them and sunk it in the plaza (introducing cut and fill on a site).

After drawing this in Autocad, we created a series of sections, then modified them both vertically and in their orientation on the site, creating a completely new land form from the original. I had originally worked to integrate the pavilion into the open spaces of the park, but decided that the park needed more excitement. The extreme scaling (a progressive scaling of .4 on the sections) created an object that intersected the paths and plantings of the original park, creating excitement and opposition to the flow of the space.

An idea of how extreme the scale became (and how late at night I work sometimes)

Finally, in a nod to Marx, or possibly Ken Smith, I created the model and mapped the ways in which my topographic intervention interacted with the paths in red (originally white for the project, but the path form was just too interestingly curvilinear to keep it so boring)