Final Team Project: Defining Space for Architectural Design Workshop (ARCH 2630-002)

The fundamentals of design can be explored for a lifetime. Pre-architecture students get a taste of design-the process and the product in Design Workshop 2630-a studio class. Their final project is to express the nature of a site through designing and building a team project on a site of their choice around the Art and Architecture building on campus.Over the course of three weeks, the student teams analyzed, documented, sat in, and listened to their chosen site . . . what did the site look, sound, feel like? What could be built that made the essence of the site come alive?This semester, three teams tried their hand at working with this design problem.Team 2 chose a very public site on the Marriott Plaza and used fishing line, strung from three lampposts to create triangular shapes that mimicked the existing triangular skylight and pointed toward each of the three flows of traffic that occurred on the plaza around the site.