2011F_Design Studio_Rehm Section
ARCH-2200 | Casey Rehm, Adjunct Professor
Mars: An Architecture of Terra-formation
Selected Student Work:
Tiffany Ip
Dillon Webster
The studio focused on production of space and form through the use of nonlinear transformation and mutation with an emphasis on local tectonic relationships as the driving force for decision making. Students worked with an abstract material system in which each student developed material behaviors based on relationships to both internal and external forces. As students progressed, their systems took on the capability to produce line, surface, and volume as well as negotiating issues of ground and occupation. By working in this method, students were able to view their architectural product as a gradient of relationships from human-tectonic, tectonic-tectonic, and tectonic-context at multiple scales. Totalizing and intuitive design moves were avoided to force the students to reconsider the potentials of habitation and expand their capabilities in understanding complex spatial relationships and representation. At the conclusion of the semester the students produced a speculative urban condition for the surface of Mars as well as individual occupancies, developing skills in manual and digital representation through drawings and model building.
Graham Billings
Tiffany Ip
Elizabeth Lee
Dillon Webster
