Discontinuous Continuity
GSAPP Adv IV
Critic: Phu Hoang
Spring 2018
between car and human on a 24-hour cycle
It is a study of cohabitation through juxtaposition: interior-exterior, expansion-contraction, light-shadow, warmth-cool, continuity-discontinuity. In the near future, internal-combustion vehicles park in the open-to-air spaces while classroom-based learning occupies the shielded interior. In the far future, as both automobile and learning become autonomous, the programs interchange spaces. The future learning is fully integrated into the workspace, featuring a free-flow of people and knowledge in the physically open yet sensorially defined spaces.
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Figure-ground drawing showing the programming
in the near and the far future
in the near and the far future
In a building without hard boundaries, it is the spatial qualities and temporal experiences that defines zones of activities.
Final model showing metal rod screens as soft divisions
Study model showing physical and sensorial thresholds
Split axonometric showing the interchange of programmatic spaces from the near to the far future
Sectional perspective showing both futures: red denotes the near future and blue denotes the far future.
