What is the sacred space in a school of architecture?...you have so many rooms. The rooms can have rough walls; it doesn’t matter. You can pin things up any place you want to. You can throw paint on the floor. The classroom can be a Jackson Pollock, but when you come to the jury room – no. There should be something wonderful about it. It should be a place where you can have tea...and it should always be a friendly room. It’s always a sanctuary, you see. It is not a room where you sit around as if you are on trial. It is just a great room. It is the sacred space in the school of architecture.
Louis Kahn Conversations with Students, p. 64-66
Axonometric structural charcoal drawing.
CAUS Review Rooms
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Building elevation and sections.
In the spirit of Louis Kahn, I crafted an Architectural Proposition in the form of a freestanding building that can provide appropriate spaces for a cafe, gallery, and three review rooms to be used by the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies. This began with a wooden box inside a glass box.
Here, I began to explore how different qualities of light began to inform the use of different spaces, and began qualifying how different material palettes can encourage/discourage different learning atmospheres.
Here, I began to explore how different qualities of light began to inform the use of different spaces, and began qualifying how different material palettes can encourage/discourage different learning atmospheres.
Building elevation and sections.
Detail photos of model in daylight
Detail photos of light studies of model.
