Twenty Four + One Half




Spring 2015 // University of Cincinnati
Professor: Sean Cottengim
Location: UC Dieterle Vocal Arts Center

This project presents the challenge of designing within the context of an existing structure. Through documentation of the building, a diagrammatic analysis was conducted. The study included a look into the building’s site, circulation, light, massing, approach, threshold, and promenade. Dieterle Vocal Arts Center is a traditional building built in axial alignment with the adjacent Nippert Stadium. It follows a ravine that runs 24.5º east of North rather than the orthogonal grid of the city and surrounding campus. This skewed positioning is a peculiarity that becomes the basis on which an intervention into the space is designed. The project’s goal is to realign Dieterle Vocal Arts Center with the city grid, while addressing the voided interior of the space. The result was a split in the building at 24.5º that twistes back into the axis of the building. Juxtaposed against the existing structure, it manipulates light entering the space as well as the circulation of pasersby. The vertical fins interact with a pair of existing benches creating intimate nooks and private spaces of study. Both an interior and exterior manipulation of the building, Twenty Four + One Half demonstrates a visual interruption that modifies an existing building.

 

Twenty Four + One Half




Spring 2015 // University of Cincinnati
Professor: Sean Cottengim
Location: UC Dieterle Vocal Arts Center

This project presents the challenge of designing within the context of an existing structure. Through documentation of the building, a diagrammatic analysis was conducted. The study included a look into the building’s site, circulation, light, massing, approach, threshold, and promenade. Dieterle Vocal Arts Center is a traditional building built in axial alignment with the adjacent Nippert Stadium. It follows a ravine that runs 24.5º east of North rather than the orthogonal grid of the city and surrounding campus. This skewed positioning is a peculiarity that becomes the basis on which an intervention into the space is designed. The project’s goal is to realign Dieterle Vocal Arts Center with the city grid, while addressing the voided interior of the space. The result was a split in the building at 24.5º that twistes back into the axis of the building. Juxtaposed against the existing structure, it manipulates light entering the space as well as the circulation of pasersby. The vertical fins interact with a pair of existing benches creating intimate nooks and private spaces of study. Both an interior and exterior manipulation of the building, Twenty Four + One Half demonstrates a visual interruption that modifies an existing building.

 

























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