sam gordon
DESIGN
Shelter Wall Concept: Endurance
Intro to Architectural Studio
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Fall, 2014
Each student in our studio was given a word: mine was "Endurance."
Using "endurance" as inspiration, I created a series of 5 small two-dimensional diagrams.
I then created 3 drawings based off of those diagrams. Each drawing was meant to respectively represent the following qualities of light: ambient, focal, and brilliant.
Using basswood sticks, I then created a 2" x 3" x 1" model representing my drawings and embodying these qualities of light.
Second iteration: combining basswood sticks with chipboard.
The third model begins to take the form of the shelter wall. Shadows and light casted by the shelter wall are meant to communicate "endurance."
This is the final iteration. The repetitive linearity of the casted shadows are meant to embody the theme of "endurance."
This theoretical shelter wall is intended to be placed on one of the Hobart and William Smith campus green spaces as an object of interest and a shaded space for repose.