Camilla Maeda: Architecture 1
Project 1: Prairie Pavilion
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For my first architecture project we worked around the Texas Grand Prairie. I thought I wouldn't get anywhere because I didn't know what the Grand Prairie was and also how this would connect to architecture. I had to choose I word I thought represented the prairie. So after researching and gaining more knowledge about the prairie I had finally found a word that I thought would fit the prairie. Blossoming
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https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/texas-blackland-prairies/
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Research: Grand Prairie
Word Drawing
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BLOSSOMINGPromising or healthy development
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After researching and looking more into the prairie the word blossoming had come into my head. After seeing so many pictures of flowers and just how the prairie grew I thought blossoming would be a good word to describe the prairie. After I had chosen blossoming I went straight to my word drawing. I wanted something that looked like It had been growing and started separating.
After making three different designs I picked the one I liked the most. I liked my now word drawing because it shows the design branching out from the middle then separating at the end. After doing all of that I thought of the prairie and while thinking I had a new perspective of it. It's a growing piece of land and life not just some historic landmark.
After making three different designs I picked the one I liked the most. I liked my now word drawing because it shows the design branching out from the middle then separating at the end. After doing all of that I thought of the prairie and while thinking I had a new perspective of it. It's a growing piece of land and life not just some historic landmark.
A Texas Prairie Pavilion
Parti
When I was finding a spot I my word drawing to based on my pavilion piece on I wanted something open but still shows growth. I waned it to be pretty spacious yet still have some type of enclosure. Something that resembled the steps of growing and going from needing support to being free.
Final Parti Diagram
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Parti Diagram Studies
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Prairie Pavilion Studies
Final Model and Drawings
When I did my final model I decided to take inspiration from the second model. It seemed the most open and I liked how I made the wall look like it was growing bigger and bigger. I wanted to show the whole prairie and make it very spacious.
Project 2: Airbnb
Sketches
For my Airbnb I wanted to take some original designs I had from my Pavilion. I didn't know where to start with my Airbnb, but I knew that If I could make a Pavilion model I could make a Airbnb model. I used my work blossom to create something that was modern but still adapted to the prairie's land.
Concept Designs
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For my concept designs I wanted something to represented blossoming. I wanted something that went from high to low. At first I wanted something that had lots of floors but then I realized that would just be to simple. So then I tried to approach my design in a more serious way.
Study Models
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For my study models I was still thinking about the lots of floors idea until I tried something different. I wanted something that would represent blossoming in a more legitimate way. So for my last concept design I decided what if I literally put some of my design underground to really show that blossoming see thing from underground and as you keep going you see all the prairie.
Final Model
For my final design I decided to make the entrance underground. When you enter there is a huge window which shows you the more you walk the less grass you see. There isn't many windows because the staircase that leads you to your room it is just glass around which shows you the growth of the prairie. The way it blossoms and how it changes rom season to season.
