Lilia Benitez: Architectural Design I
Project 01: City PavilionProject 01 was based on representing the essence of the city that was randomly chosen. When you first step foot into this project it’s a bit confusing to process and you may have no idea what you’re doing or what it symbolizes but you soon come to realize the true aspect of it. We first started by looking at a aerial photo which you see here next to my text, this would help us understand the city more by showing us what the city roads, buildings, land, etc looks like which helped us develop our grid analysis and parti drawings.
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City Research
For Project 01 my city was Salt Lake City, through the research I soon came to discover how religion plays a big part on this city and how important religion is in this city. The research changed my perception of the city because I learned more and more about what Salt Lake City is about and how it's not just your typical boring city. I learned about the history behind Salt Lake City and how it still to this day represents the city in a major way. The major elements within the city's structure is the type of architecture in it. It containes various of different architectural styles but mostly gothic architectural styles which really spoke to me because just by that being a main architectural style it really shows how the city is portrayed to be. Overall the research allowed me to learn more about the city's biggest significance and essences.
Drawings and Model
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Axonometric Drawing
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My final model was based on the religious part of my city that was gained from the research studied in my padlet. I wanted to incorporate the religious parts into my model, in order to do that I went ahead and added crosses into my elevations. Inside of my model I wanted to incorporate the bigger meaning inside of Salt Lake City the “non-boring” part as some may call it, what I mean by this is i wanted to show how Salt Lake City may sound boring and dull on the outside but if you look into it you’ll find the glorious aspect to it. To show this I decided to add curves on the inside which would represent the glorious aspect of Salt Lake City.
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