Londyn Phillips: Architectural Design 1
Project 01: City Pavilion
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In this project I was assigned a city to research and learn more about, then to create a model representing the essence of the city. While doing this project I was coming up with ideas on what represents Chicago and how to show those thing on my model. However, to do this I had to investigate deeper into this city and learn what the real essence is. I explored the geography and Chicago’s systematic grid system. As well as, the history and what led up to Chicago becoming this amazing city known for it’s architecture today. These things helped me create my Chicago inspired pavilion.
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City Research
During my research I discovered Chicago is a city known for its architecture and that it’s had a long history. It’s people have suffered through the Chicago fire, its architecture has changed a lot over time, and many things originated in this area. This research has changed my understanding of Chicago, because before I thought it didn’t have anything special about it, but after learning and understanding it’s development and culture, I realized there was much more to it, and much more that made it unique to other cities. Some major elements in the city’s structure I noticed was that it's grid never changes much, all the towers and skyscrapers are waterfront, and finally that there's drawbridges connecting at almost every part of the river.
Drawing's and Model
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This is my axonometric. It shows the north and west faces of my model. It’s a three dimensional drawing of my model faces, and puts them at an angle. This is so you can see the empty space where I made cuts, and where there’s walls and other things sticking out of the faces.
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My final model and drawings are supposed to represent the river flowing through the city and disrupting the strict format of the grid that is Chicago, as well as many other things. In the model photos you can see basswood sticks running through the river, this is a representation of the many drawbridges that run through Chicago's river. The drawbridges are just another important piece of Chicago’s design. As well as the towers and skyscrapers that continuously can be found hugging the river side. I represented this by using shifts, which are the rectangular pieces of cardboard sticking out, and put them along every part of my river in the model. These high-rise aspects can only be found dissipating when you get farther out from the river, which has buildings that are noticeably flatter and wider. I tried to incorporate these aspects by creating wide areas of empty space away from the river in my model. All of these things combined is what I think represents the essence of Chicago.
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