Rowan Frazier: Architectural Design I 


Project 01: City Pavilion

 
My design objective for this project was a proportional cube pavilion that reflects the essence of Phoenix, Arizona, US.  Grids of various kinds were apparent in an aerial (site) view of the city. My pavilion was designed to be located within a park or other public urban space. People should be able to walk thru the structure and interact with a series of video images related to the subject city. I analyzed the grid structure, and from there turned the grid patters into a structure for my pavilion. 

Aerial view of Phoenix, Arizona

City Research 

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The city I was assigned was Phoenix, Arizona, located in the United States. Throughout my research, I learned the details about Phoenix's society, history, climate, and common architecture styles found there. The research really changed my perception on the city, because before doing research and looking up questions I had, I though Arizona was a southern ghost town in the middle of a desert, and I ended up being wrong. However, Phoenix is in the middle of the desert, and here is a common occurrence of southern-style buildings located throughout the city. Leading into some huge elements of the city's structure that I noticed. The climate is very dry and hot, therefore architects would need to be creative with the drafting systems to ventilate the buildings. This leads to various building shaped, window designs and differences in building materials. 

​Drawings and Model 

Final Cube Pavillion

Axonometric Drawing

My final drawings and model show the process of the assignment and reflects a perspective of Phoenix, Arizona and its unique characteristics through creativity and trial and error. Many ideas that came up did not work, but the process in which I went through taught me a lot about perseverance and road blocks.