Studio 2.4 10/11

A Building on a Street

This year Studio 2.4 will look at the design of a building on a street. This will by its nature entail the detailed design of a principal façade. Initially we will use relief as a means of studying scale and proportion. Facades will be thought of as the decorous boundary of the three-dimensional space of the street, rather like the design of an interior room.

The main project will look carefully at the relationship between interior rooms and the street in the development of a public building. This will be driven by architectural intuition rather than programmatic concerns. That is to say that the feeling of space and material will take precedence over room schedules and data.