2011F_Design Studio_Dayem Section
ARCH-2200 | Adam Dayem, Adjunct Professor.
Mars: An Architecture of Terra-formation.
Selected Student Work:
Elizabeth Sammartino
The basis of formal and conceptual development in this studio was a set of interlocking wood joint components. Joints were devised as relational conditions based on geometric affiliations between parts. Specific geometry built into the wood beca a type of information guiding the interface of a single joint, and then subsequent growth of the joint into a field of repetitive joinery components. This system was initially defined only by its internal logics – transformational and combinatorial rules guiding the assembly and organization of components.
The site for the studio was the planet Mars, and it was engaged via two texts: Robert Zubrin’s The Case for Mars and Bruce Sterling’s Shaper-Mechanist short stories. While Zubrin makes a pragmatic argument for the ability of humans to go to Mars, and in a step-by-step manner begin inhabiting the planet, Sterling presents a fantastically dystopian vision of future life in the solar system. Operating conceptually between these two texts, and capitalizing on the internally driven logics of the wood joinery system to resist Earth-bound architectural tendencies, students were asked to imagine large-scale landforming systems to remake swaths of the surface of Mars and propose a type of human inhabitation on the red planet.
Anthony Liang
Elizabeth Sammartino
ChaCha Zhang
