2010F_Design Studio_Oatman Section
ARCH-2200 | Michael Oatman, Associate Professor
The Knotted Construct
Selected Student Work:
Paul Chan
Laura Kinkead
Students began the fall First Year Design Studio by pairing off to make a structure that physically connected them for 8 hours. The design and fabrication of this linkage had to be carried out in silence, with the additional constraint of no written communication. This emphasis on design as a physical and performative act led to explorations of knotting that invoked the history of cinema, animation, ergonomic studies and early 20th century models of abstraction.
Following the format of the rest of the studio, my students worked on individual projects for the bulk of the semester. A series of spatial explorations were further developed in various drawing formats; in addition to deeply architectural assignments students also worked from observation, making life drawings, small narrative projects and images that could be considered hybrids of diverse media.
For the final project, my students had the option of returning to a collaborative format. Most elected to do this, and the projects incorporated video, gameplay scenarios, modularity, the algorithmic sequencing of spaces/material, and the exploration of light (and even sound) as significant architectural provocations.
Okki Berendschot
Paul Chan
Joseph Fala
Laura Kinkead
