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Intimate and Transparent Production of Space
formZ Joint Study Journal 2006-2007
  • Thomas Fowler, IV, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Abstract

This paper illustrates the design work from an integrated third-year Architecture Design Studio and a Professional Practice (a.k.a., project constructability) Studio. There are two parts to this paper. The first part shows how students were involved in a collaborative interdisciplinary project with New Media Arts students in the Liberal Arts Department on campus. Students in collaborative teams designed and constructed a temporary pneumatic structure to house a virtually interactive technology called “Intimate Transactions”. Lessons learned from this design build collaboration in working with the inventor of this technology system, along with the reading of a range of essays on new media design, and additional vocabulary generation exercises provided a launching off point for each of the architecture students’ individual design projects. The second part of this paper shows the follow on building design process and design reflections for one of the student’s studio projects (Jeff Hammerquist, who received the 2007 form•Z Honorable Mention Design Award for his Satellite Automobile Assembly Plant project).

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Citation Information
Thomas Fowler, IV. "Intimate and Transparent Production of Space" formZ Joint Study Journal 2006-2007 (2006) p. 98 - 105
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tfowler/6/