2A: Second-Year Studio

ARC 2536: Studio 2A 
Second-year | Fall Semester

Design IIA is a foundation studio focused on developing sensitivity toward and application of construction materials and building assemblies. Artfully crafted, this assemblage expresses what we might call an architectural tectonic - where materials, structure and connections come together to generate a composition of space, experience and form. As Adolf Heinrich Borbein simply states, “Tectonic becomes the art of joinings”.

In the work below, students worked in pairs to develop proposals for “The Legendary Highway 14 Tower” international design competition. The project is situated in a wetland/nature preserve adjacent the city of DeSmet, South Dakota. Tower proposals were tasked with responding to the cultural, natural and historic context of the site to generate evocative solutions that are expressive of experience, identity and place. Consequently, each proposal demonstrates a particular approach to structure, material and circulation.

The top left corner of the photo reads "pathway posts". The rest of the photo shows their design, which is a metallic pathway that winds upward on stilts to the top of a tower. A collage of six different photos. Three are blueprints of the design, and three are reality versions of it. The design is a walkway on stilts that leads upward. A collage of four different photos. One is a blueprint, the others are different perspectives of the building. It is a walkway on stilts that laeads to the top of a glass tower. This is a blueprint of the foundations of this building. The building is essentially a walkway that leads up to a tower, on stilts. In the top left of the photo, it reads "Prairie wind tower". The rest of the photo consists of collages. Some blueprints, others pictures of grass, and two are pictures of what the tower would look like. A collage of eight different photos. Most are black and white blueprints, but in the bottom right corner are color pallets for what might be used on the building. It has a brown wooden color pallet, a light purple, a light gray, and light blue pallet as well. A collage of eight different photos. Most of these photos are blueprints of what said building will look like, and three are colored drawings of the finished project made out of what looks like light wood panels stacked unleveled, parallel to each other. This is a collage of six different photos of blueprints. There is an upper level view, and a side level view, as well as a mapped out view of the structure. The bold print at the top left of this photo reads "Shifting views". It shows a map of the building from an upper, and side perspective. And then it has a mock-reality photo of what this building would look like. It is a golden tower with triangular bodies stacked on top of each other. A collage of six different blueprints of a tower like structure. The body of the tower is comprised of six triangular structures stacked on top of one another. A blueprint of a triangular body of a building. There are descriptions for the connecting panels between these bodies, and there is a color pallet that consists of gray, orange, and light tan material. A collage of seven different photos. Some are blueprints of the design of the building, others are mock-reality photos of what the building would look like. The building is a golden complex structure comprised of three triangular bodies stacked on top of one another.

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