Old Clarke County Jail Site

This is the Old Clarke County Jail in Athens.  This jail will be the site of my (hypothetical) concert hall I'm designing for my exit project.  French architect Leon Henry Charbonnier designed the jail in 1876 in the Second Empire architectural style. I'll post updates as they come.

Geometric Forms

Since completing our very geometric South African school project, I keep finding really great architecture comprised of varying geometric shapes. Here are some favorites of mine from my endless pinteresting and blogging.

C-2 in Japan by Curiosity Architecture

Incubadora Social ITESM-Bancomer in Mexico by SHINE Architecture

Mineral House in Japan by Atelier Tekuto Co. Ltd.

Klein Bottle House in Australia by McBride Charles Ryan

Huanacu Warehouse & Office in Chile by tFPS Architects

Museo ABC in Spain by Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos

Vision Questing

We finished our South African school project for the 2012 IDEC Student Competition. Here are the results:

Binta

Swiss designer Philippe Bestenheider has designed the Binta armchair, with African-inspired prints and woodcarvings. The bright textiles encompass the rubber polyurethane structure, recalling a tree-trunk form.

IDEC 2012 Student Competition

I'm currently working a education project in South Africa for this year's IDEC student competition. The project is coming together really well, and I have a great teammate. Here's an exterior site view as a preview of more to come.

ABŌD - Prefab in South Africa

BSB Design has created the ABŌD prefab housing solution in South Africa. The structure comes in a flat package that can be assembled with only a screwdriver, ladder, and awl in one day with four people. The outside is lined with colorful corrugated metal, and the interior provides loft spaces or other pre-determined solutions.

ZH - JS Bach Chamber Music Hall

As I've started my thesis research to design a concert hall space in Athens, Georgia, I've been researching many concert Halls.  A favorite of mine comes from another favorite of mine, Zaha Hadid Architects.  Zaha Hadid's JS Bach Chamber Music Hall installation at the Manchester Art Gallery is wrapped in a translucent fabric membrane stretched across a steel structure suspending from the ceiling.

The ribbon swirls and twists around the space, much like Bach's own harmonies, as the firm describes.

"Pivotal to is function is the performance of the ribbon. It has been designed to simultaneously enhance the acoustic experience of the concert while spatially defining a stage, an intimate enclosure, and passageways. It exits at a scale in which it is perceived a both an object floating in a room as well as a temporal architecture that invites one to enter, inhabit, and explore."