Thesis Research Seminar
This seminar was intended to set up a design project for my Thesis in the following semester. We were given the brief of intentional communities. How they were formed? Over what principle beliefs? What architectural implications did they invoke? How did they fail, or how do they compare to other intentional communities? How do we define community?
I chose to focus on how pure geometry, specifically the circle, can be used for extremely varying purposes in communities. For this, I spent the majority of the semester gathering 170 precedent examples of circular geometric organizational schemes that varied in programmatic/pragmatic intentions. From these, I removed scale and type by created figure icons for each of the project, to purify the geometry. The I proposed site through abstract desert locations to further the purpose of geometry. Finally I selected 8 prime precedents, two from each of my four typologies (shown below) and redrew them. From that I collided their geometries and explored the creation of new circular geometry with the same techniques but different meanings and emotions.
PROFESSOR: Bradley Horn
YEAR: Fall 2017
COURSE: Thesis Research Seminar
A Radial plan for Social Order
