CAMERON EVANS
Exposed Learning
Spring 2021 Semester
Project Length - 6 weeks
Critic - Keith Peiffer, AIA, LEED AP
A contemporary space for OSU’s design lab, located in OKC. Encouraging for all groups and ages to come together to collaborate on ideas, design, and architecture. This space will allow younger children, college students, and professionals in the field to learn and engage from one another in an energizing space that removes the walls between discovering, learning, and practicing architecture.
SITE
Located in the Will Rogers Park Plaza in Oklahoma City, the site is surrounded by concrete parking lots and low-rise buildings. The proposed design studio would replace a building, which tragically burned down, that was originally part of the square grid set of buildings.
Right away, I knew I wanted something to break that mold.
STARTER KIT
What makes an architecture student? That was the question I wanted to answer during the beginning of this project. To do so, I employed the use of the "starter kit" meme's circulating the internet. What do all architecture students have in common at the beginning of their designs? Coffee and food were high on that list, not to mention sketches, precedents, concepts, and of course, bubble diagrams!
LINE DRAWINGS
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Creating an open environment in which students and professionals could learn from one another, as well as interact with the public, was important in order to promote collaboration and group thinking. Many pathways are provided for non-architect students to maneuver and witness the design process in progress.
RENDERINGS
The proposed design studio would be an active space with a variety of activities happening at once. The buzz of activity would be felt from space to space thanks to the openness of the design.
