(Dis)play
human performance on display
Culture and Recreation Center
Cleveland, Ohio
2B Design Studio instructed by Greg Stroh, Spring 2021
Featured in Kent State University's CAED X-Gallery
This project explores the notion of friction as its provocation. In particular, my position is that cultural program and recreational program are typically oppositional constructs. These programs co-exhibit strong identities and clear structure. Pivoting this impositional deployment of program between and across floors creates unexpected displays of cultural performance, be it typical gallery experience or the unorthodox condition of human performance on display. Intentional points of convergence establish conditions for unlikely scenarios to take place through shared program, paths, views, etc. Form development, massing, material and surface studies contribute to the project reading through geometric speculations, misfit connection points, and unorthodox material and programmatic relationships situated at the threshold of the urban environment. The response continues to question and re-imagine the shifting relationships of media in our current culture.
axonometric rendering
program diagram
site influence analysis
exploded axonometric diagram
exterior perspective
longitudinal section cc
ground floor plan
second floor plan
interior perspective