VERTICAL TERMINAL
Washington University in St. Louis, MArch 2, Pre-Semester Studio
Entering into the first semester of graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis, all incoming M.Arch 2 students participate in a pre-semester studio titled “Design Through Prototyping - Pedagogical Investigation of Making Through Thinking.”
This two week studio revolving around the idea of the end of the Post Digital Era, allowed students to design through physical prototyping by hand, while being removed from the digital process. Although physical modeling is often replaced by the digital process, it is the physical model that aids the development of a variety of skills including the assembly of materials, understanding the tectonics of a design, and the skills to design without the design process being cloaked in ‘digital rhetoric’s.’
My ‘vertical terminal’ lies in a realm of tension and suspension. The design explores the relationship between stopping and going, between static and dynamic, and between the most basic of circulation systems, stairs and ramp.
Modeled out of basswood at 1/4” = 1’-00”
Prof. Sung Ho Kim | Designed and Modeled by Hand
Entering into the first semester of graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis, all incoming M.Arch 2 students participate in a pre-semester studio titled “Design Through Prototyping - Pedagogical Investigation of Making Through Thinking.”
This two week studio revolving around the idea of the end of the Post Digital Era, allowed students to design through physical prototyping by hand, while being removed from the digital process. Although physical modeling is often replaced by the digital process, it is the physical model that aids the development of a variety of skills including the assembly of materials, understanding the tectonics of a design, and the skills to design without the design process being cloaked in ‘digital rhetoric’s.’
My ‘vertical terminal’ lies in a realm of tension and suspension. The design explores the relationship between stopping and going, between static and dynamic, and between the most basic of circulation systems, stairs and ramp.
Modeled out of basswood at 1/4” = 1’-00”
Prof. Sung Ho Kim | Designed and Modeled by Hand