Spring 2015
Architectural Design
Instructor | Jonathan Knowles
AQUATIC RESEARCH LABORATORY
opposing
redirecting
balancing
negotiating
An Aqautic research labrotory as a product of a series of explorations:
1. Spanning of a lightweight structure
2. Mass displacement and balance
3. Lighting condition exploration
The aqautic research lab seeks to explore a series of opposing movements at numerous scales - the built architecture and the circulatory experience. The building also deals with how private research spaces can be intergrated with the public experience of the tidal pool and aqaurium.
Plan diagram
Plan drawing
Section drawings
Elevation drawings
Plan persepctive drawings - interior lighting conditions
1/32" scale massing model
Lightweight structure and spanning excercise
Lightbox recreating observed lighting condition
