WSU EUNOIA Volume IV

AMASS Восхождение - DORM COMMONS
ALEX GEISEN | NATE KIRK | TEHILLA BENGERSHOM
SENIOR CAPSTONE | SPRING 2020
ANA BORGHERIU | CHLOE KERNS
Our INTERIOR Capstone DESIGN project 2ND consisted YEAR of STUDIO a team with | SPRING both architects 2022 and construction
management majors to design a mid-rise located in Seattle, Washington. Some of
the key components of the South Lake Union Mid-rise are to maximize the building
footprint on the site, provide strategies that promote occupant health and well-being,
while respecting the neighboring environment.
There is a theme of order and obedience
in both academia, as well as basic
geometric forms. Rather than purely
being a space for communal activities
alone, we wanted to create a dynamic
space that addresses a visual complexity
inspiration from the common cube, our
goal was to redefine such a predictable
Our shape design through team repetition created and a ground distortion. level
that While addressed providing the a issue wide of pedestrian array of
foot spaces traffic for traditional in the area use, through the dorm the
efficient commons utilization also incorporate of space within stacked the
building and overlapping footprint forms and the that surrounding the users
public can get perimeter. lost in. Distorting The retail cubes area through will
be elongation constructed and warping with open lends spaces a certain that
invite amount the of nearby unpredictability population to a in relatively without
overcrowding predictable, yet and practical establish space-making a sense
of the place odd design within choices the community. stand out even It is
important more. for the structure to have a
strong external expression that serves to
enhance adjacent parks and properties.
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