Project Description: This project involved an addition to the Hall housing the School of Architecture. The program was somewhat flexible, requiring the establishment of a physical center for the School in an addition that could include studios, jury spaces, and other common functions. It was required that the central court be enclosed to create an atrium-like center. form•Z was initially used to model the existing building in order to study basic massing and day lighting strategies for the addition. It was later used to generate wire frame perspective images of approaches to the building and interior spaces.


Modeled with form•Z, rendered with StudioPro.

Jury Comments:

William J. Mitchell: This is a very good piece of studio work for a student at this level. Modeling and rendering processes have been executed with great skill and understanding; the exterior composites, in particular, provide an excellent understanding of the project in its setting. Most importantly, though, the student has very effectively used the software to explore and fine-tune the spatial and lighting qualities of the project, and to develop an excellent understanding of the complex interrelationships among interior spatial qualities, natural light penetration, and exterior massing.

Thomas Seebohm: This project demonstrates an wonderful quality of light and shadow expressed in the renderings of the interior, and how this interacts with details, such as railings and other elements in the sky lit oculus and with the views to the exterior. Also important are the studies of the exterior in the context of the existing buildings. The exterior, breaks with the rectilinear building for which it is to provide a focus, by the manner in which it differs from the earlier building in the lightness, richness, and curvilinear forms.


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