professor brendan ho
In collaboration with sabrina pettinato
featured in 2021 caed x-gallery
the Model Kit Kindergarten is situated in the heart of downtown Cleveland, confronting us early on with the challenge of protecting children of the kindergarten from pedestrians and the busy life of the city.
We rotated specific parts of our model kit downwards to elevate the school from the urban landscape of the city. This generated an underbelly to the project which has created a grand public space at the scale of the city at the ground level. This semi public space acts as an extension of the existing ground that flows beneath the school. This space is intended for families and school events to conveniently occur without bringing the public up into the school.
by using the system of rotating parts, we were able to use the joints to rotate and extend a canopy at the top side of the model kit. The loose fit connections that are created from the joints produce spaces between the parts where light can filter through the project.
the chunk model was a study conducted late in the semester to further study the articulation of surface and interior model kit tectonic applications.
