Everlasting Fold

Kaitlin Tse | spring 2018 HAA 96A Transformations studio 

A small park site is re-envisioned as an archive of neighborhood activity. The underbelly volume serves as an amphitheater where collective events can be held. Projecting platforms become corners for smaller gatherings programmed as a library, music lounge, and observatory. One of eight platform bites and joins a neighboring residential building. Once an aggregate object is now an aggregate building. This design intentionally permits a third entry point and, therefore, welcomes a new type of public into the park site.  

Volumes are created by joining a double helix to another, applying scalar transformations, and lofting edges of both the original (alpha) and new (beta). What results are four independent conditions of underbelly volumes marking volumetric variance.