*Models and research
01. Recreation of Palladio’s studies“Rather than retaining the classical opposition that prioritizes the fixed over the transitory in architecture, the studio will explore an architectural form that is coproduced by buildings and events. Suggesting a relationship between the human body and architectural form is of course not new. However, its historic usage has been to either imagine architecture modeled on static ceremonial discipline (the hypostyle hall) or, in more recent decades, to view daily life as a subversive indictment of architecture (everyday urbanism). To conceive of this coproduced form the studio will create Choreographs (literally time drawings) as a partner to plans, sections, and elevations. Aiming to make both the sidewalk and the pedestrian participate in the architectural ensemble., these choreographs will range from aimless meanders to civic pageantry.”
Course description from Andrew Zago
01. Recreation of Palladio’s studies
02. Reinterpretation of Palladio’s studies
Revisiting a tradition that runs from the military diagrams of Machiavelli, through the poems of Apollinaire and the weaving studies of Anni Albers, to the urban provocations of Archizoom, I began by using Brothers Model AT electric typewriters to create a series of choreograph drawings. Transforming these degrees signs, commas, and apostrophes into notions of human life, I referenced ancient Korean paintings of traditional ceremonial processions.
03. Site plan / area size = 46,578.2 m2 / floor area = 73,946.62 m2The project begins with the study of ramps and the severe to moderate ground conditions of buildings. Precedents such as Biet Ghiorgis Church in Lalibela, Ethiopia was an initial fascination. How can such an extreme subtraction from the earth become accessible and public?
04. Oil board model / interpretation of biet ghiorgis church 
05. Oil board model / positive sloped earth
06. Oil board model / negative sloped earth
07. Oil board model / sloped buildingInstructed by Andrew Zago