Contemporary Art Museum, Boston, MA
Kent State University | Integrated Design Studio
Best Overall Project - Kent CAED External Jury
2nd Place - AIA Ohio Student Design Awards
Featured on The Archiologist “Submission 375” (May 2020)
Featured on Dezeen “Kent CAED End of Year Show” (July 2020)
Studio Nobody
Spring 2020
Critic: Luis Santos
// Diverging from image-making logic prevalent in academic communities during this senior thesis integrated design studio, Collaged-Collections focuses on the re-evaluation of contemporary ideas in the discourse of aura, image, and allure. Particularly the relationship of the digital image to its quotidian self-reflection. The project sought to produce theatrical deceptions of sectional contiguity and irregularities of spatial adjacencies to convey a unique aura to its inhabitants; ultimately generating a museum that acts as an art collection in itself. Spatially organized around five building volumes, the museum becomes a “collection” of differences, Layered on top of art subsequently contained, to produce a sequence of spatial experiences, controlled views, and refined details. The programmatic collections are thereby resolved, by nominal exterior forms that sit together, mimicking formally; the urban context of the surrounding site. The exterior cladding system’s ability to shear and distort softens the edges and surface of the bars making them flicker between field and object in elevation. This attention to material affect collapses tectonic effects to immediately legible graphic fields.
