Span-(ish)
Kent State University CAED
Critic: Jean Jaminet, Associate Professor
// Spanish Revival seeks to investigate and augment the “Spanish colonial revival” style of architecture commonly found in the southwestern United States. Researching the style and analyze its elements as a kit of parts. Here its essential qualities were cataloged and broken into distinct design features. Utilizing these rules the mass was sculpted as thick, heavy “molded” forms intertwined by plunging tiled surfaces, seeking to erase the seams created between the meeting of roof and ground. The tile pattern disobeying its typical use as a flooring material begins to infect the walls and ceiling crawling its way up through the mass, eventually becoming the underlying face beneath the stucco exterior face, exposed where parts have cracked and fallen away. The interior, augmented in relation to the exterior exhibits the thickness and mass implied by the outside walls, rooms exist carved away from the mass thus creating compression and expansion as one moves through the poche.
