PROFESSORS

Kit McCullough

STUDIO SECTION

COMING TOGETHER

This fall, as we emerged from the pandemic, presented a potent moment to reinvest in the study of physical space, place, community, localism, and materials.

These themes were examined through the lenses of patterns and architectural typology at multiple scales: typologies that serve as increments of neighborhood, patterns of living that inform increments of housing, patterns of occupation that shape rooms, patterns of activity that shape the increments of rooms: doors, windows, thresholds.

We considered how these activities can bring us together to form community. We explored how place shapes the architecture of housing, and how housing shapes the life within and the life without—the communal life that binds us together.

︎︎︎BACK ︎

ELLIE ABRONS + MEREDITH MILLER

Austin Ehrhardt, Elizabeth Greene, Ye Wang

Zoë Faylor, Rosa Manzo, Anne Redmond

CRAIG BORUM + CLAUDIA WIGGER

Chun-Li (Julie) Chen, Megan Clevenger, Amber Klinger

Yuanyuan Cui, Danielle Weitzman, Jasmine Wright

LARS GRÄBNER + CHRISTINA HANSEN

Kayla Hawley, Kunshi Liu

Renwei Liu, Lu Li, Elizabeth Sinawe, Yujia Wang

KIT MCCULLOUGH + MICK KENNEDY

Jie Feng, Yuxin Ma, Joy Zou

Noelle Ridley, Sang Won Jee, Kael Finehout

STUDENT WORK

JIE FENG,
YUXING MA,
JOY ZOU

“SCREEN COURTYARD”

Screen Courtyard respects the human need for different degrees of intimacy and explores the possible sequence of spatial settings that allows gradient activities for both public and private individuals in the neighborhood. Through the experimentation of layered space, programs, patterns, and partitions, it tailors the transition of social experience from public streets, to inner courtyards, to buildings, to floors, and to units. This gradient of intimacy stitches diverse activities on the site and ensures everyone can choose a comfortable position on the gradient. It investigates the prevalent work-life living conditions and the desire for flexible living space to accommodate the ever shifting household size.