Thick Thin Dolmen
Elementary School Proposal
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Jump Cut / Core I Studio
Instructor: Ritchie Yao
Fall 2021
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The site presented two seemingly incompatible sections and prompted a building design that wove the two together. This elementary school proposal uses the triangle and half-round geometries as elemental building blocks: both have formal and spatial qualities of thickness and thinness associated with them.
Composing these triangles and half-rounds into different assemblages produced different configurations of thick and thin spaces. These were then translated into different programmatic functions - from unconventional playpens without walls to open air classrooms along stairways.
