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Final Project: "The Ceremony"

Gallery of Images

This project is about creating a space for a ceremony. The ceremony itself emerges from mundane, everyday events. I chose to examine cooking.
These shots show the exterior and interior spaces.

Front elevation




Front elevation with cladding unit removed



Street view of entrance



Preparation space





Plan views




The 'firepit' and elevated cooking space. Door to storage area on the left.



The cooking apparatus



Looking back across the 'firebox'




The catwalk and platform; a space for consuming the meal.





Final design drawings

Change

Architects want to protect their designs from changes made by others, who they think do not understand them. They are right—the others do not understand and that is exactly their virtue. That is exactly the virtue of the changes they want to make.

Architects strive for a moment of perfection—when their building is finished. But as soon as that moment passes, their building begins to decay. A finished building is really unfinished, the first frame of a descent to destruction.

Architects must embrace the decay of their buildings, at least mentally. They should forget about perfection, the complete realization of their design, and understand that the only truly finished building is a heap of rubble.”

Bathasar Holz (via Lebbeus Woods)