“LLLL” seeks to give each arts discipline its own unique volume, while still being understood as one cohesive whole. The L allows for the cellular classroom program to stack up vertically before the studio and arts spaces sprawl out in the horizontal parts and frame views into the city. The massing of the tower was created by stacking and aggregating three Ls, which are then sheared and united by an idealistic tower extrusion.

Ls are aggregated again in plan across the site as a way to organize the public follies. The interstitial space between the site Ls creates a shared courtyard and gathering space for these public amenities. Ls are aggregated once more to create a graphic strategy for the building skin. The graphic produces different readings of the tower, sometimes enforcing the independent identity of each volume, and sometimes enforcing their existence as one cohesive tower.

Knowlton School of Architecture Student Project

UG4 with Professor Jane Murphy

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