cenotaph for light & COlor
Minneapolis, MN | 2021
This pilot explores light and color in the modern, a utopian moment imagined in 1784 by Etienne-Louis Boullée where designers can explore the idea of an elaborated epitaph. The work casts principles of an architectural algorithm which elaborates in form, scale, rhythm, pattern, and hierarchy.
The project begins with a study of the Roman Pantheon to Boullée’s cenotaph for Newton: Buckminster Fuller’s Biodome to OMA’s City of the Captive Globe, architects have continued to be inspired by the shape of the earth and its natural shape. The cenotaph is designed for users to experience the voids of the space. One with a daylight-filled pentagon at the center, a wide esplanade around the mausoleum; the two other cenotaphs have patterns at the face of the west and east side for light to come into the space. The project becomes a utopian lightness and interspersion of pentagons across the site.
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