boutique hotel + culinary arts
professor Sarah Lorenzen
senior project | cal poly pomona | spring 2018
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Formally, the project is a compositional study of the negative spaces that result when two volumes, with different orientations, are placed in close proximity to each other. It also looks at the varied levels of tension that are created by these juxtapositions, such as the difference between having the two objects touch, pierce each other, or simply exist next to each other.
professor Sarah Lorenzen
senior project | cal poly pomona | spring 2018
Formally, the project is a compositional study of the negative spaces that result when two volumes, with different orientations, are placed in close proximity to each other. It also looks at the varied levels of tension that are created by these juxtapositions, such as the difference between having the two objects touch, pierce each other, or simply exist next to each other.
To complete the composition a third volume, acting as a frame, is used to contain the two volumes (and the two programs), creating a visual and spatial connection between both programs.
This project references the work of artist Ellsworth Kelly and architect Eileen Gray, such as the compositional strategies they implemented in their paintings and rug designs. The Fischer House by Louis Kahn, which is made by two similar volumes where one is slightly rotated and the two volumes housing the public and private spaces of the residence. The work of Steven Holl titled 7 Bottles in a Stone Box of the Chapel of St Ignatius, where the different volumes with different colors dictate different experiences of light within the chapel. And the compositional studies of different rooms and geometries by Mauricio Pezo & Sofia von Ellrichshausen and their work titled Interior Studies.
In addition, both programs create a haptic and sensual experience in the spaces, the smell and taste of the culinary school with the intimacy of touch of a hotel. Referencing the photography of Rala Choi, when two human bodies are in close proximity with each other, when they are about to touch or are completely overlapping each other, the feelings and emotions that are created. The oil wrestlers by photographer Ben McNutt, that are shown touching and embracing each other during the fight. The performance piece by Abramovic and Ulay where the audience is squeezed the a physical frame created by the artists, physical contact and touch becomes unavoidable.
