Kosovo Pavilion
This project utilizes hand-drafting techniques, digital media concepts, and modeling to construct a topographic site from an abstracted part of the human body. Then, after placing this site in the real world and studying its natural landscape a space of reflection is designed using dimensional lumber.
The image of my hand was used to generate the site topography.
Topographic Model
The generated topography was then depicted three-dimensionally using layers of corrugated cardboard.
Essential parts of the landscape defined in the site analysis, like the natural flora, pathways, water, and the designed structure, were abstractly depicted through the site model.
The space of reflection, located in Pristina, Kosovo, acts as a memorial to the Kosovo Independence War. The design was created to reflect a structure that has partially been destroyed, a reference to the history and architecture lost during the war due to bombings. On approach, the structure appears as half fallen and half standing and these spaces are divided by a protrusion, a double-sided screen that works to generate varied views and shadows through the use of lumber, contributing to the distinction of experiences for people inhabiting the structure from the interior portion versus the exterior portion.
This set of design drawings represents an initial pass at depicting the space of reflection. Through the use of line weights and scaled human figures, the drawings act as diagrams to communicate the depth and use of space in the structure.
Technical Drawings and Design Logic
1/4"=1' Final Design Model
Section Model
1/2" =1' Scale
Perspective Drawings
Charcoal on Newsprint
Interior Perspective Drawing
Collaged with wartime photography of Kosovo bombings.
