Spring 2010 Design/Build Competition Winner
Architectural Design II Studio
College of William & Mary
Instructor: Ed Pease

This wooden canopy structure serves as a welcoming visual transition into the architecture studio in Andrews Hall at the College of William & Mary.  This playful scheme was voted "Best Design" by the students in the course, and the class then built the model at full scale outside (with mock walls), to be permanently installed in Andrews Hall at a later time.

The design involves a crisscrossing lattice of wooden members that start in an ordered tangent curve but then branch out down the hallway, seemingly ricocheting off the walls and into the studio space (after final installation in Andrews Hall). The design represents the most fascinating part of the architectural process: that following any one path from an originally ordered set of ideas can lead to an infinite diversity of rich, complex, and divergent outcomes. The design also represents the omnipresence of fundamental patterns in architecture that one discovers only through careful observation.