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Sketches April 23

On Rue d’Orléans- Performance platform and underneath, a changing room/ green room for performers, in regular days, serves as changing/ refresher rooms for dancers before they proceed down into their dance classes



The ground above the dance spaces which face Rue Seymour Pradel (Street between the Manoir Alexandra’s garden and the Alliance Française on the other side):


Dance Space, from early explorations to later design schemes incorporating the steel into the ground and structure even more



The spiral staircase into Rue Seymour Pradel: 

WEDDING CAKE

Article on Mud Cakes in Haiti in 2008: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/29/food.internationalaidanddevelopment

And after January 12 2010, they all wanted a piece of that Cake. As a matter of fact I just learned about another expensive fund amassed by an impromptu NGO to “clean the rubble” from the earthquake of two years ago.

Up in the Air

For my second to last official thesis review, I suggested a scheme inspired by viaplana’s light steel structure in Barcelona, which delineates a path through the plaza….

Weary of an approach that reminds me way too much of all the elevated schemes in architecture these days (the High Line in NY being the most popular) I still attempted to test this design:

Mahogany stairs

Mahogany, or acajou, was a highly prized tree native to the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue and almost entirely deforested during the eighteenth century to satisfy the vogue for furniture in the dark wood. The wood for the bridge as well as for a mahogany garden pavilion echoing the mahogany pavilions on the Laborde plantations was supplied directly from Laborde’s sugar estates.

Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization | Jil Casid