Presentation Day

Today our class finished our final projects and got everything ready to present to anyone who wanted to see.  Everyone set op their models, drawings, and descriptions of their pavilions for anyone to see. Unfortunately, a lot of people from the architecture class did not even show up to show and explain their pavilion. Adding on to that, there were not nearly as many people that came to the architecture presentations as there were last time. Luckily I was able to explain my groups pavilion idea to friends and family members and got good feedback.

Unfortunately I do not have any photographs of what our final project looked like but here is the description that I helped type up of our project.

Pavilion Project Description

Our pavilion is meant to look like a forest to provide a place of safety and comfort. This

pavilion incorporates with the overall required theme because in the future we believe that architecture will be more about the environment in the aspect that it will be better for the environment. This is because we believe that buildings will become more eco-friendly by being made out of recyclable materials and more biomass. This is shown in our idea because the “trunks” of the trees are made of old telephone poles. We will have “branches” made of bamboo with “tree tops”. The connected “tree tops” will be made of canvas fabric. There will be additional stand alone branches on the sides of the telephone poles to help the direct the rain flow away from the audience in a more neat manner. The stage and benches of the pavilion will be made of wood which may possibly be recycled. It is important to say that the branches connect all the trees together to help symbolize how we are connected to one another.

       

At the base of the trunks of the trees there will be oval shapes that have two levels of benches for visitors to sit when they watch performances. Only four trees will have seats while the fifth one will have a larger wooden platform that will be used as the stage. The pavilion will not have walls; therefore there is the issue of elements like wind, rain, and snow. One form of shelter that we do have, are triangle pieces that form the top of the pavilion. The highest points will be above the seats, and will run down the triangles towards the stage (lowest point). We will also have branches on the side of the telephone poles with angled canvas sheets to help direct the flow of rainwater. These ‘Branches’ on the side will also help protect the audience and stage from rain that is coming from the sides if there is some wind, it will not fully keep out rain from the sides, but it will help some.This will help downpours such as rain, snow, and hail. Hanging from the tree tops will be glass shards. These shards will catch light, and create a  beautiful light effect on the stage.

The construction of our pavilion will begin with putting in the old telephone poles in the ground. The poles will be spread about They will go the maximum six inches into the ground, along with additional support. This support will have six two by fours connected between the pole to the ground for support. A couple inches above there will be more two by fours that connect to the pole and the flat two by fours at a 45 degree angle. These will be connected with screws or nails of some kind. The branches will be made of wood and will be connected to the telephone poles with metal connectors so that they will stay in place. We believe we will use a SIMPSONS Strong Tie Connectors to connect the branches to the telephone poles.

There will be four areas of seating that will be used. The four areas will be different in size. Smallest seating area is to the right of the stage. The rest of the areas will be slightly larger, in a pentagon shape (including the stage). The distance between the stage and the smallest area will be 13 ft. The smallest area, to the second smallest is 12 ft. Second smallest to 3rd Smallest is 11 ft. etc. The stage, and the largest seating area being 8 ft.  The stage will be shaped as a large oval, larger at one end, which is facing outwards of the pavillion. The different sections will be hollow, with the 2x4’s underneath the seating/stage.