INSIDE OUT - OUTSIDE IN

Core I Studio • Jump Cut

Harvard GSD • Instructor: Sean Canty • Fall 2021

This project seeks to spatialize an artistic sculptural technique by manipulating circulation path and space within a building.

The project chooses to separate the two jump cuts. This decision motivates the project to generate a surface continuity to connect the two sides. The two jump cuts would sometimes act independently, and sometimes would conjoin, allowing passage between them at certain levels.

The single continuous facade of the project is the formal device that connects the two juxtaposing typologies. The facade coils at both of its ends, creating two circulation devices, the conical and cylindrical sequence, that connects at the rooftop through a path that emerges from the interior space. Unlike the cylindrical sequence that offers a consistent and predictable spatial experience, the conical sequence on the exterior allows one to experience compression and expansion as they walk through the path.

To maintain the concept of continuity, the project also utilizes peeling as a formal connector device that allows one to transgress between the two typologies at certain levels. Thus, this creates continuity between certain levels of the two buildings that might have programmatic implications.