Double Jeopardy

View of interior of the East Lounge.

The Project

The commission to design and build two student lounges with the students as employees allowed for the possibility to explore whether the opposition between machine and craft could be re-negotiated through technologies available within a school of architecture.

The two sites for the lounges were located at opposite ends of a symmetrical building.

Double Jeopardy - Site Plan [opens in a pop-up window - 46.3kb image]

The East Lounge is more concealed and thus used for intimate interaction.

The designers adopted a similar orientation at both sites instead of mirroring it.

The use of a single diagrammatic strategy afforded a conceptual efficiency while retaining a high degree of spatial diversity.

Unlike the "mirror", which imposes site priorities to the diagram, the "slide" allowed for a better mediation between the identity of each site allowing for repetition and thus optimization.

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