U0058 AISC STEEL COMPETITION ENTRY

Project Team : Jimmy Darlin

Instructor: Gernot Reither

Advising: Andrew J. Wit + James Kerestes + Wes Janz + Timothy Gray

This project was an entrance for the AISC steel competition in 2014, in collaboration with Jimmy Darling.

As a brief we were required "to design a border-crossing station sited on a boundary between two countries". Our boundary was between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada. 

This project placed second in the competition for third year architecture students at Ball State. 

Process

An exploration into what a border is and could be in 2030.

1. existing condition
2. the different borders
3. high security 
4. terra nullius
5. transportation
6. no borders

Conceptual form finding

for this exercise we began to explore our instinctual interpretation of how an intertwinning space would flow. Traditional medium were chosen as a tool and abstraction as a technique

Flow Diagram Model

to visualize the programatic interweaving, a basic 3d grid was extruded and yarn symbolizing pathways was strung throughout.

Presentation

physical model