SCOPIC DEVICE - AN ARCHITECTONIC STUDY
STUDIO 02
INSTRUCTOR: STEPHAN KOWAL
"The project invites students to develop a scopic device to appreciate immediate surrounding spaces, framed by an architectonic structure that produces space itself. In this way, the construction aims to tame the space where architecture appears, on a sheet of paper or in a architectonic model, in studio or at home."
The scopic device designed is titled Ravel III, after the third movement in the Miroirs Suite composed by Maurice Ravel. It is sited at a south-east facing hallway in the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism building at Carleton University, Ottawa. The device resembles a ship with a vertical member at its front which juxtaposes an overall flat, horizontal base. The moveable sun shade device is reminiscient of the ropes on a sail which creates the loosely defined major space of the project. Minor spaces can be found in and around the device. Ravel III relies primarily on light and time and it aims to truly understand the conditions of the site it resides in.
