Studio 02

The second semester of studio required that we expand on our Big Idea diagrams and models from Studio 01. The program called for a Jazz Club to be located in downtown Denver. We experimented with iterations of the forms we developed in the first semester. From there we worked on sketches, floor plans, elevations and models of the buildings we designed. The final project was scale models of the Jazz Club.

It was exciting to finally work on an idea for a building since the first semester was so abstract. The two things I'll remember from Studio 02 is that our studio instructor was pretty much a hypochondriac - some days it seemed like he would walk into the room and someone would say "you don't look very good" and then we'd have the rest of the day off - and this semester was also the huge snowstorm of '04 in Denver - the entire city was shut down for a week (including work and school). I think it's the only way I was able to get these freakin' models done in time.