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Yoruba Wedding Chapel - Final Project
The intent of this project was to design a space that would insert a cultural pavilion seamlessly into the urban fabric while subtly improving the experience of the city. The building is designed with an orientation towards spots on the site with the best quality of local light. The building’s roof connects the urban street level to a nearby rooftop terrace, and the setting of the wedding is sunken and embedded below the sloping roof. The roof adds an acoustic quality of the roof helps to improve the experience of the cultural wedding that occurs in the pavilion, meanwhile provides a urban space that would benefit many Boston urbanites, especially the hotel guests and visitors of the public library.
So I began the project thinking a mainly about how can create a ceiling that was an active architectural element. I was thinking how the ceiling would slope up from the entry portal, and how that in effect creates the experience of growing and shrinking as one exists and leaves. the other benefit is the acoustic qualities of such a sloping room. Not to mention, I have alway been interested in the idea of ceilings and floors being you united, so I have my ceiling folding and wrapping around the space, becoming essentially two planes at once.
Once given a site, I know I was going to make some extreme changes in terms of spatial qualities and characteristics that I have decided for the building. That, and I knew there was a whole new list of things that I had to consider, for example local light, ambient sound of the urban area, pedestrian and traffic circulation, views, building heights, history, and so on so forth. The list can go on. In effect the building must be conscious of it surrounds and at least aware if not explicitly friendly to the “public.”
I began to focus heavily on public integration to the site and I was fascinated by this idea of a permeable outer wall, that loosely defined the barrier between the culturally distinct wedding space and the external existing urban fabric.
[Draft]
