Sunshade is a Building Component Study. This was a graduate student project by Ronnie Parsons for Michael Cadwell's ARCH 841 course, Autumn 2005. The 5th year comprehensive studio began with the development of individual building components: floors, walls, or roofs. The intentions were threefold: to create an ecology of building and site, to integrate building part and whole, and to generate spatial difference through material effects. The sunshade documented here was generated through an extensive study of solar positions, energy savings, and view orientations. As the study proceeded, I also exploited the sunshade's capacity for being a sensual register of lighting effects. ---- Ronnie Parsons This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present. The effort to preserve and digitize drawings in the Student Archives was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation. Keywords: student work, KSA, drawings and plans, diagrams, computer renderings.
