This was a student project by Hristina Panovska and Kristopher Cochran for Lisa Tilder's ARCH 844 course, Spring 2007. ... A healthy city is therefore comprised of a series of cellular communities that pertain to a specific region, belong to a specific landscape and as a result, develop a specific identity. Saarinen's investigation of Detroit circa 1933 as decentralized figure-ground relationship of this method helps yield a similar study of Cranbrook. This process of clustered communities works like a fractal, applying the same logic from an urban scale down to scale of the Cranbrook Academy of Art campus and the very buildings themselves. For the addition to the Eliel Saarinen Art Museum and Library, we propose series of courtyards that wrap the original Saarinen buildings, integrating the new with the old in a landscaped setting. The different spaces relate to one another by their position relative to the East-West axis [also known as the Ramp of the Chinese Dog], as well as their material qualities. ... -- Hristina Panovska and Kristopher Cochran 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.
