This was an undergraduate student project by Brian Pickard for Bart Overly's ARCH 442 course, Winter 2005.
With the desire to promote collaboration between the Dispatch Companies, the ideal form of the plenum serves to both organize and filter programmatic interactions and establish a framework around which derivation of public and private circulation can be made. As space converges within the plenum, a second pedestrian city is established at a height specific to that of the rotunda of the capital building, providing the opportunity for a new horizon within the city. Upon further articulation of the plenum surface, a second topography is produced, providing a series of elevated green-spaces and exterior civic space. Program is distributed based on contextual relationships; yet programmatic subcategories are articulated based on spatial relations to the plenum structure. The general interiority of these interactions allows for the creation of a public presence within the corporate mainframe, while maintaining the ideology of the complex as a whole. -- Brian Pickard.
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: drawings, student work, KSA, plenum
