Illusive Boundaries

Description: This was a student project by Samantha Popa for Stephen Turk's ARCH 442 course, Winter 2007. The goal of the project was to develop a strategy to integrate a hotel and casino into downtown Columbus, Ohio. Distinction between hotel and casino was made by allowing/preventing and understanding of an envelope while within the space. The manipulation of surfaces also provided for personal interaction in which ones boundary is established by his/hers understanding of boundary rather than clear cut division walls. Indication of smaller spaces is provided through the use of partition walls which allow occupants to settle and inhabit in a field object style. A reoccurring theme throughout the design is the transition from rectilinear to curvilinear, and is most apparent on the ground level which uses the transition to both open up and return space intended for public use. - Samantha Popa 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.