This was an undergraduate student project by Alexander Maymind for OCMA (Ohio Concrete Masonry Association) Block Competition, as well as ARCH 342 course, Winter 2005. The focus of the OCMA masonry block competition uses concrete block to develop a community center on South High Street. The design began by analyzing the organization of a hairbrush, a system of singular parts that compose a complex whole. The notion of surface deformations, brought about by various organizational manipulations, allow a space to be mediated rather than defined explicity by concrete block. Slippages in a static system of this block allow for vertical fiberglass surfaces which depending on program specificities and desired connections activate and separate the space. A series of horizontal surfaces connects these spaces, using reinforced concrete. The combined effect becomes a multi-scalar separatrix, both defining a new ground from the consumeristic organization of High Street and utilizing the residential co-dependency of the site. -- Alexander Maymind 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: OCMA, student work, KSA, South High Street Community Center, drawings.
