This was an undergraduate student project by Olga Katon 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. High street divides the terrain vague from the residential city. In order to bring the two together a building must embody both the ideas of the terrain and the city with which it is placed. This project attempts to address this issue by: 1. Using the landscape, not only for placement of the building, but also as a system of circulation throughout the building. 2. Having no main entry, providing a vagueness of start and finish, yet still maintaining pieces of precise circulation and program. 3. Using inversion of the movie screen on the site to bring light and emphasizing the importance of education and the environment to the city.-- Olga Katon 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.
