This was an undergraduate student project by Michael Thomas for Yoo Sang Ahn's ARCH 441 course, Autumn 2005. A series of small projects, namely: TYPE_ing, SITE_ing, and PROGRAM_ing, which cumulatively become a strategy for developing operative techniques of design. What start out as a system developed with a set of rules and operands evolves into increasingly architectural scenarios with respective manifestations. Here, the mechanics of the lighter becomes a form-making device for the pavilion. Overlaid are the requirements of the commercial in its various typological forms; which partner to capitalize on the other's programmatic strengths. This system of siphoning allows for the optimization of not only square footage, but transcends to issues of efficiency, propriety and financial gain. - Michael Thomas 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.
