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Laminar Flow

For ARCH 551: Stairs, Stands, and Ziggurats - Sarah Blankenbaker

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Program: Performance Venue

Size: 125' x 96' x 42'

Floor Area: 15,000 sf.

Laminar Flow is a multistage performance venue designed as an oppositional response to Archizoom's No-Stop City. Where No-Stop City presents an 'open, but interior' plan, Laminar Flow argues for a 'closed, but exterior' plan, and in doing so offers structured circulation and clearly bounded areas for visitors to move through and enjoy.

 

The project's form is separated into two interdependent halves: the outer areas are low, supporting structures offering circumferential circulation and access to the inner area, which has a vertical design and houses the main performance spaces and viewing areas. Together, they present as a singular, precariously solid mass.

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Process Work

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Initial massing focused on arranging distinct stages and viewing stands.

Second Iteration

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The second iteration added considerations of occupancy and line of sight, and added a stepped form to connect the various stages and seating areas.

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