Garden Room︎︎︎
Type: Pavillion
Location: Lake Forest
Size: 850 SF
Year: 2023
Status: Built
A reinterpretation of the historic Ragdale Ring that adapts the formal, spatial, and social characteristics of a table surrounded by chairs.
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Abstracted and exaggerated proportions confer a sense of theatricality and drama to visitors,
enable multiple scales of interaction, and oscillate between furniture, scenography, and architecture.
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A low bench is bisected by a tall, flat plane that acts as an elongated seat-back for the visitor; a tall mast in the Ragdale garden. One side of the seat-back theatrically frames the body of an individual, with a single integrated light glowing above them. The other, longer side of the seat-back can then accommodate three or four guests.
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Team:
Daniel Garcia
William Smith
Amy Lewin
David Rodriguez
Jason Houck
Kei Tsukamoto
Mele Cruz
Regin Igloria
Stepahnie Scovil
Trent Fredrickson
With:
Beane Engineering
Tom Harris
Awards:
Ragdale Ring Competition
© 2021
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William
Garcia
Smith
Daniel
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