The 1994-95 form•Z Joint Study
 
Award of distinction 1994-1995

Corn Research Facility
by Brad Parsons
Junior Design Studio
Instructor: Nathanial Belcher
Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture
Columbus, Ohio

Project Description: This was a project for a Wood Competition. The requirements were to build a primarily wood structure, including a single room lab elevated eight feet above the ground and an observation tower. The building is located in a cornfield at the edge of town.


Modeled and rendered with form•Z RenderZone.

PI's Comments: This student was clearly able to take advantage of the electronic tools both for analyzing the programmatic requirements of this project, and for compositing his final solution. He was then able to produce a complete presentation, including line drawings and photorealistic images, in a fraction of the time it would have required to do the same project by hand, and at a significantly higher level of quality.

Jury Comments:

Robert Wandel: The 3rd year student explores wood construction with modeling techniques made easy with form•Z. The falling or tumbling quality of the sticks in the corn field is probably more literal than structural.

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