In this assignment we chose two buildings, one a residence, the other a quarantine unit. After researching, I compared the two buildings. I chose Ellis Island and the Embryonic House by Greg Lynn. The differences were obvious, Ellis Island was a large, old building built in the 1900s. The Embryonic House is what is known as "Blob Architecture" and has never been built. The challenge was finding the similarities between them. The similarity is not in what they are but rather in what they represent. The information and similarity can be found in the brochure below.
The next part of the assignment was to Diagram different aspects of the two buildings. The first one I did was a pie chart of the major nationalities found in quarantine on Ellis Island. This graph also shows the percent of quarantine patients that were under the age of 10. Then next diagram is a figure-ground map that shows the isolation of the two buildings, which is very similar. Thirdly, I diagramed the circulation of the two buildings. Ellis Island's circulation is very structured, whereas the Embryonic House's circulation is more free.
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