Moving Parts is an interpretation of how education can become more interactive for students and educators. This interest began when researching kinetic architecture and activating stagnant machinery in the Venice III House. The Goldberg-ian contraptions created there are manipulated and extrapolated to apply themselves to a kindergarten classroom setting, forming a kinetic learning experience that allows for diverse program and user base. Floor panels and shifting volumes activate new textures, rooms, and configurations that create a “learn by doing” atmosphere.
Featured in USC SOA’s Selected Works of 2020
Studies and reinterpretations of Morphosis' Venice III House inspired ideas of machinery, movement, and program oriented kinetics. When applied to a seemingly contradictory user of Kindergartners, the result was a dynamic school.
A larger concept of the classroom was placed in an existing re-use warehouse in Culver City. The drawings below demonstrate multiple modes of use in section in plan, showing play (black+white) and education (color), examining how dynamism in program and materiality can allow for flexible spaces.
