Evan Brooks-02

Studio

A202 Building From The Ground Up

Advisor

Ron Rael

Introduction

This studio investiated the poetics of the materially rich endeavor of designing a

house made for a client with a stong relationship or affi nity to dust: a house for

a salero in the salt falts of Bolivia, a North Carolina BBQ Pitman who produces

ash from the smoking of whole hogs, a house for a thresher, mad of chaff. The

selection of a speculative client will be made through careful research of place,

occupation and material. Futher research took place which provoked students

to reorganize particulate matter through a clear process and workfl ow to

produce forms, formwork, objects and models, drawings, and animations that

demonstrate capacity to transform materials from raw source to a highly crafted

and designed artifact and to celebrate the reemergence of dust in architecture.

Links

https://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/galleries/arch#/2014-graduate-student-work