The Hidden Room Gsd

The hidden room harvard gsd instructor sean canty fall 2017 16 days this project involves designing a group of five rooms one of which seems to be hidden from the other four.

The hidden room gsd. The first assignment asks us find a way of concealing a room inside a predetermined space. This is the actual hidden room ever so slightly shifted off axis like the other conditions defying its true orientation. Hovering in the center of this plaza is a rock containing all of the meeting chambers for both congressional bodies and all of their committees. By chen lu march i 15 1 6 and ben burdick march i 15 7 9 this project involves designing a group of five rooms one of which seems to be hidden from the other four.

The hiddenness in this project is expected as being contradictory to users spatial comprehension which is gained form sequential visual perception. Harvard gsd instructor. The concept of hidden room comes from the experimental study with folded geometry that creates perspective illusions. Finally if one can navigate to the hidden sliding panels located to the east and west in rooms 2 4 one can meander through 1 of 2 narrow corridors led by an oculus of light that was once visible from the surface.

Mariana ibanez fall 2015 this project involves designing a group of five rooms one of which seems to be hidden from the other four. We are to use techniques of camouflage obsfucation type manipulation etc to find a way to implant this room such that it is hidden i like this hidden room problem because it must be approached by contorting the limitations into a solution. Throughout the project perceptual scale distortion happens mostly in interior framed views while the facade remains static. As a foamy mix of spaces the rock contains a variety of rooms from short to tall big to small and orthogonal to oblique that become an ad hoc territory of decision making.