Cascading

by Anna Raines

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The addition of topography opened new avenues for exploring the various facets of “slipping” developed in earlier ideation models. Four “court-sets” cascade from the street down a hill, looking toward the Charlotte skyline. Oriented North, this aggregation of court-sets aims to utilize the courtroom thresholds generated previously with the path of the sun to highlight the passage of time during the court experience. Glimpses and reveals between and through the massing model blocks articulate the quality of “spaces between”; the sense of successive frames simultaneously separating and connecting each space.