ENTROPY

order becomes chaos in the addition to Georgia Tech’s architecture building

Georgia Tech Freshman Studio Professor Athanasios Economou






Spring 2016


Through a thorough investigation of Heffernan's use of a grid in most aspects of COA East Building, the new addition should contrast and comment on the grid in the original building through the implementation of a transition from the present grid to a disordered space. This should be accomplished while following the intentions he had to invoke a response from an individual in the space, while closely following the structural system, circulation system, and programming areas of the original building in order to contrast and compliment the original architectural elements will cause the individual inhabiting the space to consciously and subconsciously respond to the experience in a specific way intended by the designer. The intention is to invoke a response in the beholder.
































Constructivist Relief After studying the two-dimensional proportions of Heffernan, this constructivist art relief takes that grid and makes disorder out of order. This turns uniformity into something seemingly chaotic. The art relief consists of a box of wooden cubes that can be shaken in order to create an experience of entropy.



Heffernan’s Grid The architecture East Building is proportional on a square grid, the column and structural system help to maintain the grid with their placement. This attention to proportion is an aspect of the architect's intent to make the building a fine art, and this attention to proportion and detail makes the building art. This grid could also be seen as relentlessly ordered and precisely laid out with 16x16 feet squares creating the grid throughout the building.