Mediating between the ground of the site and the base of the dry dock in a site below the Seaport in Boston, this film shed explores the roof as a moment that conflates and flips understandings of this surface, playing with the boundaries between roof and floor, interior and exterior, and detachment vs. intimacy.

A long span roof in a structure of this size usually connotes an inaccessibility due to size, and therefore, a hyper detachment from the space that encloses and protects. My roof stitches and panelizes, hyperbolic paraboloids to conflate this notion of hyper-detachment with a new intimacy of space both below and on top of it, allowing both the public and the shed’s occupants to utilize the surface.

Programmatically, the sound stages occupy spaces of detachment, where such a distance from the roof surface becomes a necessary programmatic requirement, while other programs nestle into the more intimate space below this surface.

Core 2, Harvard GSD

Spring 2021

Studio Iman Fayyad

 

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