Architecture
Shannon Story
Big Ears Festival Pavilion
2nd Year Design Studio
Professor Kathy Wheeler
Site Location: 707 N Central St, Knoxville, TN 37917
Designing for: temporary structure, understanding of place, respect for history
The Big Ears Pavilion serves to be a part of the temporary Big Ears Concert Festival in Knoxville. The project began with analysis of the site history and populous. Through this a template of time was created with project cardinal points. This mapping ultimately produced an overlapping pavilion representative of how time is a layering process. The event space not only forms historical representation but is experiential through the circulation pattern. Use of concert lighting was also integrated through the mass timber structure so that uplights could illuminate the pavilion towards the sky as a spectacle for the city to see and desire to experience.
Understanding the Site through time
Modeled Analysis of the change of the site block through time. The panels fold atop one another for each decade to visually show the rise in population, building integrations as well as provide comparisons.
The analysis deduced that through history though the population of the county increased the block remained fairly true to its original specifications. Thus in the temporary design obstruction of the site should be minimal. Therefore, the design will be based from the cardinal directions of buildings through time in recreating axis of architecture.
