DETAIL IN ARCHITECTURE

Detail in Architecture | James Petty | pettydesign

Graduate Work

Spring 2014
1 week
crit: Deborah Berke
Yale School of Architecture

 

Using a minimum of two dissimilar materials, we were charged to create a joint detail specific to those materials. The project was to be built at 1:1 scale, using actual materials and methods of joining. The detail must contribute to a larger idea of how the two materials can be used in design.

This project became an investigation of attaching and precise detail of concrete and wood. The Yale Center for British Art directly across the street from our school (designed by Louis Kahn) was a direct inspiration of simplicity and precision.

Detail in Architecture | James Petty | pettydesign

Detail in Architecture | James Petty | pettydesign

Detail in Architecture | James Petty | pettydesign

Detail in Architecture | James Petty | pettydesign

About pettydesign

James Petty is an American architect experiencing and contributing to the Yale School of Architecture.