CAPTURING MOTION

Capturing motion attempts to freeze one moment in time and manifests it into architecture. The site based in Ann Arbor, Michigan was situated in the area where there was a lot of movement. I saw this as an opportunity to use the idea of movement for my project. The program was a tutor center for the community as well as a train station for the city. I saw the idea of motion not only in the site but also in the program, the motion of the train as it passes through the station, the motion of people as they walk through the building, the motion of knowledge being passed from one person to another or from the books to the individual. This project investigated how to characterize motion and capture it into the architecture. This architecture uses motion to spatialize motion and uses it as a basis of design. The design of the building captures the motion occurring in the site and uses it for spaces. In the design, the void in the center represents an anchor that holds the motion occurring in the site together as a way to distinguish motion with something standing still.