Joseph P. Donaher DESIGN
TYPE:Undergraduate Thesis
MEDIUM7” x 6” x 5” Resin Printed Model
YEAR:2025
The study model assembles a dense elevation of exaggerated architectural features into a theatrical urban wall. A dancing figural stringcourse animates façades with balletic rhythm, pirouetting across window bays and carving a serpentine narrative between levels. Chunky, chimney towers rise like toy fortifications evoking simultaneously American industrial relic and TV cartoon silhouette. At the ground-level, grotto-like entrances are sculpted with a matching figural impulse. Parametric mansard roofs erupt into ornate geometries, distorting the traditional roofline into something operatic, speculative and contemporary.