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By amplifying the tessellation and porosity if the geodesic dome I am
giving the geodesic dome a face lift.
This thesis looks to misconstrue the face of the geodesic dome, by
amplifying its unintentional, yet inherent esthetic, and monumental
qualities. I am proposing to bring depth and discontinuity to a typology
that has been about continuity and surface. A face with no ears, no eyes,
no nose is not a face. Similarly a building with no face is not architecture.
The dome has been the most celebrated forms in architecture since
its genesis, while the geodesic dome has been adored by Scientists and
structural engineers. Buckminster Fullers interests were only in
structural efficiency, not in monumentality or surface effects which
were the driving forces of historic domes such as the Pantheon.
This is a 1,700 seat rock star arena sits weightlessly in Los Angeless
Pershing Square, and acts both as an urban speaker screaming sound
outward through its ears, and brings in the noises from the city.

Thesis Summer 2011

Rock Star Arena
Program: Elena Manferdini
Term:

Program:

Partner:

Me, Myself, and I

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