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Apr 15, 2019
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Location: Pomona, Los Angeles County, CA, USA
Point Line Plane Volume
The exhibition gathers models of 100 case studies, built by Cal Poly Pomona Architecture Students over the last semesters, and organizes them through the filter of their formal typologies: point, line, plane, and volume.

The projects are deliberately presented without reference to their program, site, scale, or materiality ? features that are critical in real-world settings but omitted in this study to allow for a focus on formal and compositional aspects, encouraging a direct comparison between otherwise dissimilar projects. Aspects of comparison include the unique challenges and opportunities each of the four typologies offers in respect to circulation, access to natural light, program arrangements, envelope, and construction.
photograph : Katrin Terstegen
The projects, read in this reductive way, can function as generic prototypes and provide a vocabulary that may be used in exploring possible architectural propositions without the constraints of program and site. Using these ideal and generic types as point of departure, the models can then be adapted to the specific requirements and constraints of a project.
The studies were conducted in...