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Award - Undergraduate Winner

Entrant: Julia Mitchell

Project Name: Choreography of Space

Project Type: Studio Project/Self-Directed

Project Description: Undergraduate design thesis on the study and experience of human movement through space as influenced by the built environment that it inhabits.

Month/Year Completed: May 2009

School Name: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Faculty Sponsor: Michael Ermann, Associate Professor, Architecture 2-3 Chair

Jury Comments: Process of design with large physical model commendable. Models well built and evocative. Interior space is triumphant.  A building for dance with movement:  even the spectators participate. Suggests great discovery on the part of the student. Confirms that music expands the part of the brain that conceptualizes three dimensions. This project is distinguished by its depth of investigation. Very concise text. Exceptional.