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A M E R ICA N A RCHI T EC TU RE
Room 1 Design
You will start by walking into the room and feeling like you stepped back in time. There will be
displays on both your left and right, with a joining feature on the far back wall. The wall on your
left will have displays from the pueblo people. The right wall will have display from the colonial
American people. The back wall will have large 3D displays of the homes being spoken about.
The left will show the pueblo homes features, such as the walls made of earth mixed with water
and straw. Then on the right will be Georgian colonial home features with wood with clapboard
or shingle cladding walls. Each display will be a glass box holding artifacts and materials from
each group. The wall will be lined with the story of the people, the history, and religion they
both brought forward. The story and history will be told more in depth and closer to today’s
time period as you walk further back into the room towards the homes. There will be manikins
showing what they people looked like and wore from both groups, and they will be strategically
placed by the 3D homes and throughout the floor. Each manikin will have a button beside it that
you can press to hear the story of that person’s life. The back wall featuring the homes will have
descriptions of what the interior looked like and which part of the home were used for. The
entrance and exit will be the same door, with a title across the top stating the years to which
these groups were in.
Room 1: Taos Pueblo
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-buildings-of-the-taos-
pueblo-this-native-american-village-has-been-90263280.html
http://chambersarchitects.com/blog/pueblo-architecture-
taos-new-mexico/
Taos Pueblo, in Taos, New Mexico around the 1000’s AC.
Room 1: Georgian Colonial
http://sweethousedreams.blogspot.com/2017/05/daboll-
homestead-1750-georgian-colonial.html
https://www.wentworthstudio.com/historic-styles/georgian/
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/queen-anne-budget
Room 3 Design
This room design will be similar to the other two room designs from the previous assignments.
The room will be split in two, one half will show the Chrysler building and the other will show
the Pfeiffer building. The walls of the room will be different from each other. They will still be
showing the inside of the building, but the Chrysler building will be almost like your looking out
from one of the top floors. The wall will show a mural of the city around it. For the Pfeiffer
Chapel, you will be looking at the unique tapestry stones on the walls, just like that of the
chapels. You again will be seeing some manakins sitting in the chapel, taking place during a
sermon, and the manakins in the Chrysler building will be working just as they were when it first
opened. The story and details of each building will be on written on stands around the rooms,
along with artifacts and other added details of people stories. The race for the sky will be
mentioned for the Chrysler building, and the background of Frank Lloyd Wright will be
mentioned for the Pfeiffer Chapel. You will enter and exit through the same entrances.
Room 3: Modern American
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_architecture
https://www.archdaily.com/551053/how-3d-printing-is-saving-a-frank-lloyd-wright-
treasure/5422c87bc07a80aa17000085-how-3d-printing-is-saving-a-frank-lloyd-wright-treasure-
photo
Pfeiffer Chapel, 1941, Lakeland, FL, Frank Lloyd Wright,
Modern American
Room 3: Skyscraper
https://www.historylists.org/architecture/list-
of-20-most-spectacular-art-deco-skyscrapers-
in-the-us.html
http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/chr
ysler-building/422
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/chrysler-building-
lobby.html
Room 4 Design
This room will be fairly unique compared to the other room designs. The room will be divided by
a glass wall to mimic the glass exterior of both buildings. On the left side will be the Seagram
building, and the right will have the Lever House Building. There will be blue-green glass on the
side for the Lever House building, and regular glass “windows” on the Seagram building side.
Both sides will have steel columns placed in the room, mostly for looks rather than structural
support. In front, right as you walk in each room, there will be a model showing the different
plazas that both buildings have. There will be stands that will tell what exactly the different
floors entail, and what occupies them. There will be mannequins to show what they people
looked like and dressed like during that time period. There will also be artifacts from the
buildings that line the walls, along with stands that tell stories from the people of the time
describing their role in the building or maintaining of the particular building. On the walls will be
murals showing the New York City skyline. It will be almost as if you stepped into the building
and are looking out from the inside.
Room 4: International Style
Lever House, New York City, NY, 1952, international style, Gordon Bunshaft and
Natalie de Blois
https://rfr.com/properties/property/
390-park-avenue/
http://www.boweryboyshistory.com
/tag/lever-house
Room 4: International Style
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gram-building/3529
https://issuu.com/fallonwalton8/docs/publicati
on_seagram_single
http://www.coloredfilms.com/6460R-green-ice-reflective-
window-film.aspx
Exterior Design
The exterior of the museum will be an interesting one. The front steps to enter the museum will
be of different colored stone or granite. The color of the stone will change when the light from
the sun hits them, just as it does in the Humana Building. The front of the building will be facing
east and the back of the building facing west, this was you can see the steps change color as the
day progresses. The front of the building will have large windows and there will be plenty of light
entering the building from all sides. The roof will have solar panels to provide energy for the
building. One either side of the building, there will be small garden areas for people to sit and
relax in, filled with park benches and even a playground. The roof will also collect water and will
have a drainage system that will lead a majority of the water to the grassy garden areas. The
building itself will be built with sustainable materials, and a few steel columns, to match that of
the Humana and DEC center buildings. The exterior of the building should make people wonder
what other styles of buildings are out there, and how can a building be designed well while still
being sustainable.
Exterior: Postmodern Style
Humana Building, Louisville, KY, 1982, Micheal Graves,
Postmodern architecture
https://insiderlouisville.com/ec
onomy/aetna-to-buy-humana-
for-37-billion-2/
https://www.architectmagazine
.com/project-gallery/humana-
building-6740
Exterior: Green Architecture
DEC Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2013, Shepley Bulfinch, Green http://wordpress.philau.edu/today/2014/06/19/dec-center-earns-
Architecture leed-gold-certification-for-sustainability/
http://wordpress.philau.edu/today/2014/09/23/philau-names-the-
lawrence-n-field-dec-center-for-real-estate-entrepreneur/
Exterior: Difference in Construction
These buildings were built closer to todays time period, and they have lots of offer. The Humana
building is postmodernism style and has some interesting features. It is a building made up of 525,000
sq ft and is 26 stories high. It was inspired by the Chicago Tribune tower competition in the 1920s.
The building consists of lots of stone materials such as grey, pink, and red granite, and then steel as
well. The more than 33,000 pieces of granite used came from several different countries, including
Finland, Brazil, Angola, India, and Sardinia. The tapestry-like colors of the building seem to shift with
the changing light of the day, and at night floodlights keep the building a highlight of the Louisville
skyline. The DEC Center Building is a 40,000 square-foot space that houses the Kanbar College of
Design, Engineering and Commerce, which has an award-winning curriculum that forges
collaborations between designers, engineers and entrepreneurs. The building features a two-story
central forum with audio-visual equipment; digital media center; seminar rooms with high definition
projection; and fully equipped industrial work spaces, perfect for students to learn on and become
successful in their careers. Some of the features earned the DEC Center a LEED gold rating, mostly
because the building includes a stormwater management system, heat-reducing green roof, water-
efficient faucets and toilets, solar pre-heat of hot water, energy-efficient lighting, partial geothermal
power from the University’s first geothermal well, and the solar veil to control heat. The Humana
Building has a three-part design. The six-story lower portion, which is related on the exterior to the
adjacent cast-iron buildings, houses a cafeteria and the executive offices in addition to the lobby. The
other offices are housed in the body of the building, and the top of the Humana Building has a
conference center, a theater, a health center, and a spacious projecting porch. The DEC building is one
of two sustainable designed buildings on the campus. Very important to the community and campus.
Exterior: Comparison and Contrast
Technology made some huge advancements over the years, but none has made such impacts as
the technologies created during the 1970s and after. Many different objects were made for
different reasons, and many of the inventions have been updated and are still used today.
Technology such as the floppy disk, digital watch, Walkman’s, and email were all created in the
1970s and helped make the world progress into big and better things. These and other
technology have influenced the way the buildings were designed. The DEC Center has the audio-
visual equipment and a digital media center for the students and faculty to use and advance
careers. The Humana Building used some of the technology as well, such as the computer and
email, which played a huge part in the stability of the company. Sustainable design, or green
building, has become very important over recent years as well. “Green building is a concept that
starts with the understanding that the built environment can have profound effects, both
positive and negative, on the natural environment, as well as the people who inhabit buildings
every day. Green building is an effort to amplify the positive and mitigate the negative of these
effects throughout the entire life cycle of a building,”(USGBC.org). The DEC Center was given a
LEED gold rating. LEED acts as a outline for decision-making for projects, rewarding best
practices and innovation and recognizing good building projects with different levels of LEED
certification. Green building can really help our future become cleaner and brighter.
Exterior
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