Learning As Biomimicry
Dila Cakmak, B.Arch ’23
ARCH 202b: Architectural Design II
Gallery: The Materiality of Schools, Sites, and Sheds
Instructor: Jennifer Siegal
The project seeks to blur the boundaries between inside and outside. The existing bow truss shed offers a structural and material palette exploring biomimicry and reinvention. Open to the air and surrounding context, the building extends, invites and embraces the living environment producing a new architecture for children.
Inspired by the set of language developed while studying a multi-leveled single classroom for P2, P3 developed this same idea while building a kindergarten for 60 students, using the entire shed building. The final design aimed towards the creative education and entertainment of the children.
Site address: 12210 Nebraska avenue, Los Angeles, 90025