Student Presenter(s): Carolina Flores-Iglesias, Maxamillion Foley, Jose Molina, Dilara Yesiltepe, Edward Cahill
Faculty Mentor: Elijah Williams
Department: Architecture and Design
School/College: School of Architecture and Design, Long Island

Second-year students in the Architecture program at NYIT conducted an exercise where the end result was a collage of many architectural plans. A plan shows a view from above that can be cut from different places of a structure to show the levels. Students walked into the library and were given the names of some books to find that had plans of different buildings by different architects around the world. Once they found their books, they looked through them to find the plans they were most interested in and photocopied them. They were split into 3 groups and each group made one collage with pieces of each other's plans and it came out very interesting. Curves were combined with straight elements, interior spaces were combined with the exterior, and different scales were also combined. After their first collage was done they went back to find more books for more plans and continued the process of photocopying the books, and then combining different plans with each other. It became more interesting with the experimentation of different scales of the plans and seeing how they look mixed with each other. Students in the class said the emphasis was placed on connecting circulation and spaces. They liked the ability to create a more interesting design and potentially create a more obscure design. One student said that they felt that the assignment was very successful in opening their mind to better and more abstract things.