Mississippi State University Scholars Junction Theses and Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 8-1-2010 On the design-build of small pavilions Agrippa Spence Kellum Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td Recommended Citation Kellum, Agrippa Spence, "On the design-build of small pavilions" (2010). Theses and Dissertations. 3367. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/3367 This Graduate Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Scholars Junction. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholars Junction. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ON THE DESIGN-BUILD OF SMALL PAVILIONS By Agrippa Spence Kellum, Jr. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Mississippi State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Landscape Architecture Mississippi State, Mississippi August 2010 ON THE DESIGN-BUILD OF SMALL PAVILIONS By Agrippa Spence Kellum, Jr. Approved: _________________________________ _________________________________ Charles Taze Fulford Timothy J. Schauwecker Assistant Professor of Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture Committee Co-Chair Committee Co-Chair _________________________________ _________________________________ Robert F. Brzuszek Jason Walker Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture Committee Member Committee Member _________________________________ _________________________________ Chris Campany George M. Hopper Assistant Professor of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Landscape Architecture Interim Dean Graduate Program Coordinator Name: Agrippa Spence Kellum, Jr. Date of Degree: August 8, 2010 Major Field: Landscape Architecture Major Professors: Charles Taze Fulford & Timothy J. Schauwecker Title of Study: ON THE DESIGN-BUILD OF SMALL PAVILIONS Pages in Study: 156 Candidate for Degree of Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) Design-build is the process whereby a project is constructed by the same entity that designed it. Detailed narratives are provided for the collaborative, integrated design- build of two small, relatively contemporary pavilions. The first was constructed as part of a design-build workshop taught by Steve Badanes, director of the Neighborhood Design/Build Studio at the University of Washington Department of Architecture and founder of the international architecture firm The Jersey Devil. The second, a multi-use pavilion on the site of a former junkyard, was implemented as a local volunteer community service project using Badanes' method. A third proposal is also described; an amphitheater honoring the late architect and educator Samuel Mockbee FAIA in his hometown of Canton, Mississippi. An integrated design-build process emphasizes synthesis of assemblages. The design-build of a small pavilion by a group can serve as a simple, straightforward introduction to collaboration and the nature of synthetic processes. Keywords: integrated design-build, collaboration, synthesis DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to the late architect and teacher, Samuel Mockbee FAIA (Figure 0.1). Figure 0.1 - Samuel Mockbee photo courtesy Rural Studio Architects are by nature and pursuit leaders and teachers. If architecture is going to inspire community, or stimulate the status quo in making responsible environmental and social structural changes now and in the future, it will take what I call the 'subversive leadership' of academicians and practitioners to remind the student of architecture that theory and practice are not only interwoven with one's culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo. (Mockbee 1998) Samuel ‘Sambo’ Norman Mockbee FAIA (1944-2001) ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I would like to thank my friends who volunteered to help; Ashley Bankston, Matt Bowman, Jacques Murphree, Tripp Parker, Justin Parker and Jason Blanks. Without the humor, hard work and encouragement of my compatriots, none of this could have happened. We are also very grateful to Rhonda Cook for tolerating extended use of her scaffolding well after it should have been returned to her. We would like to thank director of Starkville Parks and Recreation Clark Roman for his enthusiasm and rapport throughout the project, maintenance supervisor Kenneth Gordon for logistical support, youth act coordinator and current director Matthew Rye for his frequent participation, administrative assistant Deon Williams for her patience, and of course the parks Board of Commissioners for material funding: Chairman Dan Moreland, Ray Berryhill, Wendell Gibson, Dorothy Isaac and Mary Love Tagert. The City of Starkville was exceptionally supportive. Ward 1 alderman Sumner Davis functioned excellently as our primary governmental liaison. Thank you to mayor Dan Camp, vice-mayor Roy A. Perkins, aldermen James Mills, P.C. McLaurin Jr., Richard Corey, Matt Cox, Janette Self, director public services Doug Devlin, city planner Ben Griffith, building inspectors R. K. Honeycutt, Jr., Hugh Guin, and city engineer Bill Webb. We especially appreciate Starkville Electric Department assistant manager Tommy Sullivan’s timely support. Thanks to crew chief David Leal, lineman Scott Rivers, groundmen Brad Scarbrough, Robby Gilliland, John Rogers, and worker Keith Quinn for placing our foundation poles. Starkville–Oktibbeha County Landfill assistant manager Walter Atterberry, gatekeeper Ken Matthews, and operator Charles Dailey helped us sort thru all manner of debris. iii I would like to thank my thesis committee for their ongoing patience and encouragement: Taze Fulford, Tim Schauwecker, Bob Brzuszek, Jason Walker, former graduate program coordinator G. Wayne Wilkerson, current coordinator Chris Campany, Professor Pete Melby and department head Sadik Artunç. I would like to thank David Buege, Michael Berk, Greg Watson, Chris Monson, and Jassen Callender of the College of Architecture, Art + Design as well as Jay Sanders, formerly of the Carl Small Town Center, for their encouragement. I would also like to thank Benjamin Collins and Judy Phillips of the Stennis Institute of Government, Dr. Yolanda Estes of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Dr. Hasan Kosebalaban and Dr. Gerald Emison of the Department of Political Science, Associate Dean of Arts and Science Dr. Walter Diehl, and Dr. John Patrick Lestrade of the Department of Physics. I would especially like to thank Shaima Ghazi Al Arayedh and Dr. Larry Barrow of the College of Architecture, Art + Design Graduate Program for their scholarly examples. I am especially appreciative of Steve Badanes and Jim Adamson of the nomadic international design-build collaborative Jersey Devil for sharing their time-tested processes with me, as well as Gioia Timpanelli for sharing her insights into the intimate structure of storytelling during artists’ residencies hosted by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, funded by generous and very much appreciated grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. I would also like to thank Steve Badanes for reviewing an earlier draft. Kudos to Andrew Freear, Daniel Splaingard, Jeff Bazzell, Julieta Collart, Lana Farka, Connely Farr, Danny Wicke, Whitney Hall, John Marusich, Adam Pearce and everyone at the Rural Studio for their superb example. We very much thank the Mockbee family for their encouragement. Warm thanks to Linda Beaumont, L. Coleman Coker FAIA, Jay Anderson, Tom Howorth FAIA, Jim Thompson, Edward L. Blake, Jr. ASLA, Patrick Alexander, Milica Milunovic, Miranda Grieder, Ashley Norton, Davis Townsend, Bill Seawell, Marilyn Blake and Sam Hogue ASLA. And thank you David Murphree, Jr. for refusing to dissect that poor bullfrog. iv Experience gained as a volunteer with Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems greatly influenced this work. I would like to thank co-directors Gail Vitorri and Pliny Fisk III, Randall Notgrass and resident artist/ceramicist Melanie Schopper. Several artists, authors and photographers have kindly granted permission for their work to be reproduced herein, including several depictions of events and constructions no longer in existence. I would like to thank an unnamed photographer from the Rural Studio, Pratheepps, Calips, Zeljko, Christophe Meneboeuf, Mr. Wabu, Meister der Paraphrasen, Meister der Weltchronik, Bedford Master, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Lucas van Valckenborch, Abel Grimmer, Jacob Grimmer, Lodewyk Toeput, Gustave Doré, M. C. Escher, Diane Andrews Hall, Chip Lord, Doug Michaels, Curtis Schreier, Constance Lewallen, Steve Seid, Richie Diesterheft, Jim Westphalen, Janie Cohen, Danny Sagan, Dave Sellers, Candy Barr, Tom Luckey, David Hirsch, Amos Ih Tiao Chang, Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, John Ringel, Greg Torchio, Bob Moore, Michael J. Crosbie, Lawrence Harris, Will Martin, Donna Walter, Ross Whitehead, Kelly Cline, Susan Piedmont-Palladino, Mark Alden Branch, Sara E. Stemen, Alan Weintraub, Kenneth Wyner, Bill Sanders, Lyonel Feininger, rucativava, Jori Erdman, Robert Weddle, Pliny Fisk III, Gail Vittori, Through the Lens, Gary Hall, John Connell, Andrew Freear, Daniel Splaingard, Jeff Bazzell, Julieta Collart, Lana Farka, Connely Farr, Danny Wicke, Whitney Hall, John Marusich, Adam Pearce, Nick Conroy from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inna Babaeva, Ralph J. Provisero, David Callison, Susan Buzzi,