Studio Potter 2015 Volume 43 Number 2 Summer/Fall 2015 | Page 18

18 Studio Potter Shawn Schuler, 2014. Sketches and notes for the interior design of the Artstream. . BIO Camila grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she was lucky enough to be introduced to ceramics in high school. Recently, she completed a post-baccalaureate year at Syracuse University, and is currently living in Fort Collins finishing up a second post-baccalaureate year at Colorado State University. CONTACT [email protected] for a great deal of wood, making them expensive and hard to build, as well as too heavy. With the presentations taking place midsemester, Del was concerned that we have enough time to fabricate the interior. He brought the two groups together, considered everyone’s ideas and designs, and then synthesized a parametric, flexible, and streamlined design that retained the students’ ideas. Some of the main elements, such as a basic shelf and support system, were fixed, but within each, there was ample room to change scale, shape, and quantity. The design called for five different shelf levels, from bench to eye level, each wrapping around the interior of the Airstream in different lengths. The layers of the shelves mimicked geological lines in the earth that you might see while driving through the American west. The shelves would be propped by trusses rising from the floor to the top shelf, which allowed modular sections that could be installed inside or outside of the trailer. When deciding the shape of the shelves, the students considered how water might move through a space, flowing faster in some areas and slower in others. They thought about what kinds of pots would be displayed in the places where people would pause to look more carefully, and what would be shown in the area where traffic moved more quickly. Del’s design distilled all of the students’ important design concepts into simple parameters with the result that the final design was beautiful, but also possible to construct with the time, materials, technology, and skills available. As the class homed in on a final design concept, the students began to delegate tasks based on personal aptitude. Shawn