Abstract:
The concept of Citizen Science has an overall aim of making the sciences available to all, promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing and interaction.1 It aims to bring both amateurs and experts of all ages and abilities together to create opportunities to learn. It can cover a multitude of disciplines, ranging from traditional topics such as biology, to developing technologies such as digital design and fabrication.2 The objective of this thesis is to design and construct a small-scale 1:1 pavilion for Henderson High School. The built project directly explores the underlying ideas of citizen science – collaboration, knowledge sharing and interaction – as these are essential to designing and producing unique architectural outcomes. The project can be viewed as a small-scale example of a real world architectural project, as it follows the complete design journey starting from conceptual design through to construction of the pavilion and its installation on site. From an architectural perspective this thesis has a focus on exploring how both digital and analogue design and fabrication methods can produce an outcome. The small-scale, ‘folly like’ nature of the project influences an architectural outcome that is lead by both detail and an exploration of architectural expression.