Veiled Lady

University of Kentucky
College of Design
School of Architecture

ARC 599/499: Spring 2021 Design Elective

Fabricating Play

Fabricating Play explores the use of the systematic processes of digital design and fabrication directed towards the development of an architectural installation that considers how the resulting artifact may activate user participation. This full-scale intervention will serve as a prototype for the design and production of architecture.

The Veiled Lady is a small scale installation designed, fabricated, and assembled for EXPANSION, Lexington’s only Psych Rock and Experimental-focused Music Festival. Moving around and through the space, the structural profiles expand and contact at once providing shade and creating a variety of lighting effects. At night it becomes a later to augment the experience of the music festival.

The enclosure includes built in tables and chairs on inside and exterior and was designed for multiple uses. All waste material from the fabrication process was able to be recycled.

2021 Spring Course Participants
Bryce Emerson, Lorraine Fay, Alexi Hary, Hannah Jackson, Montre’ale Jones, Daniel Langford, Gaby Melendez, Bryson Watson, Morgan Wesley

2021 Summer Fabrication Team
Hannah Jackson, Chase Faulkner, Heather Reeves, Kay Bailey, Madeleine Cordray, Olivia Rippetoe

Special thanks to EXPANSION, UK College of Design, and UK/CoD Shop Manager Paul Masterson for helping realize the project.

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