We were really lucky to collaborate with the tile industry on a design-build project for the 2022 Coverings Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
This spring, School of Architecture faculty members Joshua Vermillion and Paul Morrison led a multi-disciplinary group of students from Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Theater in a design-build elective, sponsored entirely by companies in the tile and coverings industry.
Working in small teams, the students designed and then built a spatial pavilion comprised of 6 custom seating bench/follies each uniquely arranged along a serpentine wall. This wall, running 15 feet in length, is covered by a custom tiled mosaic composed from over 1600 uniquely cut tiles, to form a gray-scale gradient pattern. Each seating folly is comprised from the interplay of geometric primitives such as prisms, triangles, cubes, and hexagons.
Completed two days ahead of schedule, the pavilion was deployed in the 2022 Coverings Lounge as part of the Coverings show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Currently, the pavilion is now on display in the School of Architecture’s building lobby.
Many thanks to @coveringsshow@nationaltilecontractorsassn@arizonatile@wedicorp@mapeiusa@iqpowertools@qeptools and @schlutersystemsna for their generous material + tool donations, as well as their expertise + help. The amount of support they gave was amazing!
Students:
Edith Alvarez
Christian Anderson
Diane Arista
Sara Barajas Villa
Joan Barlongo
Kaylee Barnett
Joshua Bombala
Jamie Centeno
Dillon Denig
Gabrielle Fernandez
Mirella Garcia
Mia Mackovski
Whitney Meltz
Andrya Mojena Cutie
Jazmin Navarro
Irene Nguyen
Edward Oakes
Cindy Pavon
Cesar Sigala-Salazar
Deidra Smoak
Janice Sonson
Michelle Tapia
Antonio Trejo
Klaire Viduya
Andrew Wonnacott-Yaahnke
Instructors:
Joshua Vermillion @joshuavermillion
Paul Morrison
