A temporary museum drawing directly from Morgan State's history, built around four elements: a Frederick Douglass statue, the Report of the Commission on Higher Education of Negroes to the Governor and Legislature, the Evolution of Negro Colleges in America as depicted in an 11-by-82-foot mural by Charles Stallings, and the Holmes Hall Clock Tower as a reference point to campus itself.
I built a Voronoi pillar system in Rhino Grasshopper that both supports the structure and hides electrical and plumbing pathways to the café. The algorithm optimizes connection paths, and the entire system is 100% 3D-printed, which fits the temporary nature of the museum. Underneath the smooth, recyclable plastic outer shell, each pillar carries its own interior pipe for hidden plumbing and wiring, with concrete poured in after, easily destructible and recyclable once the exhibit is taken down. A section of the structure runs alongside a walkway, giving visitors passive circulation and an outdoor experience along the way.
The Upper Courtyard is its own homage to campus: walking through it toward the clock tower is meant to land as genuine nostalgia for any Morgan State alumnus. Sizing the mural itself came down to simple geometry: an 82-foot wall is far easier to take in from a 20-foot walkway than the same wall would be from a cramped room, so the mural's proportions followed a golden ratio spiral to keep the whole piece readable at that walking distance.
