Adrien Forney_CV-Portfolio_2016

Adrien Forney

3818 Hollyline Ave Sherman Oaks, CA, 91423 03/23/88

EDUCATION

Contact information 818.648.6974 axforney@gmail.com French-American citizenship

- September 2013 - June 2016: M.Arch I degree at UCLA department of Architecture and Urban Design, Los Angeles - January 2016: Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Competition Proposal to redesign the LA Mall includes 550,000 sq.ft. of retail and commercial as well as offices for City Hall in an effort to revitalize the blighted site and create communal spaces for public engagement along two city blocks.

- May 2010: B.F.A. of Architectural Design at Parsons, The New School Of Design, New York City Projects included drafting (plan, section, axonometric, perspective), physical modeling and digital renderings (with Rhino, AutoCAD, Revit, 3ds Max, Adobe Apps,…) for conceptual programming.

- August - November 2009: New Orleans Chase Community Development Competition - 3rd Place Collaboration with a non-profit (NENA) to design a social/commercial structure promoting sustainable technology for the Lower 9th Ward community. Site analysis studies for additional 40 blighted sites.

- June 2006: French Baccalaureate E.S. from Le Lycée Français De Los Angeles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - June 2015 - September 2015: Intern at Ilan Dei Studio, Venice, CA Design development phase for twelve new restaurants in San Francisco including renderings and imagery.

Fabricating and constructing custom pieces for menu boards for existing locations.

Shaping custom aluminum frames for ipad retainers as well as building an awning for Ilan Dei Store.

- June - August 2014: Internship at Jean-Paul Viguier Architectes, Paris, France Construction drawings submission for construction permit to renovate and extend a 22,000 m² building.

Urban planning studying the existing and future redevelopment of a city and its infrastructure in Ivory Coast.

- April 2013 - June 2013: Intern at Atelier Christian de Portzamparc (AECDP), Paris, France Developing drawings such as plans, sections & elevations for a 22,500 square meter office building.

Organizing circulation, facade openings in accordance with city codes and surface area for the client.

- November 2011 - February 2012: Intern at Studio PCH, Malibu, CA Updating plans, sections, elevations & digital construction of commercial spaces and furniture.

Full scale mock-up with rice paper to develop a lighting scheme for private spaces.

- June 2009 - April 2011: Assistant to Architectural Photographer Chris Goodney, Brooklyn, NY Assisting on-site photography. Digital editing through Lightroom and Photoshop. Website media.

- June - August 2009: Internship at Interboro Partners, Brooklyn, NY Identifying diverse communities to participate in the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.

ABOUT ME

Coming from a multi-cultural background, architecture is an expression, a reflection upon our way of living. Throughout my travels and experiences, my endeavor lies within the determination for locality and context. Context in my view plays the role of situating a project in the sense of embedment within a given location as a negotiation between people and spaces as well as how it is perceived which derives from my passion for photography.

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Palisades residence The project exploits the figuration of a septagon with a sectional split into two floors that is not apparent in its planometric view. With this split comes a three-sided cantilever along its northern edge, resulting in a series of diagonally-braced frames that occur on three axes. While two axes satisfy compressional forces in two directions with 6x6 compression struts, the other satisfies tensional forces in another direction with tension cables welded to a hollow steel ring.

Programmed for two residents, one handicapped, with a guest room, the distribution of spaces takes advantage of the geomtric rythm to orient views to the south and circulation to the north as the stair acts as the penetrating object between the split volumes. Similarly, the wall construction sequences the levels of floor and ceiling construction through offsets as each slides past braced frames to accomodateglazPlan Level 2 ing, mechanical services and the reflecting pool above the first floor.

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As a cost-effective solution to the housing crisis in Los Angeles, the backyard home was designed and constructed with strong consideration for low-cost materials, solar orientation, envelope and structure. This prototype, constructed at UCLA, employs a hybrid envelope system that incorporates shading and structure as a single layer. With bent aluminum tubes arrayed throughout the plan to produce a skin that morphs to the orientation of the sun.

At the interior, as an addtional feature to the structure, lateral bracing is established with the application of endwall panels at each end. These stud walls serve as devices for cross ventilation as well as a source for wildlife habitation.

In an effort to offer a comfortable and affordable habitat, this design presents the public with the opportunity to experience a sustainable environment.

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Diagonal Office Assembly Co- work offices and small shops flood the re-envisioned streets of Culver City. With a site adjacent to multiple offices that trnasform the conventions of the corporate office, and flanking the Los Angles river that edges a small community of residential spaces, the new business center incorporates a platform for working yet re-establishes the need for comfortable living.

With a grid of trusses that vary and span and driection, the spaces are lifted in the crossection. Similar to the actions of a Ferris whell frozen in time, the structural elements suspend the levels in space, sliding them past one another, to heighten exterior circulation. By creating these bridges that traverse the length of the structure, they provide lateral stability, bracing the structure together.

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The variety of structural elements, from open web steel joists for the floor frame to the diagonal columns suspending the third level volumes, offer a hybrid rythm of open/void or opaque/transparent moments in each space, gievn the flexibility of the truss as structural framing component. By going from the ground floor parking to the open office spaces and finally to the independant studio spaces, the diagonal columns vary from concrete to wood and even epoxy coated exposed steel to offer various spatial experiences at every moment.

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D.F. Architecture Museum Flanking the northern end of Plaza Zarco, the project seeks to extend the public program of the park into the ground floor of the museum. It takes adavantage of the contrast between archive and exhibition to produce a series of open and closed spaces, meadiated by vertical circulation. Archive rooms, sheltered from direct sunlight, are contained at the edges of the built site while the exhbition spaces are suspended at the cneter, above the central space at the ground floor. Each program maintains its own private form of circulation to ensure the individual movement of archived material and public viewers. To provide a visual relationship witht the park, the exhibition rooms have glass facades to maintain a level of transparency. Meanwhile, the ground floor is carved to bring light to the library spaces in the basement.

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With the advent of the free facade, the curtain wall as skin dematerializes the building’s envelope and transforms the facade into malleable substance. The glass facade not only defines a unique spatial condition but also re-envisions spatial experience due to its ability to embrace phenomenology of light. At the micro scale, the unitized curtain wall system, as a device, abstracts space through the manipulation of twodimensional surfaces.

To simulate this ‘customized’ sensation through the exploration of geometry and optics, structural framing evolves in order to produce affect into a filigree that generates form. By dematerializing enclosures and defining the facade as a material, unitized curtain wall systems demand a sub-frame, that is a secondary structure that specifically adheres to its geometry. As a resilient material, glass can transform to become a dynamic window onto nature with the precise manipulation of its structural framing and produce a complex interpretation of space.

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Despite its location at the heart of this district, the Los Angeles Mall fails to fulfill its intended role as a central hub for the existing demographic. Due to the subterranean topography, it sits unengaged and lost among its prominent civic neighbors, lacking a sense of human scale and urban identity. To deal with the sloping site, we expanded from the city council’s column grid to set a framework for a new datum above the existing terrain, allowing the ground level to remain open and accessible. As an instrument for building organization and pedestrian circulation, the porosity of the grid allows for trees to reach up to the elevated walkway, and sunlight to reach down to the ground level. The elevated platform not only offers heightened views internally to the ground level, but also externally to the neighboring park introducing a new type of public experience with the city center.

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Social Prototype Perversely, the Dingbat reflects both the kind of formal straightforwardness associated with functionalism, the foundational orthodoxy of modern architecture as well as later formal elaborations of post modern architecture that learned from the communicative and character-building capacity of ornament and graphics.

In its frugal definition of space, the dingbat typology provides occupants with a limited living experience by maintaining an exclusion to the exterior; not only with the muted facade that is set apart from the street but also in the lack of interaction between units. As a result, this typology perpetuates individuation within a context of setbacks that isolate its inhabitants, creating gaps between each housing block.

By shifting focus from the object itself to the space in between, the strategy reconfigures the layout of the typology with the consolidation of vertical and horizontal movement for both pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

As a result, the prototype re-orients its introverted format to the exterior, to its neighbor. In this paradigmatic break, the dingbat moves from a series of isolated objects that contain various units types to become a network of apartments where each unit opens up to an elevated street. The intervention works at both at the scale of the individual unit and the interaction between one another, to the scale of the street or the city.

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Tower Complex As a method of defamiliarization, two towers were conceived in an effort to acheive unique spatial qualities, both on the interior and exterior, through optics, form and color.

Within the 15-storey megamodule, program is used as an instigative device to engender an envelope that produces various attributes. While both towers express an articulation of circular geometry, the primary study employs spherical geometry to create a symbiotic relationship between housing, recreation and commerce. With the variations in size and material, the interior organization of the spheres offer a didactic relationship to program.

The second iteration materializes this geometry in two dimensions. Radiated about a central occulus, the form and optics emerge to produce a kaleidiscopic effect on the interior and exterior.

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Jean-Paul Viguier Architectes In the summer of 2014, JPV Architects were working on a project for a 22,000 m² renovation and extention to an existing structure which included transforming the facade into glass curtain wall with protuding aluminum fins as brise-soleils and adding square footage to the first 5 floors. The ground floor would be re-envisioned as a landscape with planters and stripped elements that would convey the same organization as the aluminum fins.

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Atelier Christian De Portzamparc Straddling the Austerlitz rain station, this project consisted of a scheme for a new office space, comprising a total of 22,500 m² including retail and commerce. As a submittal for a construction permit, the documents prepared projected surface area and egress calculations to comply with the regualtions of the city as well as with the structural engineers. In addition, studies of the facade were produced as a means to reduce solar radiation and choreagraph the registration of the interior spaces as discrete elements with a set of individual qualities that compose the building in its entirety.

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