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college of environmental design university of california, berkeley
GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY @ MoCA ENTRANCE PAVILION
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This project focused on the development of an entrance pavilion for the Geffen Contemporary @ MoCA. Students were asked to develop a concept through the transformation of a diagram into spatial morphology. These diagrams had to present some form of pattern or grid, so that an ordering system could be implemented.
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Jump Start: An Introduction to Architecture UCLA Summer 2008 Instructor: Courtenay Bauer
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An ordering system refers not simply to geometric regularity, but rather to a condition in which each part of a whole is properly disposed with reference to other parts and to its overall purpose or program. The forms and spaces of any building should acknowledge the hierarchy inherent in the functions they accommodate, the users they serve, the purposes or meaning they convey, and the scope or context they address. Programmatically, the project consisted of an overhead roof structure and a planned ticketbooth. The Roof needed to provide a minimum of approximately 50% coverage and it had to connect to the ground, for support, at a minimum of three points. The site dimensions are roughly 65’ x 250’.
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static field.
ordering system: striation.
entrance.
exit.
existing trees.
activated field in terms of building facade & site context. operations: stretching + shifting. stretching.
form study from abstract field.
shifting.
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west elevation.
longitudinal section a-a’.
south elevation.
proposed ticket booth. Geffen Contemporary entrance.
proposed gift shop window display. Geffen Contemporary exit.
axonometric projection.
renderings.
NAVAL AIR STATION ALAMEDA BIRD WATCHING HOTEL Architecture 100A: Fundamentals of Arch Design Berkeley Fall 2009 Instructor: René Davids / Elijah Huge The project asked for the design of a Bird Watching Hotel located on the historic Naval Air Station in Alameda. Problems emphasize conceptual strategies of form and space, site relationships and social, technological and environmental determinants.
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The site is located in the southern most part of the naval air station. An existing pier will serve as the main entrance into the hotel because a ferry boat is said to be the only method of transportation onto the site. Seeing as the site is predominantly flat, focus had to be placed on the bird sanctuary and the surrounding sights. Panoramic view studies were utilized to best determine how the hotel’s programs would be fixated on the site. For example, sights of the iconic San Francisco skyline were designed to be best viewed from the guest’s room.
angel island.
sausalito.
To help direct visitors to the existing bird sanctuary, the building is modeled after a bird’s wing with its point directed to the location. This bird wing was also modeled to mirror the angles present on the site’s runway, so that it blended into the landscape.
san francisco.
richmond.
berkeley.
emeryville.
oakland.
alameda.
program analysis. Runway (Destination) 20 Bedrooms
Guest
Size 400 sf
Relationship x20
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Private Bathroom Private Garden / Courtyard (50% Accessible)
672 sf min. 640 sf
Pool / Communal Bath Maintenance House-Keeping Room Service
Service
circulation between residential and administrative structures.
Kitchen
Pier (Entrance) Entry Lobby
Guest
700 sf
Sitting Lounge
215 640 672 410
Office Space Storage Library Common Area
Dining Space / Bar Public Restrooms
site plan.
alameda naval air station.
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icon key. Bedrooms
Entry Lobby
Library
Buildings
Vegetation
Pool / Communal Bath
Office Space
Common Space
Bay
Pier
Maintenance
Storage
Runway
Pond
Bird Sanctuary
panoramic view study. Bird Sanctuary
Rip Rap & Runway
Pier
program placement.
relative to program analysis & view study.
EASTBAY HILLS
Rip Rap
Pier (Entrance)
Runway (Destination) Rip Rap
SAN FRANCISCO
renderings. floor plans.
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Base Floor Plan
longitudinal section a-a’.
First Floor Plan
(ground-Level)
site plan.
bird-watching hotel 5’ 0’
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Second Floor Plan
west elevation.
view from ferry route.
Third Floor Plan
SoMa : SOUTH OF MARKET ST. URBAN ACTIVITY CENTER Architecture 100B: Fundamentals of Arch Design Berkeley Spring 2010 Instructor: Gerard Creedon
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Design of a commercial and communal recreation center located in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. Site boundaries are Mission Street, 9th Street and Minna Street.
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Programmatically, students were asked to consider the structure: 45% gym, 45% community center and 10% commercial space. For this reason, community program were designed to encompass the lower two floors, while the gym encompassed the upper three. This was to mitigate any disturbances that an active gym could impose on community events.
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Project emphasized conceptual strategies of form and space, site relationships and viable determinants (social, technological and environmental). The project also stressed considerations in tectonics, materials and energy considerations.
Aside from program seperation, views within and surrounding the structure were optimized to build active moral. Someone running on a trendmill could observe an aerobic basketball game or anaerobic olympic weightlifting. The same could be said vice-versa. This is to promote a personal and social environment, where one became part of a community that shared the same belief in self-improvement. The two energy conservation designs implimented were the use of a double skin and voids to enhance the building’s cross ventilation.
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second floor plan.
third floor plan.
fourth floor plan.
fifth floor plan.
renderings. volume study.
intersection, removal and views.
tranverse section.
performative study.
wind and sunlight.
longitudinal section.