LA203 Big lecture project

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Table of Contents Lexicon Entries //// pg. 2-12 Theory Responses //// Pg. 13-16

Chris Reed and Nina-­‐Marie Lister “Projective Ecologies” Stan Allen “Field Conditions” Emma Marris “Rambunctious Garden” Perry Kulper “Instinctual Marks, Relational Fields, Sites of Wonder”

External Discussion Responses //// PG. 17-20 CPP Landscape Architecture Department Liam Young at M.I.A.

UCLA AUD Ideas Campus

On Lexicon, Theory, Discussion, and Introspection Alexa Mranda Flores LA203 Basic Landscape Design / 8 June 2015

The future of making Buildings, Autodesk

UCLA School of Architecture Lecture Series Thomas Heatherwick at Hammer Museum

CPP Architecture Department

Greg Lynn “Back in Motion: Literally That Is”

Final Introspection //// p. 21

Lexicon Entries Attrition Autonomous Conosance Cooridors Demarcate Intermitten MoirĂŠ Networks Patches Protuberance

At t r i t i o n 2

Definition: The disappearance of one or more patches of habitat.

Photograph: The reflection of a habitat is slowly disappearing.

Diagram: an accumulation of circles that are in themselves small patches and as you get closer to the right it starts disappearing, splitting, and decreasing in size.

Autonomous 3

Definition: A design where its very specific, an independent concept created by the site; “site-specifity” Photograph: Cracks give potential for new growth that can enhance habitats for birds and insects.

Diagram: By using the curves of the channel, the form for a “crack garden” was created.

Conosance 4

Definition: agreeing in different ideas; creating a unity in concepts, geometery, and conditions Photograph: The photograph was taken in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, as you walk from the entrance to the end where you see the ocean the unified geometries give a sense of tranquility.

Diagram: Each geometric shape was unified to create a rectangle.

Cooridors 5

Definition: a narrow, wide, curvy, straight, continuous, short barriers that filter the movement of something.

Photograph: The bike paths beside the channel serve as corridors; they become barriers for the movement of species.

Diagram: Lines can’t cross the negative space because of the curvy solid.

D e m a r c at e 6

Definition: creating boundaries; separating; distinguishing Photograph: Lakes create boundaries for humans, it let's us distinguish sea creatures from humans.

Diagram: The curve creates a boundary between two symbols.

Intermitten 7

Definition: appearing in irregular periods, shifting intervals of environmental conditions Photograph: Sycamores can be affected by bark beetles. This happens when there is a drought occurring; they infest onto the sycamore making them susceptible to a disease.

Diagram: One species can affect the rest of the other species and create shift in populations.

M o i r ĂŠ 8

Definition: creating an illusion by the patterns of fields Photograph: The erosion of the material in the channel creates an illusion of peeling cracks along the Rio Hondo channel.

Diagram: The square in the middle creates an illusion of circles.

N e t w o r k s 9

Definition: Creating connectivity between landscapes; systems enclosing elements Photograph: Bridges are lines of networks that connect people from one place to another.

Diagram: The two solid lines can create a connection between four different symbols.

P a t c h e s 10

Definition: scattered areas of habitat of plants and animals; isolation of species Photograph: Spontaneous growth of plants inside cracks create patches of habitat along the Rio Hondo Channel.

Diagram: Scattered points create isolations and groupings.

Protuberance 11

Theory Responses

Definition: elements that evolve from a previous concept or thing Photograph: A module used repetitive creates connections for a structure.

Chris Reed and Nina-­‐Marie Lister “Projective Ecologies”

Diagram: A single “X” can create a repetitive structure.

Stan Allen “Field Conditions” Emma Marris “Rambunctious Garden” Perry Kulper “Instinctual Marks, Relational Fields, Sites of Wonder”

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Reflections show concentrations of water; provide opportunity for species and spontanous growth

Chris Reed and Nina-­Marie Lister “Projective Ecologies” //// Erle C. Ellis “(Anthropogenic Taxonomies) A Taxonomy of the Human Biosphere”

Humans and the way the land is used create a concern for the biosphere. Ecology is important; it accumulates biodiversity, productivity, and patterns. I don’t fully believe in the phenomenon of global warming but I feel it when the weather has some odd changes. Southern California is known to be sunny with a great weather. But now, one day can be an 80 degree weather and the next day an 65 degree weather. As humans, the way we interact with ecosystems impacts the way ecosystems produce. For example, eliminating wolfs can increase the production of rodents, these rodents will then decrease the production of insects, and without insects there’s no growth of plants.

El Rio Hondo channel has a diverse specie population. Its biosphere creates a great amount of spontaneous growth that enhances its ecosystem. “Anthromes” classify areas through climate patterns and data. These mappings are measurements of the biosphere in a global perspective. The mappings created in the first phase of the project relate to anthromes; we were able to classify patterns and species the Rio Hondo Channel contains. The mappings magnified the qualities the channel already had. none

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concentrated

Hybrid made of the characteristics our design concept has.

Stan Allen “Field Conditions”

Moving objects in a field isn’t just physically placing a thing to an area; it’s about creating conditions that stimulate elements in a field. According to Stan Allen “a field condition can be any formal or spatial matrix capable of unifying elements while respecting the identity of each”, different elements unify a field condition. I believe that diverse elements, like shape, size, and quantity determine the type of behavior or “field condition” the site will have.

While mapping the elements found in the Rio Hondo channel, spontaneous growth created one form and the bridges created another form. After creating these forms, both ideas were placed into one surface. A field condition was created of spontaneous growth and bridges. The data found from phase 1 helped establish the conditions the Rio Hondo has. In phase 2, all of that data was reduced to create a form for two actions. Phase 3, summed the data and form helping us create a condition where birds humans could see the channel in a new perspective. The condition made in the project implemented elements of cracks, flow, and niches. Southern California has many places where the elements move the people and create stimulation of the place.

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Aldo Barajas/Amanda Flores/Alexa Miranda Flores Antonio Martinez/Karla Quevedo/Andres Raygada What is the definition of a “rambunctious garden”?

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Rambunctious -> wild, crazy, the unknown, spirituality, unorganized

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“Garden-like” wilderness

Aldo Barajas/Amanda Flores/Alexa Miranda Flores Antonio Martinez/Karla Quevedo/Andres Raygada What is the definition of a “rambunctious garden”?

Humans and look- looking at nature and itcities differently, it can be both good and bad.

• species Wild “pristine” like before was touched • Rambunctious -> wild, crazy, the unknown, spirituality, unorganized

Emma Marris “Rambunctious Garden” Chapter 1

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The wild and cities have a blur line; they no longer define what is good or bad because they both have these qualities. Emma Marris opens the reader’s mind about what the wild is truly about but I as the reader see some of these qualities good. I believe forests should be kept thought of as bad, maybe that’s another way people can stop creating cities and destroying these majestic beauties. Cities are the wild, at least it feels that way with so many noises and cars moving. Southern California is a noisy place to live, there’s traffic everywhere and even at Cal Poly; people have to fight for parking. In the wild, there’s just survival of the fittest a simple logic in nature. People in the city like myself feel that nature can be a bad place to live in if there’s no experience with nature. There’s neither electricity nor medication that can be used in forests therefore it can be bad place to sustain a life in the wild.

But the city can be a cruel place to live if there’s no experience living in one. For example, people who come from the suburbs get lost in streets. Even though it’s easy to read where to go, the grandeur of buildings and masses of people can get confusing.

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Creating a relationship with nature instead of restoring it

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“Garden-like” wilderness

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Wild “pristine” - looking like before it was touched

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Creating a relationship with nature instead of restoring it

These are different forms of drawings and hybrids done of the Rio Hondo channel.

Perry Kulper “Instinctual Marks, Relational Fields, Sites of Wonder”

Creating hybrids frameworks different ideas into one paper has a system of placement. It creates a new language that can be translated to other people by drawing and diagrams. Perry Kulper’s diagrams are amazing, it reveals so much more than just lines and curves. The implementation of sketches onto computer then renders is a great medium for communication. It’s odd to see the intentions, but magnifying certain areas of the drawings helps connect the ideas. Phase 1 of the Rio Hondo project was about mappings and using different renderings, drawings, and photographs to state a position found in the channel. Spontanous growth, pollination, and species’ movement were elements used throughout phases 2 and 3 of the project. In phase 3, we were able to map curves of what’s below, within, and above the channel. Curves were used because the channel as a whole is curvy, the water flows curvy,and the flights of birds are very curvy; as a whole the idea of curvature was a foundation to our intervention on the site. Southern California can use a new language like diagrams and drawings for communication. People are able to respond more reasonable to a visual context.

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CPP Landscape Architecture Department//// Liam Young at M.I.A.

External Discussion Responses

Los Angeles keeps innovating itself and pushing for more technology. Liam Young recognizes that the media and technology itself is a way to promote connection with in communities. Cities are geological; they process over time creating an expanding mutation until it forms another city. Liam Young makes the connection of mineral lakes as unknown fields; calling it “Rare Earthware”. The Earth has many “unknown fields”, technology is just another medium humans use to discover these fields. Although technology helps humans discover unknown places, these “rare earthwares” become unimportant. Humans are so enclosed in cities we forget what’s outside in the fields or see these fields on a screen. I was surprised of how Kim Kardashian was even mentioned in this lecture, but it’s true that we all know who she is. Liam Young was talking to us in a common language when Kim Kardashian’s name was brought up. The Kardashians are like a virus inside television, they spread they’re information and people become contagious. But when I ask my neighbors what happened in the new episode of “Keeping up with the Kardashians”, they’re able to tell me because we’re connected with this media. Shows, movies, music, anything with technology is a new tool for communities to create a different type of relationship. Even though we should explore fields and not channel listings on the T.V.; everyone who owns any type of technology are just more unified. As Los Angeles creates more technological mediums, the more communities will have relationships.

CPP Landscape Architecture Department Liam Young at M.I.A.

UCLA AUD Ideas Campus

The future of making Buildings, Autodesk

UCLA School of Architecture Lecture Series Thomas Heatherwick at Hammer Museum

CPP Architecture Department

Greg Lynn “Back in Motion: Literally That Is”

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Bilboards being used just for advertisement when they could actually be used for habitats

Keeping up with the Kardasians

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Keeping up with the Kardasians

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California, more importantly Southern California, is creating sustainable buildings and drought tolerant gardens. Before constructing all these manipulations, design and idea making are first to handle the site. Erin Rae, a spokeswoman for Autodesk and an Architect, created a sequence of actions for constructing a sustainable building.

Creating a framework of ideas for a design leads into concepts. Concepts such as sustainability continue with the variations of sustainability; this can be making the structure energy efficient. Energy efficiency takes steps to apply into the design. Production, demand, product, documenting, and optimization facilitate the design and enhance a final building. In the lecture the concept of production is more than continuously fabricating an item. In one of the much Autodesk software model making, a model is changed differently as many times to create the form. It isn’t just made once and fabricated continuously to a concept. In past experiences, iterations of an idea have helped me learn and understand why I’m changing a certain edge or corner of my model. It produces different elements into one idea. These elements are then modified to fit a demand of expectations. Sketching and formulating an organized drawing regularly enhances my thought process. Through these steps, I’ve already connected ideas, model, and drawings to construct a building.

Keeping up with the Kardasians

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UCLA AUD Ideas Campus////The future of making Buildings, Autodesk

Keeping up with the Kardasians

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Creating more habitats for birds and insects resulted in landfrom manipulation and the modification of bridges.

UCLA School of Architecture Lecture Series////Thomas Heatherwick at Hammer Museum

Infrastructures in Southern California such as the Coliseum in Los Angles were derived from a former design. It’s not copying the Coliseum in Rome, Italy; but using similar concepts for different uses. Customizing similar concepts into sites can enhance the diversity Southern California already holds. Thomas Heatherwick is an architect who derives some ideas from other concepts. In the 2012 Olympics in London the cauldron became a derived idea. In the lecture, same concepts like investigation, connections, and iterations assembled the cauldron. During a design process investigating what I’m trying to create helps construct ideas. Every Olympic has a cauldron that is lid up before, during, and at the end of the games. Almost the whole world views the Olympics but only a few things are remembered from it. The shapes, length, height, color, number of cauldrons were important for the final piece. I was able to learn that taking in consideration the form, and questioning why and how it can relate, connect, and be memorable for the user are very useful for building the final product. Knowing what is already there extends ideas to manipulate the product. Connecting the user to the product is significant as well as making it memorable. Once the first two processes are complete, model making starts with iterations of an idea. The cauldron was a simple concept with a complex background and design that evolved from past designs of the same product.

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Showing process from linewrok to renderings onto model making

CPP Architecture Department////Greg Lynn “Back in Motion: Literally That Is”

Efficiency in material for all types of projects facilitates constructions and provides room for malleability.

Southern California has efficient material in some of the structural and landscape designs. In the lecture, Greg Lynn an architect uses carbonized material for most of his final projects. After testing several materials and there flexibility, a compacted thread like material called carbon fiber is used to create efficient structures. First phase, the movement of the model. I believe that determining the types of movement whether it’s bending or twisting eases the kind of materials that can be used for those movements. Second phase, minimizing the surface. Creating curves of “high performance” that can reduce, orientate, and switch from curvature to mechanical is essential for the design.

Fourth phase, creating pockets of intimacy. Using the space created by the movements and curvatures formulates relationships between the user and model. Finally, the idea becomes an efficient complex structure. In any design, I believe the processes are what make the project complex. These phases are decision makers for the next step of the design. Due to the conditions California is facing now with droughts, getting efficient materials that capture water as well as build a structure would be beneficial.

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Action of canopy and fold, created a model where an overlap makes a canopy.

final Introspection The middle The end

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The middle

Creating mappings was a difficult concept to understand. It couldn’t be about experience, each detail had to describe something, and it had to look good. Inserting all of these requirements was hard and very challenging. In each critique the mappings were different because they wouldn’t follow the requirements. There wasn’t room for creation at first because the basics weren’t correct as to making a “mapping”. But each change made me understand why it had to be modified. The creativity kicked in once I understood each minimalistic intention to a certain photograph or curve placed on the mapping. I don’t know if I’m correct, but mappings actually magnify the information that’s already there. It is just created differently in order to demonstrate a perspective seen on the site. Before the final mapping was made, I wasn’t sure how the different layers of mapping would look like. All of this information gathered from the Rio Hondo channel had to reveal a point of view, and it actually did.

The end

Learning to take chances on Rhino was challenging. I’m not an expert on the software but the basics are very helpful. After the final critique for project 2, my forms weren’t as interesting as my fellow classmates. Although my models looked plain, my beginning sketches of the actions were interesting. I became too concerned about subtracting information in my models, that the form no longer revealed my intent. Going into project 3, I became more optimistic about forming something interesting and still revealing my intent. From the previous mappings we had a lot of information to choose ideas from. After searching for common concepts we were able to use curvature as the base to our ideas. Now it was about how these curves would look like. The Rio Hondo channel in the 1,000 scale map looked like a descent curvilinear. Reflecting and magnifying the Rio Hondo channel curves was a challenge.

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