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ALINA M PROVOST
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.
AMPlified quotes This Portfolio consists of works from Alina M Provost starting from 2017 to 2020
Rumi
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Mash-up 01-06 Instructor Jimenez Lia, UCLA Partners Aaron Davamandi, Anastassia Saraykina, Christian Cononico, Eddison Adaro, Meran Chan, Amber Shen, and Chris Bnartist Cal Poly SLO, Design Village competition 2018
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ConRAC 07-14 Employeer AC Martin Los Angeles, CA 2020
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Axes 15-20 Instructor Julia Köerner, UCLA Partner Anastassia Saraykina 2017
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Repeat, Repetition 21-26 Instructor Erin Besler, UCLA 2017
2017
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Design Village is an annual undergraduate competition giving students the opportunity to build and inhabit a structure for a weekend.
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Offset or compare one element with another. In your design, select contrasting concepts and decide how they interact. Consider how the concepts act alone and then define the moments where they meet and under what conditions they intersect Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
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Mash-up
2017
2017 Mash-up 1’:1’ Scale
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For this project, I lead a team of eight students from design concept to final construction. This structure rebels against the design competition rules. This competition allowed for a maximum of six members per team. None of us were willing to sacrifice our experience from attending the competition in person. Due to this, our project called for a modular structure comprised of six cells: core and attachments. The two attachment cells can detach from the core and become a pair of islands, allowing the team to abide by the rules if necessary.
A B Top view Attachments Core
Mash-up
2017
Perspective section A
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Perspective section B
Parti model #1
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2017 Mash-up 1’:1’ Scale
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The massing is formed by subtracting the attachments from the core. The core consists of four cuboid cells, and the attachments are irregular polyhedrons. The structure is made up of 2x4 studs and clad with 1/4” plywood. The amount of panels each cell has is equal to the number of surfaces the cell contains. The panels are assembled with simple dovetail joinery.
Joinery
Islands
1/4” plywood sheathing
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Mash-up
2017
2x4 studs framing
Parti model #2
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2020
Consolidated Rent-A-Car facility, also known as ConRAC, is one of LAX’s major infrastructure projects consolidating all rental car operations into one location.
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“‘We are making an investment that will improve the traveling experience, reduce congestion in surrounding neighborhoods and create middle-class careers...’“ KFI News reporting Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
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Render by LiFang
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ConRAC
2020
Consolidate-Rent-A-Car Facility, also known as ConRAC, is LAX’s largest infrastructure project, approximately six-million square feet in size. This project aims to streamline rental car customers’ experiences, reduce traffic throughout LAX, and consolidate all rental car locations.
2020 ConRAC
Most of the work I did for this project included coordinating with sub-consultants and Revit 3D modeling. All following tasks were lead by me. The Fourteen Perimeter Towers surrounding the RR/IS building require specific radial distances from one another per code. Each Tower must have either electrical rooms, IT rooms, an emergency stair, or a combination of these. Some of these Towers abut shear walls forcing coordination with Structural to create openings to accommodate doorways. All Towers needed Revit 3D-modeling of wall types, stairs, railing, exterior walls, fencing, and exterior metal cladding. Aside from this, I assisted the lead designer and senior detailer model and redesigned the facades of all three cores and the two CSBs located in the level five Courtyard. Also, I modeled tenant requests for interior layout changes for both CSB.
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Overall Courtyard
Major Project Parts:
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ConRAC
2020
- Ready Return/Idle Storage (RR/IS): Customer vehicle pick and vehicle storage building - Quick-Turn-Around (QTA): Car maintenance building - Automated People Mover (AMP): Transit system - Three Cores: North, South, Express: Vertical space for circulation - Two Customer Service Building (CSB): In-person stores - Bus Plaza - Level 5 Courtyard - Fourteen Perimeter Towers: Emergency stairs/ IT rooms/Electrical rooms
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2020 Render by LiFang
ConRAC G-02
G-03
G-04
G-05
G-06
G-07
G-08
G-09
G-10
G-11
G-12
G-13
G-14
265'-0" 24'-6"
36'-0"
18'-0"
18'-0"
6 A4.128
18'-0" 1
16 A5.105
18'-0"
4 / A6.119
A7.130
CONC-HT
18'-0" WOMEN C-540
18'-0" 1 A4.128
18'-0" MEN C-541
18'-0"
18'-0"
18'-0"
6'-6"
LAC. RM C-543
11 A5.105
FIRE SPRINKLER RISER C-532
7.96
25'-0"
9'-1" B662
B662
B662
B662
3'-0"
60'-0"
TENANT TR C-530
C-520A
2'-6"
3 / A7.178
C-548
JAN. C-542
C-549 BACK OF HOUSE- RAC 1 C-520
RECYCLE AREA FINAL DESTINATION DETERMINED BY TENANT
BACK OF HOUSE LIMIT (BY OTHERS)
1 / A6.119
7.96
14 A5.105
125'-8"
G-K
G-K LOC RAC 1 C-550 2
CONC-HT
13 A5.105
20'-0"
12'-0"
12'-0"
8.67
C-550C
C-550B 17 A5.105
12'-0"
12'-0"
12'-0"
10 A5.105
34'-0 1/2" F.O. CURB
8.67
12'-0"
8.67
4'-0"
G-M
A7.130
LINE OF PEDESTRIAN CANOPY (ABOVE)
CONCRETE FLOOR - FINAL FLOOR FINISH BY TENANT
3 / A6.119
60'-0"
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ELECTRICAL ROOM C-531
C-550A
G-M 9 A5.105
22'-9"
8 / A7.178
LINE OF CANOPY (ABOVE)
LINE OF CANOPY (ABOVE)
LINE OF PEDESTRIAN CANOPY (ABOVE)
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G-J
ROOF ACCESS LADDER & HATCH (ABOVE) 13/A7.175
11'-2"
G-J
11'-1"
1'-8"
15 A5.105
18'-0"
2 / A6.119
LINE OF PEDESTRIAN CANOPY (ABOVE)
= 1'-0" 2 RR/IS Service - CSB WEST ENLARGED FLOORFloor PLAN 1/16" West Customer Building Overall Plan
G-N
GENERAL NOTES G-14
18'-0"
18'-0"
G-20
G-21
G-23
G-24
G-25
G-26
G-27
G-28
REFER TO A0.110 FOR PARTITION TYPES REFER TO A0.120 FOR FINISH SCHEDULE REFER TO A0.130 FOR DOOR SCHEDULE REFER TO LIFE SAFETY PLANS FOR FIRE RATED WALLS WHERE ENLARGED DRAWINGS ARE REFERENCED, SEE ENLARGED PLANS FOR DIMENSIONS, ELEVATION, KEY NOTES, ETC. 6. ALL INTERIOR DIMENSIONS ARE TO FACE OF GYP, U.N.O. 7. REFER TO A2.108-A2.151 SHEET SERIES FOR FLOOR SLOPES AND EDGE OF SLAB/DRAINAGE PLANS 8. REFER TO LANDSCAPE DRAWINGS FOR HARDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE, PAVING, IRRIGATION, ETC., AND COORDINATE WITH CIVIL DRAWINGS FOR DRAINAGE AND ADJACENT PAVEMENT 9. REFER TO STRUCTURAL DRAWINGS FOR ALL STRUCTURAL ELEMENT SIZES, CONNECTIONS AND DETAILS 10. REFER TO FUELING AND EQUIPMENT DRAWINGS FOR ALL EQUIPMENT WITHIN MAINTENANCE BAYS, CARWASH BAYS, FUELING AREA, EQUIPMENT ROOM, ETC 11. ALL JERSEY BARRIERS ARE MOVEABLE CONCRETE BARRIERS PER TP, PART 2B-20.1.A.1. REMAINDER OF BARRIERS TO BE LOCATED IN COORDINATION WITH TENANTS. 12. IR-#=INTERIOR RAMP # 13. ER-#=EXTERIOR RAMP # 14. STRIPING IS ONLY REQUIRED FOR EXIT WALKWAYS. IT IS UP TO EACH TENANT TO STRIPE THEIR IS SPACE. 15. REFER TO A5.101 FOR STRIPING DETAILS
G-29 G-30
168'-8"
6'-6"
4'-8"
18'-0"
36'-0"
18'-0"
16 / A7.178
2'-0"
G-J
18'-0"
2 / A6.116
4 A7.177
11 A5.105
F ACCESS DER & HATCH VE) 13/A7.175
G-22
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
R-581
18'-0"
18'-0"
1
7 A5.105
3 / A7.178
18'-0"
4 A5.105
3 A5.105
B262
S262
C-561B RS16-501
C-548
B262
B262
32'-0"
C-562C
C-561A
B262
B431
2'-9"
C-549
12'-0"
60'-0"
LINE OF CANOPY (ABOVE)
C-562B
16'-0"
1 / A6.119
7.96
TENANT TR C-564
CONC-HT CSB EAST - ZONE C C-562
CONCRETE FLOOR FINAL FLOOR FINISH BY TENANT
1 A4.127
5 / A4.127
RECYCLE AREA FINAL DESTINATION DETERMINED BY TENANT
MEN C-565
NUMBER
7.96 8.67
LAC. RM C-567
JANITOR CLOSET C-568
A7.130
KEYNOTE LEGEND
WOMEN C-566
4 / A4.127
12'-0"
C-562A
2
C-562D
ELECTRICAL ROOM SEGMENT E C-563
4'-0"
G-K
LINE OF PEDESTRIAN CANOPY (ABOVE)
2'-0"
STAIR 16 VESTIBULE C-561
STAIR 16 RS16-501
5 A4.302
CONC-HTA7.129
7.96
18'-0"
2'-0"
G-13
6
10.67
DESCRIPTION
INSULATED METAL PANELS, MP-4 GLAZED ALUMINIM CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM, CW-1 4 X 4 TAPE-ON CORNER GUARD (CG-2)
8 A5.105 60'-0"
10 A5.105
B441
7.96
8.67
8'-7" CLR.
12'-0"
34'-0 1/2" F.O. CURB
8.67
C-573F
7'-0" 5'-2 1/4"
G-M C-573E
9'-9"
9 A5.105
CONC-HT CONCRETE FLOOR FINAL FLOOR FINISH BY TENANT
B431 B431
16'-0"
4'-0" 4'-0" 4'-0"
4'-2"
C-581
9'-1" 13'-3"
A340
3'-0"
B262
STAIR 17 RS17-501
8'-2 1/4"
7 / A4.125 A340 SIM
24'-6"
LAC. RM C-577
A7.129
A340 7'-10 1/2"
9 1/2"
4'-5 3/8"
3'-2"
RS17-501
C-577 2 A5.105 TENANT TR C-575
SEISMIC JOINT COVER
RECYCLE AREA - FINAL DESTINATION DETERMINED BY TENANT
ELECTRICAL ROOM C-576 1 / A6.117
BUILDOUT IN THIS AREA BY TENANT
1 / A6.118
428'-10"
12'-0"
4 A4.126
CSB EAST - ZONE B C-573
8.67
5 A4.303
B262
CONC-HT
C-573B
A141 14'-0 5/8" 8'-9 5/8" 5'-3"
WATER HEATERS C-551 12'-0"
7'-4"
G-Q
60'-0"
LINE OF CANOPY (ABOVE)
10.67
5'-9"
A141
ENTRY C-548
C-551
OPEN OFFICE C-546
12'-0"
C-573A
7.96
A141
A231 10.67
6'-6 1/8"
B441
1 A4.129
KITCHENETTE C-549
SINGLE OCCUPANCY TOILET C-545
8 A5.105
ConRAC
5'-0"
B431
B431
C-573C
60'-0"
MEN C-570
C-574
3'-2"
75 .00 ° 8'-0"
ELEC ROOM C-581
16'-0"
6 A5.105
G-N
RAC 2 SERVICE CORRIDOR C-574
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9'-1"
G-P
10.67
C-573G
10.67
7 / A4.128
WOMEN C-580
C-573D
9'-9"
2
A340
5'-7"
TYP.
12'-0"
1/16" = 1'-0"
1 A4.126
A340
C-578
14 A5.105
JANITOR CLOSET 6'-6 1/8" C-578
A340
A340
60'-0"
ARGED FLOOR PLAN
11"
A340
2020
12'-0"
ROOF ACCESS LADDER & HATCH (ABOVE) 13/A7.175 A141
MULTI-USE ROOM C-547
BICYCLIST SHOWERS C-597
4'-0"
G-R
6'-6 1/8" 2 A4.129
12'-0"
C-587C
C-587D ELECTRICAL ROOM C-595
CONCRETE FLOOR FINAL FLOOR FINISH BY TENANT
12'-0"
CSB EAST - ZONE A C-587
1 A4.125
4'-0"
C-587B
G-S
7.96
TENANT TR C-594
LINE OF CANOPY (ABOVE)
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CONC-HT
WOMEN C-591 RECYCLE AREA FINAL DESTINATION DETERMINED BY TENANT
8.67
12'-0"
A141
STAIR 19 RS19-501
RS19-501 S262
7.96
12 / A7.178
G-U
1'-10"
G-T
B262
C-590B
2'-0" R-582 4 A7.177
1 / A6.116
3'-6"
24'-0"
6 A5.105
C-587E C-590A
B262
2'-3"
C-587A
1'-10"
60'-0"
MEN C-592
1 A5.105
5 A4.305
RR/IS - CSB EAST ENLARGED FLOOR PLAN
1/16" = 1'-0"
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East Customer Service Building Overall Floor Plan
KEY PLAN
PROJECT LOCATION
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RR/IS 5251 W. 98TH ST. CSB (5TH FLOOR) WEST
REVISIONS №.
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REGISTRATION DATE
DESCRIPTION
01/17/20 EARLY START - RFCD-APDU 04/15/20 CURRENT DOCUMENT - FOR INFORMATION, INCLUDING RFIS/ASI 07/15/20 RFCD-APDU #17 - ISSUED FOR APPROVAL/ASI #14 – RRIS COMPREHENSIVE REVISIONS 08/27/20 BULLETIN #3
PROJECT TITLE
COPYRIGHT © 2020
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LAX - ConRAC
The Bus Plaza consists of a large stair, four elevators, and two canopies located at levels one and five. Like the Cores, I 3D-modeled the Bus Plaza elevator Towers’ facade, which flanks its stair, as well as the corrugated metal panels mounted on the center of the stair itself. I assisted in bringing the Bus Plaza stair to meet code requirements and remodeled its level 1 canopy.
I worked extensively on the RR/IS building’s facade at levels one through four. The facade consists of over 500 perforated metal pan els. Building code requires an open parking garage’s total wall area on one side of a tier to be no less than 20% open. In addition, the aggregate length of a tier’s perimeter must not be less than 40% of the open length of that tier. For this project, I calculated the percentages for both perimeter and area and the minimum requirement of perforation per metal panel to meet code requirements. I also assisted in editing the section and elevation drawings of the perforated panels to reflect the panels’ correct length and slab mounting.
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ConRAC
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Perforated Metal Panel Section and Elevation
TED CEILING PLAN
1/8" = 1'-0"
2 A4.331
G-01
1/8" = 1'-0"
BUS PLAZA OVERALL LEVEL 2 THROUGH 4
4
1 A4.331
1 / A4.203
2'-10"
ELEV 1 RE1-101
G-M
ELEV. MACH RM R-107
SEATING SEE LANDSCAPE
6'-2"
2
M182
R-107
5'-2" ELEV 1 RE1-501
G-M
1/8" = 1'-0"
G-01
1 / A4.203
G-01
5'-4"
2'-10"
BUS PLAZA LEVEL 1 REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
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ELEVATOR CANOPY ABOVE
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1'-0"
A4.204
1'-6"
2 / A4.203
8 / A7.178
UP
60'-0" 60'-0"
60'-0"
SEATING SEE LANDSCAPE
STAIR 4 RS4-101
4 A4.322
STAIR 4 RS4-501 CONCRETE SLAB 5 1/2" PT
1 / A4.205
2 / A4.205
1 / A4.205
41'-8"
2 / A4.205
1 A4.322
M182
UP
M182
M182
19'-6 1/2"
2'-10"
6 A4.331
M182
TYP.
2 A4.331
OPP. HAND
ELEV 2 RE2-101
1 A4.331
2
1/8" = 1'-0"
ELEV. MACH RM R-108
R-108
EVEL 1 ROOF PLAN
M182
3'-0"
SEATING SEE LANDSCAPE
OPP. HAND
ELEV 2 RE2-501
2'-10"
M182
ELEVATOR CANOPY ABOVE
5.51
11'-4"
OPP. HAND
7.103
G-P 8'-0 1/2"
G-P
2020
5'-0"
M182 7.103
G-N 5'-0" 5'-0"
G-N
A4.204
Bus Plaza Axonometric Section
BUS PLAZA OVERALL LEVEL 5 FLOOR PLAN
5
1/8" = 1'-0"
30'-8"
3'-0"
Ground Level Bus Plaza
BUS PLAZA OVERALL LEVEL 1 FLOOR PLAN
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1/8" = 1'-0"
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DATE
04/15/20 05/22/20 07/15/20 08/10/20 08/27/20 09/30/20
REGISTRATION
PROJECT TITLE
LAX - Co
COPYRIGHT © 2020
DESCRIPTION
CURRENT STATUS DOCUMENT - ISSUED FOR INFORMATION; ISSUED FOR PERMITTING ASI #6 - RRIS SECTOR E RESTROOMS & BUS PLAZA REVISIONS RFCD-APDU #17 - ISSUED FOR APPROVAL/ASI #14 – RRIS COMPREHENSIVE REVISIONS ASI #21 - STEEL REVISIONS BULLETIN #3 CURRENT STATUS DOCUMENT - ISSUED FOR CONSTRUCTION
SHEET TITLE
RR & IS GARAGE - ENLARG SHEET NUMBER
South Overall Exterior Elevations
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RR/IS 5251 W. 98TH ST. CSB (5TH FLOOR) WEST 5251 W. 98TH ST., SUITE 500 CSB (5TH FLOOR) EAST 5251 W. 98TH ST., SUITE 501 QTA 525 S. LA CIENEGA BLVD. DWP YARD 5274 W. ARBOR VITAE ST. FIRE COMMAND CENTER 9617 S. LA CIENEGA BLVD.
ConRAC
REVISIONS
KEY PLAN
West Overall Exterior Elevations
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A4.2
2017
Symmetry in architecture reflects forms, shapes, and angles across a central axis line to produce mirrored components. This project uses the center axis line as a guide to offset and redefine symmetry through various modeling and fabrication techniques.
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“The course involves the utilisation of digital fabrication techniques to transform digital models into physical models, with fabrication and material constraints. Students [must] think about materials and tolerances in physical space as well as assembly strategies.” Julia Köerner
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Physical Study Model
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Axes
2017
2017 Physical model
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Jean Arp believed his sculptures could be held, separated, and rearranged into new configurations. This project extracts Ptolemy III’s centerpiece and rearranges itself into a new object while imposing one rule: to maintain the center vertical axis, which sets precedence for organizing an order of operations on digital programming and fabrication techniques. An egg-crate skeleton is superimposed onto the new object for rigidity. This skeleton consists of 45 and 90-degree contours. The 45-degree contours produced irregularities preventing the interlocking grooves from joining. These pieces are cut along the grooves and glued back together to accommodate these misjoins.
Ptolemy III
2017
90° contours
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Irregularities
Axes
45o Contours
Rendered prototypes
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Physical model
The new object is cut along its vertical axis, separated from its opposite half, and oriented horizontally. The skeleton is clad in four skins: vellum, thermoplastic sheets, acrylic, and plaster. These skins fortify the skeleton and bear the weight of the object’s new cantilever orientation.
Axes
2017
Apertures
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Egg-crate
Cladding 20
2017
Buildings appear to be fixed systems despite the trend of continually changing occupants and uses. The fixed qualities architecture accepts are the core and shell, and contractual demarcation, all of which influence interior architecture. Fit outs are standard solutions for this increasing problem.
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“To be simple in form, expedient in construction and to involve those things that might be called typical or even generic. The fit out, closely aligned with ideas of infill, instead is constructed, and more often times installed, as temporary, specific and open for change by different users.” Erin Besler
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Physical Model
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Repeat, Repetition
2017
2017 Physical model
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The image on the right is a preexisting mid-rise building requiring a fit out for a law firm. A generic block is “repeated, stacked, and organized through various rotations” to produce this structure’s architecture (Chase Galis). This generic block will influence the design of its fit out.
Core and shell by Chase Galis
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Level 2 Floor Plan
Level 3 Floor Plan
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2017 Repeat, Repetition Physical model
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Repeat, Repetition, the law firm fit out, is a manifesto to end all fit outs. It exaggerates the gap between architecture’s responsibility in delegating space and the temporary use of the occupant. It provides L-shaped desks as generic blocks to organize all of the firm’s office needs by repeating, stacking, and rotating these desks. Suppose the firm needs private offices, sandwich two desks next to one another. The stacking of three desks becomes shelves, two or more desks abutted can be a breakroom table or conference table, and if any other needs
must be met this desk will satisfy the demand. These L-shaped desks are modular enough to fulfill all the needs of the current and future occupants.
Shelf
Wall
2017
Desk
Reception
Information technology
Break table
Repeat, Repetition
Conference table #2
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Conference table #1
Rendered offices
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We may find ourselves arguing that, ultimately, it doesn’t much matter what buildings look like, what is on the ceiling or how the wall is treated— professions of detachment that stem not so much from an insensitivity to beauty as from a desire to deflect that sadness we would face if we left ourselves open to all of beauty’s many absences Alain de Bottom