LA 203L 2016
Building Complexity Silver Corpse / Exquisite Lake Andrew O. Wilcox / James Becerra Alvin Alvarez
LA 203L 2016 Building Complexity
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Silver Corpse / Exquisite Lake Andrew O. Wilcox / James Becerra Alvin Alvarez
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Pieces + Parts Mapping and Recon Taxonomy of Emergent Spacial Types Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures
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Pieces + Parts
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Project 1 Alvin Alvarez
Project Description
“As individuals, studio participants will develop a very quick but highly crafted set of landscape pieces made of typical landscape program parts. This project will document the nascent design influences as short-lived design responses of individual students.�
Pieces + Parts / 5
+Uniform Slope / Path / Forest
Uniform Trench / Lifted Platform / .5 Forest / .5 FIeld
-Concave Slope / Elevated Path / Field
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+Convex Slope / Folded Shelter / Forest
Unconditioned Ground / Obvervation Tower / Field
-Uniform Slope / 3 Walls / .5 Forest / .5 Fields
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Mapping and Recon // Origin Stories
Project 2 Section 15 Alvin Alvarez Philip Chao
Project Description
“Students will investigate, map and analyze the critical systems, associations and alignments of the studio project location and its context. In teams of two, students will map their assigned transect of the Silver Lake Reservoir. Students must look at alignments that are above, within and below their image sites to identify opportunities, partners, beneficiaries and histories of the project alignment.“
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Taxonomy of Emergent Spatial Types
Project 3 Section 15 Alvin Alvarez Philip Chao Section 16 Patricio Yrizar Gerardo Rosales
Project Description
“In this third project, students will explore the fundamental site condition of the edge- the threshold between water and land; the condition where unlike bodies meet with maximum interaction. This ubiquitous site condition will be interrogated through the testing of typical fixed/structural program typologies adjusted by typical performative actions/operations as controlled by the specific lessons/rules/relationships of the site as revealed in the mapping project. This project is intended to leverage previous studio experiences of physical making of space now determined by site response and condition. Students will be making dozens of typological responses in both 3D digital and analog forms in rapid iteration in response to the information gathered in the mapping project. This project also requires student teams to develop four drawings of programmatic positioning.�
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Critical Combined Model
Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures
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Final Project Section 15 Alvin Alvarez Philip Chao Adjacent Partners Section 14 Xiomy Yamauchi Section 16 Patricio Yrizar
Project Description
“This fourth and final phase and final of the project will require students to individually choreograph a set of assigned and derived programmatic pieces and performance criteria into the overall conditions of portion/bank of the transect they own- they must assemble their own monster. This phase will include notions of broader planting/capturing or opportunistic strategies and patterning in response to assigned program performance. This phase will utilize programs that are simultaneously cultural and ecological, formal and informal, understood and misunderstood, indexed and poised. This final project phase will require participants to link the narrative exploration and concept development of other studios. Emphasis will be placed on the structure and organization of project components as a complete narrative of verbal and visual expression. This phase will required combined and complex drawings and 3D modeling.�
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Papyrus Eye Frog’s Eye
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Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / Models / 29
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SIlver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / Details / 31
Thank you.