2013 portfolio final

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Boat Launch

Arch 3B Spring 2013 Professor Maximiliano Spina

Bunker Hill Music Park Arch 20A Fall 2010 Professor Coleman Griffith

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5 Transit City Housing

Arch 3A Fall 2012 Professor Berenika Boberska

77 Boiler House School Arch20B Spring 2011 Professor Coleman Griffith

13 Spiller House

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Arch 3A Fall 2012 Professor Berenika Boberska

95 Minimal Surfaces Arch12B Fall 2009 Professor Kelly Bair

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Sendai Mediatheque Materials and Methods Fall 2012 Professor Casey Hughes Group Project

Cube Project

Arch 10B Fall 2009 Professor Coleman Griffith

39 Research for Journalism School Project Arch 20B Spring2011 Professor Coleman Griffith Group Project

119 Fabric Formwork

Arch14 Spring 2010 Professors Coleman Griffith and Dionicio Valdez Group Project

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Arch 20B Spring 2011 Professor Coleman Griffith

125 Bodies and Skins

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Arch 12B Fall 2009 Professor Kelly Bair

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Boat Launch

Arch 3B Spring 2013 Professor Maximiliano Spina

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Project description: The project is to create an overhead boat and ecological reserve viewing emplacement for the UCLA rowing team facility located at Ballona Creek in Marina Del Rey. This emplacement will be used to shelter the boat launch area, provide a viewpoint for observing and referring the boat races, as well as for birdwatching in the ecological reserve marsh across the river. The goal is to create a dynamic relationship between land and water in the way the emplacement works with both the viewers and the boat launch. As well as, to find creative ways in which to employ structural steel shells to create the form of the emplacement

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Combining Building Units

Combining Building Units Individual shapes

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MANIPULATING BUILDING UNIT

COMBINING BUILDING UNITS

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SIMPLE COMBINATION OF SHAPES

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Combine Simple Shapes

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Add Complexity to Figure ADD COMPLEXITY TO FIGURE

SIMPLE COMBINATION OF SHAPES

ADD COMPLEXITY TO FIGURE

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Remove Cut Pieces REMOVE CUT PIECES

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Cut Figure Using Bounding Box CUT FIGURE USING BOUNDING BOX

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Develop Structure Based on Figure DEVELOP STRUCTURE BASED ON FIGURE

DEVELOP STRUCTURE BASED ON FIGURE

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Alter Structure to Adapt to Site

ALTER STRUCTURE TO ADAPT TO SITE

ALTER STRUCTURE TO ADAPT TO SITE

DEVELOP STRUCTURE BASED ON FIGURE

ALTER STRUCTURE TO ADAPT TO SITE

ALTER STRUCTURE TO ADAPT TO SITE

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Exploded Axon of Bounding Box Figure Structure

BOX FIGURE AXON STRUCTURE BOUNDING BOX FIGURE EXPLODED AXON STRUCTURE

Exploded Axon of Site Specific Figure Structure

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Transit City Housing

Arch 3A Fall 2012 Professor Berenika Boberska

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Project description: This project focused on creating a housing development along the newly completed Expo line in Los Angeles.In addition to looking at the requirements of an apartment complex, this project looked at how the residents would interact with the surrounding city, and how the building could be designed with public transportation in mind. In order to open up the building to the city, and take advantage of the Metro station nearby and the potential pedestrians around the site I programed the site to be partially commercial as well as residential. The center building on the lot maintains the existing building’s enclosure, while opening up the front and sides to house an open air market. The buildings on either side are replaced with apartments, with all of the ground level lots opening up as artist’s studios, where the renters can create or sell their work. The residents have parking availible in the back of the existing shell, but utilize the metro and street parking for customers.

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16 Series of 1/32� scale study models investigating building types


1/16� Scale Study model showing circulation areas

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18 1/8� Scale Study model


FOURTH FLOOR 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT

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2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS RESIDENT RECREATION CENTER

WAREHOUSE ROOF SKYLIGHTS

SECOND FLOOR STUDIO LIVING SPACE BALCONIES

FIRST FLOOR STUDIO FACILITIES SPACE STUDIO WORK/RETAIL SPACE

CENTRAL STAIR LOUNGE/BAR

EXISTING BUILDINGS

WAREHOUSE SHELL

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Exploded Axon Showing Program AMANDA CLAY 3A STUDIO FALL 2012


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1/4� Scale Model of Two Apartment Units

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Spiller House

Arch 3A Fall 2012 Professor Berenika Boberska

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Project description: This project looked at an existing building in the LA area to study different building types. I investigated the Spiller House by Frank Gherry in Venice beach. After finding out about the history of Venice Beach I looked at human movement and scale within the building. In looking at human interactions and movement within our building I identified how specific spaces were used. I was interested in the vertical circulation of the building, especially because the upper three floors of the building are open to eachother, and the vertical space connecting them gives the building a distinct open and connected feeling. After exploring the existing paradigm in the vertical circulation of the building I worked to alter the circulation and how people would interact with the building. To this purpose I added in slides to connect the different levels of the building and allow the inhabitants to gain a new way of experiencing the vertical space of the building. Venice Beach History

1930 Venice is annexed to Los Angeles due to lack of adequate government ability, and entertainment industry partialy dismantled. Oil is discovered and wells put in.

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In the1960’s Venice decayed into a slum. 550 buildings demolished because of code violations. Gangs and drug addicts inhabited the area, as well as “the Beats” with a Bohemian lifestyle and in ‘67 the Hippies moved in.

Rebirth of the city in the 70’s. Focus on low housing costs for local low income population. 18 mile bike path put in, and starts to draw crowds and tourists back into the town.


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Spatial Divide Between Owner and Renter The spiller house was designed as two units on a single lot. The back unit for the owner, and the front unit for a renter. The two units are completely seperate, with circulation that does not cross and seperate entrances and parking. While the two units appear to have interwoven spaces, especially in the central courtyard, the two spaces are completely seperate, and both are accesable either from the front street or the back alley, where they have designated parking.

Owner Space Renter space

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Renter roof and courtyard roof

View from street

Sectional axon showing building use

Owner windows onto courtyard

Exterior staircases

Kitchen/Living room middle floor

View from back alley

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Sendai Mediatheque

Materials and Methods Fall 2012 Professor Casey Hughes Group Project Gabriela Colmenares Vishnuvardhan medapati Paul Tuason Atina Yeghyaian

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Project description: For this project we worked in groups of five, starting with researching a case study building. We chose the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito. After researching the existing building and how it’s structure worked and how the different pieces of the building work together we created a small scale version of the building consisting of part of one of the center rings of pipe structure, two floors and the roof lattice, as well as a section of the hanging glass curtain wall.

Floor Finish Floor support Concrete Slab Metal Sheet Steel Pipe

Floor Support Floor Finish Metal S`heet Concrete slab

Column Connections

Beam Steel Column Slanted Glass

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Floor/Wall Connections

Floor Support Concrete Slab Pipe Connection

Connection Floor plate to Exterior skin


Materials

Steel Pipes Concrete MDF Plywood Glass Fixture Acrylic Travertine Metal Sheet Steel I-beam

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Glass Curtain wall Steel lattice column Finish flooring Concrete slab (Steel ribbed) Waffle steel grid

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Layers

exploded axonometric View

Roof Lattice Travertine Tiles Concrete Slab

Glass Fixtures

Metal Grid Interior Glass

Steel Column Partition Base

Exploded Axon

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Concrete Rebar Connection to tubes

Plywood Steel plate Steel I-Beam

Floor Plate

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Welded Connection

Base


Completed Construction

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Research for Journalism School Project

Arch 20B Spring2011 Professor Coleman Griffith Group Project

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Project description: Research the connections between old media and new media and how they work to deliver news to the public. Research how different forms of media are used on our building site. Work with a small group to come up with anylitical data on the media on site and how old and new media sources compare. Then in a larger group, including students from 10B as well as 20A/B reasearch the site and how different aspects of the site would affect media and public demonstrations

-1896 Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of The Chatta nooga Times, acquires controlling ownership of The Times -Slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” first appears

-1880 transition from -1861 began publish ing 7 days a week instead of 6 days a week as a response for desire for news about the Civil War.

-1851Founded by Jour nalist and Republican politition Henry Jarvis

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100,000 increments

-1918 Times wins its first Pulitzer Prize

-1886 Scandal in the grant administration cause publisher to move times away from republican party

-1870-1871 NY Times also prints articles in a german language suplement to reach out to New York’s 25% German Population

Raymond and former banker George Jones

Timeline 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000 900,000 1,000,000 1,100,000 1,200,000

paper supporting only republican canditates to being politically independant

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-1912 Recogni tion from Wood row Wilson wins the Democratic presidential nomination

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EDITOR AND CHIEF EDITOR AND CHIEF

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1973 Hearts of Space music is debuted

1998 Aljazeera was also becoming a favorite sound ing board for militant groups such as Hamas and Chechen separatists. -

1971 first news program on the network. broadcasted live, worldwide 1975 new show features interviews in the entertainment field.

2002 NPR made some changes to appeal to younger listeners and to minority groups

-1996 Aljazeera satellite channel launched

1971coverage of us senate hearings on vietnam war.

1983 efforts to expand created a 7 million dollar deficit cpb lend them money to get back on feet.

1970 npr is founded it took over the the nation education radio netork.

-1996 The Times on the Web – www.nytimes.com – goes online

1967 Joined owners of New York Herald Tribune and Washing ton Post to publish Intrnational Herald Tribune, located in Paris.

1999 Justice Talking a weekly radio show, tackles the law and public policy

-2001 aired video from osama bin laden and talaban

1999 was Aljazeera's first day of 24-hour broadcast 2001 a free web site launched

-1994 First web presence,

1991 Talk of the Nation a talk radio program

1946-1967 International edition

in 1999 the Algerian government reportedly cut power to several major cities to censor one broadcast

available in United Kingdom for the first time

-2011 cameraman was killed while cover ing lybian uprising

2011 egyptian protests government ordered tv to close its offices

2002 NPRWest opened in Culver City, Ca. to improve its coverage of the western United States

2002 banned from reporting inside Bahrain because of bias

2002 the network remained dependent on government support

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2005 NPR has brief statements from major donors rather than commercials

2003 npr given 225 million -largest monetary gift ever to a cultural institution

-2005 Times Select a premium online offering from the New York Times, is launched.

2006 Aljazeera launched an English language channel,

2007 actors read classic and new short fiction before a live audience.

-2011 the last 6 mon ths became an i n t er ntional growth,

-2007 S ta r t ed with 75,000 bloggers -2006 nytimes.com redesign is launched with improved features

-2007 Multiple new online sites

-2008 iphone and itouch apps for NY times readers

-2009 began production of local inserts in regeons outside of New York area.

-2010 the scale jumped drastically t o app r o x 1/4 billion impressions each week

-2010 app for Android smart phones

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1969 FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING IS BUILT ACROSS THE VETERANS CEMETERY.

1969 THE FEDERAL BUILDING WAS BUILT ACROSS FROM THE VETERAN CEMETERY. IT CONTAINS 19 FLOOR LEVELS, AND CONTROLS THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, THE VA, MOST OF THE VARIOUS VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE IRS.

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PRESENT TODAY PROTEST ARE BEING HELD INFRONT OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING, IN HOPE THAT THEIR VOICE AND OPINION BE HEARD TO THE ENTIRE NATION, AND THEN GLOBALLY

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33.829 $ 96,312 33 Schools 1 Police PD Juristictions 57% Rent 43% Own

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Century City

48,343 $ 95,135 17 Schools 1 Police Jurisdiction 40% RENT 60% OWN PD

West MidWilshire

47,167 $ 58,346 39 Schools 2 Police Jurisdictions 78% RENT 22% OWN PD


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BUS STOPS HERE ON WEEKDAYS FROM 10 PM - 7 AM AND ON WEEKENDS FROM 6 AM - 12 AM

BUS STOPS HERE ON WEEKDAYS ONLY FROM 7 AM - 10 PM

BIG BLUE BUS LINE BEGAN 1928 18 ROUTES FLEET 240 DAILY RIDERSHIP 56,283 (ABOUT 20,543,295 ANNUALLY)

CULVER CITY BUS LINE BEGAN 1928 7 ROUTES FLEET 52 DAILY RIDERSHIP ABOUT 16,438 (6,000,000 ANNUALLY)

PURPLE SUBWAY LINE BEGAN 1990 79 MILES SYSTEM LENGTH 5 LINES AVERAGE WEEKDAY RIDERSHIP 148,214 TOTAL METRO RIDERSHIP 308,678 DAILY (ABOUT 112,667,470 ANNUALLY)

MAIN STREETS (WILSHIRE BLVD/WESTOOD BLVD ) LA CITY 14,170,000 DRIVERS 16,032,000 POPULATION 3.1 VEHICLES PER HOUSEHOLD AROUND 80,000 VEHICLES PASS THROUGH WILSHIRE BLVD

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Journalism School

Arch 20B Spring 2011 Professor Coleman Griffith

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Project description: Create a journalism school building with a working newsroom and media publication aspect. building must also have a wikileaks information drop off location . Create an interaction between new media and old media types of publication and ways of delivering news. Building should relate to protest square across the street and the protest marches which will pass by the building. Building should have a functioning journalism school with classrooms, library, lecture hall, lab spaces, as well as including the wikileak drop off and the newsroom and TV news broadcasting.

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Bunker Hill Music Park

Arch 20A Fall 2010 Professor Coleman Griffith

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Project Description: Bunker Hill is a significant landmark for downtown Los Angeles. It connects people from different ethnic backgrounds and social levels. The site

is linked by the market and California Plaza. Site also acts as a hub for commuters, linking an underground rail sytem to above ground bus routes. California Plaza is located at the top of Bunker Hill and overlooks the site. The skyscrapers and Californa Plaza at the top of the hill are predominatly used by middle upperclass workers, and the market at the bottom of the hill is prodominatly used by lower class workers and immigrants. Part of the goal of this project is to link the two sites and create a reason for the different communities to interact.

Reintroduce the community to the chamber orchestra and reinvent the relationship between the community and the orchesra, and enhance this relationship through architecture.

As an external reference, an acoustic musical instrument was required, in order to embody the spirit of the chamber orchestra, as well as to teach the students about the type of music that would be performed. The study of the instrument should investigate how it creates sound through its form, components and use, and how these principles can be related to the site.

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Boiler House School

Arch20B Spring 2011 Professor Coleman Griffith

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Project Description: The old boiler house on campus used to be the main source of energy production on campus, but with the installation of individual boilers for each part of campus, this main building has fallen into disuse. Turn the boiler house into the new Architectural school for the campus. Create a core in the building that transforms to create different teaching spaces.

As an external reference, an acoustic musical instrument was required, in order to embody the spirit of the chamber orchestra, as well as to teach the students about the type of music that would be performed. The study of the instrument should investigate how it creates sound through its form, components and use, and how these principles can be related to the site.

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Minimal Surfaces

Arch12B Fall 2009 Professor Kelly Bair

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Project description: Create an art pavilion using built minimal surfaces in the footprint of the Villa NM building that was studied in a previous project.

Take designed minimal surface shape which has been created from original minimal surface and use to create enclosure for building in a way that creates a usable and pleasing form while following programatic constraints.

Building should have a reception area, artwork viewing areas and enclosed spaces for storing artwork. TETRAHEDRON LINE FROM MIDPOINT TO MIDPOINT TO TOPOINT BACK TO ENDPOINT SPHERE INTERSECTING SURFACE RADIUS FROM QUARTERPOINT TO MIDPOINT SPHERE INTERSECTING SURFACE RADIUS FROM ENDPOINT TO ENDPOINT THREE DEGREE CURVE FROM ENDPOINT TO MIDPOINT TO MIDPOINT TO ENDPOINT BOUNDRY LOFT

Mirror wing at short end (left)

Copy in place two wings. Rotate 3D at 180 degrees using wing edge as rotation axis

Rotate cube so that top side becomes left side

Copy in place last two wings (top) Rotate 3D at 180 degrees using wing edge as rotation axis (foreground)

Process of creating manta minimal surface object from original minimal surface.

Copy in place last two wings (front) Rotate 3D at 180 degrees using wing edge as rotation axis (lower right)

Rotate cube so that right side becomes top side

Copy in place last two wings (top) Rotate 3D 180 degrees using wing edge as rotation axis (right)

Placement of minimal surfaces within the original Villa NM footprint to create walls.

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Rotate cube so that right side becomes front side

Copy in place last two wings (front) Rotate 3D 180 degrees using wing edge as rotation axis (right)


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Cube Project

Arch 10B Fall 2009 Professor Coleman Griffith

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Project description:

Find an area of unplanned space and create a photo collage of the volumes of space it encompases. Take the volumes and manipulate them inside of a box to create negative volumes. Finally, split both the combined manipulated volumes and the differenced box into layers to create a working template.

Concept: take found shapes and using a 3D modeling program, distort the shapes to create unique volumes. Utilize these volumes to explore the idea of negative space within a cube. Work to create interesting experiential spaces within a simple cube while learning to use a modeling program and learning to set up lazercutting templates. Shapes start out roughly rectilinear and become more dynamic and curved throughout the manipulation proccess.

Amanda Clay Arch 10B 10/7/09 Found Space Collage

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Amanda Clay Arch 10B 10/7/09 Found Space Collage Geometry

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Fabric Formwork

Arch14 Spring 2010 Professors Coleman Griffith and Dionicio Valdez Group Project

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Project Goal: Learn the properties of fabric casting and how this mode of casting cement can influence the project as opposed to the traditional formwork casting. Create a system which supports itself and plant life in an interrelated system.

Project Description: This was a group project with six students working together. We decided to create a modular system using the fabric casting method. One of the main goals of the project was to figure out how we could show the attributes of fabric in the final cement model, and utilize these attributes to influence the creation and design of the project.

Study Models and Design Proccess

This model was originally a sphere, with four arms, but when it broke it inspired our design in unforseen ways.

This sketch came from the disscusion about the sphere arms and how they could be used to create a repetitive system utilizing both sides of the curve, as well as the hanging aspect of fabric and how it could be used to collect either plants or water.

This was the last of the study models that did not look like our final project. However, from this reworking of the sphere model, we came up with a physical example of how pieces could interlock and work together to create a system. The holes in the pieces are meant to hold the plants, with the roots sticking down through the holes to recieve either water or soil.

In the final design, the method of construction allowed gravity to pull extra concrete down to the legs of the form, buldging at the bottom where it needed the most stability and thinnng at the top where it needed to be thinner.

Concrete pour bag is inserted into top of form

Concrete is poured into formwork

Concrete dries and fabric will be cut off

Building Process

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Bodies and Skins

Arch 12B Fall 2009 Professor Kelly Bair

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Project goal: Learn how to manipulate lines

and create original surface skins resulting from deliberate movements of lines. Create a cube with four sides originating from built skins and top and bottom flat.

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created six feet long with seven control points on each, evenly spaced.

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On each line, one control point is taken up

Project description: Create a skin by deliberatly manipulating lines and

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lofting them together. With this manipulation, the constructed skins are then used to create volumetric bodies. Process of converting lines to planes to volumes is studied and developed upon.

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second lines are mirror images of eachother, and the third and fourth are mirror images of eachother. side is moved, and on the second two lines, the middle point is moved

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Lines are altered at points

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4 2) The lines are then arranged vertically so that mirror image lines are next to eachother, and with the altered point pulled to the same side. Also, the curves are enclosed on either end create the corners of the box.

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4) Each curve is turned 90 degrees left or right, alternating in direction with each curve, except for the straight curves.

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This surface is then mirrored six feet away to create the opposite side of the square.

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Each curve is turned 90 degrees

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This surface is then mirrored This surface is then mirrored six feet away to create the opposite side of the square.

sides are copied and rotated again Finally, the existing two sides are copied and rotated to create the missing sides and a flat top and bottom are added.

Finally, the existing two sides are copied and rotated to create the missing sides and a flat top and bottom are added.

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