Office Exploded Axonometric
PORTSMOUTH CENTER Discritization through unitized voxels
Wall Section
Date: Spring 2021 Duration: 12 Weeks Core Studio IV: Christoph Klemmt Project Type: Skyscraper Location: San Francisco, CA Portsmouth Center builds a top the existing Portsmouth Square parking garage. It revitalizes the dilapidated public space by moving public ground to the sky in the form of a museum. 22 levels of office space sit in between the ground plane and the museum. This project utilizes pyramid and tetrahedron geometry to create a 3-dimensional grid of unitized facade components. The form is generated from 10 twisting tubes where adjacent edges match concave with convex. Elongated tetrahedrons spiral around the voxelized surface to emphasize its twisting nature. Pyramids pointing down are materialized in glass while the tetrahedrons and pyramids pointing up are finished in aluminum panels. The museum facade differentiates itself from the primary facade system by using large planar surfaces that align with the 3-dimensional grid. The museum interior deviates entirely from the grid and instead uses the original curvilinear forms that generated the voxel grid.
Voxel Detail
East Elevation
Site Plan Program Diagram
Museum Section
Museum L4 Floor Plan
Interior Perspective
Museum Perspective