Architecture Portfolio Selected Works From 2015 - 2017
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CoHabitant
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Co - Habitant DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
The concept behind this project is defining a brand new ecosystem within a familiar urban setting. Given, this project is for a co-living model, it also revolutionalizes the traditional housing model that we are familiar with today. What if we could take what we already know about traditional housing, group programmatic spaces so as to avoid any unecessary redundancies and create a more efficient use of space that is specific to the characteristics of communal living? And that is what this project is about. It takes the nature of your daily live, work, play life and finds a common ground so as to define a brand new ecosystem of social interaction and personal growth.
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1 - TYPICAL SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE
TRADITIONAL MODEL OF SINGLE DOMESTIC UNIT, BASED UPON INHERITED NOTIONS OF MATERIALISM, THE NUCLEAR FAMILY, AND THE SUBURBAN DREAM
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PROGRAMMATIC SPACES CAN BE GROUPED AND CONSOLIDATED TO ELIMINATE UNNECESSARY REDUNDANCY WHILE CREATING A MORE EFFICIENT USE OF SPACE, RESPONSIVE TO THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNAL LIVING
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2 - TYPICAL MULTI-FAMILY MODEL
SINGLE FAMILY MODEL IS REPLICATED MULTIPLE TIMES TO ACCOMMODATE THE DESIRED UNIT COUNT AND DENSITY. THIS APPROACH IS UNRESPONSIVE TO SPECIFICITY OF TYPOLOGY, OR NOTIONS OF COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
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PROGRAMS ARE ORGANIZED ALONG A PUBLIC / PRIVATE GRADIENT TO MAXIMIZE SPATIAL EFFICIENCY AND CREATE A VARIETY OF SHARED, FLEXIBLE GATHERING SPACES, PRIORITIZING SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY WHILE ACCOMMODATING A RANGE OF USES
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TECHNOLOGY AND THE SHARING ECONOMY HAS CHANGED THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE, TRAVEL, EAT, SPREAD AND CONSUME CULTURE, AND MOVE AROUND THE CITY. HOWEVER, CONTEMPORARY HOUSING MODELS HAVE STRUGGLED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS RAPID EVOLUTION. WE PROPOSE A PROJECT THAT EMBRACES THIS CULTURE AND CELEBRATES MEANINGFUL SOCIAL INTERACTION AND PERSONAL GROWTH
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By merely adopting a simple strategy of pushing and pulling on the site parameters, in elevation, to accomodate for shade, optimize the california sunshine, and provide means of egress; we create a striking shape to the facade that is entirely driven by the conditions of the site, making the archetypal character of this design a timeless icon that paves a way for a new typology for contemporary housing in downtown Los Angeles.
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Taking the mass and trying to understand the inbetween space or to articulate a common ground for social interactions led to an extrusion of a diamond shape volume that also carries the facade language to the center that creates the relief in between required for opportunities of social interactions.
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Through the section you can begin to see how the strict order of the units meets the spatial nature of the public program; almost like the ‘live, work, play’ diagram being transformed into a physical form of built reality. 1
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CALA
FIRST STREET VIADUCT, LOS ANGELES
This project deals with the notion of Los Angeles being known as a walled city. In particular, the L.A. River acting as the biggest wall that has restricted any form of development to affect Boyle Heights, a quiet family oriented neighborhood of Los Angeles, which is scared of any form of gentrification. So, we see the design for the CALA museum as a subtle insertion of program that does not contradict its surroundings but rather responds to it in a way that tightens the gap between two neighborhoods, using culture and heritage as a medium.
When these islands are put together, they begin to form a new urban ecology that preserves the cultural essence and heritage of its surrounding neighborhood while providing outlets for brand new experiences.
There are elements on the site that dissect our surroundings and organize them in an implied grid or the way we see it, as a cluster of islands.
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For one island to survive, it needs the adjacent neighboring island, which results in a cluster of islands that serve as operational spaces in providing a unique experience to the viewer.
The boundaries that create these islands are not always well defined, however, in this case, identifying streets, freeways, block and other strong edge conditions begin to define, not only an island within itself but also form a boundary for another.
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The traffic board is an observation study on the existing traffic pattern in the surrounding area. Like a musical score, the drawings notational system corresponds to different tempos of traffic; such as, the stop and go movement around small streets, the in flux movement of major streets and the freeways
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DEFINING A NEW URBAN TYPOLOGY:
WEAVE ACTIVITIES TOGETHER BELOW THE BRIDGE:
Creating an organic form that not only defines circulation and program but also rethinks the formal approach in dealing with similar urban conditions.
A new meandering promenade becomes a secondary connection. The curved shape defines a series of urban spaces below the bridge.
A NEW URBAN TYPOLOGY: DEFINING A NEWDEFINING URBAN TYPOLOGY:
WEAVE ACTIVITIES TOGETHER BELOW THE BRIDGE: WEAVE ACTIVITIES TOGETHER BELOW THE BRIDGE:
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A NEW URBAN TYPOLOGY: DEFINING A NEWDEFINING URBAN TYPOLOGY:
1 - Defining A New Urban Typology: Creating an organic form circulation that not only defines circulation Creating an organic form that not only defines and program but alsoand program but also rethinks in thedealing formalwith approach dealing with similar urban conditions. rethinks the formal approach similar inurban conditions.
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SEAMLESS CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ARTS DISTRICT AND BOYLE HEIGHTS: Proposing a linear connection between these two city districts, so as to break the stigma of Los Angeles being a city of infrastructural divide.
SEAMLESSBETWEEN CONNECTION BETWEEN THE AND ARTS DISTRICT AND SEAMLESS CONNECTION THE ARTS DISTRICT BOYLE HEIGHTS:BOYLE HEIGHTS:
3 - Seamless Connection Between The SEAMLESSBETWEEN CONNECTION BETWEEN THE AND ARTS DISTRICT AND SEAMLESS CONNECTION THE ARTS DISTRICT Arts District and Boyle Heights: BOYLE HEIGHTS:BOYLE HEIGHTS: Proposingbetween a linear connection between these two districts, so as to break the stigma Proposing a linear connection these two city districts, so as tocity break the stigma Los of Angeles being adivide. city of infrastructural divide. of Los Angeles beingof a city infrastructural
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WEAVE ACTIVITIES TOGETHER BELOW THE BRIDGE: WEAVE ACTIVITIES TOGETHER BELOW THE BRIDGE:
2 - Weave Activities Together Below The WEAVE ACTIVITIES WEAVE TOGETHER ACTIVITIES BELOW TOGETHER THE BRIDGE: BELOW THE BRIDGE: Bridge: A new meandering becomes a secondary connection. A new meandering promenade becomespromenade a secondary connection. The curved shape The curved shape defines a series of the urban spaces below the bridge. defines a series of urban spaces below bridge.
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CREATING PUBLIC LIFE BEFORE PRIVATE SPACES: As an instant urban intervention the public promenade is programmed with shops, cafes, librarys, gardens, galleries, theatres, learning centres, markets and vista points.
CREATING PUBLIC LIFE BEFORE PRIVATE SPACES: CREATING PUBLIC LIFE BEFORE PRIVATE SPACES:
4 - Creating Public Life Before Private CREATING PUBLIC LIFE BEFORE PRIVATE SPACES: CREATING PUBLIC LIFE BEFORE PRIVATE SPACES: Spaces: As an instant public promenade is programmed with shops, As an instant urban intervention theurban publicintervention promenadethe is programmed with shops, cafes, librarys, gardens, galleries, theatres, learning markets and vista points. cafes, librarys, gardens, galleries, theatres, learning centres, markets andcentres, vista points. As an instant urban intervention the public promenade is programmed with shops,
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SEVEN UNIQUE BUILDING PLOTS DIVERSIFIED IN SCALE:
RESHAPING THE PROFILE OF EACH ENVELOPE:
The leftover space is filled up with seven unique building plots that are all different in shape and size. The building envelope varies in scale and height.
Each building envelope profile is modified to secure the microclimate under the bridge and create a new dynamic relationship between the surface and underside of the bridge.
5 - Seven Unique Building Plots UNIQUE PLOTS DIVERSIFIED IN SCALE: SEVEN UNIQUE SEVEN BUILDING PLOTSBUILDING DIVERSIFIED IN SCALE: Diversified In Scale:
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6 - Reshaping The Profile Of Each Envelope:
PROFILE OF EACH ENVELOPE: RESHAPING THERESHAPING PROFILE OFTHE EACH ENVELOPE:
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A Trail Between Two Cities:
Los Angeles is notoriously known as the city
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7 - Urbanscape: By designing the public space as the first step, the development carefully mixes URBANSCAPE: public programs with private spaces creating a new vigorous urban area for everyone where lifethe can truly be ‘public’. By designing the public space public as the first step, development carefully mixes public programs with private spaces creating a new vigorous urban area for everyone where public life can truly be ‘public’.
URBANSCAPE: URBANSCAPE:
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movement is similar to an experience one has in a museum where you can walk upto an artifact, around it and at times are able to walk through it.
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This same principle is applied here, where we begin to weave program together under the bridge. Only in this case, the bridge becomes the artifact. SECTIONAL MODEL
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These clusters are intended to recover forgotten and unfulfilled cultural desires such as murals of the Arts District, performances of the Boyle Heights community, and the significance of a water body in an urban setting. With these interventions, people can directly enjoy and experience a cultural heritage in the middle of an urban center.
Urban Housing CIVIC CENTER DISTRICT, LOS ANGELES
Mapping out the open and closed spaces with respect to the site reveals just how uninviting and ignored the area really is. This condition may have come about due to the industrial fences, overhead railway lines, high speed vehicular traffic, or the lack of programmatic activites geared towards the public needs.
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A visual of what is occupied vs unoccupied with respect to establishments in the immediate site context begins to reveal just how barren and open the site is. Currently, abundance of open space is being neglected when all the inviting activites are focused in the lower left corner, specifically on ‘Olvera Street’.
Mapping out the horizontal and vertical formal aggregation reveals the typology of the neighborhood.
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Mapping out the speed of traffic reveals the areas that people slow down to experience versus areas that are passed through due to their commute.
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This project is about taking an existing site condition in order to address urban typology. The site was one that was completely closed off, inactive and dead. So, how do we create an active environment that is much more open and inviting, while still paying respect to the privacy of the neighborhood? Mapping out the speed of traffic and the presence of a railway line revealed truly unique site conditions. The inter state railway line, present to the East of the site, cuts through many major metropolitan cities. Along the way, the railway lines develop deltas that protrude outwards into the urban field. These deltas, often used for storage and repairs, formed the driving force behind this design.
Each circulation pathway is an extension of the railway line that begins to bridge two sides of an urban landscape that is otherwise closed off. This move not only activates the site but, in fact, activates the entire neighborhood. It results in the creation of pockets of public spaces that are otherwise ruined by the development of transport.
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Urban Village
Pod Structure
Suburbia GLENDALE, CA
Concept
A suburban home, being the premise of this project, designed using container architecture serves as a solution to the affordable housing crisis in the city of Los Angeles.
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Concept
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‘Work’ Space within the unit. Creating an in-home selfsustaining environment. No vehicular or foot traffic. Singular pods within a community.
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‘Work’ Space within the unit. Creating an in-home selfsustaining environment. No vehicular or foot traffic. Singular pods within a community.
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‘Work’ Space independant from ‘Live’ space. Creating a self-sustaining Work community. No vehicular traffic. Multiple pods within a ‘Work’ Space community.
InterActive Space
InterActive Space
The overall form and process of aggregation is influenced by the analogy of tree, where the programmable pods, just like leaves, branch out from the main trunk of the building that also serves as the vertical circulation.
Work
Each programmable space is comprised of 2-4 pods depending on the nature of the progam in that unit. The units also follow a radial path providing an uninterrupted view from any given point in the project.
independant from ‘Live’ space. Creating a self-sustaining community. No vehicular traffic. Multiple pods within a community.
Concept Development: Iteration One: Concept Development: Iteration
2 Seperate Buildings, 2 Seperate Entities, Open to Sky InterActive Space, & Potential External InterActive Activities. One:
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2 Seperate Buildings, 2 Seperate Entities, Open to Sky InterActive Space, & Potential External InterActive Activities.
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1 Building, 2 Seperate Entities, Open to Sky Core, & Ground
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Why Container Architecture? Advantages: 1. Strenght and Durability 2. Modular quality 3. Easily Transported 4. Widely Available 5. Inexpensive 6. Self-Sustaining (Structurally) Disadvantages: 1. Temperature Control 2. Lack of flexibility 3. Humidity 4. Weakness In Roof 5. Obtaining Building Permits Economic Dimension: The median home value in Glendale is estimated to be $684,800, while the median household income is estimated to be $41,805. For young professionals and families alike, the idea of making a downpayment on any such property begins to look like a bigger milestone than originally anticipated. The result, 72% of Glendale residents are renters. In contrast, the total cost of building a modular home using shipping containers is estimated between $150,000 and $175,000. That is 80% less than the market value of an average home in Glendale.
Fact: Due to economic benefits, America imports all of its products but, in turn, have nothing to export. After being unloaded, the containers are stored in a corner of the dock only to be forgotten. Twenty-One thousand containers hit American shores every day of the year. Containers have the potential of being transported to the interiors of any country, via trains or trucks. And just like lego pieces, these shipping containers can be assembled in numerous ways in order to develop a strong modulating language. Being able to pre-fabricate a home and transport it to any location in the world could globalize the housing market.
Gym
Balcony
Private Cafe
Business Pods
Single Bedroom Units
Rental Units
Viewing Deck
Studio Units
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Unit Experience
Sectional Model
AVD