2015-2016 A.UD
PORTFOLIO SAMPLE
ACADEMIC
WQ-2016
02
ACADEMIC
ARCH&UD 415
STEEL HOUSE COURSE:
Comprehensive Studio
CRITIC:
Neil Denari (Principle, Neil M. Denari Architects)
QUARTER:
Winter / 2016
LOCATION:
Los Angeles, California
PROGRAM:
203 Chautauqua Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90272
SIZE:
3,000 S.F.
Q-1 - “I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
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- Andy Warhal
STANDARD / CUSTOM
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“What happened when steel was introduced into building construction was nothing less than a seismic shift in the way in which architecture would be designed and executed from that point on. Like air travel though, today we hardly notice the effects that it has on our discipline since the miracle material turned commonplace long ago. When Harry Bessemer injected oxygen into molten iron in 1856, a method that evolved through fits, starts, and input from other industrialists, a revolution began, one that would lead to the invention of a new language of architecture, 20th century Modernism. Beyond Chicago’s (and later New York’s) advances in high rise construction, and Europe’s radicalization of the social project of architecture via the polemics of Mies and Le Corbusier among others, Los Angeles reaped the benefits of these pioneering efforts in the realm of residential architecture.
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Throughout the 1930’s, steel houses were designed largely by anonymous companies under the spell of profitability. Repetitive, high volume industries like aerospace and automotive design were seen as models for mass housing. Indeed, although there was little in the way of real technology transfer going on in architecture, the kit of parts steel framed house represented the material reality of Le Corbusier’s machine-à-habiter.” - AUD415 Comprehensive Studio, Introduction
This home reconsiders the machines of the contemporary as a means for developing a
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new “steel” house that relies on standardization while also accommodating user desires of extreme customization.
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Richard Meier, Smith House / 1967
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Pierre Koenig, Case Study 22 / 1959
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Royal Oak Laptimer Michael Schumacher
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Geometric studies
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Plan, 1st floor
With the background and history of the 20th century as a backdrop, the project focuses on the constraints and logics of grids, geometric prisms, and platonic spatial typologies (N-01) within a 3,000SF residence located on another backdrop of significant importance, the site of the Eames / Entenza compound. The Eames site offers a secluded space that suggest proposals pointed towards High Modernist forms and languages. Expanding beyond the singularity of the WQ-2016
transparent house, there’s a desire for both seclusion (R-01) and openness (R-02). Designed like highly articulated product (R-03), the home becomes a new
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01 aluminium parapet cover
07 concrete topping screed (2in)
01 white polyure
02 aluminium panel
08 reinforced structural concrete slab (3in)
02 concrete top
03 multiplex plywood
09 2.0 composite deck
03 reinforced st
04 formed gutter
10 W24X? steel member
04 2.0 composi
05 steel L-profile
11 fibre cement sheet (1/2in)
05 W24X? stee
06 white polyurethane flooring (1/8in)
12 thick insulated ceiling panel with stucco finish (1-1/2in)
06 fibre cement
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Macbook Air unibody, 2008
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iPhone 4 design, 2010
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Royal Oak Laptimer Michael Schumacher
We focus on standardizing but we dream about custom. We obsess over complexity (R-02 Royal Oak Laptimer Michael Schumacher has been labeled as one of the most complicated mechanical chronographs yet to be built) yet, we constantly aspire for a higher purity (R03) Apple’s iPhone 4 release marked the phone’s first major design update since it’s introduction in 2007.)
01 lamenated safety glass (1in thick)
07 2.0 composite deck
01 fixed double
02 silicone joint
08 W21X? steel member
02 white polyure
03 steel frame (1/4in thick)
09 spreader beam (1/4in thick; 3in x 12in)
03 concrete top
04 white polyurethane flooring (1/8in thick)
10 lamenated safety glass (1/2in thick)
04 reinforced st
05 concrete topping screed (2in thick)
11 dropped ceiling (louvre system)
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06 reinforced structural concrete slab (3in thick)
06 W24X55 ste
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DETAILS
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The home functions as a machine that indulges the
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ROOF OVERHANG
technicians that occupy its walls. From it’s integrated
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ROOF & GLAZING
features (N-03) to it’s minimal aesthetic (N-06), the
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SKYLIGHT
home aspires to a higher ergonomics equal to the level
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BALCONY
of product design.
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FIXED GLAZING
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ATRIUM STAIR
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07 thick insulated ceiling panel with stucco finish (1-1/2in)
01 lamenated safety glass (1in thick)
07 white polyurethane flooring (1/8in)
08 double glazing
02 silicone joint
08 concrete topping screed (2in)
tructural concrete slab (3in)
09 rigid insulation (2in thick)
03 steel frame (1/4in thick)
09 reinforced structural concrete slab (3in)
ite deck
10 double steel member
04 bolt
10 2.0 composite deck
11 steel l bracket
05 multiplex plywood
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12 mechanical shade (1 = shade, 2 = projection screen)
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08 multiplex plywood
pping screed (2in)
09 3-1/2 x 3-1/2in steel angle
03 2in thick concrete topping screed
09 steel plate
tructural concrete slab (3in)
10 condensation channel
04 reinforced structural concrete slab (3in)
10 1/2in folded steel plate (hand rail + stair wall)
e glazing (3/8in+3/4in+1/4inx2)
ethane flooring (1/8in)
05 2.0 composite deck
ite deck
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eel member
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ethane flooring (1/8in)
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03 metal bracket
09 aluminium stud
04 footplate
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05 exposed filange (1/4in x 3in)
11 down-pipe (d=3in)
06 steel web (1/2in x variable depth)
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The Tote, Serie Architects / 2009
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Botanical Garden Greenhouse, id-A / 2012
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Château Margaux, Norman Foster / 2015
Examining the potential structural organizations of steel within a circular building geometry (N 11-14), the house utilizes the steel branch as a means for developing a series of standard parts. The column branch has taken many forms, ranging from the excessive (R-06) to the minimal (R-07) to pure techtonics (R-08). Rather than expose the steel members as pure expression, they take on the visually similar form while also playing the role of mediator between structure, expression, and function WQ-2016
throughout the home (N-10).
01 fixed double glazing
08 gwb (1/4in)
03 metal bracket
09 aluminium stud
04 footplate
10 curved l.g.s.f
05 exposed filange (1/4in x 3in)
11 down-pipe (d=3in)
06 steel web (1/2in x variable depth)
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07 welded steel joint (1/2" thick)
02 silicone joint
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column-beam 4 (34’-7“L)
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column-beam 1 (10’-0”L)
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column-beam 1 (10’-0”L)
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column-beam 2 (14’-7”L)
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column-beam 2 (14’-7”L)
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column-beam 3 (20’-0” L)
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column-beam 3 (20’-0” L)
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column-beam 4 (34’-7“L)
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column-beam 4 (34’-7“L)
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curved-beam (17’-11”L)
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column-beam 5 (40’-0”L)
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curved-beam (17’-11”L)
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Column-A detail.
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Structural organization 1: column clusters (X3)
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DETAILS
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C 7.36
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ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO 2015 - 2016
ACADEMIC
FQ-2015
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ACADEMIC
ARCH&UD 413
DRIVE-IN CITY COURSE:
Building Design & Landscape Studio
CRITIC:
--
QUARTER:
Fall / 2015
LOCATION:
Los Angeles, California
PROGRAM:
Mixed-housing, “Drive-In” Series
SIZE:
N/A
Q-1 - Cameron (Alan Ruck): “The 1961 Ferrari 250GT California. Less than a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love, it is his passion.” Ferris (Matthew Broderick): “It’s his fault he didn’t lock the garage.”
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- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
CAR CULTURE
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ACADEMIC
To newcomers, Los Angeles is defined by a limitless interconnected hierarchy of roadways, but those of us who live here know better. It is housing, in its suburban form, that gives Los Angeles its extensive grid, fuels the demand for the road system, provides recognizable districts, neighborhoods and sorts the city’s demographics. 413 studio is interested not in housing as a typological specialty, but as the genetic source that shapes the urban fabric that connects built form with landscape, and that in turn characterizes the manner in which we inhabit the city. With land acquisition booming, investments being negotiated and hipsters scrambling to move in, Frog Town in the Elysian Valley is Los Angeles’ next big attempt at an urban renaissance. Captured by the hard edges of the 5 freeway to the southwest and 2 freeway to the north, Frog Town encompasses 79 miles of single family housing, light industry and amenity latent lands with river adjacency. Upon channelization of the river in the 1930’s to reduce the impact of flooding on the low lands of Atwater Village and East LA, the natural edge of the river was dissolved into a hard one. This control over nature divorced the city from the river, and more importantly from the ecosystems it connected. With the passing of a 1-billion-dollar federal investment in rejuvenating the riparian past of the LA River, interest has shifted once again to reinventing this once forgotten edge of the city with Frog Town proclaimed as its new center.
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- AUD413, Introduction
Historically, the highway has been a tool for
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segregation and public dispute. Rather than straying away from highway development, can we imagine an alternative model that adds value (financially, spatially, socially) to new highwaycentric communities? R-03
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Jonathan Castillo, Car Culture / 2015
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Edward Burtynsky, 105&110
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Michael Maltzan, Carver Apartments / 2009
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Livable Streets, Donald Appleyard / 1981
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Concept, Vertical Dingbat
Los Angeles is a city built around the car (R-02). For most Angeleno’s, we drive as part of our daily commute, but we also drive for the pleasure, and we drive for personal needs (R-01). The car isn’t something we can avoid - it’s part of the city fabric. We may look at Donald Appleyard’s Livable Streets diagram (R-04) and think it’s time to eliminate this personal object from our daily lives. Historically, the highway has been a tool for segregation and power struggle. Is it possible to invert our relationship to the FQ-2015
highway with living for a new Los Angeles housing?
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Early consideration was made to the role of the car as well as the cyclist and the pedestrian. Each form of mobility solicits varying degrees of restriction regarding its ability to turn / navigate at varying speeds. Operating between the freeway and LA river, these circulation studies (N 3-11) consider how multiple thick vectors could begin to develop a new zoning map (i.e. mobility-based zoning) for a mixture of programs that could link freeway, neighborhood, and river into one interface.
LOCAL VS. TOURIST
03
ACADEMIC
4 SINGLE-UNIT SUITES / DIRECT ACCESS
01
01
02 03
02 EL
UP
EL
03
DN
04
04
05
05
13
14
R-04
06
06
07
EL
UP DN
08
DN UP
11
09
EL
10
10
06
11
12
12
08 09
2-BEDROOM / 2 CAR-GARAGE
R-05 N-12
4 SINGLE-UNIT SUITES / DIRECT ACCESS
01
01
02 03
02 EL
UP
EL
03
DN
04
04
05
05
13
14
06
06 UP
The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles
07
R-05
The Houser, Dingbat
08
DN UP
11
N-12
Hotel + Apartments, Ground Floor
09
EL
10
N-13
Hotel + Apartments, 1st Floor
10
06
N-14
Partial Plan, 1st Floor
11
12
12
08
R-04
Can we generate a optimal community environment for both tourists and locals? What sorts of new
FQ-2015
currently define Los Angele’s housing landscape?
20
DRIVE-IN CITY
DN
2-BEDROOM / 2 CAR-GARAGE
programs can be produced within this mixture? Can this be an opportunity to rethink the basic types that
EL
N-13
09
ACADEMIC EL
EL
UP DN UP
EL
EL
UP
UP
EL
WC
DN
UP
UP DN
DN
WC
VALET
EL
EL
EL
EL
N-14
PORTFOLIO 2015 - 2016
EL
EL
EL
EL
UP DN
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UP DN