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Instructor : Coleman Griffith

Location

Los Angeles,

Site Description

Challenge

Pan Pacific Park is a green area in Los Angeles located in between Beverly hills and hollywood district, right next to The Grove shopping center. The park has been an indispensable part of the neighborhood.

More than merely a green space in the city, the park provides jogging track, Museum, Library, basketball courts, baseball diamonds and playgrounds. People come regularly for sports and recreation, mostly during weekends, either between 6-10am or 4-6pm depends on the accoasion.

Build a kindergarten in the park might lead us into two big issues : Safety and privacy. School most likley need its private spaces, especially pre-schools, in order to guard and control the children. However, The park itself is too open in which it is not safe enough to let children wander around it. Also, as pan pacific park is used regularly, privacy for children is hard to maintain.

Goals To provide educational need of surrounding neighborhood for pre-schooler. Most of education experts agreed that early education needs more than just a building but also adequate spaces for children to move around and play. With more spaces, early cognitive system could develop better. The Pan pacific park contour and environment is considered to be a suitable location to enhance children cognitive development

Pan Pacific Park

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Play the park’s contour is possible to create an interplay between the kindergarten with its surrounding. Its main goal is to integrate with the landscape yet keeping the children safe inside the school from any outside danger. The building also has to be sequential in users’ experience as well as systematically concur with specific pedagogy

Equilibration

The concept comes from Jean Piaget pedagogy which theoritically explain about an essential factor that influence children cognitive development called equilibration. this term is invented by Piaget to describe how children learn the new knowledge, comprehend it, and use it in real-life. Equilibration means a process to achieve equilibrium. Piaget believe that in equilibration children have to undergo two sub-proccess called Accomodation--incorporate existing scheme to fit the new knwoledge in--and assimilation--Adjusting the new knowledge without changing the existing scheme. These two characteristic juxtapose and counter each other in order to balance the learning proccess, which eventually lead to the state of equilibrium.

This Project manifests the interplay between assimilation and accomodation, by translating them into spatial relationship and experiences. The site itself also an example of integration between the bi-nuclear ideas, which is incorporated in the project.

Acco m o da t i o n In Assimilation, what is perceived in the outside world is incorporated into the internal world , without changing the structure of that internal world, but potentially at the cost of "squeezing" the external perceptions to fit

Equilibration a proccess of attaining equilibrium from the sequential reaction between assimilation and accomodation in order to comprehend the new knowledge.

Assimilation In Accommodation, the internal world has to accommodate itself to the evidence with which it is confronted and thus adapt to it, which can be a more difficult and painful

E q u i l i b r at i o n

dise quilibration

cognitive structure

re ality

assimilation

accomo d a t io n

eq u ilib riu m

Site Analysis

Design Proccess

grid datum is created based on views, holocaust museum entrance, and accesibility

noise

20,000-30,000ft empty spaces

lack of access and parking spaces Flood Hazard area

The project is started from the main entrance by creating elongated circulation 45 degree from the park main circulation.

Merely some parts of the park that is possible for project’s location. 60% of the park is part of flood hazard area which could not be built. the rest 20% has been used for other purposes, where the only remaining left is 20% of the park located on northern side just right next to Pan Pacific theater.

main circulation secondary circulation parking lot access to pan pacific park

Accesibility

view to the park access to existing playground

The circulation assimilates the site conditions, such as existing playground and view to the park

existing playground best view of the park

The curved circulation provides privacy of the circulation, thus suitable to accomodate the main program such as classroom and multi functional hall

Location advantages

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drop-off zone

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Free floor Plan causes more dynamic circulation to enhance children movement.

toy storage

playroom

teacher’s room

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multi-functional hall B’ classroom classroom

library

classroom

playground

restroom maintainance

Class rooms and multi-functional hall have enough flexibility in use. It could be used separately or together as big gathering rooms.

cafetaria

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The only adjacent spaces are kitchen, restrooms, office, and teacher’s room

The Floor plan does not have any walls to separate the spaces. The Partition is no other than the structure itself, which is permiable to go through each space like moving through the forest. Here, the rooms deliberately undefined, which creates flexibility in its use to improve student creativity at utmost.

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classrooms

site plan

playground

Continuity of the surroundings

The organic enclosures are supported by natural form structures, which mimicking the series of trees outside, continuing the natural languange of the park.

Program transition

circulation

classrooms

playground

Concept as Transitional experience through space

equilibrium

accomodate

assimilate the experiences happens between hall, circulation, and classrooms. The hall expands as it assimilates the outside world, condensed at the circulation, eventually expand at the children scale in order to accomodate the users’ convenience.

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Panoramic Views from LA Holocaust museum

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Project Description

Concept : Camouflage

1570 East Colorado Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91106

Located in Pasadena City college, the project is built on the pcc common area, intersections of campus main circulations. It links the west parking lots to most of the classes on campus, also a buffer zone between west and east side campus. The site consists Cafeteria, outdoor seating area, and green spaces.

Human capability of emulate the model to solve its own solution could be one of the solution for architectural project. Human observational learning is similar to what it is called camouflage--The art of deception for self-protection.

Camouflage is a suitable concept for landscape project. Its bi-nuclear idea between conceal and advertisement could provide a dynamic play between spaces that would affect people’s movement and direction.

Problem The site is not being used efficiently. The open spaces is inconvenience for student to stay, the cafeteria lacks of spaces and has inefficient spatial relationship, and the park is rarely used by students.

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Attracting

camouflage

Concealment

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opening

The biggest challenge is to rebuild the Lancer pass (Cafeteria and study lounge) by scaling up its size and reconfigure the main circulation by playing with the Emulation diagram landscape.

Concept Characteristic

disguise

Advertisement

Challenge PCC Common area

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Site Analysis circulation

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main circulation Service circulation secondary circulation Lancer pass

concept on site

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enclosured circulation open circulation

Grid diagram

Height datum

long section

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contiunity

enclosed vs open

advertisement vs concealment

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dry storage

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serving area

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cashier

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study area restrooms

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Bi-nuclear idea on site The two main programs : Study lounge and caffeteria incorporate the concept of camouflage to achieve effectiveness of the programs. By breaking the surfaces and adjust the heights of two spaces, cafeteria as a public spaces will attract people around to keep study area away from circulation congestion. Both programs are linked underground to avoid collision with perpendicular main circulation.

The Interplay of breaking vs blending, conceal vs reveal, and attracting versus hiding will improve the quality of experience in each program. Study lounge that needs quiet environment and comfortable spaces is placed below the ground zero to prevent people walking through as well as enhance more suitable ambience within.

study lounge

On the other hand, cafeteria is placed above the ground zero and provide more opening to attract people, solving the problem where the old cafeteria is often being unnoticed.

The roof is also set higher than normal so that it could shade the

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Project Description The project is located on sidewalks along the intersection of westwood and lindbrook boulevard, starts from Wilshire boulevard. It will contains the reconstructed components on the street such as subway entrance, marquee, street lamps, newspaper boxes, and bus stops. Those components will be integrated into a system so-called “streetscapes�

Los Angeles, CA

highway 405 wilshire blvd westwood federal building

Problem

project location

have no relationship between each other.

The street components are more likely separated objects in which This condition thus

causes a disintegration on the site.

External Reference : Deviantart Deviantart is an online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It aims to provide a platform for any artist to exhibit and discuss works. in some cases, users who exhibit exceptional artworks will get more praises and favorites than the others, and the most popular one will be shown in the homepage.

Concept : Recognition Deviantart based their system on recognition, which literally means an identification of something as having been previously seen. An object comes to recognition when it stands out from the crowd, in other words, different. A differentiation could only be achieved when thebi-nuclear ideas balance each other, between deviation and conformity. Conformity creates uniform and order, where the deviation creates a chaos, evoking recognition.

Concept diagram

Deviantart diagram group

unattractive

confirmity common inclusive

Daily deviation

Popular search

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Recognition deviation recognizable exclusive

group daily deviation popular search

artwork the bigger diameter of the artwork, more popular it is

Site Analysis Walking circulation

area of deviation featured circulation

Transportation’s speed

Transportation circulation

area of deviation

Proccess diagram The Project circulation starts from subway entrance on intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevard, then goes all the way to lindbrook and end up on 20A site

20A site

fast (Wilshire) medium slow circulation

Based on previous diagram, the deviated spots are marked as the datum

Veiling the pedestrians with minimum surface canopy that transform due to deviated area and street components.

Subway entrance’s section

Wilshire Elevation

Westwood section

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Westwood Elevation

Lindbrook section

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Project Description The project goal is to make a model based on the circulation and interlocking spaces of a house project. The model is made of three materials : Walnut, basswood, and

Circulation

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Walnut represents the base and adjacent spaces; basswood represent circulation; and acrylic represents public spaces. the public spaces and circulation are interlocking with each other and could be dissas-

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Instructor : Deborah Bird

Location

Pasadena

Los Angeles

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Description

Solution

The Project is located in Pasadena, between two commercial buildings, southern california funding, holly street apartment and city’s park. interestingly, the site has a direct, diagonal access from the subway on Holly street. The other access are historical Legge alley and union street in the front (one way street). The site is rarely passed by, seems dangerous to an extent, also inefficiently functioned. This project propose to renovate the one-floor solitary building on union street as well as occupying the parking spot and unused alley on both side of the building.

The building first need to adapt the grid and use the subway datum efficiently to creates hierarchy; thus people who comes out from the highway would attract to the project and approach it. A new program, art gallery will be added to balance the tea house program and provide aesthetic needs. following the city codes, the project will be two-story height, as high as surrounding buildings, so that the circulation and the program could be adjusted in a way to prevent confusion.

Challenge

Components

Two major issues in this site are: Subway, historical alley and shifted grid. The subway underneath makes the project impossible to go underneath the ground. The unconvetional grid also cause the site as a buffer zone of two system, which provides better bounding box than the normal grid. Last, historical alley could not be build or replaced.

Tea house Tea preparation Kitchen Art gallery Seating area Office

Holly street apt

Concept : Waterfall waterfall as a concept could be interpreted in various ways. In this project, based on the diagram of abrasion and hydraulic action in waterfall, three distinctive characteristics could be determined further as an architectural concept, which are: shifting, layering, and veiling. Those three characteristic could create and improve unique experience in a building. Shift will create dynamics in a building. Layering will creates hierarchy of the programs. While veiling would interconnect but separate public and private spaces.

shifting layering

veiling

Characteristic layering

veiling

shifting

Site Analysis

tea house axon

pedestrian vehicles subway

Design Proccess

commercial / residential

parking

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apartment complex

The design proccess begins at extracting and incorporate three characteristic into a whole system of the building. The main goal is to create a building which has a gradual sequence from one space to another space. By breaking and transform each part, the quality of the spaces will not be constant.

Final Study Model

the circulation starts from artgallery, tea house, tea preparation, then end up at the outdoor seating area

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The array of opening causes a gradual transition from public to private spaces

the art gallery progress gradually from first to the second floor

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outdoor seating

Higher Elevation

tea house main area

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tea house

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Instructor : Deborah Bird

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Project Description People always needs shelter when they are at the beach to protect them from the harsh sunlight. Therefore this project proposes a shelter for people to rest as well as functions as focal point and datum at the beach. The building components will include seating area and beach guard’s post.

Several requirements for the project are: Adequate openings for natural lighting, clear visibility and appropiate location for the guard’s post, and harmonization between the enclosure and the site.

Concept : Centralization

Diagram

The main concept of the shelter is centralization. The concept derives from the movement of group of people near any attractive spot. They usually get attracted and began to condensed towards the spot, while it is getting loose as it goes further from the center.

2 dimensional graphics

3 dimensional form

Refinement

Imagining people’s movement at the beach and convert it into black and white visual graphics. the dimension of the shade represents the size of people in one group.

transform the 2D graphic into 3 dimensional form while maintaining conceptual quality of the drawing

refining the form into architectural model, as well as incorporate three different structures: Solid, translucent, and transparent. The form also begins to blends into surroundings.

The final model refines the spaces by considering the accesibility for visitor and beach guards. The envelopes starts from the surfaces and forms a wave-like enclosured while being supported by vertical beams.

The guard post is located at the second floor to provide better visibility to the sea, and given a wide openings which supported by centralized frames. The first floor functions as seating area and main circulation from parking lots to the sea.

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indoor seating area

1. Draw a 6 inches line along x axis and rebuild it to 7 CV.

2. move 3rd CV to coordinate (2,2)

3. move 6st CV to coordinate (-2, 8)

4. copy the line twice with 2 inches interval along y axis

5. rotate 2nd and 3rd line 180 degree with the top of 2nd line as an axis of rotation

6. move the rotated lines to original position

7. loft the lines to create a surface

8. rotate the surface 90 degree vertically

9. copy the surface 3 times

10. move and rotate the new surfaces so it would face each other from each direction

11. add silhouette of all surfaces and loft the side edges silhouette to create enclosured form

12. put cap on both top and bottom opening

Deformed Box arch 12B Neiel Norheim

Project Description The project goal is to master the 3D software rhino and maxwell rendering, by creating organic deformed box.

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Software Used rhino 3D maxwell illustrator photoshop

Cardboard Chair

arch 14 Dionicio Valdez

Project Description Designing a chair out of cardboard material has been a fundamental project for architecture students. The chair project intend to design a usable furniture by considering the constraints of material and forces.

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Not only the aesthetics that need to be considered, but also the structures of the chair itself. The chair has to sustain at least 150 lb and the material dimenion is no more than 60” x 100”.

by creating triangular bars which arranged horizontally, the vertical load of the user will be tranfered to horizontal brackets. The structures that will hold the load comes from 4 vertical bracket on both sides and 4 diagonal brackets.

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vertical loads

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horizontal loads

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lateral forces diagram

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