Instructor - Axel Schmitzberger Tung Pham thpham@csupomona.edu
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Architecture Narrative
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IN V I SIBL E INF R A S T R UC T UR E The 19th Century introduces modernization and a new capability of mass production to infrastructure and environmental design. It results in the new generation of generic architecture components that makes up the contemporary subconscious environment, or as Rem koolhaas names it: Junkspace. On the urban scale, LA River, after its channelization in 1938, has been completely detached from the city urban fabric. Its role has been shifted from the city’s most critical ecosystem to an engineering product, the marginalized landscape to be eradicated from public imaginations. This project is an investigation into the invisible of LA river, or LA water infrastructure system in general. It questions the essential of separating water and land, water and people in city planning. Takes into consideration of the recent California drought, the ecological event posed a paradoxical hydrological dilemma of the channelization. Its raise the question the “efficiency” in converting the river into 51 miles of obscured storm sewer.
ARCH NARRATIVE| INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE
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ARCH NARRATIVE | LA RIVER CHANNELIZATION TIMELINE
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ARCH NARRATIVE | STREET LIGHT
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ARCH NARRATIVE | AIR CONDITIONER
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ARCH NARRATIVE | EGRESS STAIR
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ARCH NARRATIVE | CEILING TILES
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ARCH NARRATIVE | FENCES
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ARCH NARRATIVE | OFFICE CUBICLES
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SI T E A N A LY SI S
SITE ANALYSIS | TUNG PHAM
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SITE ANALYSIS | ZONING
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BOYLE HEIGHTS DEMOGRAPHIC SITE ANALYSIS | DEMOGRAPHIC
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E XISTING SE ARS TOWER
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SITE ANALYSIS | WATER STORAGE CAPACITY
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SITE ANALYSIS | EXISTING CONDITIONS
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SITE ANALYSIS | EXISTING CONDITIONS
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P R OGR A M S
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This project seeks to restore the accessible type of riparian public space as a new prototype for LA river. Its programs come in two-fold in response to both ecological and social issues. 1) The subterranean water cistern will function as an alternate river typology which collects storm runoff water from LA River, diverts and filters it along the way to the underground cistern storage. This storage water will become the water sources for irrigation of the site and for the local water needs 2) the ground level will become a platform for farmer market. This will function as a temporary program to quickly trigger economic growth to the area, and the destination for public gathering.
PROGRAMS | TUNG PHAM
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PROGRAMS | URBAN CISTERN EVOLUTION
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SCHEMATIC DESIGN| PLAN
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S C HEM AT IC DE SIGN
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SCHEMATIC DESIGN| SECTIONS
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SCHEMATIC DESIGN| SPACE CONDITIONS