Darren Pirono | ARCH 100C - SOTA Housing for Artists

This project is nominated for the best 15 Out of 115 pool of students100C Class in 2019 UC Berkeley Circus

High Performance City Part One

01 THE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT UC Berkeley - 100C Mark Cavagnero and Benjamin Golze Studio 6 Weeks - Fall 2018 Site analysis are made in groups in collaboration with: Debby Cynthia Putri The project will take a city block in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood as a site to pursue the architectural and urban possibilities of a center for artists to live, perform and study. Bound by Hayes, Van Ness, Fell and Franklin, the site is currently planned to house the relocation of the Ruth Asawa School for the Arts, a public high school focusing on performing and visual arts. Located in the heart of the city’s performing arts district, the architectural intervention required for the school raises the possibility of providing spaces badly needed by the city’s arts community--including practice rooms, performance spaces and housing.

The project will emphasize the inherently urban characteristics of density, diversity, proximity and reinvention to design a mixed-use arts complex for the site.

Mark Cavagnero and Benjamin Golze - Instructor of 100C

[ Art as a Catalyst ] The project is located among the vital areas of San Francisco; The Grand and Monumental area, which contain the City Hall and Its Complex, with its Historic fabbric and the new 21st Century living Development area, which include the residential, community center, shops, business with its modern and high technology fabric. We envisioned that Culture and Art is a way to reconnect those two-juxtaposed areas; Two Volumes are representing each fabric separated by new open urbban pathway slicing the complex that representing the separation between the Historical and Modernity. It is now connected through series of art studios suspended on top.

By creating a connection between those two, the neighborhood could increase the reputation of the school,theatre, and the artist living There and by creating a place where different interests could come together through living, learning, and performing, is our way to give back to the city. By using art as a catalyst, is our definition of a high performance city.

[ Public and Private Reconnection] Program is organised based on its adjacentcy to nearby fabrics, and it is separated by new urban pathway in the middle. Ways to reconnect those fabric is through the landscape and open exhibition and commercial area as the Public connection on the ground floor; and through the studios suspended on tops, exclusively for users that connects the school building and the residential building, as the Private connection on upper floors. These way of connection filled with arts and culture

[Fragments of Landscaping] Landscape as important part to give back the city and it users as we created an urban pathway. From our massing, we created a three pockets of space and we designed each of them to be specific, The top part as the entrance of the school, we pull the design of rigidness and monumentality , like the plaza in front of the civic center. While in the south part as the entrance of the theatre we pull the design of playfulness such as in Octavia Boulevard garden with softscape and fluidity. It then meets in the middle pocket where all these design blends.

[Hardscape vs Softscape] Illustration of difference in scenery at each pockets of the urban pathway. They are based on the scenery of surrounding fabric in proximity to them. The landscape also marks the entrance of the institution, so it has to reflect the condition.

This project is nominated for the best 15 Out of 115 pool of students100C Class in 2019 UC Berkeley Circus

01 THE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT UC Berkeley - 100C Mark Cavagnero and Benjamin Golze Studio 6 Weeks - Fall 2018 Site analysis are made in groups in collaboration with: Debby Cynthia Putri The project will take a city block in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood as a site to pursue the architectural and urban possibilities of a center for artists to live, perform and study. Bound by Hayes, Van Ness, Fell and Franklin, the site is currently planned to house the relocation of the Ruth Asawa School for the Arts, a public high school focusing on performing and visual arts. Located in the heart of the city’s performing arts district, the architectural intervention required for the school raises the possibility of providing spaces badly needed by the city’s arts community--including practice rooms, performance spaces and housing.

The project will emphasize the inherently urban characteristics of density, diversity, proximity and reinvention to design a mixed-use arts complex for the site.

Mark Cavagnero and Benjamin Golze - Instructor of 100C

High Performance City Part One

02 SOTA HOUSING FOR ARTISTS UC Berkeley - 100C Mark Cavagnero and Benjamin Golze Studio 9 Weeks - Fall 2018 After Group site analysis, we are focused on our choice of programs. Debby is designing the school and I am designing the residential part. The theater is part of future development.

The residential housing visiting artists as well artist teaching at the adjacent school. The place should be retain privacy and quietness between tenants as well able to house multiple artist profession without bothering the neighbors. It should have access towards the school and studios, as well having their own facilities to relax and unwind. The residential should engage the neighboring fabrics and refrain to be a sculpture instead of architecture. The residential should give back to the city its artistic and communal quality.

Mark Cavagnero and Benjamin Golze - Instructor of 100C

[ Even Distribution ] Residential containing Studio, One bedroom, Two Bedroom, and a Townhouse unit to accomodate all artist needs. It is scattered around the whole lower and upper unit except the townhouse, where it is placed in the end of each wings after being intersected with suspended studios arm. Facilities level are located in the middle; dividing up the masses into two. This level also intersects with the suspended studios as the private gateway exclusive for artist living there.

[ Flexibility ] Flexibility is the key in Artists Housing. It need to be able to accomodate all various profession of an artist. First approach is to organise the service part of the room (blue highlight) to the side and create a full living space taken from Louis Kahn, Served and Service space; Then, a movable wall strategy is placed in it so I let the artist to divide their living and working space however they like. The facade panels also flexible and controllable by the tenants so they can choose their own lighting intensity.

[Inhabited Section] The section illustrate the configuration of rooms that could be achieved by the movable walls.

The walls could be stowed allowing the space to be fully extended as their full working space or full living space if they choose to work on the shared suspended studios .

[ Facade Language ] Simplicity plays in between the complexity of the panels. The main mass is divided into two language; where the lower part has balconies with strong black horizontal cuts in between marking those levels, and the upper part has flush panels that makes the mass looks like a volume instead of planars.

These language also emphasizing the simpleness of the suspended studios that intersects and extruded out of the mass.

[ Communality ] Communality is part of the residential in the community as it is a perfect way to learn from each other. Facilities level is made transparent and blend with the studios so that visual engagement is encouraged. The corridors and studios space in the rooms are also transparent, while maintaining privacy to be established. It is a way for the to interact between professions.

DARREN PIRONO PORTFOLIO ARCH 100C - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN I MARK CAVAGNERO AND BENJAMIN GOLZE STUDIO A HIGH PERFORMANCE CITY 2019