DAVID L TONIC GRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MArch +3 | 2017-2020
01 BERTH OF THE COOL MIXED USE HOUSING | LEIMERT PARK VILLAGE
02 EXHIBITION GALLERY FOR SPACE SHUTTLE NEW HOME FOR ENDEAVOUR
03 NONSECTARIAN CHAPEL NESTED VOLUMES
04 FISHER ART MUSEUM COURTYARD SUBTERRANEAN GALLERY
05 FIELD STUDIES: JAPAN HOUSE A | RYUE NISHIZAWA
06 VISUAL COMMUNICATION & GRAPHIC EXPRESSION SELECTED WORKS
07 ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING & SKETCHING THE FUNDAMENTALS
08 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXT, PROJECT DOCUMENTATION
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BERTH OF THE COOL MIXED USE HOUSING | LEIMERT PARK VILLAGE
Instructor: Kim Coleman | Team Partner: Meredith Jensen | Arch605B | Spring 2019 In an effort to create an urban anchor and village-like presence in this fast-paced neighborhood, the project breaks down the scale of a typical housing project and incorporates residential, community green spaces, and an enhanced public plaza. The project serves as a model for denser, mixed-use developments that combine essential housing with a larger civic purpose.
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SITE & HISTORICAL ANALYSIS With a rich history steeped in jazz music and art, Leimert Park was once the cultural center for the African American community. The site, situated at the heart of the village, holds potential for becoming a new cultural center for the community.
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UNIT ORGANIZATION Within the building envelope, the units are stacked and oriented to take advantage of specific views out and increase privacy and building porosity. By using the individual unit scale as the main building block, the form responds to various contextual and programmatic influences.
COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY Catering to the re-emerging community of artists, entrepreneurs, and young professionals, the idea is to transform a centrally-located, underutilized site by creating new arts programming, open space, and various alternative live-work typologies while carving out zones for pedestrian activity along the retail and commercial ground floor.
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PROGRAM The ground level incorporates retail space with artist workspaces. A central walkway intends to unify both of these activities with the diversity of the community as inspiration. The living space above contains pockets of available, open area, promoting social activities among the residents. Amenities such as garden space laundry and sun decks are located on the roof structures.
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MODULAR HOUSING [Flexible Layout/One Bath] 700 SF-Family or 350 SF-Micro -Flexible layout enables day time/night time spaces for parents or children via pull-out walls and murphy beds. -Micro units supply comfortable space and basic amenities for those on a budget.
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SKY BUNGALOWS [One Bedroom/One Bath] 500 SF-One bedroom -Possibly emptynesters who are downsizing -- but don’t want less quality. -People who prioritize outdoor space over a sizable apartment -Need a way to host friends or relatives on occasion
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SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT Utilizing environmental strategies, the building uses rooftop solar panels for energy and porosity for cooling. The elevated landscaped gardens increase light and heat reflectivity and reduce the building’s heat island effect, providing an additional barrier that prevents direct sun exposure.
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COMMUNITY ANCHOR The project provides opportunity for co-living, live-work studios, commercial space, as well as a variety of shared workshop and social spaces. Starting from a courtyard typology, the design comprises a spectrum of unit types to reflect the neighborhood’s diversity and appeal to various residents.
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COMMUNAL SPACES The rooftop community garden, sun decks and laundry lounge are all intentended to meett th the needs d off th the residents id t while hil promoting ti social i l iinteractions. t ti Additionally, Additi ll the placement of strategic voids throughout help to insert public space into the private development, and carve out zones for pedestrian activity along the retail and commercial ground floor. The subterranian music club reflects the jazz clubs of Leimert Park’s past.
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EXHIBITION GALLERY FOR SPACE SHUTTLE NEW HOME FOR ENDEAVOUR
Instructor: John Mutlow | Arch605A | Fall 2018 Addition of gallery space for the space shuttle Endeavour to the Califronia Science Center in Exposition Park
STRENGTHENING A CONNECTION Downtown Los Angeles is anchored to the south by the Figueroa Corridor. Improvements to public transit and pedestrian activity intends to strengthen this connection. As the site is highly visible from all methods of transportation, the addition of the space shuttle museum is opportunity to give the city a visual icon
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PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION & NARRATIVE The building is divided by two seperate forms each representing movement and symbolizing man’s reach for the stars. The first building’s program contains all elements of the exhibit including control room, orientation, film screenings. The second building is dedicated entirely to Endeavour with multiple viewing levels and gift shop and cafe.
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NONSECTARIAN CHAPEL NESTED VOLUMES
Instructor: John Frane | Arch505B | Spring 2018 The combination of different apertures upon separate volumetric layers creates a sense of being in a space within a space
SUBTRACTION OF VOLUMES Using a simple rectaungular volume at different scales as a subtration device, interior space is created. Specific placement of smaller shapes are used to perforated each volume, varying the amount of light within.
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SUCCESSION OF SPACE Through each succession of space, an increasing level of privacy is attained. Ultimately, the interior space is a small chapel which allows for the greatest measure of self-reflection and meditation and sheilds from the busy promenade outside.
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MOVEMENT THROUGH SPACE Movement from the entry to interior volumes produces a sense of increasing isolation and disconnection from the outside.
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FISHER ART MUSEUM COURTYARD SUBTERRANEAN GALLERY
Instructor: John Frane | Arch505b | Spring 2018 An object in a space, which defines the space itself. A series of ramps, increasing in width, expands toward a lower level. Descending further reveals an interior space inversely created by the ramps above.
SPACE WITHIN SPACE By stretching a typical ramp to fill the exhibition space, a connection is made from the exterior courtyard to the interior of Fisher Hall’s lower level. Gallery space is created by the extended ramps and voids below.
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SPACE WITHIN SPACE By stretching a typical ramp to fill the exhibition space, a connection is made from the exterior courtyard to the interior of Fisher Hall’s lower level. Gallery space is created by the extended ramps and voids below.
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FIELD STUDIES: JAPAN HOUSE A | RYUE NISHIZAWA
Instructor: Gary Paige | Arch580 | Fall 2018 Using orthographic and oblique projections as a way to represent and analyze, the focus is not only on the relationship between traditional aesthetic principles and contemporary ideas of dwelling but also, on understanding the innovative spatial concepts that characterize Japanese residential architecture.
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VISUAL COMMUNICATION & GRAPHIC EXPRESSION SELECTED WORKS
Instructor: Gary Paige | Arch420 | Spring 2018 An exploration of contemporary media and visual communication and graphic expression techniques, to expand and augment the design inquiry and representation process; for architects, landscape architects and other creative misfits.
BRANDING, BRAND IDENTITY AND IMAGERY The objective of the project is threefold: first, to look at several different architectural firms as brands; second, to identify the specific elements of the practice that make it unique or distinctive; and third, to translate this into a poster that communicates and expresses the brand in a highly evocative manner. photo credits (Above): Noboru Morikawa | Julia (Yun-Tzu) Chang
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ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING & SKETCHING THE FUNDAMENTALS
Instructor: Graeme Morland | Arch499 | Fall 2019 The techniques and basic skills to construct a sketch are fundamental and intrinsic to the architect. It is in the first sketches from which design “ideas” are spawned and the ability to visually describe what you see and communicate with others is further developed.
Doheny Memorial Library • USC CAMPUS
Natural History Museum • EXPOSITION PARK
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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXT, PROJECT DOCUMENTATION
Instructor: Michael Hricak, Karen Kensek | Arch526 | Fall 2019
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DIRECTED RESEARCH BONAVENTURE 2076
Instructor: Amy Murphy | Arch793 | Fall 2019/Spring 2020