SELECTED WORKS 2016 - 2017 Dayana Rojas
Dayana Rojas
I’m a 22 year old architect student attending Cal Poly Pomona University. I am a currently in fifth year, and through the architecture program I have gained valuable skills in working with different digital programs such as AutoCAD and BIM while exercising my creativity. I had cooperated in various groups that were in different disciplines and diverse cultures. Each group had a different method of work, but the importance of c ommunication was essential to succeed in each task.
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Concert Hall ARC 401 Fall 2016 Proffesor Katrin Terstegen
Small Residence ARC 450 Winter 2016 Proffesor JuinTow Perspectiva ARC 402 Winter 2016 Proffesor Sarah Lorenzen Realms of Transformation ARC 404 Fall 2016 Proffesor Irma Ramirez
CONCERT HALL Unfolding box ARC 401 Fall 2016 Proffesor Katrin Terstegen
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Case Study In this Class we followed the idea of Form shapes program. We experimented with simple geometries that become significant entities with just subtracting a space with other elemental form such as a square and a circle. In order to be familiarized with the structure of a concert Halls each student of my class inherited a particular concert hall; My assigned Concert hall is called The Royal Festival Hall.
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The Royal Festival Hall Opened its door for the first time in 1950. It is considered on the post-war British Architecture. It is also Modern Britain’s first public Building. Incorporating of open-air restaurant, dance floors, fountains, and the Skylon (its a futuristic metal structure placed in front). The project was led by the LondonCounty Council ‘s Chief Architect, accompanying robert Matthew, and Leslie Martin. Along with these architects they had a group of young designers to decide to take steps to create such modern building.
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London, 1950 Architect: Robert Matthew, Leslie Martin Site Area: 47,610 SF Total Area: 234,300 SF Auditorium Area: 23,100 SF
With outstanding expectations The project has reshaped the entire environment surrounding. The Hall is built with modern materials such as linear structures, reinforced concrete, floor to ceiling windows, geometric lines, columns, the doors are not central like traditional Victorian buildings, there is no excessive ornament, decoration includes large factory produced steel panels which appear reflective in certain lights. The Royal Festival Hall Stands out from all of the other different style building across the River. As the project starts, the group already determined an Intellectual theme; A double skinned egg suspended within its air-box; foyers below, and transparency around. It was difficult to balance between innovation and experience.
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Composition
The warm atmosphere is promptly apparent. Unusually for a large open space, the interior comes across warm and friendly. There is a general buzz around the building and even though vast and grand , it isn’t intimidating. The rooms and foyers inside the hall appear to be laid out like chambers that softly flow into one another, each one open, but distinct and separate from the spaces before and after it. This marks a departure from the large central foyer you might expect from a classical music hall. There were no separate bars for different classes of visitors, there was no “ bad seat� in the auditorium. As for the lobbies they were pierced by white columns that holds the 2,500 seats at the auditorium.
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The main ambition was to achieve originality unfulfilled acoustic ambitions, however it was never achieved in which led to renovations; The original goal was ‘ long enough reverberation to give fullness of tone and strong enough direct sound to give definition. ‘ A specific problem for the performers was the difficulty of hearing each other on the platform .The first renovation was of expanding the area in which was done on 1963-64. And the newly renovation of acoustics was done around 2007. The acoustic renovation, included removal, alteration and replacement of nearly every surface in the room. Now open to its visitors, the Royal Festival Hall is considered as the cultural heart of London.
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The fold ribbon is a representation of unity and chaos of the city of Los Angeles. The , pattern and abstraction forms spaces of reun ion. The site given is located in between Wil shire and Gayle. In the city of Los Angeles. This site is consisted of two different types of groups. The first group consist of high rises and immense public spaces; The second group consist of private offices and residen tial more towards WestWood Village. This two groups attract different types of individu als to the site even if they are not going to hear a concert. Towards the Westwood site the site gains a great amount of USC stu dents and from the high rise buildings the site divides the environment. In my design for the Concert Hall I had resourced from the Cultural Center of Lucerne In Switzerland. In which its concert hall holds 1,800 seats in total housing over thousands of people to
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My main ideas was based on an empty box in which originally surrounds the concert hall; After I started playing around with folding inside out, then outside in in different heights just like a ribbon. Playing around it has led to me to see the building with transparency in which allows the building to shows its folding pattern. After, the building maintains this fold, matter in folding down towards the ground allowing the fold change position; For example, looking at the building as a site plan we see a set of stripes and bars in different widths in which flows black and forth; Then, as we move our view we begin to see this 2 dimensional line transforming into the a fourth dimension forming the envelope of the building.
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I began practicing with subtracting basic forms.
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Physical model.
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After, i determine a basic shape of a box that will represent the folded box.
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SMALL RESIDENCE Geometric solution ARC 450 Winter 2016 Proffesor JuinTow
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A proposal for a small residence is a concept for arranging two geometric shapes into a single residence that can flow along with its space. The geometric shapes chosen where a circle and a square; both shapes are opposite of each other yet in this design the circle its turned into an arc in wich allows for the circulation to , flow along the living room. This small residence has differne tin height and space; the resider can move enter to various rooms with one main path and during its journey the resider experiences compressed spaces to open spaces.
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PERSPECTIVA Perspective geometry
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Case Study This Class focused in the Method of representation. Thorugh this method began to explore the process system to recreate a form in design; The idea of unfolding and re-folding. A method that recreates spaces in unsual ways.The process starts with the study of the The Gericke house.
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The Gericke house was proposed in 1930, by Mies Van der Rohe. The style of this house consist of main highlight forms and concepts from his previous works he had done; Houses such as the Farsnworth House best known for its transparency and minimal attitude.. The Gericke house consist of two floors in which are stack in a way that in contours along with the land. The house contains two courts one facing the north and the other faces west. During this period Mies started exploring into court houses. The most public areas of the house is contained in glass that allows transparency and gives the perception of space.
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Although the house contained great compositional ideas the Gericke house was never built. It was cre
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ated for a competition held by Mr. Gericke; With a possible location of the house was in Berlin-Wannsee Germany. At the end of the competition, all projects were turned down. When Mies Van Der Rohe heard of the news, he per
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sonally contacted Mr. Gericke and tried to negotiate an agreement in order for Mies VAn der Rohe con tinue with the project. However, Mr. Gericked refused and contracted another architect.
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Perspectiva is a refold representation of the Gericke House by Mies Van Der Rohe. The Gericke house was proposed in 1930. Its lo cation its at 14520 River Rd, Plano Illinois. Its main highlight is its flat roofs and or thogonal vectors. In order to demonstrate evolution from its original form, Perspectiva breaks from the typical flat roofs and gives it touch of modernism. Perspectiva is flexible and it allows experimentation to fold and refold into a new possibilities of spaces. It al lows the perspective to transform from a 2Di mensional drawing to a 4th dimensional space; It causes a new set of views; the build ing can obtain perspectives of perspectives, elevations perceived as perspectives it in vites curiosity to find the actual axis the building.
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The process started with obtaining the per spectives of the Gericke house and lay the drawing flat and connecting at their end; this creates a sets of angled walls. After, the drawing was folded in different moments the drawing was then refolded to create a closed form. This created a star-shape pro ject with angled roofs. The windows, doors, structure, roof design change dramatically into an angle. Windows become doors and doors become windows. Perspectiva is going to be located in River road, Plano, Illinois; at the site Perspectiva is roughly the same size as the Farnsworth House; they relate in their materials and de tailing features. The location of these two buildings are in above the 500-year flood. While both resemble the same presence of Mies- they both reside in two different worlds it will shelter the visitors of the Farn
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REALMS OF TRANSFORMATION A moment in Time ARC 404 Fall 2016 Proffesor Irma Ramirez
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Realms of Transformation derives from moments in time that transform us into different individuals. The theme originated from our individual projects that lead us to identify the transformations we conveyed in those projects, which are: self-identity, self-discovery, and self-expression.The transformation can occur in three different entities: self-identity, self-discovery, and self-expression. Self-identity is developed in the structure of the museum by its emergence from the ground to the folded manners that the walls angle in. Self-discovery is established through the timeframe of the site design of Liberty Island from when the statue became a monument on the island to the existing site plan, and now the redevelopment of the site with the new Liberty Museum. Self-expression is founded where one can use a space to express themselves and leave their legacy or thoughts behind for others to seize and understand.
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The Process started with understating the idea of freedom. The first process started with three postcards. That through a small narrative story they emphasize the subject signify self-discovery and ongoing change.
Sketching Process and ideas for the three Postcards.
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After composing the idea of freedom, this class explored spatial quality form through an everyday object. My object of choice was a hand clock and through the deconstruction of this object I keep in mind the value and use it presented to the owner. After the dissembled, I began to reconstruct into a form where the clock exploded in time and portraying its true intention of time.
Recosntructed Clock
Drawings of the recosntructed Clock
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From these excersises , I teamed up with tow other classmates that focused on landscape and explore our ideas of freedom and began sketching the proposals of Liberty Island in New York.
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The idea of freedom allowed the US to become culturally diverse. Every culture is a string that contributes in the weaving mantel of progress. The progress that makes us a society, the change that makes us human. Every human goes through a transformation in time. Trough self-expression and self-discovery we develop an identity for which is a part transformation. The museum located in Liberty Island invites the visitor to identify the union through the grid of the site. The ground and the building are interconnecting. The building is located in front of the original cafĂŠ originally build in 1886. The museum structure emerges from the ground folding in an angular manner to slide back to ground. This actions assimilate to the unexpected decisions an individual makes in life.
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Sketched Idea of the Museum
The museum has two main entries. From both entries, the spaces exposed are different, the folded structure suggest the individual to break from the aligned wood decking pattern, allowing circulation to contrasting in horizontally. The museum will allow the visitor to experience their self-discovery through framed views and relate back to the feeling of the past immigrants that once discover their goal of their journey. To self-express in circulation, and feel the personality of the building. So at the end the visitor could transform through identity of the site, museum and themselves. The idead started with an everyday object such as a clock. From there I dismantled and reconstructed at my best creativity.
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