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YSOA Studio I | Fall 2017 Instructor | Brennan Buck
UCLA Studio I | Winter 2016 Instructor | Erin Besler
YSOA Studio II | Spring 2017 Instructor | Amy Lelyveld
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SEED VAULT YSOA Studio I | Fall 2017 Instructor | Brennan Buck For an institution that not only stores but also studies seeds, this proposal for a seed vault challenges the conventional orientation for storing, displaying, and planting. In architecture, certain forms such as pitch roof and stairs already suggests a fixed orientation. By using iconic forms that are placed in unexpected orientations, the building, sited in an underground cave, encourages new usages and experiences of both form and function. Drawing to the right is an early exploration of a disorienting space. The surface textures - tiled ceilings, painted walls, and terrazzo floors - suggest a fixed orientation but the fragmentation and rotation of these surfaces obscures the reading of their true orientation.
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MUSEUM OF HANDWRITTEN LETTERS YSOA Studio I | Fall 2017 Instructor | Brennan Buck Sited in New Haven Connecticut, the Museum of Handwritten Letters archives thousands of personal letters written by various American artists. The archive has two components: object and content. The object is the collection of the physical letters that are authentic, singular, and irreplaceable. The content refers to the information provided by these letters that can be stored digitally, which makes the archive searchable, reconfigurable, and duplicable. Mindful of these differences, the museum is separated into two spaces that have different ways of accessing the archive.
The maze-like parameter of the building contains the physical letters and allows intimate interaction with the archive as the visitor walks through a narrow pathway and encounters each letter in a sequential manner. The large central area of the museum is where the archive can be access digitally through the transparent display screens which visitors can use to search and bring the desired information to themselves. Here, the information travels instead of the visitors, which is reflected by the flickering images of the letters on the screen. Also, the privacy of viewing is diminished as one’s search history remains on the server forever. Ground Floor Plan
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FRAME UCLA Studio II | Winter 2016 Instructor | Erin Besler This project is about using a frame as a device to organize a space. In architecture, a frame has a wide range of scales and uses, from a building frame to a window frame and even a picture frame. This office building explores the ways in which the exterior bounding box frames the interior system and complicates the definition of interior and exterior. These core elements are pushed out to the perimeter to act as yet another frame that surrounds the office space.
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FIT-OUT UCLA Studio II | Winter 2016 Instructor | Erin Besler Collaborator | Yuna Kim This law office design brings the concept of the Panopticon into a workplace. The challenge in this project was to create a private office plan that allowed surveillance and collaboration. The floor is divided into three units, each having its own core of the public space and manager’s office. The associate offices surround the core according to the grid created by the floor plate. The walls facing the core are made of glass to provide visibility for the manager, while the rest of the walls are opaque to provide a sense of privacy.
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CYLINDER HOUSE YSOA Studio I | Spring 2018 Instructor | Amy Lelyveld An alleyway of only 16’ in width was given as a site for a two-unit home. Narrow verticality being the major constraint of the project, series of cylinders were employed as a way of organizing the space. The cylinders with varying sizes play four major roles: structures, circulation, exterior light source, mechanical system. The field of cylinders creates a landscape inside the house, dividing up the spaces without rigid walls. They also extend to the ground floor and interact with the public that passes through the alley.
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