LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO NICHOLAS CHAU
Silver Linkages + Exquisi
te Structures (On-going)
PHASE 1 Over the past four weeks of class, experiencing mapping and advance modeling, I have realized the importance of craft and how to be site specific. I used to think that models are just for thinking three dimensionally and it doesn’t matter if the craft is good or not. However, project 1 has completely changed my mind; I realized if a model is being carefully treated and photographed, it can be used for final presentation. This can save money and time to recreate a final model for presentation. I also realized how much more flexible working by hand than Autocad and 123Dmake. In the mapping project, I have learned how to gather information and create a multi-layered map for future reference. I learned even more when we get our feedback. We are being introduced to mapping through dog’s perspective, which is more on smell and a closer to ground perspective. This further expand my thinking of mapping, it makes me feel like mapping have infinite information to put on, which expands my interest in mapping. Overall, I’ve learned about the process of designer’s thinking and this takes me one step closer to being an actual Landscape Architect.
STUDY MODEL
COMBINED STUDY MODEL
PHASE 2
MAPPING ASSIGNMENT
Protect
Disperse
Accumulate
Perforate
Performative Action Score
Spread
Hold
Stretch
PHASE 3 sides
Plan View Rule
Runoff Rule
Factory Rule
Meadow Rule
Trout Spawning Rule
Airplane Rule
Tad Pole Rule
Breaking Rule
Mound
Decrease in size depending on elevation
Mounds scatter on land
Mass being extracted
Depression
Trout Farm Rule
Depressions scatter on land
Extracted mass relocated
Gopher Rule
Tide Pools Rule
Elevations Rule
Wind Rule
Flyway Rule
Increase in size depending on elevation
Excavating Rule
Runner’s Rule
Cat Fish Rule
Water Level Rule
Structural Type
Sloping downwards into
Ramp
Pushes land upwards
Reservoir Rule
Fixed Movement Rule
Migration Rule
Runners Rule
Catch Basin Rule
Fills up the void
Gathering Nature Rule
Pushing towards the middle
Expends from the ground level Follows the elevation of land
Roof/Canopy
Sun Shadows Rule
Extending to the sides
Ground Cover Rule
Moiré Effect Rule
Micro Climate Rule
Shadows Rule
Park Patrons Rule
Tree Rule
Beewax Rule
Urban Rule
Gate Rule
Park Closing Rule
Drainage Rule
Extends towards the sea
Platforms extends from land into water
Platform Donald C. Tillman Rule
Edge Rule
Soil Horizons Rule
Eucalyptus Seed Rule
Water Control Rule
Flock Rule
Extends forward
equal height and similar distance away from each other
Extends sideways
Forest/ Field
Pollution Rule
Migration Rule
Silver Lake Blvd Rule
Fence Rule
Circle of Life Rule
Straight across the land
Urban Rule
Height follows the elevation of land
Solstice Rule
West Silver Lake Dr. Rule
Occupancy Rule
Ladybug Rule
Stomata Rule
Clay Rule
Contrast Rule
Black Balls Rule
Climate Rule
Extend from just above water level across water
Flight Path Rule
Encounter Point Rule
Shadow covers water
Chainlink Fence Rule
Circulation Rule
Hawk Thermal Rule
Duck Rule
Extend all over site
Elevated Path
Bird Rule
Parallel and equal length
Pushing inwards
Wall
Alternating arrangement
Straight across the land
extends in curve to increase area of shadow coverge
Taxonomy of Emergent Spatial Types
MAT RIX OF RULES
(COLLABORATE WITH ROSA MENDOA, KENNY RODGERS, STEPHAINE CRUZ)
Made in Rhino & 123D make
3D printed model
STUDY MODELS BASED ON RULES
CRITICALLY COMBINED MODEL (MODEL CREATED BASE ON RULES FROM MATRIX)
This project uses the information gathered in phase 2 and create rules upon that. Each person creates 16 rules and collaborate with 3 other people to create the matrix poster, then 6 rules are used from the poster to combine into a bigger model. The bigger model is then put together with the whole class to form a giant compound.
CRITICALLY COMBINED MODEL (CLASS COLLABORATION)
PHASE 4 (FINAL PHASE
E XQ U I S I T E L A K E - P H Y S I C A L M O D E L
E XQ U I S I T E L A K E LINE WORK ONLY AXONOMETRIC VIEW
THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS THE CIRCULATION THROUGH THE SITE
CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
RENDERED AXONOMETRIC VIEW
WIND AFFECTED BY DESIGN
INTENSITY OF PLANTINGS
564’
290’
503’ 408’
285’
192’
101’ 128’
342’
N EXISTING & PROPOSED TOPOGRAPHY
DISTANCE FROM ROAD 0’ 4’ 8’
CRITICAL DESIGN DECISION DIAGRAM
0’ 4’ 8’
THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROPOSED AND EXISTING DIAGRAM.
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FISH PERSPECTIVE RENDERING
16’
FIXED PROGRAM & TOPOGRAPHY 16’
THIS DIAGRAM INDICATES THE LOCATION OF THE FIREPLACE (FIXED PROGRAM ELEMENT)
0’ 4’ 8’
16’
SCALE 1/16” : 1’
RENDERED PLAN VIEW
E XQ U I S I T E L A K E - 1 1 B Y 1 1 P O S T E R
The studio will now reassemble the reservoir into a monster of unusual proportions to disfigure traditional ideas of landscape program, community expectations/desires and beauty to reveal an Exquisite Lake of new, augmented and richly opportunistic landscape of Frankenstein origins- a speculative illustration of the emergent landscape of Los Angeles.
HUMAN PERSPECTIVE RENDERING
SQUIRREL PERSPECTIVE RENDERING
N TEXTURAL DRAWING 2 Feeling experienced when lying down on site
TEXTURAL DRAWING 1 FEELING EXPERIENCED THROUGH OUT THE SITE
E XQ U I S I T E L A K E - 11 B Y 1 1 P O S T E R
0’ 4’ 8’
16’
TREE PLANTING DIAGRAM & TOPOGRAPHY THIS DIAGRAM INDICATES THE PLANTING STRATEGY APPLIED ON SITE
TREE PERSPECTIVE RENDERING
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