Huwayda Fakhry Selected Works 2012-2014
An Eixample of South Central Los Angeles
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
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Arts of Mars
STL [small transportable living]
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SCIO shower shoe
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We Are Heading West 33
9:12:3
An Eixample of South Central Los Angeles critic
Jeffrey Inaba
In a city widely considered to be one of the least connected metropolitan areas of it’s size, Los Angeles is looking to invest in new public transportation programs that will not only increase the job market but also develop a lifeline between the city as a whole, facilitating housing development and integration within neighborhoods that are typically disparate. There are several reasons for this separation, not the least of which is the distance required to traverse the region via automobile. Thishousing proposal for an area in South Central Los Angeles is at the junction of several new proposals for municipal development of high speed train and bus lines. Applying the theories of Edward Soja and ‘spatial justice’ to the formal concepts enacted by Cerda in the Eixample, Barcelona, a framework was designed that divided up city plots and their subsequent residential constructs into spatially ‘just’ or equal allotments according to the number of inhabitants. Additionally, in order to force the neighbors to utilize the future transportation options available to them, the footage was maximized on each block to encourage two key social factors. The first is a necessary interaction between the residents due to the density and organization of the units. The second is a deliberate lack of large unused ‘green’ space to force residents to travel in order to experience shared public experience (to utilize their options for exploring the larger urban fabric).
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one, two and three bedroom configurations
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Typologies
typologies site narrative
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sections and thresholds
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Site Axonometric
site axonometric
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps critic
Jason Payne
All houses in the canon called “experimentalâ€? are strange in some way or another. Robie House, Farnsworth House, Villa Savoye, Villa Moller, Rietveld SchrĂśder House, Schindler House, Neutra House, the Case Study Houses, and theirs (like all) exhibit certain unsettling qualities that, originally at least, makes them challenging. On the fringes of this cohort, however, is a different breed of experimental house that never quite fits in but nevertheless insists in a most disruptive way on some form of canonical reckoning. Geeks, perhaps, or Nerds, with a Goth chick in tow, this group of misfits is clearly a brilliant bunch yet seems not to care whether we get them or not. Ambivalent. Definitely peripheral to the canon but not outside of it either, historians and designers alike struggle to make sense of the messy heresies of this weird subculture. There is a limit, after all, to the measure of difficulty tolerable in any single object beyond which rational minds turn away in frustration. What divides these bright but eccentric stars from the high achievers lies at this threshold, where interpretive difficulty moves from the manageable to the unmanageable. This is what makes them strange.
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Keisler’s model, ideal geometry
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Continuity, time-space-architecture and endlessness are the concepts Frederick Kiesler used to describe his singular idea. With the endless house Kiesler meant to create, through light and material, a stage for living; a liberation of space through self exploration of the psyche, breaking through the prison of the frame. This results in a form that is derived from vision not from function. What estranges Kieslers endless house from traditional architectural rhetoric or classification is its temporally and culturally maladaptive nature. In other words, it both representationally and theoretically floats between eras and ideologies, a meditative parenthesis. Much like Kiesler’s project, this analysis exists between two worlds, that of geometric precision and phenomenology. With a preference for Kiesler’s drawings in mind, over the more brutal physical models he developed, the decision was made to refine and make precise the curvature of the house by using the geometries of the sphere and the spheroid, the shapes which Kiesler defined as having the qualities of endlessness. Using these geometries to gain control of the curvature, and to simultaneously enhance and create a stronger relationship between the model and Kiesler’s theory. The qualities of the project included the ability for light and program to travel through space without obstruction or corners. Thus, the white polished model speaks to the continuity, smoothness, and lightness of materials that are missing in Kiesler’s model. Through the manipulation of primitive geometries to create an ‘ideal’ parametric form, while also bettering and perhaps achieving the sensory and material attributes that Kiesler sought to bring to the endless house, this subtle refinement more clearly displays Keisler’s intuitive genius.
Arts of Mars critic
Kivi Sotamaa
The studio focuses on exploring choreography as a design method, with the aim of creating a building as an urban, dynamic and flexible constellation of forms, spaces, and systems. Rather than an enclosed, hierarchically organized, static entity, like many institutional projects, the aim here is to explore and create new opportunities and ideas for the city through design, rather than focusing on existing problem solving. The design will use (phenomenal) movement as the organizing driver and explore martial arts as new inspiration for form, space, and effects of phenomenal movement. Martial arts combat creates situations where two or more discreet entities are joined by shared dynamics of the battle. Re-originating the dynamics of the fight into architecture may offer new insights into creating coherent wholesout of otherwise disparate and discreet parts.
1Dynamic(al)
adj. of or relating to physical force or energy..marked usually by continuous and productive activity or change( a city)
2Primitive
adj. of or relating to the earliest age or period... characteristic of an early age of development
3Program
n. a plan or system under which action may be taken toward a goal
4Relation
n. an aspect or quality (as resemblance) that connects two or more things or parts as being or belonging or working together or as being of the
same kind
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circulation, program and perspective
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Elevations a. south, b. east, c. north, d. west
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STL [small transportable living] critic
Peter Ebner, 3M Future LAB
A research proposal was developed on existing and emerging additive manufacturing technologies and materials for a future housing development. The focus of this analysis was to understand and explore the potential for3D printing to develop housing in geographic locations and climates that are otherwise too hostile or costly for development because of their accessibility. By using a beta tested robot or team of robots to reach such regions that lack stable infrastructural foundation for construction, a framework for cellular housing modules is erected using native resources such as sand or stone. These materials, combined with binding agents, allow for structurally sound construction of new housing prototypes without the risk or expense of traditional labor forces and material transportation/assembly.
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9:12:3
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gantry trajectory and possible unit forms
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sectional possibilities for aggregation
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plan with gantry trajectory
SCIO shower shoe critic
Peter Ebner, 3M Future LAB
In conjunction with the design of the washroom and water systems of the STL house, a flexible and functional shoe was developed to be worn directly from the street into the shower. With limited washing space, a system of ‘hygienic’ cones were incorporated into the sole of the shoe that act as both an aid in cleaning the wearer as well as a stimulating, orthopedic element. As such, a prototype was developed using sintered plastic that was both light and comfortable.
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SCIO Shoe 1 2 3 4
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narrative and prototype, 1:4
We Are Heading West critic
Roger Sherman
(ongoing research) Utilizing
the lens of Instagram to reanalyze the ontology and psychology of Sunset Boulevard. This text is based on the following notion: The 22 mile stretch of municipally funded roadbed designated, Sunset Boulevard, begins in Pacific Palisades, CA at a 76 gas station on the corner of the Pacific Coast Highway. It terminates at the intersection of Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, CA. The immeasurable stretch of real estate designated, #sunsetboulevard has no discernable point of origin but it can be assumed that it stems from the documented site in Southern California. It does not terminate and at the present time cannot be structured or directed according to municipal constraints or legislation.
#sunsetboulevard is the longest road in the world.
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Today, abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is nolonger that of territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory-precession of simulacra- that engenders the territory, and if one must return to the fable, today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself.
J.Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
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Okavango, Botswana latitude: -19° 30’ 0” longitude: 23° 0’ 0”
Cyprus
latitude: 35° 20’ 33” longitude: 33° 19’ 22”
Turkey
Greece
Formazza, Italy
latitude: 39° 0’ 0” longitude: 35° 0’ 0”
New Delhi, India latitude: 28° 36’ 0” longitude: 77° 12’ 0”
latitude: 39° 0’ 0” longitude: 22° 0’ 0”
latitude: 46° 22’ 0” longitude: 8° 25’ 59”
Sydney, Australia
Phillipines
latitude: -33° 52’ 59” longitude: 151° 13’ 0”
latitude: 13° 0’ 0” longitude: 13° 0’ 0”
Porto, Portugal
Germany
latitude: 53° 37’ 59” longitude: 10° 0’ 0”
Sweden
Denmark
latitude: 59° 19’ 59” longitude: 18° 3’ 0”
latitude: 57° 22’ 0” longitude: 10° 15’ 0”
Tecklenburg, Germany latitude: 52° 13’ 0” longitude: 7° 49’ 59”
latitude: 39° 4’ 0” longitude: -9° 1’ 59”
Calabria, Italy
latitude: 39° 0’ 0” longitude: 16° 30’ 0”
Moscow, Russia
Victoria, Australia
latitude: 55° 45’ 7” longitude: 37° 36’ 56”
Glasgow, Scotland
latitude: -30° 10’ 59” longitude: 119° 6’ 0”
latitude: 55° 49’ 59” longitude: -4° 15’ 0”
Ore Mountains, Germany/Czech Republic latitude: 50° 30’ 0” longitude: 13° 10’ 0”
Brisbane, Australia latitude: -27° 30’ 0” longitude: 153° 1’ 0”
Denmark
latitude: 57° 22’ 0” longitude: 10° 15’ 0”
Lisbon, Portugal latitude: 38° 43’ 0” longitude: -9° 7’ 59”
Seoul, South Korea latitude: 37° 33’ 59” longitude: 126° 59’ 58”
Phillipines
latitude: 13° 0’ 0” longitude: 13° 0’ 0”
Phillipines
latitude: 13° 0’ 0” longitude: 13° 0’ 0”
Rome, Italy
latitude: 41° 54’ 0” longitude: 12° 28’ 59”
Cartagena, Costa Rica latitude: 10° 22’ 59” longitude: -85° 40’ 59”
Key West, Florida, USA latitude: 24° 33’ 20” longitude: -81° 46’ 57”
Puerto Rico
Denmark
latitude: 18° 28’ 6” longitude: -66° 6’ 30”
latitude: 57° 22’ 0” longitude: 10° 15’ 0”
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Phillipines
latitude: 13° 0’ 0” longitude: 13° 0’ 0”
Searcy, Arkansas, USA
Denmark
latitude: 41° 51’ 0” longitude: -87° 39’ 0”
latitude: 57° 22’ 0” longitude: 10° 15’ 0”
latitude: 34° 44’ 17” longitude: -92° 15’ 58”
Rome, Italy
Puget Sound, Washington, USA
latitude: 41° 54’ 0” longitude: 12° 28’ 59”
latitude: 47° 49’ 59” longitude: -122° 26’ 4”
Nebraska, USA
latitude: 40° 44’ 30” longitude: -98° 52’ 26”
New Hampshire, USA
Kansas City, Missouri
latitude: 43° 2’ 23” longitude: -71° 27’ 18”
latitude: 39° 6’ 51” longitude: -94° 37’ 38”
Cologne, Germany latitude: 50° 55’ 59” longitude: 6° 57’ 0”
Baton Rouge, Louisiana latitude: 30° 27’ 2” longitude: -91° 9’ 16”
Bristol, United Kingdom
latitude: 40° 42’ 51” longitude: -74° 0’ 21”
latitude: 34° 3’ 8” longitude: -118° 14’ 37”
latitude: 37° 46’ 29” Beach, California longitude: -122° 25’Newport 9” 33° 37’ 8” Riverside, California San Francisco, Californialatitude: longitude: -117° 55’ 44” latitude: 38° 31’ 8” latitude: 37° 46’ 29” Bakersfield, CA longitude: -121° 31’ 13” longitude: -122° 25’ 9” latitude: 35° 22’ 23” Oakland, CA longitude: -119° 1’ 7” Los Angeles, California latitude: 37° 48’ 15” San Francisco, CA latitude: 34° 3’ 8” longitude: -122° 16’ 14” latitude: 37° 46’ 29” longitude: -118° 14’ 37” San Francisco, CA longitude: -122° 25’ 9” Anaheim, California, latitude: 37° 46’ 29” San Francisco, CA latitude: 33° 50’ 7” longitude: -122° 25’ 9” longitude: -117° 54’ 52” Tucson, Arizona latitude: 37° 46’ 29” latitude: 32° 13’ 18” longitude: -122° 25’ 9” longitude: -110° 55’ 35”
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic latitude: 19° 26’ 3” longitude: -99° 8’ 18”
Bulgaria
latitude: 43° 0’ 0” longitude: 25° 0’ 0”
latitude: 51° 27’ 0” longitude: -2° 34’ 59”
New York City, NY, USA
Los Angeles, California San Francisco, California
Greenland
latitude: 72° 0’ 0” longitude: -40° 0’ 0”
London, United Kingdom latitude: 51° 30’ 0” longitude: -0° 7’ 0”
Phillipines
latitude: 13° 0’ 0” longitude: 13° 0’ 0”
Wakra, Qatar, UAE latitude: 25° 10’ 4” longitude: 51° 36’ 24”
Sicily, Italy
latitude: 37° 30’ 0” longitude: 14° 0’ 0”
Brazil latitude: -10° 0’ 0” longitude: -55° 0’ 0” New Zealand
Venice, Italy
latitude: 45° 26’ 18” longitude: 12° 19’ 36”
latitude: -41° 18’ 0” longitude: 174° 48’ 0”
South Carolina, USA Miami, Florida
latitude: 25° 46’ 27” longitude: -80° 11’ 37”
Hawaii, USA
latitude: 33° 22’ 44” longitude: -79° 45’ 35”
latitude: 21° 18’ 11” longitude: -157° 49’ 18”
Manhattan, New York, USA
Hamburg, Germany
latitude: 40° 42’ 51” longitude: -74° 0’ 21”
Long Island,NY, USA
Phillipines
Miami, FL, USA latitude: 43° 9’ 7” longitude: -76° 3’ 39” latitude: 25° 46’ 27” longitude: -80° 11’ 37”
latitude: 13° 0’ 0” longitude: 13° 0’ 0”
Massachusetts, USA latitude: 41° 44’ 22” longitude: -70° 37’ 26”
Brazil latitude: -10° 0’ 0” longitude: -55° 0’ 0”
Jacksonville, FL, USA latitude: 30° 19’ 55” longitude: -81° 39’ 20”
Bogota, Columbia latitude: 10° 24’ 0” longitude: -75° 16’ 59”
Panama City, Panama
Rome, Italy
latitude: 53° 37’ 59” longitude: 10° 0’ 0”
latitude: 8° 58’ 0” longitude: -79° 31’ 59”
latitude: 41° 54’ 0” longitude: 12° 28’ 59”
Denmark
latitude: 57° 22’ 0” longitude: 10° 15’ 0”
Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka latitude: 7° 30’ 0” longitude: 80° 30’ 0”
Phillipines
latitude: 13° 0’ 0” longitude: 13° 0’ 0”
Denmark
Rome, Italy
latitude: 57° 3’ 0” longitude: 9° 55’ 59”
latitude: 41° 54’ 0” longitude: 12° 28’ 59”
United Kingdom latitude: 51° 46’ 59” longitude: 1° 10’ 0”
Phillipines
latitude: 13° 0’ 0” longitude: 13° 0’ 0”
Shanghai, China
latitude: 31° 6’ 33” longitude: 121° 22’ 5”
Rome, Italy
latitude: 41° 54’ 0” longitude: 12° 28’ 59”
Paris, France
latitude: 48° 52’ 0” longitude: 2° 19’ 59”
Valencia, Spain
Berlin, Germany
latitude: 43° 12’ 0” longitude: -8° 49’ 0”
latitude: 52° 31’ 0” longitude: 13° 24’ 0”
Mumbai, India latitude: 18° 58’ 30” longitude: 72° 49’ 32”
Metz, France
latitude: 47° 24’ 0” longitude: 3° 37’ 59”
Mumbai, India latitude: 18° 58’ 30” longitude: 72° 49’ 32”
Madrid, Spain
latitude: 40° 24’ 0” longitude: -3° 40’ 59”
Perth, Australia
latitude: -41° 34’ 0” longitude: 147° 10’ 0”
Denpasar, Bali
latitude: -8° 39’ 0” longitude: 115° 13’ 0”
Aizawl, India
latitude: 23° 43’ 59” longitude: 92° 43’ 0”
Sydney, Australia
latitude: -33° 52’ 59” longitude: 151° 13’ 0”
Krabi,Thailand latitude: 8° 4’ 0” longitude: 98° 55’ 0”
mapping triggers and locations
Sunset Boulevard ‘Trigger’ Diagram_ Offspring are labeled accoding to distance from the point of origin: Sunset Blvd.