selected works jeffrey scot stevens
oAKBROOK LANDSCAPE 2017-2019
tHREE ROCK GARDENS BUILT PROJECTS
Chin residence, 2019 At the Chin Residence, a small back yard
Here, the user directly inhabits the graphic
directly beneath their deck had never been
curve. The placement of a black peppermint
utilized. The two primary goals for the
tree within the curve creates a canopy which
project were to have something that could
challenges the relationship between patio and
be appreciated from above and a place for
planting. While sitting in the yard, an adjacent
a small fire pit and chairs to enjoy the cool
tree trunk column solidifies the experience of
nights. A simple curve inspired by the work of
being in nature while also inhabiting its graphic
Ellsworth Kelly was adapted to the landscape.
representation.
LEFT: Diagram of Relationship RIGHT: Abstraction of Landscape Plan OPPOSITE: Photograph from above
Oakbrook Landscape
Orange County
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Todd residence, 2017 The idea for a rock garden came from the simple desire to cover the dirt of their newly constructed retirement home with minimal costs and maintenance. A concrete patio, just big enough for their existing furniture was constructed on an even grid. Psychedelic curves and feathery grasses juxtapose the concrete patio and flow around the yard. The garden created is more graphic than spacial. As such, the client’s relationship to the graphic is that of an observer.
LEFT: Diagram of Relationship right: Abstraction of Landscape Plan
Oakbrook Landscape
Orange County
Stevens residence, 2018 The elimination of grass in favor of a more drought
cluster into abstractions of color and texture.
tolerant and visually playful landscape inspired the
A rest space is delineated through the use of
Stevens Residence project. Pulling inspiration from
colorful stones and stone step pads lead to the
Burle Marx, the back yard was redesigned with soft
small sitting area in the garden. The garden is best
curves and mass planting where individual plants
experienced as an experiential procession.
LEFT: Diagram of Relationship right: Abstraction of Landscape Plan
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calIfornia mythos Built projectS
SUBCONTRACTORS:
KB Landscape Rocky Landscape Costello Construction
OAKBROOK LANDSCAPE orange county, 2018-2020
ORIGIN MYTHS
Native simulacrum
Southern California, a geographically sub-tropic
The non-native Mexican fan palm, Washingtonia
region, has over the last 100 years, masqueraded
robusta, is often seen as the singular plant
as a both tropical paradise and several southern
which curated the perception of California. But
European countries. These stylistic costumes are
the less obvious, often overlooked, Plumbago,
often enforced with conviction by zoning laws
Honeysuckle, Bird of Paradise, and Bougainvillea
and CC&Rs, and have permanently imbedded
were perhaps more insidious in their ability to
themselves into the mythos and expectations of
transform the identity of a place. As a result,
the region.
even as new developments attempt to make
LIFEStyle simulation
ecologically progressive choices, they fall
In the 1950’s Cliff May designed the Rancho
victim to a curated identity. In fact, the Orchard
Mirage housing community that introduced
Hills Community approved planting list, titled
the California lifestyle to the mass market. The
“Traditional California,” explicitly forbids the
brochure advertised a lush landscape, floor to
Mexican fan palm, and contains ninety-eight
ceiling glass and year-round outdoor living in
percent non-native ornamental species.
a courtyard living room. The prospect of living outside has been codified in the term “California room”, which describes a covered back patio, most often connected to the living room.
KITCHEN
LIVING ROOM/DINING
OUTDOOR KITCHEN
PATHWAY PLANTING
TV ROOM
SUNDECK
SCREEN PLANTING
TOP: McInerny Residence, built 2019 BOTTOM: Muir Residence, built 2018; Booklet Cover from San Diego
1914 Fair OPPOSITE: Collage of brochures and historic images
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parmelee residence, 2017 With dreams of grandeur, this client demanded
beam system. The deck itself dissolves into an
California’s climate deliver on its reputation
open pergola and the tectonics of construction
and planned to have Christmas dinner outside.
further blur the interior and exterior spaces.
This required highly ambiguous interior-
Just as the house interior space dissolved into
exterior relationships. A stacking glass door
exterior spaces, the constructed landscape
separates the living room from the outside,
dissolves into the native. Reducing the total built
built-in heaters were installed in the deck and
area and blending native cultivars with ornamental
patio cover, a double sided fireplace divides
plants gives the land back to conservation, while
the solid and open outdoor spaces. Interior and
also creating the illusion of an endless garden. This
exterior exist as a gradient. The demands of this
blend of native and traditional ornamental cultivars
ambiguous exterior, also inspired the structural
transforms California’s landscape from what it has
strategy: opposite sides of the covered deck are
always been, into what it used to be.
supported by a wood frame wall and post and
House footprint
Paving
Covered deck
Grass
Shaded deck
Blended planting
NATURAL HILLSIDE
GRASSES AND NATIVES
LAWN
OUTDOOR DINING ROOM
TOP: Interior-Exterior Progressive Figure-Ground; Construction Photograph BOTTOM: Section through Deck and Slope
Oakbrook Landscape
California Mythos
LIVING ROOM
H D G I J N H F C G
A. Pennisetum ‘Purple Majesty’ B. Phormium ‘Dazzler’ C. Ceanothus ‘Concha’ D. Pennisetum ‘Red Buttons’ E. Diosma pulchrum G. Calamagrostis foliosa H. Salvia ‘Santa Barbara’ I. Festuca ‘Elijah Blue’ J. Westringia ‘Wynyabbie’ K. Leonotis leonurus L. Existing Olea ‘Wilsonii’ M. Leptospermum ‘Ruby Glow’ N. Bauhinia × blakeana O. Helictotrichon sempervirens P. Marathon II Sod
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TOP: Planting Plan BOTTOM: Axonometric with Exposed Framing
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NATURAL HILLSIDE
GRASSES AND NATIVES
LAWN
MASTER BEDROOM
LIVING ROOM
OUTDOOR DINING ROOM
LIVING ROOM
LAWN
OCEANVIEW DECK
“CALIFORNIA” SLOPE
TOP: McKenzie Residence, built 2016 BOTTOM: Patrick Residence, built 2019
Oakbrook Landscape
California Mythos
DRIVEWAY
TOP: Zee Residence, built 2017 BOTTOM: Canon Residence, built 2019
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PERI FOUNDATION mAKHACHKALA, 2016-2020
pERImEtER COmPETITION wINNER UNDER CONSTRUCTION
LOCAL TRAvERTINE USES
COURTYARDS
MASSING DIAGRAM
COMPETITION TEAM:
Hiroki Matsura, Anna Petrova Jeffrey Stevens, Patrica Urlan CONSTRUCTION TEAM:
Chetsov Project, Anna Petrova, Jeffrey Stevens
This commission was won through “Space for the
and one from the park and the concept offered
Future of Education� a competition sponsored
different responses to each condition. From the
by the PERI Foundation. The proposal focuses on
street, PERI center is stepped up and terraced,
creating form inspired by the mountain dwellings.
emulating the mountain architecture. On the
It could be constructed with local materials by
park facing side, the building takes an aggressive
local builders and will be a source of regional pride
stance, acting as a billboard advertising its own
in the city. With sensitivity to its urban context
existence. A large glass wall is illuminated with the
and residential streets, the building steps up from
name of the building and at night, interior lighting
the street with the largest volume facing the park.
renders the glass transparent and it projects a
The project has two entrances, one from the street
view of its activity on the park.
TOP: Photograph of Chokh in Dagestan, Russia c. 1950 OPPOSITE: Concept Diagrams
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Further development of the project began with an
settlement in Makhachkala for deeper architectural
analysis of mountain villages, where a consistent
study. These neighborhoods were measured,
logic to the way spaces were constructed emerged.
photographed, and sketched for further analysis.
With this discovery came the possibility of applying
Five major trends could be traced back to the 5th
the spatial logic of the villages to the new building,
century village, their trajectories were mapped, and
in a way that engages the public by respecting their
then incorporated into the building.
past, while building their future.
This approach to design was motivated by the desire
The research considers the evolution of building
to accurately represent and reconstruct the urban
methods along the slopes of the Caucus Mountains.
environment on the scale of a single building. Similar
In the 5th century, groups of single room houses
scale, common circulation strategies, and shared
were clustered into communities called an ‘aul’.
design principles reproduce these effects. In the
As the communities grew they relocated to less
design development of the Cultural and Educational
treacherous slopes and the houses grew into multi-
Center PERIMETER, the connection to the region is
room terraces. Two auls were chosen to represent
not only visual but the organization of space itself
two phases of development before the eventual
becomes a signifier of the aul.
TOP LEFT: 17th сentury. House of Mirzaev. Village of Mihrek, Dagestan TOP RIGHT: 19th сentury. Tower dwelling. Village of Ruguja, Dagestan BOTTOM: 2019. Center Perimeter. Makhachkala, Dagestan OPPOSITE: Gamsutl collage
Peri Foundation
Peri Center
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PERIMETER
c. 5th Century
14th Century
21st Century
Peephole Windows
Peephole Windows Larger View Windows Peephole
Larger View Windows Larger View Windows Ribbon Windows
Private Outdoor Space for Gardens
Private Outdoor Private Space Outdoor Private OutdoorSpace Space for Gardens with Farms for Gardens
Private Outdoor Space Private Space e Outdoor Priva tOutdoor with Farms Space with in Farms City
Single Room Houses in Village
Single Room Multi Single Room Room Houses in Village HousesininVillage Village Houses
Multiple Multi Houses Room Multi Room in Building Houses in Village Houses in Village
Multiple Houses Multiple Houses Village in a in Building in BuildingBuilding
Village in a Building
Masonry Extertior Walls Masonry Walls Masonry and Partitions Walls and Partitions
Masonry Superstructure Masonry Extertior Walls Masonry Extertior Walls
Masonry Superstructure Masonry Superstructure Masonry Cladding
Mas Masonry Cladding
Single Directional Two Directional Single Directional Circulation Circulation Along Circulation Along X Axis X and Along Y Axis X Axis
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onry Walls and Partitions
Single Directional irculation Along X Axis
Ribbon Windows Ribbon Windows Curtain Wall
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circulation diagram
CHOKH
circulation diagram GAMSUTL: One of the oldest Avari settlements in the Dagestan region, the defensive village hugs
the side of a mountain with a single path linking public terraces CHOKH: The newer mountain village of Chokh was built on a lesser slope which allows for more
interconnected paths and terraces. It is still an active community.
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Peri Foundation
Peri Center
PERImETER
CIRCULATION DIAgRAm
PERIMETER: Built on the flat grounds of Makhachkala, the circulation strategy places
the second fire stair on the exterior terraces. Public program is linked through these terraces along with the linear interior circulation.
ABOvE: Aerial Park view of Construction OPPOSITE: Floor plans: Third, Second, First, Basement
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PERIMETER serves a wide variety of needs for the
studio, and several small office spaces for start-ups.
community. The building features small classrooms for
These spaces within PERIMETER form a synthetic urban
after school learning and adult education, a conference
fabric that refocuses the aul at the center urban life in
room for lectures, laboratories, a digital fabrication
Makhachkala.
Peri Foundation
Peri Center
above: Park View Render Below: Street View Render opposite: Construction Photographs
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CK ARCHITECTURE, LOS ANgELES, 2016
GuGGENHEIm HElSINKI COmPETITION ENTRy
ACCESS TO PARK vIEW TO LAvASILLANKATU
vIEW TO THE PARK
ACCESS TO MAIN ENTRY ROOF ACCESS
ACCESS TO PALACE HOTEL
vIEW OF HARBOR
TEAM:
Christoph Kapeller Juan Salizar, Ever vargas Jeffrey Stevens
A public promenade carves through the museum,
access while single floor exhibition galleries create
offering glimpses of its artworks and providing
a seamless and accessible experience. Ample
an exceptional new public space for the people
views from visitor circulation, enhance the Finnish
of Helsinki. The museum’s horizontal layout
spirit of openness, transparency and accessibility.
preserves and enhances harbor views, while the
The visitor circulation extends along the glazed
public promenade expands the public space
perimeter of the building, affording uninterrupted
of Tähititornin vuori Park onto an accessible
views of the city, the harbor, the park, and the
roof, which links the park to the harbor. Multiple
horizon. Seating alcoves provide even better views
entrances to the museum provide fluid public
of harbor and water.
TOP: Birds Eye Render OPPOSITE: Interior-Exterior Public Circulation with Views
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EXHIBITION GALLERY
MUSEUM LOBBY
The columnless, sky lit exhibition galleries are
can transform the exhibition space according to
designed for maximum flexibility and viewing comfort.
curatorial requirements. Modular blackout facilities
Located at the center of the museum, each of them
will allow sectional control of daylight. The project
has multiple access points from the perimeter
space/atrium is located at the heart of the museum
visitor circulation. The doorways are designed to be
and can be enjoyed equally from the public art
interchangeable with information and/or food kiosks,
promenade as well as from the museum floor and the
thus allowing the exhibition designers to use different
roof landscape. Adjustable height floor modules allow
access points for each show. In addition, there will be
multiple arrangements at different exhibition levels as
a system of modular moveable exhibition walls that
well as facilitate artwork installation.
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Community Center First Place Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Competition
TEAM:
Kate Bilyk Nicole Doan Jeffrey Stevens
Cal Poly Pomona, los angeles, 2015
The original concrete tilt up building was the
creates a community center for local residents.
first of it’s kind in Los Angeles and located in
By placing simple yet playful forms in the existing
a neighborhood where the median household
shell, the preserved facade acts as a barrier from
income is less than $30,000. Only 4% of the
drive-by shootings and gang violence in the
residents have earned Bachelor degrees. While
neighborhood. The interior is scaled to match that
there are several schools in the area, few extra
of the surrounding community. The center will
curricular activities exist for the local students.
have porches and stoops for meeting, separate
This proposal transforms a disused relic from the
volumes for learning, study, play, events, and
early 1900s, preserves its protective shell, and
administration.
TOP: Floor Plan BOTTOM: Longitudinal Section
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Cal Poly Pomona
Community Center
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STORAGE
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Atrium
OFFICE
READING ROOM
Reading Room
MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
STORE
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CAFE
MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
GAME ROOM
MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
GAME ROOM
west elevation
East Elevation
STORAGE
STORAGE
STORAGE
TOP: Sections; Elevations BOTTOM: Top View Render opposite: Exploded Axonometric
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Yedoma Presented at Anchorage Museum of Art
TEAM:
Christoph Kapeller Jeffrey Stevens Ever Vargas
CK Architecture los angeles, 2016
Yedoma is a sculpture of the subterranean ice
From this model, several prototypes were created
formations in the frozen Alaskan tundra, to
and used to assess design feasibility of the final
accompany photography by Christof Kapeller.
sculpture. The final model was constructed from
Using data from core samples, a representation of
a paper slurry, sprayed with a texture gun, onto
the formations was scripted and modeled. From
a foam base. The paper was then burnt and
this model, a core sample was drilled to show the
patched with burlap. The sculpture was shown at
changes in ice thickness. The result was scaled
Anchorage Museum of Art’s “View from Up Here”
down for the gallery space.
exhibit in summer of 2016.
ABOVE: Photograph of Sculpture OPPOSITE: Sculpture as Displayed in Gallery
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TOP: Landform Photograph by Christoph Kapeller LEFT: Cryostratigraphic units of yedoma and radiocarbon age MIDDLE: Plan of computer model at 40,000 BCE
CK Architecture
Yedoma
LEFT: Detail photographs of yedoma sculpture RIGHT: Detail photographs of yedoma formation
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tIGER mOuNtAIN PROPOSAL
TEAM:
Jeffrey Stevens Tong Xue
UNITED DESIgN ASSOCIATES BEIJINg, 2015
Development often leads to scarification of the
strip cutting a tiger stripe pattern into the
landscape. Grading disrupts the soil and reduces
mountain side. Remaining trees provide shade
the habitat of local species. The site was once
and optimal growing conditions for ginseng,
within the range of the endangered Siberian tiger,
mushrooms, and other crops. Investors receive a
an apex predator prevalent in Chinese mythology.
portion of the crops produced along with small
Recognizing the inevitable scarification, this
cabin at the base of the mountain. An additional
project memorializes the endangered species.
building consisting of a general store, restaurant,
The existing forest is cleared through strategic
and worker housing was proposed on the site.
ABOVE: Scarification on site OPPOSITE: ‘Circle’ micro cabin
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DINGBAt 3.0 OUTSTANDINg SENIOR PROJECT 2015 COLLEgE OF ENV gALLERy 2015
ADvISOR:
Alex Pang
CAL POLy POmONA B.ARCH THESIS, 2015
In 1963, Peter Eisenman used his PhD dissertation
Equipped with an education that primarily taught
as a vehicle to discredit and diminish Christopher
Eisenman’s techniques, it searches for harmony
Alexander’s dissertation, which had been
through manipulation as it plays the symbology
submitted the previous year. In 1982, the two
of the house against the subversive methodology
finally engaged in a heated debate at Harvard
of distortion. A perspective view of the house icon
GSD. During which, Eisenman dismissed
distorts the form, allowing the viewer to perceive
Alexander’s appeal to emotional comfort in
depth and space. By misinterpreting a perspective
favor of an architecture which is critical and
as an axonometric, and recasting the result, the
disharmonious. In 2004, Todd Gannon published
optical distortion is frozen. It can only be reversed
an article through Log. 2 titled, “The Shape
along a line of correction on the opposite side.
of Things to Come”. Gannon questioned the
These cast houses are arranged on the site such
future of the ‘critical project’, a now overplayed
that the lines of correction follow eye level along
architectural troupe which claims to question
the street, creating the strange and surreal
everything but never dared to question itself.
flattened image of a house to passersby.
The project considers the debate along with Gannon’s critique and begins with an unapologetic fetishization of the house icon.
ABOVE: Emotional Response Study OPPOSITE: Three Perspectives of a House
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ABOVE: Lines 1-2: Taylorian Perspective Apparatus Performed on House Icon Line 3: Perspective misinterpreted as an axonometric Lines 4-5: Analysis of point of distortion and linear projections through house OPPOSITE: Folk Render
Cal Poly Pomona
Dingbat 3.0
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Cal Poly Pomona
Dingbat 3.0
TOP: East Elevation MIDDLE: East Perspective BOTTOM LEFT TO RIGHT: South Elevation, South Perspective
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Cal Poly Pomona
Dingbat 3.0
ABOvE AND OPPOSITE : Model Photographs
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Occupy: Central Park shown “heresy of function” at mia gallery in los angeles Winter 2015 Interim Gallery
ADVISORS:
Frank Clementi Sarah Lorenzen
Cal Poly Pomona 501 Studio, 2014
From the high rise apartments of the 1%, Central
provides insights into the interests and
Park is a green tapestry displayed outside their
obsessions of the 99%, revealing large parts
windows. While on the ground, the park is a
of the park that go virtually unnoticed.
complex network of sinuous paths, dividing
The new plan for Central Park continues its
and connecting areas, through tunnels and
inversion of the city. The grid of streets are
bridges. This complicated network is never
extruded as slabs and the blocks left as parks.
perceived in its entirety by the user, and the
Only water and the heat map of selfie obsessed
few “Instagramable” points of interest have
social media users stand in its way. Mirrored
rendered much of the park under utilized.
glass facades reflect the park and sky to mitigate
After constructing a heat map of selfies and
any occasional glimpse of the monolith in
photographs from geotagged images, the
photographs. The slabs create an additional
areas of the park that are still relevant to the
twenty million square feet of housing for the other
masses becomes clear. This “selfie dérive”
99%, intentionally crashing the housing market.
WATER BODIES
ROADS AND PATHS
CITY GRID
SELFIE HEATMAP
NEW HOUSING
TOP: Diagram of Central Park OPPOSITE: Model Photograph
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Cal Poly Pomona
Occupy Central Park
LEFT: Plan with Selfie Hot Spots RIGHT: Section Model; Relief Model; Initial Concept Collage OPPOSITE: Model Photograph
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Droops and Drapes Winning Team TERI + AECOM competition
ADVISOR:
Michael Fox TEAM:
Chriscelle Banas, Mark Fagan, Sebastian Greider, Jeffrey Stevens
Cal Poly Pomona fourth year Studio, 2014
Droops and drapes was a winning competition
The structure is an interactive experience that
entry for a studio sponsored by AECOM for
provides tactile responses to input from the user.
TERI Foundation. TERI Foundation is a nonprofit
By pulling on the droops, the user is able to see
which advocates for children and adults with
the impact of each of their actions. This allows
special needs. The project addresses the need
them to connect with each other and the world
for interactive play equipment and a shade
around them, without direct confrontation.
structure for their special needs adult day care.
TOP: Elevations of Landforms BOTTOM: Students playing with Mock-up OPPOSITE: Prototype Model at Presentation
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House for a Photographer Fall Interm GALLERY 2012
ADVISOR:
Alex Pang
Cal Poly Pomona, city third year studio, 2012
House for a Photographer is a small mountain side
views from the site. The second reading separates
retreat for a landscape photographer living in Los
the wood siding from the concrete foundation
Angeles. Diagrammatically, the house can
which follows the contours of the site. This second
be read in two different ways, formally and through
reading is expressed inside the residence, creating
materiality. In the first reading, three voids placed
a deeper connection with the site, the subject of
in a cube according to lighting needs and the
the photographer’s work.
TOP: Floor Plans BOTTOM: Dual Reading of Diagrams; Axonometric OPPOSITE: Process Models, Digital and Physical
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tHE DAyS Of tHE tuRBINS wINTER ENV gALLERy 2013
ACT 1, SCENE 1 Nine p.m. The Turbins’ apartment, evening. The clock strikes nine. Nikolai is strumming a tune, Alexei is working quietly.
ACT 1, SCENE 2 Ten-thirty p.m. The table is laid for supper. Lena is by the piano playing the same chord over and over.
ACT 2, SCENE 1 Five a.m. Dawn in the Hetman's quarters – a beautiful, ornate palace with a military command center inside it.
ADvISOR: Alexander Ortenburg TEAM: Tiffany Rogers, William Spry, Jeff Stevens
CAL POLy POmONA ELECTIVE STUDIO, 2013
Act 2, Scene 2 Seven a.m. A dismal, gloomy apartment made into another makeshift field HQ. There are the sounds of horses and sporadic battle in the background.
Act 3, Scene 2 Eight p.m. The Turbins' apartment. There is no electricity. Silence but for the chaos out on the streets. Larion and Elena are waiting anxiously.
Act 4, Scene 1 Eight p.m. two months later, Twelfth Night, 1919. It is evening in the Turbins' apartment. Elena and Larion are taking down a Christmas tree.
Mikhail Bulgakov’s play The Days of the Turbins retells the story of the Ukranian War of Independence. It follows the upperclass Turbin family through their struggles in the war. 53