JOSE D EVORA PORTFO LIO
Landscape Architecture +Urban Design explorations within the Los Angeles Landscape
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY POMONA DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
JOSE DEVORA
Landscape Designer (323)710-4768 josedevora17@gmail.com cargocollective.com/josedevora issuu.com/josedevora
EDUCATION University High School, Los Angeles, CA
2008-2012
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture Department GPA: 3.15 2012-2017
EXPERIENCE Residential Landscape Design, Los Angeles, CA Design, execution and maintenance Knowledge of plants 2012-Present
AWARDS Chapman Forestry Foundation Scholarship 2015
COMPUTER SKILLS Adobe After Effects, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Autocad, Microsoft Office, Sketchup, Rhinoceros
PHYSICAL SKILLS Aerosol, Concrete, Marker, Mylar, Plaster, Sketching, Watercolor, Wood
profile Currently a student of Landscape Architecture, my educational career has helped me grow as a designer to understand the creative process of place-making. My life as a native Angeleno has also influenced me to develop a certain interest of how the culturally diverse urban landscape of Los Angeles operates. I have future hopes to one day work and be part of the changes that will happen this city.
content 1. Creative Nexus
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2. Street-Art Tech
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3. La Mesa
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4. South Central’s Expressions pg.44
4 creative nexus Studio
LA 302
Professor
Rennie Tang
Collaborators
SWA
Team Members
Hilda Del Real David Flores Melissa Langer
Project Location
8950 Sunset Blvd West Hollywood, CA 90069
Project Intent
West Hollywood is currently known as the “Creative City” due to its past historical creative identity of music. The city now uses this identity to promote itself as a world attraction. Leaving behind the creative culture. Creative Nexus seeks to improve the quality of life through education that will shift the city’s current values.
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6 shifting identity
whisky a go go the viper room
rainbow the roxy
8950 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood
the london
troubadour
West Hollywood is a luxurious place where the rich and famous live. At the same time it is a worldwide recognized attraction for tourists. From the 70's to the 80's, a shift in the cultural fabric of West Hollywood emerged, giving birth to a lifestyle that focused on the values of creativity through music. Music venues like the Whiskey a go-go, the Roxy, the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Viper Room and others were the foundation for many rock stars to start their career. This identity shift was responsible for Weho to be seen as a place where artists and fans were allowed to express themselves in a rock and roll lifestyle. Today that vibrant music culture that once was is gone, with only the structural remnants of these venues remaining. The character of Weho now consists of a culture that uses the slogan of the "Creative City" as a marketing tool to attract more visitors. As this culture rises, hotels are outnumbering the music venues. For example the House of Blues is being closed down for a new hotel development to be built. One cannot not stop the cultural fabric from changing but is it really fair to completely erase a previous culture that had so much significance to the city? By revealing these identity shifts it is important to recognize what has happened in history and adapt to it , while also using history as an educational tool for the future of the city.
house of blues
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sunset/cienega sunset marquis
chamberlain
chateau marmont
andaz standard sunset tower
mondrian grafton
8seating LC
largo at the coronet cap: 130
seating + dining
VG
standing
VR
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vibrato grill cap: AM
seating+ balcony
WD
FT
walt disney concert hall
the fox threater cap: 2,000
the viper room cap: 250
the roxy cap: 500
amoeba music cap:
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standing + balcony
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troubadour
whiskey a go go cap: 250
HOB
music venue typologies Through our analysis, we studied music venue typologies. This was important for our design because it allowed us to use them as case studies to understand the density of these events spaces. Understanding the proximity between users, artists spaces, and elevations in the venues helped us to focus on the users and their needs. This also allowed us to generate a kit of parts so that we may design spaces on our site.
house of blues cap: 1,500
extra small
LC
<200
small
200-500
seating open theatre
the greek theater cap: 5,870
HB
hollywood bowl cap: 17,376
AM VR
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medium
HOB
large
HB GT WD
500-2000
2000<
GT
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VG
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FT
10 hybrid typologies Taking our analysis further and also taking advantage of our siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sloping condition we hybridized typologies to maximize experiences on our outdoor amphitheater design.
standing + balcony
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seating open theatre
11 kit of parts Combining a structural kit of parts along with an experiential kit of parts helped us derive with this matrix which later helped us figure out what type of spaces were necessary throughout the space.
structural kit of parts
experiential dichotomy kit of parts
amphitheater enclosed soft hard
soft
hard
light dark light
dark
loud quiet loud
quiet
dense sparse dense
sparse
open close open
close
enclosed overhead
balcony
stage
seating
12 proximity flows
pe veh icle destr ian
Organization of elements structure was based on contextual influences.
rainb the roow bar xy & sch o
the v w hou his iper r se ky a oom of go blu go es
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13 peel
access
structural form Study models exploring landscape field conditions and architectural structures mainly through the use of chipboard, cardboard,clay and index cards. Which helped us derive to our final form.
Canopy Form
Study Models
Final Model
14 program distribution
interactive rooms/stations
anechoic chamber room- blocks extraneou guitar string room cymbal room moshpit room harp station piano keys station
recording studio acoustically appropriate
amphitheater/ music v
multi purpose space
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music school
us sounds
ethnomusicolgy- music in its cultural context theory- nature + mechanics. patterns + techniques history instruments composition- creation + recording. notation- symbols. written expressions or notes + rhythms
instrument store
buy/sell/trade/rent program
cafe + restaurant
live music performance space
enue
open/public space
ground and wall plane interactive spaces
16 creative nexus Looking Northwest from Hilldale ave.
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18 street-art tech Studio
LA 401
Professors
Andy Wilcox Irma Ramirez
Collaborators
Walt Disney Imagineering
Project Location
1726 N Spring St Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Intent
Graffiti is an art form that has established and created a specific culture in Los Angeles. It is considered an act of vandalism and is currently being pushed away into hidden pockets of the city. In reality it is a social response the urban landscape that reflects the history and current time of Los Angeles. Street Art-Guide Tech attempts to influence the necessity of graffiti culture by giving it a place to thrive in. As well as revealing the history and techniques of the art through education.
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20 the [un]intentional Pride
Los Angeles
Survival
[life] cycle
Survival + Self Help
Self Help
Residents go around Chinatown collecting all the recyclables from local stores allowing them to make a living out of it.
Benefits Clean City Financial help for Chinatown residents.
S Pride+ Self Help
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Physical Structure
1970-1980 Gang related Graffiti Style
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1980-1990 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bombsâ&#x20AC;? Graffiti Style
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1990-2000 Collaborative Murals
CURRENT Diverse forms of street art
-Layered street art collected over time -LA pride -Comfort of place
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Survival + Self Help Homeless residents of Los Angeles occupy places and make an unintentional “home” out of them.
Broadway Blvd.
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Self Help+ Survival + Pride Downtown LA
“Dogtown” Pride William Mead Homes
Metro Goldline Public Transportation
Philippe Sandwiches [LA]ndmarked
Street artists occupy city structures as a canvas.
Street vendors work by exploring the urban landscape.
22 sliding canvas design Taking cues from the surrounding site, a canvas design was developed. The placement of the panels was derived using the sun to cast shadows. This would then create a moire effect that would transfer the spray paint through multiple canvases.
Canvas field condition
Canvas moire
Moire shadow effect
Local inspiration
23 spatial functions The canvases can be easily removed providing for an area of open space for alternate events.
Space when canvas are in use.
Open space with no canvas
24 site plan
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25 program distribution 1. Metabolic studios 2. Under spring courtyard 3. Amphitheater 4. Gallery 5. Interactive landscape 6. Classrooms/office 7. Classroom
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26 process model Chipboard study model as used to arrive to the final design.
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28 metabolic studios The puncturing through Metabolic Studios was conducted in order to create a connection between Street-Art Tech, Metabolic Studios, and the Cornfields.
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30 street-art tech A possible scenario of the tech in use.
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32 la mesa Studio
LA 202
Professor
Rennie Tang
Project Location
Vernon, CA
Project Intent
The city of Vernon is exclusively industrial, having a population of 112 people and a worker community of about 50,000 workers. The worker community has no involvement in the surrounding environment; workers usually eat lunch and take their breaks in parking lots. Within the site there is an array of forgotten train tracks that are full of potential. The proposal aims to activate the abandoned train tracks and use them as pedestrian corridors, some of these alleyways will provide a continuous path that leads to â&#x20AC;&#x153;la mesaâ&#x20AC;?, which is an overhead structure that gives people an opportunity to be elevated and explore the surrounding views. Contributing to the economy of Los Angeles, it is important to take provide better working conditions for the workers of Vernon.
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34 worker culture While exploring Vernon, a series of small conversations took place with a few workers.
Persons: anonymous Workers from a fabric company finishing up their lunch. “We have a lunch room inside, but we prefer to eat outside to get some fresh air”-man in the red
Man on the right of the picture: Ursulo Mejia Workers eating lunch in the parking lot.
“The train doesn’t pass through here anymore, it would be a good idea to be able to reuse the area”-Ursulo Mejia
Persons: anonymous Workers playing soccer in the streets during their lunch break.
“We all commute from south central, lunchtime is the only free time we have”-anonymous
Persons: Jesus Hernandez (right), Jose Hernandez (left) Workers in an electrical transformer company. “I usually take a walk down the tracks in the mornings”-Jose Hernandez
Person: anonymous Parking lot renter putting stakes around his tomato plants.
“I live in an apartment so this space workouts out for me to plant vegetables”-anonymous
35 vernon landmarks
Los Angeles Skyline
Battle of La Mesa Plaque
Vernon Water Tower
36 movement diagrams
La Mesa Structure
City Grid
Proposed Public Traffic
37 views diagram
Los A
ngel
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East LA
Maywood
38 site plan
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40 future visuals Below: view of La Mesa from the LA River. Right: view of la mesa from District Blvd.
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42 future visuals Pedestrian corridor on Fruitland ave.
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44 south centralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expressions Studio
LA 201
Professor
Rennie Tang
Project Location
1319 E 41st St Los Angeles, CA 90011
Project Intent
Jefferson High School is located in South Central Los Angeles. The current site is set up in such a way that the students are separated from their surrounding community. The idea of spreading and recording South Centralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Expressions is to provide a new landscape that allows students to communicate through art. By making the campus a physical canvas, it allows students to bring in characteristics of their daily life into their school, making Jefferson High School a place they belong to.
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46 site plan
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Softscape Buildings Track/Red Softscape Concrete Paths Asphalt
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47 process model Chipboard study model created with markers and plastilina. Model making method was inspired by the students at Jefferson High School.
48 movement diagram Movement of students was determined by asking the students what were the hang out spots of preference. The running track was also spread out around the sidewalk of the school for public use.
49 section a-aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Proposed art walls in front of the schools health center, to promote use of the amenity.
50 section b-bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stage for performing arts which also serves as an outlook to the city of Los Angeles.
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THANK YOU Jose Devora
Landscape Designer (323)710-4768 josedevora17@gmail.com cargocollective.com/josedevora issuu.com/josedevora