Jose Devora Portfolio V1

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

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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

ol

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

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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