Urban Design Portfolio by Kat Reyes

URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO Katherine E. Reyes

Landscape Architecture Cal Poly Pomona 2010-2014

â&#x20AC;&#x153; Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations, an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

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-ELLEN LUPTON

pERSONAL MANIFESTO

â&#x20AC;&#x153;breaking down the fourth wallâ&#x20AC;?

Ever since I was little I have always been intrigued with movement. From the moment I learned to dance at the age of three I began to become somewhat obsessed with how things existed in space. I became fixated on the propensity of moving bodies and how the movements amongst these interactions are indicative of human life. Fast-forward seventeen years later and the decision to go to design school were solely based upon my curiosity about human interactions and what kinds of spaces lend the greatest potential of these opportunities. In theatre and dance, there is a metaphor for a performance to involve the audience and it is called breaking down the fourth wall.

photograoher: Chris Peddecord

As for the built environment, I believe urban design is all about the breaking of the fourth wall. To facilitate human interactions by designing for opportunity; to design environments that are integrated, collaborative, and dynamic. This allows observers to become participants and participants to become observers in the urban environment. I aspire to become an urban choreographer, in the sense that the outdoor environs that exist outside of architecture set the stage for a range of possibilities. I aim to manipulate the landscape, to choreograph it into the portrayal of everyday life where human interactions become the production and where man and nature can happen in synergy.

collECTION OF ME FITNESS FANATIC (4YRS) PIANIST (7YRS)

SAN DIEGO & Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;AHU LOCAL (24YRS) COMIC BOOK NERD/STAFF (8YRS) VERSATILE DANCER (21YRS) WORLD TRAVELER (15YRS) MOMENTS CAPTURER (7YRS) SALTWATER EXPLORER (12YRS) URBAN DESIGN ENTHUSIAST (4YRS) MAVERICK CULINARY CREATOR (6YRS)

contact

Katherine E. Reyes thekathyreyes@ gmail.com

+references

Douglas Delgado: mooshon@aol.com Andrew Wilcox: aowilcox@csupomona.edu Larry Sheehan: larry@integration-design.com Glen Brouwer: glen@integration-design.com

+profile

Creative, collaborative, and insatiably curious; I am an individual seeking diverse experiences within the built environment. I postulate the propensity of future systems within our urban atmosphere and the ways in which the cores of communities can be strengthened for a better quality of life. I have a strong inclination to work within the urban setting to help choreograph the complexities of systems that exist in the landscape.

+interests

Urban landscape systems, urban design, green infrastructure, regional planning, ecological urbanism, informational graphics, community facilitation/ planning, sustainable systems/communities, public transportation, bicycle infrastructure. Dance, theatre, performative arts, writing, sketching, photography, biking, hiking, typography, locally grown food, website design/blogging, and cooking.

+educational experience

California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, CA [Fall 2008- Spring 2014] Bachelor of Science Landscape Architecture Minor in New Dance & Cultures •Dean’s List: Academic year of 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014 •Sigma Lambda Alpha Landscape Honors Society •Bobby Brooks Walt Disney Imagineering Interdisciplinary Studio • Cal Poly Pomona + SWA Urban Design Studio

http://issuu.com/jeremyjarin/docs/foodforthought_final

•LA Aqueduct Futures Project Studio http://aqueductfutures.wordpress.com/

•LA 576 Graduate Level Public Planning & Policy Seminar •ASLA Student Chapter Member •ASLA San Diego Expo Student Volunteer Organizer 2011

+knowledge Software Illustrator Photoshop InDesign AutoCAD Sketchup

Other Skills Quick learner, flexible, versatile Photography Community facilitation Organizational management Social media marketing Program development Strong writing

RESUME +community&collaboration

Integration Design Studio Carlsbad, CA Landscape Associate (May 2015-Jan 2018) •CAD drafting of construction plans, construction details, & landscape planting plans •Created conceptual landscape hand-graphic presentations to clients •Cost- estimate preparation Olivewood Gardens Learning Center San Diego, CA Programming&Communications Intern (June 2012-Sept. 2012) •Organized in planning of educational programmatic events such as Cooking for Salud & Kids in the Kitchen. •Designed printed marketing deliverables for tabling and fundraising events. •Assisted with educating youth about locally grown food ASLA EXPO San Diego, CA, Student Volunteer (March 2011) •Lead organizer of student volunteers, faculty, and convention center staff of programming events. •Student tour guide of visiting professionals at UCSD campus during ASLA Expo.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

urban design + community-based healthcare The Medella collaborative is community based mixed-use medical campus designed to promote health and healing. The Medella Collaborative is designed to provide for the needs of patients, staff, and visiting families of adjacent Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center and nearby Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Los Angeles, including long-term patient care, as well as a growing and active senior population, while also encouraging community interaction and social engagement.

The Medella Collaborative physically links the community and residents of the site to Barnsdall Park. It is designed as a healing and health-promoting environment. through evidence-based salutogenic design. Housing is designed to provide abundant light, green views, and access to both private and public outdoor space and activities. The landscape provides a nearly seamless multitude of sensory experience that includes therapeutic gardens and play as well as social spaces.

THE MEDELLA coLLABORATIVE

WITH KAISER PERMANENTE

While the Medella Collaborative is primarily designed to improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients, residents, hospital staff and seniors; it also reaches out to the community through a series of open and welcoming gestures that encourages walking and exercise, contact with nature, and social interaction.

sUPPORTING CONTEXT The project site is located in adjacency to the Barnsdall Art Park and is at the cusp of major Los Angeles intersections, Hollywood Blvd. and Vermont Ave. The surrounding context of an aging population and an abundance of medical facilities within the area inspired the narrative values of the Medella Collaborative.

Collaborative Site Plan

Physicians

Better Patient Outcomes

Specialists

Integrated Care

Hospitals Laboratories

Increased Revenue

Improved Communications

Hotel

Improved Efficiencies

Supportive Programming

An Environment of Care

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Better Patient Outcomes

a walkable urban center

Salutogenic Design

Other

Evidence-Based Care

Housing for Seniors Long Term Care

Encourages Social Interaction

average block size in Barnsdall

Community Based Collaborative

Evidence-Based Design

Housing for Medical Professionals

Attract Talent

Reduced Costs

Preventative Care

Reduction in chronic disease

Better Patient Outcomes

75% of chronic disease in seniors is preventative

top: Salutogenic design effects diagram right: Mapping of block scale in Barnsdall bottom: Site context map

N Vermont Ave.

sources: http://www.pennlive.com/bodyandmind/index.ssf/2011/02/5_rising_trends_in_health_care.html

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PROJECT GOAL

create spaces of community collaboration

PROGRAMMING Due to the specificity of the demographic that the Medella Collaborative serves, the allocation of programming was planned out strategically to allow for the most enjoyable and rewarding experience for its users. In addition, major two guestures are placed within the space to allow for public invitation.

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Basketball courts, Racquetball, Spa

Recreation : Basketball Courts, Racquetball, Spa

Recreation : Basketball Courts, Recreation : Basketball Racquetball, Courts, Spa Racquetball, Spa

Retail

Gymnasium

Retail Gymnasium

Gymnasium Gymnasium

Pool

Pool Pool

Gallery

Gallery Retail

Retail

Supporting Program Commercial (Shops, Gallery, Offices )

Gallery

Gallery Retail

Retail

Seniors/ Long Term Care Professionals Hotel Families

Underground Parking Level Underground Parking Level Underground Parking Level Scale: 1” = 100’ Scale: 1” = 100’ Scale: 1” = 100’

Ground Level

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THE LANDSCAPE The landscape component of this mixed-use high density development consists of many different gardens tailored to different therapies that will aid in the healing process of the residential population. In addition, flexible spaces such as the roof top Landscape programming and informal programming offerPlan Diagram areas for temporary events such as outdoor movie viewing or other occasions that allow for enjoyable communal gathering.

Landscape Plan Diagram

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Landscape Plan Diagram

meditation

retail plan

retail building

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informal programming

buildings

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play garden play garden

sensory garden

informal programming

sealed garden sealed garden

buildings

horticulture therapy

sensory garden

sealed garden

garden

meditation

horticulture therapy

animal therapy

meditation

play garden

animal therapy informal programming

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play garden

sensory garden

sealed garden

buildings

play garden

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programming

animal therapy

buildings

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animal therapy animal therapy

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rooftop programming

sensory garden sensory garden

landscape plan

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vertical vertical circulation access

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informal informal programming

rooftop programming

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pedestrian pedestrian walkway walkway pedestrian walkway

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informal programming

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Landscape Plan Diagram

rooftop programming

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sensory garden meditation garden horticulture therapy

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sensory garden

THE TYPOLOGIES

landscape diagrams 4

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animal therapy animal therapy sealed garden

horticulture therapy sensory garden horticulture therapy

raised beds fullyenclosure enclosed kennels well defined perimeters long term care +children space for movement/ shade/seating grass access from controlled building mudroom double gate entrance plantings create sense of structures for activities wandering

meditation garden meditation garden

small scale raised beds raised beds seating little to no slopeperimeters well defined

access to all

In order to serve the many varieties of patients that will live in the Medella Collaborative, careful decision making wassealed asealed factor in choosing thegarden play garden sensory garden garden play garden sensory garden different types of therapy gardens that make up the fabric of the landscape. The taxonomy that make the raised Medella raisedfully beds fully enclosed beds enclosure to keep of gardens enclosed children in Collaborative are: little to no slope long term care +children little to no slope long term care +children 8

enclosure keep smalltoscale children in seating seating/shade occurs in 5,000 sq. ft. or createless habitat for wildlife

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seating/shade controlled access from building create habitat for wildlife plantings sense of sandcreate + water elements wandering shading on structures

passive spaces enclosure to keep enclosure to keep children children in in seating/shade seating/shade create habitat wildlife create habitat forfor wildlife sand + water elements sand + water elements shading structures shading onon structures passive spaces passive spaces

seating controlled access from building consists of sensory pathway and keyhole plantings create sense of gardens wandering

•Animal Therapy Garden • Horticulture Therapy Garden •Meditation Garden •Play Garden •Sealed Garden •Sensory Garden

seating consists of sensory pathway and keyhole gardens

occurs in corridors, form of circulation fully enclosed fully enclosed access to all long term care +children long term care +children

occurs in corridors, form of circulation raised beds raised beds access to all little to no slope little to no slope

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plantings create sense plantings create sense of of wandering wandering

consists of sensory consists of sensory pathway and keyhole pathway and keyhole gardens gardens occurs in corridors, form occurs in corridors, form of circulation of circulation access to all access to all

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SAMPLE SECTIONS horticulture therapy garden

horticulture therapy garden

axonometric sections done in collaboration with Kristen Fritz

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PROCESS WORK

In terms of the food industry, Vernon’s impact on the region is clear: Vernon is the center of food processing, packaging, storage and distribution WITH SWA DESIGN STUDIO “industrial for the Southern California region. Circumstancsized urban agriculture” es and future events, including drought and a The “Exclusively Industrial” City of Vernon, just rise in transportation costs, could make it more south of downtown Los Angeles, has a history difficult and more expensive to get food to Verof heavy and prolonged industrial use dating non in the future. Why couldn’t Vernon undergo back to 1903. In terms of scale, no other city in a transition and become the source of local food Southern California has a similar building footprint production for the density as Vernon. The City of Vernon also has a Southern California region? The industrial City of deep and strong industrial memory, and a strong Vernon has everything is needs to transition from desire to remain industrial, to remain relevant and chemicals, plastics and processing, to nourishto continue as an economic driver of the region ment and health.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

It is ideally positioned to be both a leader in local food production for the Los Angeles region and a driver for change in the industrial arena. The scale, location and industrial knowledge of this unique city make it the ideal location for large scale, low-input, high-output industrial urban agriculture. The contaminated soils make outdoor cultivation impossible, but the city’s massive building footprints are ideal for indoor agriculture, especially for methods that favor a highly controlled environment, such as aquaponics, entofarming (insect farming) and fungi farming (mycoculture).

The Los Angeles River, traditionally an ephemeral river, has year round flows due to discharge by wastewater treatment plants, and could provide ample water for a well-controlled urban agricultural system. The city is also located far from the largest population centers in Los Angeles, making it an ideal location for disruptive large-scale agriculture. Furthermore, Vernon has critical industrial knowledge: Vernon knows industry and it knows how to maximize efficiency. No other city or community in Southern California, certainly not the Los Angeles region, has these unique and ideal qualities.

Due to the environmental and heavily industrial condition of Vernon, the outside atmosphere of Vernon is not suitable for the production of consumable goods in the traditional sense. In perfect juxtaposition, because of Vernonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial scale it is a prime location for industrial scale urban agriculture. These systems are located within existing building typologies that provide ideal interior conditions that facilitate low-input and high-output agricultural farming, with a minimum of retrofits.

INDUSTRY MAPPING

The very nature of these low input high output systems speak volumes about this idea of extraordinary efficiency. Both these agricultural systems and the urban industrial nature create a large niche of opportunity to implement these effciencies at an industrial scale. These efficiencies are further manifested at nested scales in terms of water infrastructure, regional circulation, and integrated systems circulation. LEGEND Food industries Wholesaler (durable & non-durable) Chemical industries Recycling facilities Retail City of Vernon boundary LA River Alameda Corridor Rail Lines

sUPPORTING CONTEXT

In order to support the insertion of these low input-high output systems, an exploration of anticipated sustainble sources of protein was needed to support this project. The practices of Entomophagy and Aquaculture as new sources of industry in Vernon will place Vernon on the cusp on innovative industrial sized urban agriculture and gain the city of Vernon the notoriety it deserves.

A Look Look at Proteins oteins

Analysis of Existing Building Infrastructure

Algaculture + on south & west faces + needs light + little to no windows + roof access

Aquaponics + <30’ tall + long & narrow

footprint + needs light + no blocking on spacesouth & west faces

Composting + >40’ tall + little to no light + one story + largest footprint

Mycoculture + 20’-40’ tall + needs some light + close to composting + segmented interior

the amount of space needed for animal

space

Entofarming + 20’-40’ tall + little to no light + multi-story

Vermiculture + <30’ tall + little to no light + close to aquaponics

Building Footp

Why Agriculture in Vernon?

the amount of space needed for animal

The average square of an industrial sized is 15,,000 with abou square feet being us Building facades are unused valuable reso

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efficiency of converting food into consumable meat

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efficiency of converting food into consumable meat

Vernon has everything it needs to position itself as the leader in local food production in the Sounthern California region.

Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River discharges roughly 50 billion gallons annually. WIth, such close proximity to the river, Vernon is asking to take advantage of it.

How They Measure in Comparison

hey Measure in Comparison

age

COW COW

how long it takes for the animal to reach maturation for food

Why Agriculture in Vernon?

ageconsumable Currently the number one how long it takes for the animal to reach maturation for food

protein in the United States. Domestic

Currently the number one consumable beef consumption equates to 182 protein in the United States. Domestic beef consumption equates to 182 pounds per person per year. pounds per person per year.

CHICKEN

TILAPIA

nutrition

the amount of consumable protein per animal

per animal

Industrialization begins

Vernon has everything it needs to position itself as the leader in local food production in the Sounthern California region.

1938

The average square footage of an industrial sized building is 15,,000 with about 10,000 square feet being usable. Building facades are also unused valuable resources.

Channelization of the river

Present

Vernon as the exclus industrial city

Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River discharges roughly 50 billion

CRICKET

Vernon has everything it needs to position itself as the leader in local food production in the Sounthern California region.

methane

measured in amount animal expells in a 24 hour period

amount animal expells in a 24 hour period

1905

1919

Vernon serves as farmland

Industrialization begins

Building Footprint

gallons annually. WIth, such Why Agriculture close proximity to the river, Vernon is asking to take in Vernon? advantage of it.

Tilapia is a fast growing fish that originated

Insects such as crickets have not Insects such as crickets have not been consumed in larger amounts tobeen consumed in larger amounts to be considered a common protein in be considered a common protein in American diets. Currently Americans American diets. Currently Americans unknowingly consume roughly 2 pounds unknowingly consume roughly 2 pounds of dead insects/insect parts per yearof dead insects/insect parts per year (found in vegetables, rice, beer, broccoli, (found in vegetables, rice, beer, broccoli, pasta, and spinach). pasta, and spinach).

Vernon serves as farmland

Next to beef, poultry is the second

Tilapia is a fast growing fish that originated in Africa and is not a recognizable source in Africa and is not a recognizable source of protein that is commonly consumed of protein that is commonly consumed in the United States. Currently, domestic in the United States. Currently, domestic tilapia consumptions equates to 15 tilapia consumptions equates to 15 pounds per person per methane year. measured in pounds per person per year.

CRICKET

1919

CHICKEN

Next to beef, poultry is the second largest consumable protein in the United States. Domestic poultry consumption largest consumable protein in the United equates to 80 pounds per person per States. Domestic poultry consumption year. nutrition equates to 80 pounds per person per the amount of year. consumable protein

TILAPIA

Building Footprint 1905

1905 Vernon serves as farmland

1938

1919 Industrialization begins

Channelization of the river

The average square footage of an industrial sized building is 15,,000 with about 10,000 square feet being usable. Building facades are also unused valuable resources.

Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River discharges roughly 50 billion gallons annually. WIth, such close proximity to the river, Vernon is asking to take advantage of it.

1938

Channelization of the river

Present

Vernon as the exclusively industrial city

integrated low input-high output products Integrated Low-Input High-Output Systems and Products Algaculture algae farming

Aquaponics

aquaculture & hydroponics

Composting aquaculture & hydroponics

Mycoculture fungi farming

Entofarming edible insect farming

system phasing

Vermiculture worm farming

Biofuel feedstock

Produce

Fertilizer

Gourmet Mushrooms

Crickets & Mealworms

Fertilizer

Insect feedstock

Fish

Mushroom Substrate

Mycoprotein

Flour

Animal feed

Medicine

Entoprotein

Mycotecture

Insect frass

Mycotextiles

A New Overlay Aquaponics Composting Mycoculture Entofarming Vermiculture New Food Overlay

THE MOVER: TRANSPORT

The Intra Vernon Transit System combines both a streetcar system and a cargobike system for the distribution of goods and people. Through the utilization of existing railroad infrastructure, these transit systems can be placed seamlessly into the landscape of the city of Vernon. This type of system coincides with low input high output frameworks as delegated beforehand. The transit system of both goods and people exemplify the intensity of circulation that accumulates within Vernon on a daily basis If Vernon were to adopt

this type of system, it will increase its efficiency and enable Vernon to become the good neighbor it is intended to be. Within the Intra Vernon Transit System there is a central Station that is the point of convergence of intermodal plurals within Vernon. This is where the cargobike workforce and the streetcar ridership can convene together, creating a new social context that will enable Vernon to be perceived as the place to be not just for the industry, but the civic engage ment that can occur within its boundaries.

The cargobike system is intended to serve the industries within the new food overlay zone and provide distribution amongst the inner networks within Vernon. The cargobike system aims to create a shifting of values and place a positive perception of the insertion of a low impact high frequency distribution system to handle their daily shipping needs. A cargobike is implementable within the city of Vernon not only because of its low impact high frequency, but also because of its ability to become easily retrofitted within the existing rail in Vernon.

The streetcar system occupies the outer boundaries that border Vernon and services the inundation of employees that commute in and out of the city on a daily basis. By implementing a streetcar system, this hopes to alleviate traffic congestion on the vehicular streets to allow more room for the regional freight trucks that need the space in order deliver fresh food from Vernon to the entire Southern California region. A streetcar system is ideal for Vernon because it is versatile in use. It functions in both mixed-use traffic and can have right of way priority at streetlight intersections.

The Mover

THE STATION The Mover is a network informed by the existing rail lines, which are a remnant of Vernonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial legacy. These provide circulation for goods fed back through the agricultural systems, as well as for the workers that support the industry. This distribution network occurs simultaneously at two scales: a larger network that consists of streetcars, and a smaller, more flexible cargo bike transit.

The Station serves as the intermodal hub of both street car and cargobike interaction. Amenities such as eateries, showers, wash services, and shaded structures provide the workers respite from a hard dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in Vernon.

Water + shower for people + mycomat curbs for filtration Food + algaculture used as overhead plane

Circulation + people circulation enforced by

The Mover

algae tubing Water through cargo + product circulation + shower for people bike + mycomat curbs for filtration + street cars serve Foodboth product and people + algaculture used as overhead plane

Circulation + people circulation enforced by Algaculture Aquaponics algae tubing + product circulation through cargo bike

+ street cars serve both product Composting Mycoculture and people

Entofarming

Algaculture

Aquaponics

Composting

Mycoculture

Entofarming

Vermiculture

PROCESS WORK

weekly presentations at SWA Laguna Beach

PERSPECTIVES

image courtesy Kristen Fritz

LA EMERGED 2100 WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIO

“futuristic urbanism imagined”

This project studio’s thematic exploration was heavily focused on the narrative meanings of place and what it means to different people. The City of the Future has been a long anticipated utopian ideal since popular media and amongst those pioneers Walt Disney often dreamed about his own city set in the future.

the narrative

The City of Angels is undergoing an age of digital advancements. Angelenos have abandoned their warm weather and iconic views for those of a simulated and stationary kind. These digital advancemnts are a double-edged sword. Although they have allowed us to evolve and advance in various ways, these hyper-realities are creating boundaries that subtract from the human experience. The age of digital advancement is changing the way people live, work, travel, and spend their leisure time.

In the year 2080, the age of digital advancement has reached a point of climax, where rates in depression and obesity have reached an all-time high. A call to action has been implemented. The initiative LA Emerged 2100 has been established to create a city that emerges from these hyper-realities. By deconstructing the boundaries that have disconnected us, a new Los Angeles emerges.

right: exploratory sketchup model showing urban building mass with a central connective membrane

SUPPORTING CONTEXT

In researching the parameters for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;City of the Futureâ&#x20AC;? observations during field trips both along the transect of Broadway in Los Angeles and at other locations served as helpful directives in the building of the project narrative.

below: field trip sketch & firescape as immediate urban infrastructure study

Arcosanti An Urban Laboratory - Arizona

GROUP COLLABORATION The intensive interdiscplinary collaboration required of this studio consisted of an eight member group from both Landscape Architecture and Architecture backgrounds. This is a documentation of the collective process in the development of the narrative.

(2025) bottom: narrative diagram of project. “deconstructing urban boundaries”

right: individual project narrative diagrams. Indicates how urban boundaries will be deconstructed

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PEOPLE

(2013) 1 SQ. MI.

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PEOPLE

left: density diagram showing the amount of people per square mile in the future ALIGNMENT PATH BODIES OF WATER

DOWNTOWN L.A. ALIGNMENT: 3 MILES

DENSITY DIAGRAM

left: Narrative diagrams comparing car oriented cycle vs. pedestrian

top: Post-it brainstorming session with Imagineers

right: Architectural study models with unifying membrane

bottom: Visualized statistics of the detriments in everyday American lives

THE KINECTIVE KUBICLE Through the years, the setting of the workplace has been portrayed in two scales. The Office as a macro and the cubicle as the micro; the cubicle was a modernist approach and developed as systems furniture by interior designers. The designers intended for the furniture to be devoid of any hierarchies and to be achieved through a minimalist approach. Through the conscious intent of creating a systems furniture without emotional hierarchies the aesthetic look accompanied with emotionless lackluster experience.

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when being placed within one of these containers has taken a toll on the metaphysical makeup of the human being. In reference to the scenario of Downtown LA, there is an apparent disconnection amongst the ground level lifestyles and the lawyer lofts that remain above the life on the street. The only source of infrastructure that remains and appears to thread throughout these two levels is the utilitarian fire escape.

Fast forward to year 2100 and the future of the fire escape and its relationship with the cubicle become infused into the Kinective Kubicle. A landscape where work will take place amongst the individual and will transcribe them in a mental state of peace and calm as they venture into the vertical complexities of these landscape systems that occur right outside of their workplace.

right: section of Kinective Kubicle

direction circulation root layer

3 aggregate layer

wayfinding lightwell circulation

planting layer

window

tree growth

emergence of new wall

existing conditions

explore

right: phasing diagram of 4 membrane

work

emergence of new wall

bottom:5 human connection treethe intersections deconstructing boundary of the cubicle

human connection

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intersection continued 2

existing conditions

growth of trees

removal of the 4th wall

left: human

experiential values diagram curiousity

tree intersections 1

formation of the membrane

removal of the 4th wall

formation of the membrane 3 emergence of new wall

growth of trees 4

immobility lack fresh air lack light connection intersection continued to nature

kinective kubicle

connection to nature

7 experiential mobility formation of the membrane curiousity fresh air natural light

experiential curiousity

cubicle today growth of trees

immobility lack fresh air lack light

cubicle today immobility lack fresh air lack light

3rd

4th

kinective kubicle mobility fresh air natural light

point of membrane building connection kinective kubicle space tree growth direction membrane example building shown

site plan

wayfinding start/end points direct start/end points

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PROCESS WORK

TECHNICAL DRAWING It is imperative in the design process to understand the construction of the built environment. Featured is a sample of construction details for an outdoor eating establishment, hardscape paving, and hand rails. FOR MORE: http://issuu.com/katreyes/docs/final_la333_kereyes_c821badd62fca3

PROFESSIONAL

Featured is a plan that I have worked on with my previous employer, Integration Design Studio. *NOTE: All design shown are per Principle Landscape Architectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plan, AutoCAD drafting work is done by myself.

thank you

Katherine Reyes 951.265.8726 thekathyreyes@ gmail.com