KRISTEN PORTFOLIO
UCLA
FONG A.UD
KITCHEN NETWORK
ATTRACTIVE DISCOMFORT
SPECTACLE OF MOVEMENT
LIBRARY OF OBJECTS
INTERSECTING LOOP
CONTENTS
KITCHEN NETWORK INSTRUCTOR: HITOSHI ABE WORKHOUSE GRADUATE RESEARCH STUDIO UCLA A.UD SPRING 2019 / M.ARCH I REPRESENTATION: RENDERED IMAGES + DRAWINGS In the culinary world of Kitchen Network, the 3 main players are the student chefs, up-and-coming/established chefs & diners. Through researching the relationships between these players, a variety of experiences is provided in a unified space. There are three layers of program. The perimeter “exterior” consists of 9 different dining experiences where diners can enjoy the latest creations from rotating or permanent chefs. The interior is the educational and office space where students come to learn about how restaurants work and improve their skills with other chefs as their mentors. In between the is the network of kitchens connecting the dining experiences and educational spaces. This project explores the part-to-whole relationship both architecturally and with its culinary inhabitants. The kitchen network is the main workspace and it’s physical and visual proximities to the classrooms or restaurants determines the varying experiences. It is the singular datum uniting these separate programmatic entities not only physically, but also figuratively uniting diners, chefs and students.
DINING
KITCHEN
KITCHEN NETWORK
INTERSTITIAL KITCHEN SPACE
OFFICE / LIBRARY / LOUNGE
SUB-NETWORK
STORAGE
COMMON AREAS
CLASSROOM / MEDIA
DINING
KITCHEN
KITCHEN NETWORK
INTERSTITIAL KITCHEN SPAC
SUB-NETWORK
STORAGE
DINING
KITCHEN
KITCHEN NETWORK
INTERSTITIAL KITCHEN SPACE
OFFICE / LIBRARY / LOUNG
SUB-NETWORK
STORAGE
COMMON AREAS
DINING
KITCHEN
KITCHEN NETWORK
INTERSTITIAL KITCHEN SPACE
OFFICE / LIBRARY / LOUNGE
SUB-NETWORK
STORAGE
COMMON AREAS
CLASSROOM / MEDIA
CLASSROOM / MEDIA
DESIGN BRIEF: ALL ABOUT FOOD IS A PLACE WHERE A NEW CULINARY EXPERIENCE IS CULTIVATED BY BRINGING ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE FOOD WORLD TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE.
SECTION AA
KITCHEN NETWORK
A
A
B
B
GROUND LEVEL PLAN
SECTION BB
WORKHOUSE
KITCHEN NETWORK
WORKHOUSE
ATTRACTIVE DISCOMFORT INSTRUCTOR: NEIL DENARI PHASED & AMBIENT SPACE ADVANCED TOPICS STUDIO UCLA A.UD WINTER 2019 / M.ARCH I REPRESENTATION: RENDERED IMAGES Repetition is something familiar. It gives an order and a rhythm for us to follow. However, when considering the element of time, our peception of repetition is challenged. This studio to design a performance hall for electronic music, was inspired by our visceral reactions to minimalist music. This genre of music is highly repetitive and what I found when listening to it, was that the combination of repetition over a long period of time started to produce a sense of discomfort. I sought to create a repetitive formal language reflecting a visual analog for discomfort while still searching for something deeply attractive. The originating geometry is comprised of squares and triangles rotated 45 degrees, scaled and multiplied in a 2D field pattern. They form inverted pyramids in 3D using a stainless steel material. The external field is characterized by a dense field of columns organized by a visual order of lights. On the inside of the hall, the columns turn into dots of light, and turns into a play in making space 3D through 2D forms. The combination of lighting effects in this tectonic field animates the space, which transforms the discomfort of limitless repetition into attraction and hypnosis.
PERIMETER EXPIERIENCE: (TOP) ALONG THE PERIMETER, UNINTRUDED BAYS FORM COORIDORS PEEKING INTO THE FIELD. (BOTTOM) AT THE FAR END OF THE BUILDING WHEN THE FIELD IS MOST OPEN, THE COLUMNS REAPPEAR IN THE DISTANCE, EMPHASIZING THE FIELD’S DEPTH
ATTRACTIVE DISCOMFORT
FRONT ELEVATION: THE FIELD OF COLUMNS IS ACCOMPANIED BY THIN VERTICAL MEMBERS OF LIGHT COLUMNS, WHICH IS VISUALLY ORDERED WITH A FLOOR LIGHTING SYSTEM.
PHASED & AMBIENT SPACE
INSIDE THE HALL: (TOP + BOTTOM) DEPENDING ON YOUR ORIENTATION WITHIN THE INTERIOR FIELD, THE SPATIAL EFFECT OF THE FIELD OF LIGHTS CHANGES.
ATTRACTIVE DISCOMFORT
THE PERFORMANCE HALL: THE ARTIST DETERMINES THE LIGHTING PATTERN TO AMPLIFY THEIR PERFORMANCE. THE AMBIENT EFFECTS CREATE A SENSE OF MOTION, TENSION, OR DEPTH.
PHASED & AMBIENT SPACE
SPECTACLE OF MOTION INSTRUCTOR: GABRIEL FRIES-BRIGGS POSITIONS MAJOR BUILDING DESIGN STUDIO UCLA A.UD SPRING 2018 / M.ARCH I REPRESENTATION: DRAWINGS + PHOTO COLLAGE How can the event of firemen going out for a call be put on display for possible spectators? The design of this fire station is organized around the dimension of speed through a series of curves and radii. These curves, which all face towards the interior, contrast how curves are generally produced on the outside of a building or site. This suggests the reading that the programs are all pulled along these curves away from the main hub, the apparatus bay. There are two sets of curves corresponding to two types of movement, those for equipment - the trucks - and those for people. Using the specificity of trucks’ turning radii, the pathways create curves for the rest of the program to inhabit. Thinking about adjacencies and efficiencies, the other programs pull away from the main apparatus bay. Adding another dimension of internal curvature, the two slides are where the main spectacle of movement occurs to allow spectators to watch firemen running from their rooms or desks, slide or run downstairs, grab their gear and drive the trucks out. The orchestrated performance of movement in the interior with curves is registered legible on the exterior through a system of lines and louvers as ornament.
A1
PLAN - 1S 1:1
SECTION T
SPECTACLE OF MOVEMENT
A1
GROUND LEVEL PLAN
ST FLOOR 110
THROUGH APPARATUS BAY, DORMITORIES, AND COMMUNITY CENTER.
SPEED - LOUVER / REVEAL RELATIONSHIP
DIAGRAM - SPEED TO LOUVER / REVEAL
POSITIONS
SPECTACLE OF MOVEMENT
POSITIONS
LIBRARY OF OBJECTS INSTRUCTOR: KATY BARKAN STRUCTURES BUILDING DESIGN STUDIO UCLA A.UD WINTER 2016 / M.ARCH I REPRESENTATION: DRAWINGS & MODELS Two datums are created from the figure-ground relationship between the building above and the ground below. Specifically, the library’s mass is lifted off of the ground and is treated as an aggregation of interlocking objects and figures determined by each program. These figures project from the datum above organizing the plaza below which creates a communal gathering space. The objects above are connected by two cores, which further serve as both the structural and conceptual anchors for the internal part-to-whole / external above-below relationships.
VIEW II (FROM GROUND, LOOKING UP CENTRAL VOID) Downtown Los Angeles Branch Library Proposal Kristen W. Fong A.UD STUDIO 412: Building Design Studio Instructor: Katy Barkan Winter 2016
FOREST OF COLUMNS
OBJECTS IN CANOPY
LIBRARY ON STILTS
UPSIDE DOWN LIBRARY
TWO DATUMS
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
PROGRAM DIAGRAM PRIVATE / BACK-OF-HOUSE
PUBLIC / FRONT-OF-HOUSE MAIN COLLECTIONS
CHILDREN’S COLLECTIONS
STAFF OFFICES
REFERENCE
COMPUTER ZONE
COMMUNITY ROOMS
STUDY ROOMS
CIRCULATION CORE
CIRCULATION CORE
GROUND FLOOR
LIBRARY OF OBJECTS
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
STRUCTURES
SECTION THROUGH (LEFT TO RIGHT) STAFF AREA, CORE, CHILDREN’S COLLECTIONS AND MAIN COLLECTIONS
WEST ELEVATION (PHYSICAL MODEL)
LIBRARY OF OBJECTS
STRUCTURES
INTERSECTING LOOP INSTRUCTOR: WONNE ICKX ON TOPOGRAPHY IN COLLABORATION WITH: TOM NIU ADVANCED TOPICS STUDIO UCLA A.UD FALL 2019 / M.ARCH I REPRESENTATION: DRAWINGS & MODELS Set in the historic Bunker Hill of Downtown Los Angeles, a dance school is the site to explore the formal engagement with topography. The building’s single volume is embedded into the hillside, creating a horizontal datum in the topography. The form of a single loop allows for various types of intersection in relation to the earth’s mass, which results in a dynamic range of programmatic spatial experiences in and out of the ground. The artificial hardscape is at once landscape, roof, and stair depending on it’s relationship to the loop. Likewise, the loop can be seen as either an extension of the landscape or an addition protruding out of the earth. The hybrid nature of this design engages multiple readings.
A SINGLE FORMAL VOLUME EMBEDDED INTO THE LANDSCAPE
ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPE AS ‘EARTH’ & ROOF
INTERNAL CIRCULATION
PERFORATED PANELIZED FACADE
THE SINGLE LOOP EMBEDS ITSELF INTO THE LANDSCAPE CREATING VARIOUS MOMENTS OF INTERSECTION & SPATIAL EXPERIENCE
HYBRID STRUCTURE OF MOMENT FRAMES, TRUSSES & RETAINING WALLS
EXTERNAL CIRCULATION
STREET LEVEL
INTERSECTING LOOP
FROM THE STREET LEVEL, THE PUBLIC ENTERS THROUGH A SWEEPING GESTURE OF ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPE FOLLOWING THE TOPOGRAPHY.
MOVING INWARD, THE BUILDING TRANSITIONS TO THE UNDERGROUND. THE PUBLIC RESTAURANT FEATURES DINING UNDER A DRAMATIC SKYLIGHT.
THE THEATERS LIE JUST BELOW THE CENTRAL LANDSCAPE’S SURFACE - REVERSING THE READING OF THE STEPPED ROOF ON THE INSIDE.
LEVEL 1: DANCE SCHOOL, THEATERS & PUBLIC AMENITIES
ON TOPOGRAPHY
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SERIAL SECTIONS
INTERSECTING LOOP
THE TERRACED HARDSCAPE ENTERS THE DOUBLE-HEIGHT SPACE OF THE DANCE SCHOOL CREATING AN INDOOR-OUTDOOR STUDENT LOUNGE.
THE HARDSCAPE MEETS THE 2ND-LEVEL PROVIDING THE RESIDENCES WITH PRIVATE ACCESS TO THE TERRACED HILL.
THE LOOP EXTENDS FROM THE INTENSIVE CONTOURED ARTIFICIAL HARDSCAPE. MOMENTS OF THE BUILDING’S INTERSECTION ARE CAPTURED.
LEVEL 2: PRIVATE RESIDENCES & STUDENT LIVING QUARTERS
ON TOPOGRAPHY
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