WORK SAMPLES A capstone project in UCLA’s core studio curriculum, the Steel House Studio was a comprehensive project that allowed me to address structural details, building code, and wheelchair accessibility while engaging with frame/ envelope relationship, siting, orientation, and the Eames’ influence.
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This house’s radial organization privileges the ramp as a processional experience, while huge expanses of glass and dividing walls simultaneously provide privacy and sweeping views.
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FLOOR CONSTRUCTION: HARDWOOD FLOORING, 3/4” PLYWOOD SHEETING, RIGID BOARD INSULATION W12X22 PAINTED STEEL SECTION 8“ DIAMETER COLUMN ON 30”x30“ GRADE BEAM LIGHT STEEL FRAMING 2X8X97 16” O.C. LAMINATED GLASS W/SILICONE JOINTS WELDED STEEL BRACKET ALUMINUM WINDOW MUNTIN ROOF CONSTRUCTION: ALUMINUM STANDING-SEAM ROOFING, 3/4“ PLYWOOD SHEETING, VAPOR BARRIER, ACOUSTIC INSULATION METAL PANELING LIGHT STEEL FRAMING 2X6X97 24” O.C. ROLL-UP WINDOW SHADE STEEL ANCHOR ANGLE DOUBLE-GLAZED OPERABLE AWNING CLERESTORY WINDOW GUTTER
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Steel House10Studio8 Date: Winter 2015 Instructor: Neil Denari
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WORK SAMPLES
In architecture, an aqueous affect is achieved by manipulating translucency and distortion, working with a vocabulary of reflectivity, opacity, and layering. Thin layers lend themselves to a reading of thick, viscuous space. We sought to expand on the affects produced in precedents such as Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie, SANAA’s Tokyo Dior, and PTW’s Water Cube by invoking the tectonic in the cosmetic. We sought to achieve both actual and phenomenological distortion by distancing and slumping layers of glass, lending itself to a “rippling” parallax effect.
Model Process (L to R): Milling, Vacuum-forming, Trimming, Laser Cutting, Assembly.
Affecting the Aqueous Date: Spring 2014 Instructor: Mohamad Sharif
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This project is a reimportation of MVRDV’s Ypenburg project. Further intensification of density, reallocation of public and private space, and increased permeability have created a model for Los Angeles not-so-suburban living; a Ypenburbia. Close to the metro line and with space for community gardens, this site becomes a respite from the autopia of Los Angeles. Open rooftops foster community above the ground level, with semi-private strata where the insularity of suburbia becomes liberated by open space.
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Housing Design Studio Date: Fall 2014 Instructor: Kevin Daly
This project involved creating an object based on formal analysis of a gothic vault. The reading of the precedent Ste-Chapelle as a surface problematizes the creation of a solid object from it. This project seeks to establish a conceptual approach for the disciplinary problem of transforming surface into mass. I imposed a temporal dimension to a series of planimetric transformations, allowing me to describe them in terms of motion, and envision each stage as a snapshot in a gradually accelerating path of motion. Superimposing these stages leads to the creation of an object whose thickness is 1/2 conceptually independent of the physical mass of the original vault, yet the underlying logic of the transformations are directly related to the geometric order of the precedent. A
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Object of Analysis Intro Design Studio Date: Fall 2013 Instructor: Steven Christensen