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BOILEL ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL ARCH STUDIO 20 B REDESIGHN OF ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, CALIFORNIA INSTRUCTOR: COLEMAN GRIFFITH FALL 2014

ALUMNI CAFETERIA ARCH STUDIO 20 A ALUMNI COMMON CAFETERIA PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, CALIFORNIA INSTRUCTOR: COLEMAN GRIFFITH SPRING 2013

POLYOMINO HOUSING ARCH STUDIO 20 B FLOATING CITY HOUSING MAERSK TRIPLE E CLASS, PACIFIC OC EAN INSTRUCTOR: COLEMAN GRIFFITH FALL 2014

VORNOI CHILD CARE FACILITY ARCH STUDIO 20 A CHILD CARE GACILITY PARK ROW DRIVE ELYSIAN PARK, CALIFORNIA INSTRUCTOR: COLEMAN GRIFFITH SPRING 2013 SEQUENCE MODEL ARCH STUDIO 10 B SPACIAL SEQUENCE MODEL INSTRUCTOR: COLEMAN GRIFFITH FALL 2012

The priority of the floating city project was to establish continues equilibrium on the main site, Maersk Triple E Class. The city was created and carefully divided on the containership, traveling on the Pacific Ocean. The objective was to create a promenade with housing for a minimum of 1000 people, including ship crewmembers. The promenade had to contain all the necessities of a small community, as it would in a city off the ship.

To integrate the equilibrium of the container ship the cargos were used as reference to maintain the weight of apartment size. To assure the weight of the containers were evenly distributed pentominio mathematics were used as a reference for each apartment building. The core of each building starts from the lower level promenade located at the lower deck and rises above the main lever for a clear view of the Pacific Ocean.

The promenade was also evenly distributed to divide the city stores and restaurants on both sides of the Maersk Triple E Class. The central division of the city allows natural light for the housing as well as the promenade.

Asia - Europe Route North Sea and British Isles

Japan and Korean Sea

ACCIDENTS HOT SPOTS

East Mediterranean and Black Sea

30 days

The floating city will follow the Asia-Europe route, the ship will beging in Shanghai, and sail from China to Spain in 30 days.

A. Height : 239 ft B. Lenghth: 1,312 ft C. Width: 193 ft Total Square Feet: 252, 639 sgft Deadweight: 165,00 tons

20ft 8ft

Program

A

B

C

Factory

Navigation Bridge Containers Chimney Kids Factorys Mens Factorys Womens Factorys

Circularion Deck Circulation Below Deck Circulation

Vessel Description Vessel Type: Mega Containership Vessel Name: Maersk Line Triple E Crew Count: 22 people Housing Housing Type: Single, Family & Double Housing Total Count: 58 units / Complex Number of People Count: 180 / Units Maximum People Count: 1000

Balance Distribution

Compare It

London Eye L : 442 ft H : 442 ft

Airbus 380 L : 239 ft H : 79 ft

Blue Wale L : 108 ft H : 39 ft

Maersk Triple E Class L : 1,312 ft H : 239 ft

Ship Capacity

18,000 TEU,

18.0000 20-foot containers

Short Section Program & CIrculation

Deck Program & CIrculation Program Complex Units Complex Common Space Public Outdoors Space Market / Shopping Public GYM / Activity Space Market / Shopping Circulation Deck Circulations Vertical Circulation Primary Circulation

Program Deck Complex Lower Deck Void Outdoors Activity Garden Below Deck Public Program Circulation

Pentamino

A pentomino is a polyomino composed of 5 equally-sized congruent squares connected along their edges (orthogonal connections) creating 12 different shapes that are used as puzzles pieces in Recreational mathematics.

Living Room

Double 2 - 4 People

Kitchen

Living Room

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 1

Kitchen

Bathroom

Double 2 - 4 People Bedroom

10th Floor

9th Floor ( Complex Public Space ) GYM, Library, Conference Room

Bathroom

Bedroom

8th Floor

7th Floor & 1st Floor ( Under Deck Circualtion )

6th Floor & 2nd Floor

5th Floor & 3rd Floor

4th Floor. ( Deck Floor Level & Deck Circualtion )

Vertical Circulation Unit Public Space

Unit Square Foot 8ft 8ft

5 x (8x8) = 320 sq. ft.

4 or 8 units each level.

Living Room

Bathroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

Bathroom

Axon

Living Room

Single Unit.

1 - 2 People Kitchen

Living Room

Single Unit.

1 - 2 People

Kitchen

Bedroom

Kitchen

Family 2 - 4 People

Bathroom

Bedroom

Kitchen

Bathroom

Bedroom

Living Room

Bedroom

Bedroom

Single Unit.

1 - 2 People

Single Unit.

1 - 2 People

Living Room Bedroom

Bathroom

Single Unit.

1 - 2 People

Bathroom

Kitchen

Bedroom

Kitchen

Bathroom

Living Room

Kitchen

Double 2 - 4 People

Bathroom Kitchen

Bedroom

Single Unit.

1 Person

Single Unit.

1 - 2 People

Kitchen

Bedroom

Bathroom Living Room

Family 2 - 3 People

Bedroom 2

Kitchen Bedroom 1

Bathroom

Living Room

The Alumuni Commons is located at the center of the Pasadena City College campus. The site was approached as “tabula rasa�, a clear site with none of the existing gardens remaining. The objective was to explore and developed a concept through program, circulation, and used problems of he initial site. The approach was to integrate architectural building and landscape project based on architectural principles and parameters with a clearly defined design system.

The Alumni Common is the center gathering space of the schools campus.

The first approach was to clearly define the primary and all other secondary circulation. Students were challenged to form the space with a new clearly defined cafeteria that deals with the circulation and the users of the space.

With objective to create a new center for the campus a center connecting was further studied to connect all major circulation. The created surface was further allocated by current the site datum.

Site Plan Cafe Bounding Box

Primary Circulation

Secondary Circulation

New Site

Long Section Outdoor Seating

Cashier

Beverage Display

Kitchen

Indoor Seating

Program and Circulation

Sequence Movement 3

313 sq ft. Storage Storage 313 sq ft.

140 sq ft. BackBack 140 sq ft.

RoomRoom 514 sq ft.

514 sq ft. Kitchen Kitchen

Outdoor Seating 2786 sq ft.sq ft.

2786 Outdoor Seating

902 sq ft. Indoor Indoor Seating Seating 902 sq ft.

Private Circulation Private Circulation Private Circulation Public Circulation

PUBLIC

PUBLIC SPACE

Food Display

1425 sq ft.sq ft. Beverage 1425 Food+Display Cashier

PRIVATE

61ft.sq ft. OfficeOffice 61 sq

PRIVATE SPACE

187 sq ft.

187 sq ft. Receiving Receiving

Cafeteria Plan

Beverage Display

Indoor Seating Kitchen Outdoor Seating Food Display

Short Section

The concentration of the boiler house project was to transform the interior of the boiler house to fit the current Pasadena City College architecture program. The objective was to fit the program in a space that was multifunctional and had transformative spaces. While each class in the program is framed in its own unique way, they all share the same common philosophy of the program.

It was important to divide the spaces in a functional manner in which they could function in division and in union.

To keep the idea of transformation and union alive a research of the human body and skeletal movement was conducted.

The human muscle moves the skeletons relatively to each other. All such movements are classified by the direction in which the affected transformative movement. In human anatomy, all decisions of to transform positions and movements are based on the body in its complete medial and abduction stage and is in anatomical position.

Site Plan

Circulation R BUILDING

Boiler House Datum R BUILDING C BUILDING

C BUILDING

AQUATIC CENTER

ALUMNI COMMON

FC FS

BH

V BUILDING

AQUATIC CENTER

V BUILDING

Long Section

FC

GYM

FS

PARKING

PARKING

ALUMNI COMMON

BH

GYM

Short Section

Site Plan

Arch 14

Exabition/Work Space

Studio

Long Section

Computer Lab

Computer Lab

Studio

Studio Womens Bathroom

Exabition Space

Mens Bathroom

Exabition Space

Womens Bathroom

Studio

Office

Studio

Mens Bathroom

Office

Office

Office

Office

Office

Computer Lab

Office

Office

Computer Lab Arch 14 Studio

Arch 14

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Sequence Movement 1

Sequence Movement 2

Sequence Movement 3

2nd Floor Plan

3rd Section B

B

Computer Lab

Lecture Hall

Office

Studio

Office

A

Short Section A

Short Section B

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Studying the organization one must identify these independent yet related spaces. Develop diagrams in which one illustrates the special organization of the common space, the interlocking spaces, spaces within a space and its circulation. By separating the organization, one is able to better understand and identify the function not only the space but also its circulation.

An exciting architecture was chosen. The organization of the program was then studied by spaces and their relationships.

By organizing the spaces one is able to distinguish the public from the private spaces. Private spaces were then modeled into poche represented by wood. While the public spaces were modeled with the acrylic.

Since the chosen architecture had spaces that interlocked with the outdoor space it virtually becomes one large space with the subdivision in it, creating a space within a space. Last one studied the movement within these spaces that was represented by the white wood, which connected all the spaces in a sequence.

Plan

Section

Public Space & Circuation

Axon Circulation

Public Space

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Thorough a hands on experiment of a material, a through understanding of its characteristics, natural behaviors and limitations was investigated. The aim is to develop a material system that clearly expresses the behaviors and characteristics of the material. Through studying the material a organized and formative network of units was then created.

The materal chosen by the instructor was Aluminum, a material which has low density and resist corrosion due to the phenomenon of passiveness. It is also a relatively soft, durable, lightweight, ductile and malleable metal with appearance ranging from silvery to dull gray, depending on the surface roughness.

Aluminium has about one-third the density and stiffness of steel, and is 100% recyclable without any loss of its natural qualities.

With study of the performative aspects of the aluminum, a unit is created using the hierarchical behaviors of the material. After the a single units is established, with the various forces of the unit a modular system is created.

Material Unit

Material Force Bent Elevation

Bend

Axon View

Score Bend

Unit Connection

The veriation in the method in which the aluminum is folded and connection gives more demetion to the refelction. Thus every unit has a different effect in the light, not only becouse of the demntion but also by the fold and connection and in the angle in which it is positioned.

Reflective aluminum or “lighting sheet” has a mirror like surface and is made from high purity aluminum with specific photometric qualities to control light.

In a plain mirror, a parallel beam of light changes its direction as a whole, while still remaining parallel; the images formed by a plain mirror are virtual images, of the same size as the original object.

System Connection

Connection of System

1/8” 3mm

Unit Force

UNIT. A

UNIT. A

1/8” 3mm UNIT. B

UNIT. B