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jia lin
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Pico-Union Color Installation
(civic engagement project in partnership with LA-Mas and KYCC; group project with Nancy Arevalo, Daniel Ghattas, Nguonkeat Tiv, and Mayra Trejo)
This project serves to provide a space with shade and to reimagine street endsfor the Pico-Union community. The site is located at the intersection of West Pico Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue in the heart of Koreatown, near the El Salvador Community Corridor, the area is busy due to the surrounding businesses, and thus the space can also be used as a place of leisure and small gatherings. Additionally, the customers of the nearby businesses of the Metro Market, which sells soft drinks and ice cream of sorts, and the Pollos El Brasero, a chicken restaurant, can definitely benefit from the space as it provides shade and leisure for them to enjoy their quick bite. The area is known as a densely populated, low-income, youthful, Latino, and mostly immigrant neighborhood. The barricades of planters at Pico-Union was installed in the late-1980s as a means to stop the flow of drugs and drive-by shootings. Because of this, the roads are blocked for vehicle access to this day. The chain-link fencing materiality of the project aims to serve as an optical illusion as well as a canvas where colorful acrylic pieces are strapped, and the penetrates through these acrylic pieces and form shadows of various colors. The color scheme and gradient arrangement used within the project are the colors of yellow, green, blue, and purple, and are inspired by the mural to the west side of Magnolia Avenue, in which the colors of gray, blue, and purple are heavily used. Additionally, some of these colors in the acrylic bleed into the wooden structures.
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Hagen Island Housing Project (case study on project by MVRDV, completed 2013)
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The Hagen Island Housing Project was developed by the Netherlands-based architecture firm MVRDV and finished its completion in 2003. It is located on the Hagen Island of Ypenburg near Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Furthermore, Ypenburg is made up of six different islands. The Hagen Island Housing Project is identified by its unique characteristics of houses based on a grid system. Because the Netherlands is a country known for its friendly system for pedestrians and bicyclists, the circulation diagram very much reflects this. The main access of Hagen Island is the road at the perimeter. This road provides access for vehicles and for pedestrians as well. The parking for all cars are found at the perimeter of the island as well, at the inner side of the main road. There is an ambiguity in the grid system of the project: two boxes are pushed back so there are negative spaces, these negative spaces are used for areas of recreation; in addition, another box is split into two, this process adds to the variety of sizes.
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Figueroa Village
The Figueroa Village Housing Project seeks to provide a closer community for people living in the area of South Figueroa St and West Slauson Ave. Although this area is heavy with commercial development and traffic, over 80% of the population are children until the age of 18 and elderly citizens over the age of 60. Through the courtyard housing typology, residents are encouraged to interact with each other in the outdoor public spaces. Additionally, the central courtyard in the middle of the community could act as a farmers’ market on certain days of the week, as this neighborhood lacks grocery stores. The formal concept and massing of the project comes from the trapezoid shape of the site. The division and the circulation of the site and the project is taken from the analysis of the Hagen Island Housing Project. Cars are only allowed at the perimeter of the site. There is parking at the outer perimeter of the site of the Figueroa Housing Project, which is different from the Hagen Island Housing Project, where cars are parked at the inner perimeter. The site is divided vertically into three, with the angle division being the same as the east side of the site; and the site is divided horizontally by the zig-zagging method inspired from the Hagen Island Housing Project. The east side of the site is designated as the public space so it is used as a buffer zone from the freeway at the same time. The site is located right next to the freeway ramp, where a lot of noise are emitted from vehicles going onto and coming off from the freeway. By having its own road on the perimeter of the housing project, this allows the housing project to be safer as well as less quiet.
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OUR HERITAGESan & BUILDING OUR FUTURE Gabriel Valley Humane Society (SGV-HS) Redesign
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(pro bono project through Citizen Architects initiative with AIA-PF; worked under supervision of Joseph Catalano AIA, Mark Gangi AIA, Catherine Roussel AIA; group project with James Betancourt and Eric Eaken) OUR HERITAGE, BUILDING OUR FUTURE The San Gabriel Valley Humane Society (SGVHS) opened in 1924, when the San Gabriel Valley was primarily agricultural, as a safe haven for domestic and farm animals of the Greater Los Angeles region. Large animals and livestock may once have been penned and corralled on the undeveloped land at the north end of the property. The shelter discontinued supporting farm animals as the San Gabriel Valley’s agricultural areas diminished over time. The Spanish architecture of our original residential facility represents an important part of the heritage of the shelter and the community it serves.
Fig. 1 Historic front on E. Grand Ave. to be restored as public face.
The SGVHS is connected to the community in many ways and has been unique in pioneer-ing ideas that are more commonplace today. As one example, the shelter began a medical pet therapy program, bringing animals to hospitals and care facilities for the benefit of pa-tients, in the early 1950s. At the SGVHS, stray, homeless and abandoned animals have been medically treated, nurtured and protected until placed in safe homes or farms since the early days. The same is true today, but the SGVHS needs significant remodeling and de-sign changes to meet the best practices of modern shelter medicine and animal care. We need your help! The homeless pet populations counting on you and so is the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society!
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Fig. 3 Historic garage doors to be re-adapted to store-front openings.
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The original 1924 of the SGV-HS building may be eligible for local historic designation. The facility has grown over time, now comprising of 12 smaller buildings and animal shelters, and it is essentially an indoor-outdoor operation. Major assets for the shelter include an undeveloped portion of the site roughly 18,000sqft directly behind the facility, and the historic building. The building is presently hidden behind a concrete block wall, which will be removed as a part of the proposal. The SGVHS envisions a major redevelopment project for the facility: general facility modernization and programmatic revisions; a welcoming outdoor public space along E Grand Ave, educational space, a lobby area, and shop in the historic building; relocation of the intake for rescued animals away from the public entry and new medical facilities to be built; rebuilidng the animal holding areas following established and innovative best design practices; parking improvements and additional staff parking behind the shelter, along the edge of the site; and restoration, modernization, and reuse of the historic building following The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards.
A Perception of Construction (thesis project)
With advances in digital processing and fabrication, concrete buildings can now be printed, turning notions of time and construction in to flux. In this speculative pilot project, a settlement based around concrete printing and slow construction begins on the edges of Bakersfield, California.
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Slowness changes a space incrementally, allowing occupants to critique the way their city is being built and to adapt and change their new environment as construction progresses. This manner of construction allows its inhabitants to calibrate the way in which a community or neighborhood is built. The demarcation between walls, enclosures and towers becomes an opportunity for new spatial potentialities as the relationship between the built and un-built becomes increasingly ambiguous. Here, new ways of slow construction question the norms of fast and socially myopic development. 21)
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