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1001 NIGHTS: a house for 8 makers
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California College of the Arts Fall 2018 Advanced Studio - Stop Calling Me Resilient Instructor: Janette Kim Site: East Oakland, CA Partners: Weiwei Wang, Cera Yeo The call for resilience to climate change has mobilized billions of dollars worldwide to reimagining cities’ tolerance for change. Cities, the logic goes, must be able to bounce back from hazards caused by sea level rise and warming atmospheres as well as any other risks on the horizon. Doing so demands that we reshape shorelines, restructure policy and shift incentives within urban economics. Prevent gentrification through the process of upzoning to increase development and finance, and downzoning according to environmental restraints and to enable public use.The manipulation of vacant lots will transform the existing informal economy into a disruptive grid system which will reveal itself over time.
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Flood Risk in Oakland(short term)
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We spend a lot of time talking about SLR - “the sea level rise number,” but it is only one component of the potential hazard.Stormwater runoff is generated when precipitation from rain and snowmelt flows over land or impervious surfaces and does not percolate into the ground. On average, December is the most rainy.
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The number of days each month with rain, snow and hail in Alameda, United States of America. Data from nearest weather station: San Francisco, United States of America (20.7 KM). Cost of Flood Research by FEMA
Disruptive Grid
“Disruptive Grid” is a compound strategy that would exploit the local vacant lots by inviting informal economy and city recreational facilities.
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BUILDING CARE redifining homelessness
Columbia Univerisity GSAPP 2020Fall Advanced Studio - Networks of Care Instructor: Laura Kurgan Site: New York City, NY Individual Work The COVID infection rate and cases in California and New York are rapidly rising. For vulnerable population like homeless people, the pandemic exacerbated their existing conditions and reasons. We appreciate the idea of Ticktin that “Care is an understanding of the condition of life on earth as interdependent and relational, an approach that favors attunement over control.” These three cities are having high homeless rate for years. Some cities have introduced some unusual strategies to address homelessness during the Pandemic. For example, San Francisco are housing homeless people in empty hotels. Some think this is a strategy to keep them inside. New York City has also housing homeless people in empty hotel rooms as of May 2020.
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Even though this is an innovative way of utilizing hotels and improving the living condition of homelessness, homeless people need far more than the city is providing. So what additional care do we need?
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TOCHIGI CIVIC CENTER Renovated Tochigi Prefectural Hall
Columbia Univerisity GSAPP 2021Spring Advanced Studio - Open Work Instructor: Enriqur Walker Site: Tochigi, Japan Partners: Jishan Duan, Chen xi Dong The project was aimed to renovate the old Tochigi Prefectural Hall designed by Masato Otaka in 1969 and demolished in 2007. The old structures reflected Oatka’s idea of having traditional Japanese form with modern prefabricated concrete and were preserved intactly in the new building as a “heavy void.” We doubled the volume of the pour-in-place part of Otaka and made the solid volume light so that it becomes a ring surrounding the “heavy void” and floating above the site. The old prefectural hall was used to hold administrative offices and a conference hall. The new civic center is not only a market, but an urban connector, a cultural destination, and a gathering place for local people and visitors alike.
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Precedent - Villa Mairea / Alvar Aalto
1001 NIGHTS A house for 8 makers
California College of the Arts Fall 2017 Advanced Studio - Component Assembly
Instructor: Adam Marcus, Matt Hutchinson Partner: Marlene Cacho This project proposes an alternative model of co-housing, in which 8 makers share spaces at different scales and with different degrees of privacy. The project is inspired by the unique social conditions of large communal events such as Burning Man, and it seeks to translate these qualities to the scale of a small domestic commune. In both its programmatic organization and its tectonic logic, the architecture challenges our conventional perception and understanding of private domestic space. The project is sited at an urban corner, and the ground level consists of an open floor plan that provides a gathering space for residents and visual connectivity to the surrounding context. The project allows the residents to undertake a journey of introspection and self expression, self awareness.
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The central staircase inspired by the Villa Mairea by Alvar Alto. It used patterns to create fields of depth that result in moments of mystery and uncertainty. For example, where a rod meets a tread but appears not to touch it, or in the literal gap between stair and building as one transitions from the staircase into one of the glass boxes and realizes that the staircase itself is suspended from the roof in complete tension. Physical Model
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California College of the Arts Spring 2019 Advanced Studio MakerSpace ><SpaceMaker Instructor:Craig Scott Site: San Francisco, CA Individual Work The aim of this project is to generate an initial space-making sensibility, attitude and/or schema. The construct will be produced in both two and three-dimensional media, and aims to explore an interpretation of the ‘extended site’ visa-vis particular relationships between two fundamental types of space: inward-focused space and outward-focused space. The designed intersection of these two spatial typologies within the constructs will serve to set up an array of potential spatial relationships that will inform the building design to come - defining conditions of movement and stasis, interior and exterior, public and private, repetition and difference, and ultimately, workplace and city space. The methodology is to work through a process of abstraction, and analytical interpretation and/or translation of particular characteristics of the extended site regarding spatial definition and orientation.
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1921 Farmers used to grow cannabis outdoor which was hard to control light and irrigation.
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City Aperture Collage Edibles 9.9% Accessories 9.9% Concentrates 27.1% Flower 60.5%
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Varied by different functions of buildings, the degree of privacy are different. The curtains behind the glass facade are reacting the steel window frame. Therefore, the aperture of the building would varied according to the residents’ needs.
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Richard Diebenkorn was an influentia painter whose work was comprised o Considered a quintessentially Califor remembered as a founding member Movement.
UC IRVINE MUSEUM OF ART California College of the Arts Spring 2018 IBD Studio - Desire and Doubt
Instructor:Ryan Keerns, Thomas Ryan Site: UC Irvine Individual Work The museum of encounters is located near the main entrance of the campus, adjacent to central axis of UCI. The extended progression to the main entrance of the gallery through a hourglass-like portal made by rammed earth growing from the ground. What you will see through the portal is a small California forest made with all different kinds of California woods. This allows visitors to shed the outside world before entering. Also create the resting space for the students and faculties. Within the museum, the dichotomy created by the thick-rammed earth walls for gallery space and glass wall by the walkway with the lightness heighten the view to the California redwoods beyond. Light aperture within the gallery space offer large curve reflectors wash the rammed earth wall with shadow-less light, providing the only light needed within the space throughout the daylight hours.
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Sculpture Garden “Framing” the view Similar to the idea of framing arts, the architecture has some moments of framing or capturing views by using horizontal and vertical elements at proper location. Such moments occur both indoor and outdoor.
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VISUAL WORKS
MATERIALS Course: Techniques of the Ultrareal Year: 2020Fall Instructors: ww Software: Autodesk 3ds Max Photoshop
Course: Seminar of Section Year: 2021Spring Instructors: Marc Tsurumaki (author of Manual of Section) Software: Rhino Adobe Illustrator
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