Pacific Highway Cap

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SP ‘11

TAM BANH

USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE - OLIVIER TOURAINE STUDIO


CITY ANALYSIS

Los Angeles

Mexico City

Sao Paulo

Chicago

New York

London

Paris

Zurich

Istanbul

Cairo

Tehran


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Tehran

Stockholm

Cape Town

Johannesburg

Hongkong

Schenzen

Shanghai

Tokyo

Osaka

Seoul



CITY ANALYSIS Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

total area: 809 sq miles infrastructure

water

green

built

3%

52%

23%

22%

population density

12 24

4 24

1 24

24 24

city ranking system

24,463 people/sq mile = 1,000 people

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IMAGE 1: 60 seconds worth of Ho Chi Minh CIty night traffic IMAGE 2: Trucks and motorbikes sharing highway lanes are common in Ho Chi Minh City



CITY ANALYSIS Jakarta, Indonesia

total area: 2,950 sq miles infrastructure

water

green

built

2%

3%

69%

26%

population density

16 24

1 24

23 24

23 24

city ranking system

37,461 people/sq mile = 1,000 people

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IMAGE 1: Hotel Indonesia Roundabout at night IMAGE 2: Central Jakarta skyline, as seen from the 51st floor of the Wisma Mulia building


UTOPIAN ANALYSIS



UTOPIAN STUDIES

Yona Friedman

Mobile Architecture

1973

Paris

Mobile Architecture introduced a new kind of mobility not of the buildings, but for the inhabitants, who are given a new freedom. It is the “dwelling decided on by the occupant” by way of “infrastructures that are neither determined nor determinneed and social idea. Mobile Architecture frequently involves mega structure over

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In the mobile city, buildings should : • touch the ground over a minimum area • be capable of being dismantled and moved • be alterable as required by the individual occupant.


Yona Friedman Paris 1973

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This grid suspended in space outlines a new cartography of the terrain with the help of neous network.

unused volumes. This structure introduces a kind of merger between countryside and city. -

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UTOPIAN STUDIES


UTOPIAN STUDIES

Constant Nieuwenhuys

New Babylon

1973

Paris

What is New Babylon actually?” Constant wrote in 1966. “Is it a social utopia? problems of the industrial age?” He then touches an aspect of New Babylon.” Constant’s New Babylon was to be a series of linked transformable structures, some of which were themselves the size 90

of a small city. Perched above ground, Constant’s megastructures leaves the bourgeois metropolis below and is populated by homo ludens--man at play, who are free from boring everyday work. In the New Babylon, the bourgeois shackles of work, family life, and civic responsibility individual would wander from one leisure environment to another in search of new


map

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PERSONAL DESIGN


SP ‘11


NEW GRID LIVING


CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS CAP the FWY



SITE PLAN


Aerial View


SITE DIAGRAM

Santa Monica Tranist System


Santa Monica’s Civic Buildings


SITE DIAGRAM

Santa Monica’s Green Space


150,000 sq ft x 40

FAR 2.7

x 40

150,000 sq ft

x 25

72,000 sq ft

Residential

x 40

x 40

37,600 sq ft

x 40

x 40

Hotel

h Retail

26,700 sq ft

x 25

72,000 sq ft

Service

Residential

x 40

37,600 sq ft

x 40

Hotel

Retail

26,700 sq ft Service

Diagramatic Elevation


Residential

PROGRAMS Hotel

UNIT DESIGNS

Studio Visitor

FAR 2.7 hotel

visitor

residential

LOFT

2 BDR route before and after proposal Circulation

Pedestrian Automobile

Bik

3 BDR

2 BEDROOM UNIT TYPE 4am - 6am

2am - 4am

8pm - 10pm

6pm - 8pm

4pm - 6pm

2pm - 4pm

12pm - 2pm

10am - 12pm

8am - 10am

6am - 8am

4am - 6am

2am - 4am

12am - 2am

10pm - 12am

8pm - 10pm

6pm - 8pm

4pm - 6pm

2pm - 4pm

12pm - 2pm

10am - 12pm

6am - 8am

Residential

8am - 10am

Circulation route before and after proposal

Pedestrian

12am - 2am

visitor

residential

10pm - 12am

hotel

Automobile Pedestrian

Bike

Hotel

Deluxe

Visitor

Section Through Main Access Point

hotel

residential

NEW GRID LIVING TAM BANH - SPRING 2011

Circulation route before and after proposal

Pedestrian

visitor 3 BEDROOM UNIT TYPE

Suite


x 40

UNIT PLANS

Retail

2 BEDROOM UNIT TYPE

26,700 sq ft

Service

x 40

x 25

Residential

q ft x 40 x 40

q ft

Hotel

hotel

reside

Retail

q ft Service Studio

2-Bedroom Apartment

Studio

Diagramatic Elevation

Studio

2-Bedroom Apartment

3 BEDROOM UNIT TYPEbefore Circulation route 3-Bedroom Apartment

and a


SUSTAINABILITY



CIRCULATION



UNDER



SECTION



EW SECTION

PLAN AT 22’ FROM PCH

SECTION - 1’ = 1/16”


Solar Panel Pool and Public Path

Food

Parking Lot Charging Station

Water

Heat


ELEVATION

ELEVATION AT 1’ = 1/64”



PLANS






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