2012 Worksamples

Landownership and contamination map

dismantle/rebuild:

A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR WILLETS POINT HARVARD GSD_SPRING 2011_LANDSCAPE CORE STUDIO IV_MIHO MAZEREEUW & CHRIS REED

Focusing on the responsive integration of landscape and urban form, this project proposes a new vision for the highly polluted and politically contested Willets Point peninsula in Queens, New York. Drawing information directly from the land itself through the phytoforensic study of contamination and flooding levels and existing land ownership patterns, existing lots are dismantled and critical infrastructural systems are deployed. As time progresses, the highly organized phytoforensic grid of hybrid poplar trees is densified, removed, or allowed to succeed in response to yearly testing, corresponding with and creating positive change within the urban environment. The project thus explores the relationship between the successional urban “forest� and its accompanying interspecial and opportunistic vegetation. New typologies and urban organizations uniquely suited to the contemporary marginalized urban environment are spawned, allowing for the development of an intelligent and resilient city that can accommodate variations in spatial demand and ecological conditions over time without sacrificing character or richness.

Medium density urban growth scenario, year 50

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Building typology rules

Urban rebuilding scenario, year 15

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dismantle/rebuild: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR WILLETS POINT

Stormwater wetland illustrative and systemic section

Grid densification and resultant branching path

A

Landowner hold out - prepare for relocation Salt-tolerant poplar grid planted

B

City owned lot dismantled Salt-tolerant poplar grid planted City owned lot dismantled Salt-tolerant poplar grid planted Leased lot preparing to be dismantled Salt-tolerant poplar grid planted

C

D

D C A

YEAR 1 - DENSIFICATION

B

Landowners sell land to city, lot dismantled Poplar grid growing, grid densified No reduction in contamination levels Poplars dying, grid replanted and densified Some reduction in contamination levels Poplars growing, grid densified Some reduction in contamination levels Poplars growing, grid densified

A B C

D

D C

A

YEAR 5 - GROWTH & MONITOR B

A B C

D

D C

Large reduction in contamination levels New pioneer species growing, green paths begin No reduction in contamination levels Poplars dying, replanted Some reduction in contamination levels Poplars growing Great reduction in contamination levels New pioneer species growing Stormwater channels deployed

HARVARD GSD_SPRING 2011_LANDSCAPE CORE STUDIO IV_MIHO MAZEREEUW & CHRIS REED

B

dismantle/rebuild: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR WILLETS POINT

YEAR 0 - INTERVENTION

A

YEAR 8 - REBUILDING A B A B

B

Contamination mitigated Poplars removed for development Great reduction in contamination Urban forest growing Stormwater channels converted to bioswales to accommodate increased runoff from urban growth

C

EXISTING CONDITIONS A LANDOWNER LOT B CITY OWNED LOT

D

Contamination mitigated Urban forest growing No reduction in contamination Contamination capped

D

D

C CITY OWNED LOT C

D REALTOR OWNED LOT

C

A B

YEAR 15 - URBAN GROWTH Urban forest growth - open space preserve Pedestrian pathways implemented Poplars replanted on clean soil Stormwater community garden created Urban fabric growth continues

B

Stormwater wetlands expanded Pedestrian pathways implemented

D

A

C

D

C

Urban forest management/succession scenarios

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A

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dismantle/rebuild: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR WILLETS POINT

Build-out scenario 2 - Manufacturing corridor

Build-out scenario 3 - Development adjacent to commercial areas

Potential build-out plan at year 50

Example of green path configuration

Sample proposed building typologies per zoning

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Build-out scenario 1 - Greater landowner hold out

Projection of site strategy at year 50

systematic sites:

DEMILITARIZATION AS GENERATOR OF ECOLOGIES & ECONOMIES

HARVARD GSD_FALL 2010_LANDSCAPE CORE STUDIO III_JULIA WATSON & PIERRE BELANGER This project envisions the demilitarized South Weymouth Naval Airforce base in Weymouth, Massachusetts as a generator of both community and economy. Through the creation and operation of a community owned and managed closed system, jobs for its surrounding three townships are created and necessary infrastructural services are provided by the community for the community. Incorporating a groundwater treatment and potable water distribution plant, constructed wetlands for sewage treatment, algaculture ponds for biofuel generation, as well as a biofuel-powered transportation fleet, the project is intended to connect community members and provide greater access to community centers, nursing homes and schools, opening up both the site as well as the tri-town community.

Section through recreational aquifer replenishing pond

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Regional effects & project phasing - long range scenarios of project systems

Rendering of biofuel station and water channels, year 50

HARVARD GSD_FALL 2010_LANDSCAPE CORE STUDIO III_JULIA WATSON & PIERRE BELANGER

systematic sites: ECOLOGICAL/ECONOMIC GENERATORS

Operational cycles

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The project is divided into two phases: Phase 1, which lasts for 15 years, is characterized by an introspective remediation of on-site contaminants and defines the site boundary at the interior of the existing wetlands. Phase 2, which starts after all remediation efforts have been completed at year 16, is focused on the extroverted generation of community prosperity by the provision of important infrastructures and services.

The project is comprised of 5 intertwined processes: groundwater treatment and aquifer replenishment, sewage treatment, constructed wetlands, algae production, and contaminated soil treatment.

CLEAN WATER DRIED ALGAE

5 VEGETATED SWALE & SPREADING GROUND + stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces & community

System sections

Phytoremediative plant palette

WATER WITH DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER SECONDARY TREATED SOILS PLANT BIOMASS

4 ALGAE BIOREACTORS - CLOSED SYSTEM + cleaned tertiary sewage effluent from constructed wetlands + captured CO2 from Tri-Town Transportation fleet + steam heating system for year-round algae production

CLEAN WATER BIOFUEL ALGAE

HARVARD GSD_FALL 2010_LANDSCAPE CORE STUDIO III_JULIA WATSON & PIERRE BELANGER

WATER WITH DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER

2 CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS (VEGETATED SUBMERGED BED) + primary treated soils from free water system constructed wetlands

systematic sites: ECOLOGICAL/ECONOMIC GENERATORS

3 ALGAE PONDS - OPEN SYSTEM + water with dissolved organic matter from constructed wetlands + captured CO2 from plant biomass incinerator + seasonal operation

WATER WITH DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER PRIMARY TREATED SOILS WILDLIFE & PLANT BIOMASS

6 CLEANER WATER PERCOLATION INTO AQUIFER

NATURAL WETLANDS + clean stormwater runoff from vegetated swales + clean treated sewage water from constructed wetlands & algae ponds & bioreactors

VEGETAL GROWTH & BIODIVERSITY PERCOLATION INTO AQUIFER

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1 CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS (FREE WATER SYSTEM) + contaminated on-site soils + groundwater from on-site aquifers

Firehouse pier

Barge docks

Valley

ghw ay

Sloping meadow

Wes t Sid e Hi

Pile pier

Main pier Valley Barge docks Highway pier (N) Whitney Museum Sloping meadow CSO barge, typ.

Underwater pier

North

50 ft

Site plan

Bathing pier

symbio[a]sis:

GANSEVOORT PENINSULA PARK

HARVARD GSD_SPRING 2012_OPTION STUDIO_MICHAEL VAN VALKENBURGH & ROSETTA ELKIN

Located on the Gansevoort Peninsula of the Hudson River Parkway at the end of the High Line in New York, this project proposes a system of combined sewage overflow treatment barges and suggests one potential design for a park that acts as both docking station and tertiary treatment uptake area for the treated effluent. A series of piers that offer different water edge interactions is designed, mediated by interstitial pillowing landforms between that offer a gradient of open/active as well as individual scale/quiet spaces. By integrating an infrastructural system of CSO treatment barges with a park for the people, this project reconceptualizes the typical one-liner park experience found elsewhere on the parkway and responds to the call for the responsible handling of waste water as set forth in New York’s 2010 Green Infrastructure Plan, engendering positive change over the larger context of the Hudson River.

Rendering of CSO barges

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Rendering of view from Main Pier towards Hudson River in winter

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CSO treatment network diagrams

symbio[a]sis: GANSEVOORT PENINSULA PARK HARVARD GSD_SPRING 2012_OPTION STUDIO_MICHAEL VAN VALKENBURGH & ROSETTA ELKIN

symbio[a]sis: GANSEVOORT PENINSULA PARK

HARVARD GSD_SPRING 2012_OPTION STUDIO_MICHAEL VAN VALKENBURGH & ROSETTA ELKIN

View of active path, looking towards valley

Sloping meadow section

10-20’

20-30’

T-D

Soils with poor and excessive drainage and dry, disturbed soils.

Yellow fall foliage.

Blooms in April.

Model

Cornus sanguinea - Bloodtwig dogwood 5-6’

5-6’

S-D

“Midwinter Fire.”

Organically rich, medium moisture, welldrained soils in full sun to part shade.

Good fall color & flowers, blooms May - June.

Iris versicolor - Blue flag iris 2-3’

P

Wet, saturated, or flooded soils.

Bright blue flowers.

Blooms May - June.

Cercis canadensis - Eastern redbud 25-35’

20-30’

T-D

Showy yellow-green fall foliage.

Prefers moist, well-drained, soil.

Showy small, purplish-pink pea-like flowers.

Blooms late April to early May.

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Betula populifolia - Gray birch

Rendering of north lawn in summer

media arts quad:

COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLAZA PLANTING DESIGN HARVARD GSD_SPRING 2011_DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES_PIET OUDOLF & ANDREA HANSEN

Sited in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California on the Los Angeles Mission College campus, this project was a planting design for a course co-taught by visiting instructor Piet Oudolf. Intended as a retroactive redesign of the Media Arts plaza, whose namesake building I had helped design in my professional work prior to my graduate studies, this project reimagines the conventional “mission” style that the school is named for and proposed a striking new planting design for the campus’s gateway plaza. The design proposes the creation of four intimate lawns that incorporate seating, each corresponding to its surrounding buildings and main driveway turnaround. A stormwater detention ‘arroyo’ feature cuts through the quad, further defining the lawns and creating usable spaces for studying, resting, and gathering.

As the climate of the San Fernando Valley is extremely hot and dry during the summer months, drought tolerant and low maintenance plants were privileged, except in the arroyo plantings which need to withstand high moisture levels during storm events. Each lawn has its own characteristic plant color derived from the dominating terra cotta color of the campus, with complementary colors of pink, green, purple-blue and yellow defining the plant selection. In keeping with the tradition of the culinary and arts institute, plants which have interesting or unusual forms and which been historically useful to humans in edible or medicinal practices (or close relatives for ease of maintenance) were also specified.

Rendering of north lawn in spring

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HARVARD GSD_SPRING 2011_DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES_PIET OUDOLF & ANDREA HANSEN

media arts quad: COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLANTING DESIGN

North Lawn

Central Lawn West Lawn

Arroyo

East Lawn

Breakout plan - colors

South Lawn

Planting plan

A conceptual planting design consisting of groups and scatter plants, with accent trees for shade is specified. The groups will consist primarily of perennials and grasses in alternating bands, with accent plants of the same color scattered into the grasses and grasses scattered into the perennials. Along the borders, outside the lawn areas, succulents and cacti will be used in order to highlight the individual nature of both.

Lavandula stoechas ‘Otto quast’ - Spanish lavender Evergreen shrub Full sun, little water once established.

Dense, mounding from 20-28” high, 1836” wide.

Blooms mid-spring to mid-summer.

Salvia elegans ‘Frieda Dixon’ - Pineapple sage Perennial shrub Full sun, regular water.

Tolerates poor soil, but good drainage necessary.

5’ tall, 5’ wide.

Blooms late spring to frost.

Setcreasea pallida - Purple heart Deciduous groundcover Full sun or partial shade, little water once established.

Tolerates poor soil.

Fast growing12-18” tall.

Blooms in summer.

Cordyline ‘Electric Pink’ - Dracaena Palm Ornamental evergreen perennial Full to partial sun, little water once established.

2-4’ tall and wide.

Blooms in spring.

Chondropetalum tectorum - Cape rush Evergreen grass Full sun, tolerates wet areas or little water once established.

Tolerates poor soil, but good drainage.

Slow growing to 2 to 3 ft. high, equal spread.

Flowers are unimportant.

Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’ - Switchgrass Ornamental grass Full to partial sun, little water once established.

Tolerates poor soil, but good drainage.

Fast growing 4’ tall in bloom, and 2-3’ wide.

Blooms in summer, dramatic fall foliage.

Panicum virgatum ‘Dalla blues’ - Switchgrass Ornamental grass Full to partial sun, little water once established.

Fast growing clumps up to 5’ tall.

Blooms midsummer, foliage turns yellow in fall.

Nassella tenuissima - Mexican feather grass Ornamental grass Full sun, little water once established.

Airy clumps 12-24” tall and wide, 30” tall in bloom.

Blooms in summer.

Santolina rosmarinifolia - Rosemary-leaved Santolina Evergreen shrub Full sun, little water, drought tolerant.

Well drained soil.

Small shrub, 2’ tall, 4’ wide.

Blooms in summer.

Artemisia douglasiana - Mugwort Evergreen perennial Full sun to shade, drought & moisture tolerant.

Well drained soil.

Small shrub, 2-3’ tall, 3-4’ wide.

Blooms in summer.

Juncus patens - California gray rush Evergreen grass Full sun to partial shade, will tolerate constant moisture or drought.

12-24” tall and wide.

Blooms in summer.

Carex pansa - California meadow sedge Evergreen grass Full to partial shade, drought tolerant.

Up to 12” tall and 1-2’ wide.

Blooms in late spring.

Sample plant selection

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grasses

Breakout plan - accents

Rendering of site as gateway

collective suburbia:

PLURALIZING SINGULARITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CITY HARVARD GSD_FALL 2011_PARIS STUDY ABROAD STUDIO_ANNE LACATON

Situated on the border between Paris, the city, and Paris, the region, this project is located in an industrial district in the 18th arrondisement known as Porte de la Chapelle. Set away from the city’s historic core, the district is home to an assortment of low density industrial warehouses, high rise social housing, abandoned railway tracks, and some of the only remaining unbuilt land in Paris. Embodying an immense capacity for transformation, the site thus begs the question: What defines the quality of life for the inhabitants of a city in dire need of space, and how can we harness the potential of the existing and the unbuilt to improve quality of life? Conceived as a response to the increasing detachment and placelessness of the Parisian banlieue, or suburbs, this project also seeks to bridge the socio-economic housing divide between the city and its outskirts. To accomplish this, the elements of a detached single-family housing typology (typically associated with greater space) are carefully examined and strategically translated and inserted into a multifamily housing framework (typically associated with density and compaction). Thus, this project envisions how a series of detached housing units might be aggregated and inserted into an existing and under-utilized building to form a vibrant community that includes both residential and mixed-use amenities such as office, retail, storage, and parking space.

Rendering of south facade

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BACKYARD

DRIVEWAY & STREET

GARAGE

PRIVATE DETACHED RESIDENCE - Enclosed, insulated, separate, acoustic & visual privacy, spacious, modifiable - Bedrooms, kitchen, living rooms, bathrooms, dens - Event space (parties/gatherings) Cooking Studying Living (Sleeping, eating, washing, playing, etc.)

PRIVATE OUTDOOR SPACE - Enclosed, vegetated, shaded, large, quiet - Plants, trees, seating, water feature, lawn - Event space (parties/gatherings) Gardening Productive space (vegetables, flowers, fruit, etc.)

MOTORWAY ADJACENT TO HOUSING UNIT - Public, hardscaped, tree-lined - Concrete, pavement, trees - Homeowner & guest parking Play area Loading Circulation

COVERED, OFF-STREET PARKING - Enclosed, secure, covered, unfinished, flexible, changeable - Bare floor, large roll-up doors - Parking Storage Workshop Converted bedroom/studio

WINTER GARDEN

DETACHED MULTI-STORY APARTMENT

Translation of the typical detached suburban home into multi-family housing

COLLECTIVE HOUSING TRANSLATION:

ADJACENT MOTORWAY & GUEST PARKING

COLLECTIVE HOUSING TRANSLATION:

PARKING SPACE/STORAGE UNIT

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COLLECTIVE HOUSING TRANSLATION:

COLLECTIVE HOUSING TRANSLATION:

HARVARD GSD_FALL 2011_PARIS STUDY ABROAD STUDIO_ANNE LACATON

HOME

collective suburbia: PLURALIZING SINGULARITY

Proposed layout of residential area

offices

Proposed building section

offices

housing

outdoor balcony areas

tenant storage

public circulation

parking/non-light sensitive spaces

retail/commercial/public amenities

Interior streetscape and mutability of housing units over time

HARVARD GSD_FALL 2011_PARIS STUDY ABROAD STUDIO_ANNE LACATON

parking/non-light sensitive spaces

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Existing building section & proposed intervention

collective suburbia: PLURALIZING SINGULARITY

insertion of user-defined housing unit

Rendering of project at 100% CDs, courtesy of Quatro Design Group

media arts center

LOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE QUATRO DESIGN GROUP_2007-2009_DESIGNER/JOB CAPTAIN

Envisioned as a welcoming gateway to the Los Angeles Mission College campus, the Media Arts Center was intended to house the college’s expanding fine and performing arts program. Consisting of a 3-storey building in the heart of the college’s campus, the project is currently under construction and is expected to open in the spring of 2013. Upon completion, the center will house a multi-purpose theatre and lecture hall, an art exhibition gallery, a recital room, production studio, screening room, classrooms, faculty offices, and studios. My role in this project was two-fold as both job captain and junior designer, working closely with the design principal and senior designer on the designs for the initial proposal and coordinating the project drawing set through to the construction documentation process. As an integral part of a small design team, I was given the opportunity to lead user group meetings and charettes and presented ideas to the clients during Schematic and Design Development review meetings. In addition, I was part of the team that brought the project to the Division of State Architects (DSA) backcheck appointments, revising documents on the spot. On this project, I also coordinated with structural, landscape, and MEP consultants, working with them to develop details and solve egress and code issues.

Project under construction, May 2012

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QUATRO DESIGN GROUP_2007-2009_DESIGNER/JOB CAPTAIN

media arts center LOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE

SCHEME B

SCHEME A

Site & program layout design sketches, schematic design

Diagrams of preliminary schemes showing varying form of campus arroyo

CLASSROOMS SUPPORT SPACES

ADMINISTRATION STUDENT MEETING SCREENING ROOM THEATRE RECITAL AREAS CIRCULATION AREAS ART STUDIOS EXTERIOR AWNINGS

Exploded programmatic axon of scheme at schematic design

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ART STUDIOS

Rendering of project in context at 25% CDs, courtesy of Quatro Design Group

9th street span school

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, K-8 QUATRO DESIGN GROUP_2009-2010_DESIGNER/JOB CAPTAIN

The LAUSD Central Region 9th Street Span project consists of two schools that share a single campus located along ‘Skid Row’ in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. A LAUSD K-5 elementary school and a charter middle school operated by Para Los Niños will share social and play spaces with separated classroom buildings. Due to the tight urban site and less than savory neighborhood, buildings are placed along the property lines in order to maximize play area and form a defensible perimeter. This approach provides an urban street edge to meet the surrounding urban context while minimizing typical chain-link fenced playgrounds and allowing the entire campus to be easily supervised from any point. As both job captain and designer for this project, I aided in the development of site strategies that would allow the project to meet funding requirements (such as the Small School Sites legislature) and worked closely with the clients and the board of trustees in a preliminary design charette. Tasked with ensuring that each room met the school district’s standards in terms of area layout and furnishings, I was able to ensure that crucial design concepts were carried through the project from its inception to 100% CDs. Furthermore, this project was the school district’s first project designed in Building Information Modeling (BIM) software and the second project in the office to be documented and designed solely in Revit.

Rendering of interior campus at 25% CDs, courtesy of Quatro Design Group

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QUATRO DESIGN GROUP_2009-2010_DESIGNER/JOB CAPTAIN

9th street span school LAUSD K-8 Site analysis MIDDLE SCHOOL

Third level

LIBRARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAYGROUND DECK

GYMNASIUM/MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

MIDDLE SCHOOL HEALTH CENTER

Second level

LIBRARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARKING GARAGE KITCHEN & CAFETERIA SERVICE YARD LOCKER ROOMS GYMNASIUM/MULTIPURPOSE ROOM KINDERGARTEN PLAYGROUND Proposed building, programmatic spaces by level

Ground level

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MIDDLE SCHOOL

Rendering of central plaza and science building, courtesy of Quatro Design Group

Site plan

east campus complex

LOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE

QUATRO DESIGN GROUP_2009-2010_DESIGNER

This design-build project, located just east of Los Angeles Mission College’s main campus, will be the district’s first project to be designed and documented entirely with Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Currently under construction, the anticipated LEED certified Platinum building will be home to a 3-storey 95,000 sf science lab building, outdoor amphitheatre, sheriff’s campus station, and a separate single storey 9,000sf central mechanical plant. As a part of the design team, I worked on the competition proposal documents, working closely with the senior designer to determine the materials, aesthetics, and general layout of the building’s program and also designed the initial proposal for the exterior landscape. Later, during the Schematic and Design Development phases, I worked on designing the building floor plans, outdoor amphitheatre, and building sections and elevations in Revit. As one of the firm’s LEED accredited staff, I performed exterior glazing calculations for LEED documentation of the science building and aided in its redesign to meet LEED requirements. Additionally, I was given responsibility for the overall design of the campus’s central mechanical plant, whose staggered design and striated concrete block façade elevates an often overlooked and undervalued building to one of aesthetic interest in proportion to its highly visible location adjacent to the street below.

Science building and central plant (foreground) under construction

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1. Solid

2. Split

3. Push

4. Resolidify

5. Differentiate faces

7. Add stairwell

8. Slope to grade

9. Add service yard

BOILER ROOM CHILLER YARD TELECOM ROOM

SERVICE YARD

CHILLER ROOM Central plant massing and formal studies

Campus site plan at schematic design

Light study of interstitial space between buildings Sections through site and building

hybrid arts center

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

UNIV. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA_FALL 2006_TOPIC STUDIO_YO HAKOMORI & KULAPAT YANTRASAST

Located at the heart of the USC campus in Los Angeles, the Hybrid Arts Center was conceived as having two disparate sections that would react to one another in a dialogue between tradition and innovation, orthogonal and curvilinear. Based on underlying surrealist principles of womb-like architecture and studies of the effects of non-rectilinear space on the artistic mind, the distinctive form of the student art building is rendered as a faceted jewel composed of a system of continuous surfaces. These facets sinuously wrap around curvilinear programmatic spaces that can be partitioned and changed as classes grow and shrink. Thus, the art center evokes sculptural ideas of artistic expression and the center’s biomorphic form takes on two connotations within the context of the site: first, as the “heart” of campus in which the organic form literally suggests organs of the body and second, as a plant pushing up from roots buried deep below, breaking through the building’s ‘regular’ façade. In contrast, the administrative and theatre building is an exploration of traditional modernist-functionalist lines favored by traditional offices. Clad in bamboo, the roof and sunshading system span both buildings, protecting them and presenting a united façade to the campus. The interstitial social space between the administrative building and the organic form of the arts building draws people in, creating a convenient pathway through the building and exposing visitors to and encouraging them to participate in the activities occurring inside.

Rendering of exterior facade and plaza

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Blob modeling studies

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Faรงade system section Second floor plan

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hybrid arts center UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

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Conceptual sketch

Model

UNIV. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA_FALL 2006_TOPIC STUDIO_YO HAKOMORI & KULAPAT YANTRASAST

hybrid arts center UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Longitudinal section through building

Transverse section through building & site

Site plan

i.m.a.g.i.n.e. immigration museum MACARTHUR PARK, LOS ANGELES

UNIV. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA_SPRING 2007_THESIS STUDIO_AMY MURPHY

The Interactive Museum of American Generational Immigration and Native Exploration (IMAGINE) is dedicated to an understanding of immigration and the various modes in which differing cultures understand time and space, both relatively and contingently. Incorporating a non-profit research/educational institute aimed at adult education, the design of the museum is based on the conceptualization of the immigration path as a series of linear and non-linear narratives that intersect and influence each other. Located in the multi-culturally diverse and historically significant area of MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, one of the major entry points for Latino immigrants today, the museum experience is based upon the idea of experiencing and capturing “narrative strands� that flow in and out of time and space, creating continually shifting museum experiences that recall the often non-linear journeys of American immigrants. Incorporating state-of-the-art digital technologies that trace and capture the movement patterns of visitors and electronic kiosks whose information changes in accordance to the various trajectories chosen by the visitor, the museum experience is constantly in flux, presenting new and different perspectives with each subsequent visit as the collection grows with each new story collected.

Render of project in park

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Park level plan

Model

UNIV. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA_SPRING 2007_THESIS STUDIO_AMY MURPHY

i.m.a.g.i.n.e. immigration museum MACARTHUR PARK, LA

6th Street level plan

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Section

Second level plan

Level +2 (Exhibit space)

Level +5 (Scientists sleep quarters)

Level +11 (Conference room)

sustainable mixed-use high rise EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES

UNIV. OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA_SPRING 2006_TOPIC STUDIO_THOMAS SPIEGELHALTER

The mixed-use sustainable high rise project draws upon the field of aeronautics for its inspiration, with the jet engine serving as a model for the way in which project handles ventilation. Although the jet engine is an active system that relies on energy inputs to function, its efficiency and ability to harness energy created by pressure differentials through its compartmentalized design provide for exciting possibilities that are translatable into building design. With this in mind, the high rise incorporates light and air wells that surround the building’s central core, creating a chimney effect that draws warm exhaust air out of the building, providing passive climate control and cross-ventilation that is necessary in the Angeleno heat. In order to sustainably combat the heat gain and glare caused by the area’s low-rise buildings, the project also borrows from the compass barrel cactus, a plant native to the region’s arid climate, which has the odd habit of always leaning towards the south as its shaded north half tends to grow faster. Thus, habitable building mass (such as office and sleeping blocks) is placed towards the north side of the building to protect from heat gain and glare, while a dense covering of louvers mimics the cactus’s thick needle cover, which help protect it from the harsh desert sun. Programmatically, the tower incorporates exhibit areas for the adjacent California Science Center, aeronautic laboratories and scientist quarters, offices, conference rooms, a restaurant, helipad, educational mechanical systems exhibits, as well as wastewater and compost recycling systems incorporated within the landscape.

Render of exterior patio space

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Section through building

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Ecotect wind analysis of building

COMPOST PIT

Sewage from restrooms and cafe is gravity fed and processed through the constructed wetlands to provide cleansingg to tertiary ter t er r rtiary standards

Utilizes treated effluent and solids from constructed wetlands and building waste was te to cre create ate fertilizer

Site plan

SERVICE CORES

MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

EVERGREEN GROVES

Pulled out to exterior on the west and east sides to shade building core

Building mechanical systems in the basement are exposed at gground level as an educational exhibit for visitors

Located to north of building to provide evaporative cooling as a counter to the hot Santa Ana winds

PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS

RECYCLING DEMONSTRATION

Photovoltaic arrays on the ground and incorporated into the building’s louvers work together with the biomass system and wind turbines to power the building

Recycling and waste chutes with windows expose the daily amounts of trash generated within the building

DECIDUOUS GROVES

STORMWATER COLLECTION

Existing deciduous trees are kept on the south side of the building to provide shade in the summer months and allow sunlight penetration during the winter months

Collection basins are designed to store rain and treated grey water year round for irrigation and as decorative water features

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CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS

Diagram of outdoor spaces and floor slab perforation

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Axonometric study

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Study model