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project 1 Thesis Research:
Territorial Appropriation
project 2 MoCA/Redesign, Frank Gehry Studio project 3 Cinema: Choose Your Own Movie Adventure
project 4 Design Corps Summer Studio 09, Bryan Bell project 5 Lakefront Development, China
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other works theater Santa Monica Lightrail Project Ballona Creek Renovation Project parametric design - processing parametric design - grasshopper sketch
Projects
Thesis Research MoCA/Redesign, Frank Gehry Studio Cinema: Choose Your Own Movie Adventure Design Corps Summer Studio 09 Lakefront Development China
Research Background: “In contrast to the fluidity of its urban fabric, the social fabric of Los Angeles is fragmented; it is not a single city but a collection of micro-cities defined by visible and invisible boundaries of class, race, ethnicity, and religion” Everyday Urbanism, p.26
research site
financial/ business core
district boundaries
residential & retails established after 2000
existing retails - close after 6 p.m.
civil district
historic core district gallery row
bunker hill financial core district
little tokyo jewelry district
This research explores how to appropriate the vacant space on the boundary between ‘micro-cities’; using designs, first, to address social issues situated in the urban-scape and, second, to encourage larger social interactions and change existing social patterns.
toy district south park district
industrial district fashion district
Project 1 Graduate Thesis Research: Territorial Appropriation
vacant space empty spaces often serve as buffer zones between two different “micro-cities” and Spring Street and Broadway in Los Angeles downtown are where such condition manifested most intensely.
LA downtown’s recent redevelopments on Broadway and Spring have created series of vacant space. Created by real estate incentives, property values have increased to become unaffordable to the existing residents, thus they are been pushed out. These vacant space became opportunities for When empty spaces are juxtaposed with color-coded “value space”, the problem becomes very visible.
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PED. type :color code: price/unit revitalization (price unknown) higher income gp. rent: over $3000 USD rent: $2000 - $3000 USD rent: $1000 - $2000 USD lower income gp. rent: less then $1000 USD retails estb. after revitalization homeless retails estb. before revitalization vacant units
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WHAT IF... We, first, need to understand the needs from each social group in order to encourage social interactions. dining experience could be, first, broken down into several factors, then, reconstructed into experiments ‘Restaurant’ is one strand of the studies. to encourage more mixed usership? below: mapping of existing restaurant structures
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What would a restaurant look like if we were mixing different factors together, from the previous page? for exe: 1.1 2.2 3.1 4.1
type 1 new residents typ. 1 new residents typ. 2 existing residents
exec. chef sue chef pastry chef
Would such combinations create archetypal design? The research continues this is a the result of the expt. when combining all existing restaurant types altogether, in an axonometric view
CUSTOMIZING DINING EXPERIENCE
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DESIGN CONCEPT: MoCA/Redesign’s design intention is to use museum, by breaking it into several pavilions, to revitalize a dying urban space on Bunker Hill, LA. The stretagy is to use pavilions as attractions, and place them on those open but unused public spaces. Thus, to encourage outdoor-space usage.
MoCA/ReDesign, Gehry Partner LLP, post-professional degree
Dorothy Chandler
how to read this diagram:
cafe and restaurants on the street level that would encourage public usage and gathering at the courtyard above
levels higher than Upper Grand Upper Grand Level levels lower than Upper Grand
Flower st. Grand Ave.
slope (transition areas without sudden change of elevations, uninviting to public usage)
Disney Concert Hall
the entrance is open to the public taking people to Disney Concert Hall’s garden (open to the publics)
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MoCA
Bank of America
Gen. Kosciuszko Way
3rd Street
Hill Street
Olive Street
the open space is for public usage, although it is not very appealing for pedestrians (its service is mainly provided for employees
visual disconnection between MoCA (Up. Grand) and Lw. Grand
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Omni Hotel
the lack of signage leaving people confused of where they are going 4th Street
The Capital Gp. Co. an uninviting slope with narrow path leading to the building entrance
dead public space diagram
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CHALLENGE SOLUTION 1. Public Programs are placed around MoCA site. 2. Green spaces rotate from the from public library public programs, creating semi-private gathering spaces. 3. They start to define and create porous paths and public gathering nodes.
open space/barrier diagram
pssoible nodes for public gathering porous path for easy access design strategy / proposal
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from Music Center
from Olive Street from Angel’s Knoll
gallery space public program administration educational space
Temporary Exhibition Space: “connecting tissue” that stiches all the pavillions together
circulation program
Galleries step 1: cluster Public Programs
program development
step 2: expansion
step 3: scatter
step 4: morph
Courtyard - to temp. exhibitions Lobby/ Admin.
Gallery B
Angel’s Knoll
Upper Grand
Cal Plaza
Gallery C
Olive St.
Temporary Exhibition Space
site section: shows the relationship between pavillions as “activators” and temporary exhibition space as “connecting tissue”
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Lower Grand
section reference
DESIGN CONCEPT: inside a building
CHALLENGE
DESIGN CONCEPT: on urban scale
Project 3
container
each contianer has piece container of the whole story, based on people’s choice, they’ll have different story developments.
concept for choose-your-own-adventure movie structure
Cinema: Choose Your Own Movie Advanture , Geoff Manaugh, editor of BLDGBLOG, post-professional degree
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Design Exercise: Container Design Exploreation ciname space
This mini design exercise focuses on re-utilizing containers and using it to create an instant event space. It is a more indepth research on container designs for the final project (previous page) exhibitiona space
balcony
patio
exhibition platform
container desing study
Project 4 Design Corps Summer Studio 09, Bryan Bell
Hollygrove used be a community full of fellowship; “Bus Shelters� had played an important role in this function. It has never been the same since Hurricane Katrina, we want to revitalize the community by recalling that memory of fellowship with our bus shelter design. We chose hurricane salvaged wood as the symbolic main material.
construction process
plan at steel base plate
construction document
maximum capacity: 12 people (to encourage fellowship) maximum dead load: 3000 lbs maximum wind resistance: 160 mph 2’-143” 1’-887”
WATER PROOFING SYST
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The challenge for this project is on finding the balance between its concept ambition, which was the client’s vision, while maintaining its privacy as a single residential home.
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Project 1
a residential designs located in China’s Lake-front role: design assistant
Project 5 Lake Front Development, China
sunken garden
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Other Works theater project Santa Monica lightrail project Ballona Creek renovation project parametric design - processing parametric design - grosshopper sketch
This design concept focuses on people’s “arrival experience”; to subtly transfer audiences from reality (the cityscape) into an imaginary space (theatre) without the awareness of stepping through a threshold - the entrance. This concept is achieved by two methods: 1) the building form radiates out to the busy intersection to welcome audiences’ arriving and 2) the glass facade reduces the threshold to minimum; it also unfolds to create a semi-public/ private space.
concept
Theatre, Wilshire Blvd. + Normandie Ave. Los Angeles
an undergraduate year 3 project that used theatre to explore structural design
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detail drawing & 3D model
3rd st. promenade
PCH city map
3D sectional structural model
Santa Monica Light Rail Project
This project is located on 4th and Colorado Blvd, where multiple zones converge all-together; thus pedestrian and vehicular circulations are always dense. The fluidity of the design (both form and function) is reponding to the busy urban movement at the intersection, at the same time aiming to alleviate the congestion.
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Ballona Creek Renovation Project, Marina del Rey
redered: photoshop
Sketches
an agent-based abstract pattern coding
Agent Behavior Framework Reset New Agent’s Behavior to Default void update(){ if(frameCount % 1 == 0){ trailPopulation.add(new trail(pos, vel)); } Vec3D acc = new Vec3D(); Vec3D clp = closestPt(); Vec3D spr = spring(); acc.addSelf(clp); acc.addSelf(spr); vel.addSelf(acc); vel.limit(maxVel); pos.addSelf(vel); }
Distance Calculation
Calculating the Closest Distance Between Agents Vec3D closestPt(){ Vec3D vec = new Vec3D(); agent closestAgent = new agent(new Vec3D(), new Vec3D(), 1,1,1,myStrand,0); for(int i = 0; i < strandPopulation.size(); i++){ strand s = (strand) strandPopulation.get(i); for(int j = 0; j < s.agents.size(); j++){ agent a = (agent) s.agents.get(j); Creating Strands Between Agents void render(){ if( (d < closestDist) && (d > 0) ){ stroke(55); closestDist = d; for(int i = 0; i < agents.size() - 1; i++){ closestAgent = a; agent a1 = (agent) agents.get(i); } agent a2 = (agent) agents.get(i+1); } line(a1.pos.x, a1.pos.y, a1.pos.z, a2.pos.x, a2.pos.y, a2.pos.z); } }
Processing
Agent Movements
Controling Movement (Velocity) & Creating Agentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Trails if(closestDist < rangeOfVis){ class trail{ vec = closestAgent.pos.sub(pos); trail(Vec3D p, Vec3D v){ vec.limit(maxForce); pos = p.copy(); } vel = v.copy(); mag = 255; } void render(){ mag = mag - 0.2; stroke(mag); strokeWeight(1); point(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z); if(mag < 0){ trailPopulation.remove(this); } } }
This project uses algorithm desing to redefine an existing form, mouse, or wall surface that was built in Rhino space, then uses Grasshopper to manipulate its shape and pattern and finish rendered in Maxwell.