Nate Waddell. A Portfolio of Selected Academic and Professional Work

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Professional Work | p.11 - 30 Three selected projects from my professional career.

Quarreled Projections | p.31 - 40 A large, mixed-use development organized through different housing grids.

Details, Details | p.01 - 10 An incubation hub for UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture.

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Bio & Resume A bit about my past and aspirations for my future.

Sin Nombre | p.41 - 50 A proposal for the New Museum of the American Latino on the National Mall.

Feedback Loops | p.51 - 60 A stack of different landscapes located on a single infill site

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Sailine Dreams | p.61 - 70 A thesis on an anthropocentric landscape in California

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Contact Current Address 1831 Glendon Ave, Apt 3 Los Angeles, CA 90025

Website nate-waddell.com

Email studiowaddell@gmail.com

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Bio

+1.414.852.1611

Nate Waddell is a Designer based in Los Angeles but originally from Milwaukee, WI. He will graduate with his M.Arch from UCLA in June of 2021.

Prior to UCLA he worked at HGA as a Designer competing for and completing significant educational, healthcare and arts projects.

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Education

Experience

University of California, Los Angeles

UCLA

Teaching Assistant

Los Angeles, CA

Spring 2021, Undergraduate Studio

Master of Architecture, June 2021

2020 - Present

Spring 2020, ARCH&UD 289_Spring 2020 On Myopia and Farsightedness, alongside David Jimenez Iniesta

Reference: Jason Payne jason.payne@aud.ucla.edu

HGA

Architectural Designer

Los Angeles, CA + Milwaukee, WI

John Adams Middle School

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

2015.5 - 2020.3

Welton Becket Scholar, 2019 + 2020 Reference: Mohamed Sharif mohamed@shariflynch.com

Bachelor of Science, Architectural Studies May 2014

Design Development + Publication Materials 40,000sf | $42m | Performing Art Center Reference: Matthew Austin matthew.austin1@gmail.com St. Elizabeth Cancer Center

Magna Cum Laude

Reference: Mo Zell zell@uwm.edu

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Competition - Pre-design 800,000sf | $900m | Inpatient Tower Reference: Kurt Spiering | kspiering@hga.com

Reference: Gill Snyder gsnyder@uwm.edu

Awards + Exhibition

Central Valley Life Center Master Planning - Schematic Design 40,000sf | $56m | Clinic + Community Center Reference: Bryce Hubertz | bhubertz@hga.com

Welton Becket Academic Scholarship 2019-2021 Academic Years

St. Louis University Hospital Competition - Design Development 800,000sf | $500m | Academic Medical Center Reference: Bryce Hubertz | bhubertz@hga.com

UCLA A.UD Currents Gallery December 2020, June 2020, January 2020, December 2020, June 2019,December 2019 Undergraduate Research Fellow 2012-2014 SUPERjury Design Competition Winner Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014 Marcus Prize Studio Spring 2014 Calibrations Issues 3 + 4 2013 & 2014

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Self Employment

Freelance Design Work

Los Angeles, CA + Milwaukee, WI

Self employed work includes graphic branding, 100% design scope and initial documentation of a 2,800sf residential remodel and addition, drafting of renovation bid sets, life safety and egress planning, feasibility studies, and the design and construction of custom casework and furniture.

2014.5 - Present

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High Honors in the Major

Pre-design - 50% Construction Documents 200,000sf | $250m | Cancer Treatment Center Reference: Tim Scanley | tscanley@hga.com

Dean’s Honor List

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Embodying thematics such as

The project aims to capitalize on plasticity of steel

gravity and tectonics through

and site the building. The project is threaded together through

the development of a formal

existing Richard Serra sculpture. Bound to this core, a

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construction through three central components that organize a helical core containing and subsequently expanding an podium and tower rest. The podium cantilever preserves the ground-plane and subsequently duplicates it through its

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dynamic floor plan and accessible rooftop. The podium is

proposal for an incubation hub

and horizontal planes, where the gravitational loads are

at UCLA’s School of the Arts and

this level, the project takes on a more centrifugal formal logic

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back into the public realm of the Eli & Edythe Broad Art

suspended through the use of Pratt trusses in the vertical received through a single crucifix column and the core. At housing adaptable public and private programs the thread Center. While traditional thresholds and vestibules typically happen at the ground level, Details, Details introduces them at individual rooms within the podium. Gallery spaces are

Instructor:

Narineh Mirzaeian

justified to the perimeter as the dropped ceiling recedes

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Winter 2020

towards classrooms and helical ramp. As the tower leans to

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the south, the triangular apertures in the structure reveal the accessible rooftop, further doubling, then tripling the existing ground plane. The structural gasket between the podium and tower houses most of the mechanical and electrical systems reducing conduit travel distances that typically would occur.

Compared to the centrifugal or fleeing organization of the podium, the tower takes on a method of centripetal organization through a containment of private spaces.

Furthermore, the tower and facade appear to lean and depress into the site as an external display of the project’s physics which are best observed through the tectonics of its structural systems. The serrated facade is a modular system of curtain wall components. The tower enclosure uses low-e glass facing the northeast, while the southwest uses Okalux insulated glazing products. At the podium, the glazing layer is flush while the perforated louvers extend off the surface, mirroring the serration of the tower.

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Course:

UCLA A.UD 415 Comprehensive Design Studio

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Exploded Axonometric Separation of envelope and structural organization.

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Longitudinal Section Display of relationship between torqued-helical core, cantilevered gallery, and educational tower.

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South Elevation A slit in the project’s exterior reveals an occupiable terrace contained by the modular facade.

Skin + Structure Figure void resolution between diagrid structure and cerated building envelope

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Tectonic Chunk The many layers of the project’s structure and enclosure.

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Fourth Floor Plan The tower is a stack of two studios. Each studio has a single floor plate with two supplementary mezzanines.

Podium Floor Plan The single crucifix column stretches the floor from the core.

Classrooms collapse and expand into one another.

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With three and a half years of professional experience, I have contributed to the completion of several educational, healthcare, and public projects as a valued design lead and team member. This work spans from high-stake competitions, to a modest addition for a public middle school, a billion dollar independently contracted design work.

The three selected projects included in this portfolio reflect the diversity of work experience gained at HGA andprivate endevors. The first project, John Adams Middle Performing Arts Center for Santa Monica - Malibu Unified School District is, currency under construction and set to be completed later in 2021 by HGA. The performing arts center houses a rehearsal pavilion, classrooms, and a 750-seat auditorium. This aggregation of subtle filleted and chamfered white volumes nest a courtyard space for daily and postevent reception. My contributions to John Adams Middle School extended past the traditional design phases (predesign through design development), and instead as Project Visualizer focusing on the finessing of material and texture studies, as well the development of publication materials documenting the project through rendering and graphic diagramming. My role assisted in the project receiving

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St. Elizabeth Cancer Center, located just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a state-of-the-art cancer prevention and treatment center at the forefront of its industry. The project’s novel program includes meditative spaces, studios for yoga and other movement therapies, a demonstration kitchen, as well as a public library containing materials on various cancer treatments. Completed in October 2020, the project began as a rigorous design competition where we worked with user groups to discern the programmatic content leading to initial massing studies. From here, my role on the project directed design for the enclosure and public spaces, including the primary atrium. Working under the direction of the Design Principle, these spaces were developed and refined from pre-design through intense detailing found in construction documentation. St. Elizabeth Cancer Center will be submitted to both the national and local 2021 AIA Design Awards.

The final selected project included is a proposal for an addition to and renovation of a rural farmhouse located on the Milwaukee river. Rather than disregarding the home’s rich history and materiality, the proposal expands on the themes found in vernacular architecture of american farmhouses, rather than becoming an imitation of it. The proposal reorganizes the house interior that once favored the needs of a farmer, and instead favors its unique position on the rolling landscape. The current organization of the home restricts views of the landscape through an excessive amount of passageways and obstructions. By flipping the locations of rest and active programs, views of the active spaces are justified towards the river and meadow, resulting in clear sight lines of the full property. House 1 also navigates the complicated dynamics of a growing multi-generational family. One of the project drivers is simple in concept, but challenging in execution: gather as many people as possible around a single table. On most days, the house is occupied by two people but dramatically fluctuates to 20+ during the holiday and hunting season. For this reason, rest spaces are more modest in size while the adjacent active spcaes are additions to one another. House 1 is currently in the process of bidding, with optimism that construction will begin in the near future.

Mercy Hospital, Musekgon, MI Documentation from a construction administration site visit.

September 2017.

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urban inpatient facility, and to in-

several awards, including a citation from the Westside Urban Forum, recognizing excellence in city making and community building within Los Angeles County.

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Morning Arrival The building footprint extends from its elevation creating platforms for gathering.

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Rehearsal Skylight Framed views to the sky upon entry into the rehearsal pavilion.

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Pearl Street Elevation - Rendered White stucco framing glass openings into the lobby and rehearsal spaces.

Lobby Skylight Filleted corners of the lobby ceiling as they meet the vertical surfaces.

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Pearl Street Elevation - Uunder Construction Subtle jointing break down the large, white volumes.

Rehearsal Pavision - Under Construction Fillet above curtain wall capture the Western sunlight.

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Courtyard, School Day The platform anchoring the building becomes a terraced landscape for gathering during the school day.

Courtyard, Post - Performance Looking North through lobby. Courtyard, ticketing, and rehearsal located on the left.

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Auditorium Custom perforrated metal panels with acoustic backing flank the auditorium seating.

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St. Elizabeth Cancer Center Arrival Approach Each floor is expressed an an independent ribbon that peel from one another

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St. Elizabeth Cancer Center Atrium Stair Small gaps betweel the steel handrail silhouette the curtain wall and center visitors.

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St. Elizabeth Cancer Center Exterior Similar modules of glazing and locally sourced sandstone resulting in gradient bands.

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Facade Documentation + Detailing Three curtain wall modules and three stone rainscreen modules result in vertical cohesion and horizontile gradients.

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St. Elizabeth Cancer Center Atrium A half-inch metal plate railing feeds into the wall while making a mitered connection to the wood soffit.

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Existing Elevation With rich hues of yellow from cream city brick and limestone lintels, there is no lack in charm of the current elevation.

Proposed Elevation The square footage of openings are increased four-fold by recessing frames into the mansonry wall.

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Existing Floor Plan A bedroom, a bathtub, and a storage room all consume the river elevation. The kitchen is bound by four walls and a driveway.

Proposed Floor Plan Interior doors are reduced from nine to three. The river wall is completely free of obstructions.

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Quarreled P

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Projections

Through the stacking of found

unit of a New York City pocket park. Specifically Paley Park

yet discrepant urban grids,

This unit was selected because it performs as an ideal or

Quarreled Projections is a gestalt

are then aligned with two story 1200sf townhomes. This

proposal for a multi-use housing

on Manhattan’s Lower East-Side at a dimension of 52’x128’. championed green space of urban living. The courtyards system is then deployed across the site to create a network of different parks. Corners are then filled, and some units

development confronting the

are subtracted to create passageways to move through this

genetics of Los Angeles’s urban

Los Angeles residential lot of 50’ x 130’. While greenspace of

fabric, and the idealization of

to be the private lot. This grid’s rotation is based on the

specific typologies for dwelling.

you will find 800 and 400 sf units that aggregate in similar

network. The second grid is based on the unit of a typical NYC is the urban park, greenspace of LA is often considered longest continuous line across the site. Sitting on these lots scale to the contemporary presence of a house, garage and ADU. Circulation is defined by streets as the primary

UCLA A.UD 413 Building Design Studio

Instructor:

Yara Feghali, Neil Denari

Date:

Fall 2019

artery, and sidewalks leading to the front door. A series of staircases lead from the street to the unit rooftops creating an occupiable roofscape.

The extablished grids are intervened with formal maneuvers of a housing cube of studio apartments as a signal and

Quarreled projections consist of two differently scaled grids

gateway to the project, a pool, vertical circulation as visible

that stack, then rotate on one another producing intentional

towers, and an observation platform. The observation

discrepancies and asymmetries. This action results in a variety

platform is an extension of the surrounding context

of non-duplicative spaces and individualized experiences.

and population, and is only accessible to those situated

These grids were influenced through the study of the Berlin

outside of the site giving a sense of ownership back to the

Free University, a mat building whose intelligence is found

surrounding community. The observation platform begins at

within the specificity of the grid. The grid used at Berlin Free

the community center at the northwest corner of the site. As

University is based on a unit of distance traveled through

the pathway progresses the public is given access to rooftops

space, in time. Specifically a 60 second walk resulting in

containing small, contemplative gardens. Furthermore,

128 meters. The Architects, Candilis, Josic, Woods and

the materiality chosen reinforces both the horizontal and

Schiedhelm considered this unit to be an “ideal” for planning

projective position of the project. The continuous metallic

and organizing higher education.

gasket helps bounce light to the lower levels. Pink stucco establishes the upper grid as a distinct world from the lower.

In the same spirit, Quarreled Projections applies a similar

subsequently, both the materiality and interventions of

logic by establishing grids based on ideal but potentially

follies attempt to destigmatize the often austere nature of the

opposite Living Experiences. The lower grid is based on the

mat building and grid.

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Grids + Follies The project arose conceptually through abstracted projection drawing techniques.

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Mat Translations Derrived from logics in the Berlin Free University, two found yet discrete grids are stacked on one another.

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Roofscape Tropes of Los Angeles aesthetics merge with new geometries and materials at this roofscape

Public Zones The interplay between public and private spaces results in a checkerboard of varying grounds.

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Front Yards Organized by streets and sidewalks, the LA grid suspends clusters of residences and their ADU’s.

Pocket Parks The ground floor is a network of pocket parks accessible through vacant facades and filleted corners.

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Mirrored Elevations Traditional proportions in contemporary configurations. The pocket park is mirrored back onto itself.

Gateway The project’s commercial gateway elevates a cerated housing block of studio apartments.

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Transverse Section Through the stack and rotation of grids, non-duplicative spaces produce sectional variations.

Unit Plans Left to right: 400sf Studio, 500sf 1 WBed, 800sf 1 Bed, 650sf Garden Unit, 1200sf Townhome.

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Gestalt The project kit of parts and found logics organize and form a legible whole.

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A proposal for the National

Through this manifesto, a conceptual framework was developed

Museum of the American

The museum typology is broken down to rewrite the systems

Latinx (NMAL), Sin Nombre is a

Rather than an insular project, alike in many ways to the

gradient of provocation located

into a fragmented public compound, making the museum a

along the National Mall. Avoiding

through a diversity of environments

the traditional typology of the

allows itself to enact variable shifts

museum, the project is an em-

embrace the heterogeneity of Latin

bodiment of the heterogeneity

the homogeneity of the existing

of the Latinx community through fragmenting a public compound.

creating a space in which the design process could thrive. of interaction that museums tend to enact on their locations.

Mall at large, Sin Nombre focuses on breaking the museum fundamental part of navigating and interacting with the Mall embedded within the site. The project along the site axis, and as those shifts Americans, subsequently rejecting national mall.

This proposed site along the National Mall consists of the three discrete contexts. The first is the USDA’s Jamie Whitten Mall that is not intended for general use by the public, instead

Course: Instructor: Partner: Date:

UCLA A.UD 401 Advanced Topics Studio Georgina Huljich Morgan Jacobs Fall 2020

it houses private office space for the USDA. The second context is the Smithsonian Metro Station located partially underneath the east wing of the Jamie Whitten Building. The third and final context of the museum proposed site is an empty parcel located to the west of 14th street, mirroring the site for the National

The Museum of the American Latinx emerged as a manifesto

Museum of African American History and Culture.

dictating the necessary components of a meaningful intervention into the National Mall. This polemic is

To start to address the site complexities, the ground plane

driven by a set of five ideals: Presence - The expression of

undulates allowing access to the entirety of the site, creating

belonging without concern for established gestural, and

a processional path for occupation, celebration, and protest.

formal constraints of existing context. Ground - necessitates

The Smithsonian Metro Station is transformed from a piece of

a reimagination of ground that encourages community

interior infrastructure to an exterior extension of the museum

occupation as well as a multiplicity of museum engagement

grounds engaging and confronting the commuter with the

typologies that support heterogeneity. Curatorial Strategies -

complex histories of the American Latino. Moving west, a

heritage is not limited to history or artistry and thus requires

displacement and re-materialization of the existing building

adaptive and dynamic platforms for spanning historical fact

reveals the central entrance. At this intersection, new meets

and embracing public education. Materiality - must reflect the

old in a rejection of the existing status quo. The project reaches

dichotomy of the existing structures and National Mall while

its climactic conclusion at the eastern most end, culminating

supporting the ideals of grounds and presence. Symbols and

in cultural experiences including a culinary demonstration

Metaphors - have no place in a new expression of acceptance

kitchen, a Latin American film centre and a plaza for public

and accessibility, this also excluded appropriations and

dance, all of which encourage the community not simply to

esoteric.

observe but to participate in the actions at these locations.

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Building. This building is the only facility along the National

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Digital Models of Familiar Worlds The project representation intends to reposition the excessively serious stigma of the National Mall.

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New Grounds Plan While entirely sinuous and accessible, the ground plane varies in material responding to the building elevations.

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New, Old Thresholds The existing central entrance is painted and lifted from the ground, allowing the sinous ground to bleed into the interior.

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Metro Wall Removed Harry Weese’s concrete modules continue onto new surfaces, while stairs ascend 50’ to the existing ground plane.

New Monuments Looking down “Main Street” the NMAL tower communicates with the Washington Monument without being an imitation of it.

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Longitudinal Section Removing the Metro elevation and extending the platform as an extention of the museum grounds.

Materials Limestone and mahogony moulding are juxtaposed against highly reflective and contemporary materials.

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Jamie Whitten Building - East Wing Interventions at this wing only happen below the existing elevation.

Jamie Whitten Building - West Wing Progressing West, interventions are more overt through rematerializations and a displacement of building chunks.

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Physical Model - Elevation Rendered A digital world of physical objects. Nostalgia of pre-Covid tropes of architectural representation.

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This project challenges that notion and instead fully invests in this realm through a dialogue between the floor and the ceiling of the single height space as highly articulated and programmatically specific autonomous stacks.

Feedback Loops introduces non-conventional gym programs that require highly specific and articulated landscapes.

Following through on this design intent, the gym is subservient to the form, rather than the gym being dependent on the equipment. These landscapes stack on top of one another and, although visually isolated, they begin to have a figural dialogue with each other. For example, the void space between skateboarding bowls might become a passageway for mountain bikers below, which in return determines the spacing of the parking stalls below that floor.

These chain reactions and feedback loops occur throughout, and in order to contrast the highly eccentric X and Y planes, all vertical circulation is contained within the normative extrusions of the structural cores. These structural cores elevate the building from the ground plane in order to give the footprint back to the public as an accessible velodrome.

The two cylindrical cores are slightly sheared 5 degrees and house the main pedestrian and vehicular circulations at different instances. On the ground floor, pedestrians moving

Course:

UCLA A.UD 401 Tech Core

from Spring Street can either spiral down a ramp into the

Instructor:

Jake Matatyaou

velodrome or up into the mountain biking course / lobby, and

Date:

Winter 2019

further into the skate park. At the other end of the building on the ground floor is the vehicular entrance. The vehicles enter into a contained single direction helix which spirals them up

Scott Cohen concludes his critique of Koolhaas’s Delirious New York by stating that if the perpetual dynamism of the city removes authorial control from the architect in the design of the tower, then there is no need or place for the architect to operate. It is precisely this attitude and pushback against the stack that trends architecture towards the development of multi-height or overlapping spaces. However, this habit of designing the atrium has become a trope, and the realm of the single height space is neglected while simultaneously consuming the majority of space in the project.

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to the non-repetitive and unique parking levels that begin to take on the identities of the programs that they serve.

Operating under the same rule that the X and Y are eccentric and that therefore the Z should be normative, the elevation becomes a simple plane and begins to mute the program beyond. This plane is articulated with a regular grid and a few but exceptional moments. These exceptional moments hint at the programmatic relationship behind. Furthermore, the facade is divided vertically by joint lines that follow the floor plates into materials or transitions in transparencies.

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Sectional practices traditionally trend towards the development of multi-height or overlapping spaces. Habitually, the realm of the single height space is neglected while simultaneously consuming the majority scope of the project. Through nonconventional gym programs, Feedback Loops challenges that notion and instead fully invests in the dialogue of surfaces found within single height spaces.

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Physical Model Elevation A subtle facade hides the eccentricity beyond.

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Planar Program Overlap Black = Pedestrian Zone. White = Vehicular Zone.

Hatch = Overlap of Zones.

Circulation + Core Articulation Pedestrian and vehicular paths of travel within contained sheared structure and circulation cores

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Physical Model Flip milling of high density foam was used to created this 1/8” scale model.

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Sectional Program Overlap Black = Pedestrian Zone. White = Vehicular Zone. Hatch = Overlap of Zones.

Worm’s Eye The underside of surfaces remain as methodically articulated as those on the ground.

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Transverse Section Sturdy verticle elements suspend each individual floorplate

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Level 2 - Mountain Bike Street level pedestrian ramps feed vertically into the mountain bike landscape.

Level 7 - Cable Park Parking is suspended above a shallow pool for a wakeboarding cable park.

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Longitudinal Section Interplay of parking and gym program.

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Saline Dream

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In Progress

Oscillating between prosaic and provocative, Saline Dreams is both the documentation of one of mankind’s greatest mismanagements of natural resources, and the embrace of this disaster’s other-worldly aesthetics.

Owens Lake is located in the Owens Valley, the deepest valley in North America and the primary watershed for both the Sierra and Inyo Mountain Ranges. In 1913, the Owens River which fed the lake, was diverted into the Los Angeles aqueduct to fuel the otherwise impossible urban expansion of the city by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), resulting in the gradual evaporation of the lake’s abundant water content. Subsequently, airborne toxins spread recklessly through the American West, resulting in one of the world’s most recognizable ecological and environmental catastrophes.

The residents of Los Angeles today are faced with the relatively disconnected, yet enormous financial burden of the constant flux of dust mitigation efforts taking place within the lake. However, rather than looking at this event from a purely

UCLA A.UD Continuing Research

pejorative and dismissive lens, Saline Dreams examines

Instructor:

Jason Payne

and extracts the lake’s emotion evoking qualities of colors,

Date:

March 2019 - June 2021

motions, and sounds. Today, the successful engineering mitigation efforts at the lake have reached 99.5 percent containment of its pollutants through the use of six different

Anthropocentric landscapes are non-existent, for better or

Best Available Control Methods (BACMs) (LADWP, 128).

for worse, without the intervention and authorship of Man.

These BACMs fragment the lake into a several hundred piece

These landscapes are frequently the result of self-inflicted

polygonal mosaic rich in visual and biological diversity.

disaster, or the pursuit of Utopia through extra-urbanism.

Each BACM appears entirely other-worldly and unique, thus

Owens Lake, a mostly dry saline lake located roughly

requiring it to be experienced and documented as so.

two hundred miles from Los Angeles is no exception. The question regarding anthropocentric landscapes is if their

Starting with the careful editing of drone photography,

relationship to historical and aesthetic relevance is parallel to

Saline Dreams uses these six BACMs as swatches to paint

that of their natural counterparts, and worthy of preservation,

new landscapes, envisioning an environment in which

intense documentation, for the sake of sensory experience.

architectural intervention can take place. Through ongoing

Saline Dreams examines this probability through the proposal

research and a developed toolkit of technical strategies, the

of Owens Lake’s recognition as a National Monument,

project will materialize from a landscape painting into a

subsequently requiring a further introduction of architecture

curated architectural strategy for experiencing the perplexing

and supporting infrastructure for the benefit and education of

ambivalence of Owens Lake.

the general public.

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Owens Lake + Owens Valley View looking North over the lake at Owens Valley. Sierra Nevada range visible on the left. Inyo Mountains to the right.

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Brine Pool Crust of brine weigh down arid salts. Intense hues of red from micro-biologic activity.

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Sprinkler Shallow Flooding A nentwork fo sprinklers occupy various polygons with vegetation contained within the sprinkler circumference.

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Synthetic Lanscapes Rendered A rendering of a new proposed tillage landscape.

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Synthetic Landscapes Drawn Based on WWII mapping, a drawing documenting this new landscape and its contents.

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Proposal for Architectural Interventions Distortions between landscape and building, synthetic and natural.

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