Selected Works Oscar DeLeon
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Bunker Hill Park
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Los Angeles Ballet School
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Chicago Union Station
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Emerging Art Foundation: San Francisco
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Berlin Central Station
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Landscape Investigation
Bunker Hill Park Through a re-consideration of current site and contextual conditions, the goal was to re-strategize and re-envision a new urban park. The design incorporates a building that compliments the park by embedding itself or simply arranging itself in a contributive manner within the landscape. The design derives from the concept of active and static conditions that create a new urban landscape joining the contextual ‘flows’ and counter flows of the site. Advisor: Margaret Griffin
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Physical Model. The landscape language was initiated through experimentation of surface relief in physical models. (right)
Landscape Investigation:
Sunset Park
Park Plan. Changing topographical and material conditions. (opposite page)
Sections. The sections, taken across both longest and shortest sides of the park, showing the difference in elevation from one end to another and scale of gathering area. 8
Landscape Investigation:
Sunset Park
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Plan. The building is intended to be used as a performance area for the surrounding community. The plan shows a stage that opens to the exterior for performance purposes. (top, opposite page) Longitudinal Section. The performing arts space creates both public and private spaces for the community. (bottom, opposite page) Model. The language of the roof is intended to parallel and continue the flow of the angular shapes found throughout the park. (top)
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Morphologies-Programs
Los Angeles Ballet School The project explores programming as a means of generating spacial organization and form. The goal was to create a design whose play of program requirements allowed for a push and pull between interior (volumes) and exterior (form). In this case the program was that of a performing arts school, Los Angeles Ballet School in Hollywood, California. Advisor: Jenny Wu
Ground Level Render. The render displays a street level view looking east on Sunset Ave.
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1. Lobby 2. Performance Hall 3. Backstage 4. Black box Theater 5. Juice Bar 6. Changing Room 7. Green Room 8. Library 9. Classroom 10. Multi-Purpose 11. Gym 12. Tech. Lab 13. Dance Studio 14. Administration 15. Rest room
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Program Concept. The program was organized in a “private vs public� manner, with interstitial space utilized as circulation. (top right) Ground Level. The ground level is where the more public spaces are located. (right) Second Level. The second level serves as a buffer between private and public. (top left)
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Spacial Model. The physical model shows interior spacial conditions and indicates movement within the building.
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Lift - Create Entry
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Third Level. The third level is where the two major dance studios for the ballet school are located. The dance studios along with the performance hall are the pinnacle of the project. The performance hall cradles the dance studio, as it hovers above, as a symbolic gesture of the vitality of the dance school. (top) Conceptual Model. The physical model looks at the play between interior volumes and exterior form.
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Los Angeles Ballet School
Physical Model. The design aimed at fitting in instead of imposing itself, in terms of mass.
Section A - Render. The form allows for interior and exterior performing areas. A central void allows a buffer zone between private and public spaces.
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Static Systems
Chicago Union Station The project proposes the design of a new enlarged infrastructural node for high speed rail at Union Station in Chicago. Motivated by the rich structural and tectonic history of the train station, the proposal explores the relationships between structural morphology, urban movement, environmental forces, and other performative criteria. The focus is that of structural systems, performative envelopes, program and flow analysis, and the development of spatial conditions that create compelling public experience. Advisor: Patrick Tighe Collaboration: Eduardo Bellosta
Render. The render depicts a perspective view of the building from a street level.
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Plan. The ground plan shows the effect of the intervention of the new design conditions onto the existing ones.
1. Ticketing 2. Retail 3. Food 4. Offices 5. Bike 6. Car Loading 7. Bus Loading 8. Water Taxi
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Section B. The section running east-west shows a burrowing effect of the structural facade of the existing building creating a central core.
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Chicago Union Station
Volumes. The design aims to replace space lost from burrowing by making volumes occupiable space. (top)
Model. The close up photo of the model shows the clustering of volumes and their embedded structure. (top) Site. Chicago Union Station is located in downtown, adjacent to the Chicago River. (right) 22
Chicago Union Station
Section A. The section runs north-south showing the possibility of occupiable volumes.
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Scale: 1/16”= 1’-0”
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Dynamic Systems:
Emerging Art Foundation: San Francisco The Emerging Art Foundation – San Francisco is a center for contemporary art that offers young artists a chance to debut, and incorporate their work into its collection. The architecture aims to create a creative space for artists and a place where art and the general public can meet. The design was conceived through the concept of “revealing”. In other words, delamination of the exterior to reveal the interior as a glimpse of the substance held inside the museum.
Advisor: Patrick Tighe Collaboration: Anahit Asatryan
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Site. The site is located in a very central and active part of San Francisco where everything from shopping centers to hotels are located.
Physical Model. The partial model focuses on the relationship of the interior and exterior. 26
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Interior Galleries Enclosed
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Concept Diagram. Delamination is used as methodological tool to drive the design. (left) Elevation. The delamination of the exterior surface creates for an interesting “wrap� effect in elevation. (top) 27
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Render. The interior volumes serve as galleries that include perforations facing the open exterior, which allows natural light through the volumes.
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Exploded Axonometric. The axonometric diagram shows a general idea of the main components of the building. (Top)
Physical Model. The partial model focuses on the relationship of interior and exterior.
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Plans. In order for Ticket the ‘floating’ interior Museum volumesShop and a central Lobby/ courtyard to work, core circulation had to be placed at the rear as seen in plan.
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Section. The section is detailed in order to give information about the structural response to the design.
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Vectoral Deployment
Berlin Central Station The project looks at the effect of line on form. Lines utilized are both physical, as in the train tracks, and suggestive, as in the suggestive lines found in the site as information. The intention is to take into consideration both physical and suggestive lines, to create a more prevalent relationship between the train station and the tracks themselves. In this specific case, the concept of these lines was explored through an alternative design for the Berlin Central Station. Advisor: Dwayne Oyler
Site. The site is located near the civic center in Tiergarten and adjacent to the river. 32
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Vectoral Deployment: Berlin Central Station
Diagrams. Lines where extracted from various site conditions or flows (auto, pedestrian, bus, taxi, bike, and train) as vectors and utilized as a tool to create form. (this page)
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Vectoral Deployment: Berlin Central Station
Diagram. The different site conditions/flows (interpreted as vectors) were combined to make one general diagram that begins to shape the architecture. (top) Render. Top of view of the train station interlaced with the train tracks. (right)
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Vectoral Deployment: Berlin Central Station
Floor Plan. The different flows studied allowed for a form that makes movement flow easily into and through the train station. 36
Vectoral Deployment: Berlin Central Station
Model. Sectional model showing series of sectional conditions. Materials used include: museum board, styrene, acrylic, and 3D printed powder. (right)
Sections. Transverse section showing relation between of station and trains. (top)
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Vectoral Deployment: Berlin Central Station
Sections. Longitudinal sections showing the variety in spaces. (top)
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Vectoral Deployment: Berlin Central Station
Sections. The transverse section shows the flows into and through the train station resulted from both pedestrians/riders and the trains. 41
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