ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
PHILIPPE A. ARIAS
TABLE OF CONTEXT 10B/HOLLENBECK 10B/SERIAL CUBE 10B/SEQUENCE MODEL 1 4 / M O B I L E FA R M 12B/INTERVENTION 10A/VOTING CENTER 1 1 / L AW N C H A I R
HOLLENBECK PARK PASADENA CITY COLLEGE COLEMAN GRIFFITH ARCH 10B SPRING 2008
Project Objective “We wanted to design something which clearly de-marks two zones and makes them interlace with each other. People in the theatre see the playground in the background, and when in the café, the playground becomes part of the roof. These two functions should not be separated radically, as the water flows around the island in permanent motions; we wanted to construct something that keeps flowing and changing all the time”. (Vito Acconci, 2003)
Boyle Heights 1948
White Noise
Freeway Traffic
System Diagrams
PROJECT CONCEPT
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
EXTERNAL SYSTEM
ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC NOISE
ARCHITECTURAL TRANSLATION
The School for hearing impaired and rehabilitiation center Project is a concept based on Phase Cancelation of sound waves. The external reference Active Noise Control (ANC) and how it works. My binucular ideas are: offset and antiphanse. The transformation of the freeway offsets the lake at Hollenbeck park and is transformed by skatepark hill and in contrast it is also the opposite polarity to which the freeway is being canceled by.
The main purpose of this project is to design a building using external scientific systems. The external references should play a role when displacing the natural boundaries of the park. We analyzed the edge and boundary displacements around the site to detemine if any charateristics of the physical park be transformed in to a language for constructing the buiding. the major edge is that of the freeway. The intensity of sound coming from the traffic was a strong starting point for this project.
1. The longitudinal waves moves through gas, liquid and solid objects. The molecules move in the same direction as the frequency by compression and rarefaction. 2. Transverse waves are created by a mechanical vibration that produces a series of crests and troughs which move molecules in the same direction as the wave it self. 3. The Displacement of Y in a longitudinal wave creates a Amplitude Displacementon the oscillating wave.
With the help From the edge boundary study I did earlier in the project, I created a basis for how I would procede with sound displacement as my concept. The beginning stages of my building design were based on a studies by the Federal Highway Administrationa and they concluded that the buffers that are constructed along the highway only reduce Traffic Noise, it doesn’t stop it. The specifics of the actual levels of noise that a trucks driving at approx. 70 MPH make and don’t get obsorbed by the buffer wall is around 70 db @ 25’ and so on.
1. An Object overlaps another when it increasing and decreaing in scale on the x axis Only. 2. One Object displace another by creating a series spaces one on top of the other in the y axis while at the same time moving from left right in an oscolating motion 3. Objects increasing or decreasing the scale Only in the y axis to displace the rythem of the building.
Traffic Noise And Decible Intesity
Hy:System Diagrams
Sound Cancellation
Research: Sound Cancelation
Transverse Wave
Longitudinal Wave
Site Analysis
Aerial Veiw
TRAFFIC NOISE AND DECIBLE INTENSITY
To simulate the sound a car makes when driving on the freeway at 70 MPH, I placed a set of circles on the freeway @ fifty feet increments. Each set of circle represent a 400 foot radius @ 50 foot increments. The hidden pattern within the soundwaves is exposed.
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Major Access Points
New Site
Park Entry
Access Routes
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Aerial View
Site Plan
Lower Level
Entry Level
Exterior Perspective
Site Section
Exterior Perspective
Interior Perspective
Public VS Private
Circulational Diagram
Entry
Public
Private
Aerial View
CUBE PROJECT PASADENA CITY COLLEGE COLEMAN GRIFFITH ARCH 10B SPRING 2008
Found Space Tracing
Found Space Diagrams
Individual Found Space
Individual Found Space
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
PHASE I: FOUND SPACE
PHASE II : TRANSFORMED SPACE
PHASE III : SUBTRACTION
THIS ASSIGNMENT INVESTIGATES POSSIBILITIES FOUND IN WHAT I CALL “FORGOTTEN “ SPACES. FORGOTTEN PUBLIC SPACES ARE OFTEN SPACES THAT WERE NEVER INTENDED. THEIR USE HAS EITHER BECOME OBSELETE OR NEVER CONSIDERED. EXAMPLES OF THESE SPACES INCLUDE FREEWAYS UNDERPASSES AND ABANDONED PUBLIC FACILITIES.
1. IDENTIFY YOUR FOUND 2. COLLAGE THE FOUND 3. DRAW YOUR FOUND SPACES. ALLY TRACE THE OUTLINES AND CES OF THE SPATIAL FORMMS.
THE INTERMEDIATE STAGE OF THIS PROJECT WILL BE THE TRANFORMATION AND ASSEMBLY OF YOUR FOUND SPACES. YOU WILL DEVELOP AND REPRESENT YOUR DESIGN SOLUTIONS USING RHINO YOUR COMPUTER MODELS WILL CREAT UNIQUE SPATIAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN A GRAVITY FREE ENVIRONMENT SIMILAR TO BUBBLES IN A LAVA LAMP. UNLIKE THE EXAMPLES ABOVE, YOUR SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE TO BE CREATED WITHIN A CUBIC FORM.
1. CREATE A 12” X 12” X12” CUBE. THE CUBE WILL BE USE AS THE POSITIVE SPACE IN PHASE III. 2. INTERSECT THE CUBE AND THE 3D FOUND FORM 3.SUBTRACT OUT THE FOUND SPACES FROM THE CUBE
SPACE SPACE MANUVERTI-
Transformed Rhino Forms
Transformed Rhino Forms
Rhino Subtracted Cube
Rhino Diagrams
“Perspective” Serial Section
Perspective Serial Section
“Perspective” Serial Section
“Interior Views ” Serial Section
Final Rendering
Acrylic Model
SPATIAL SEQUENCE MODEL PASADENA CITY COLLEGE COLEMAN GRIFFITH ARCH10B SPRING 2008
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
PROCESS
To select a case study project that you will use as a basis for the spatial sequence model project. By building a model approximately the size of a shoe box, it should help demonostrate the sequence of the circulation which the bulding was intended to follow using information gathered through research and information given in our lectures.
In this part of the spatial sequence project you are going to be diagramming the circulation of your building.
• Materials: 2 colors (chpboard, museum board or thick strathmore paper.) Material should be stiff enough so that it doesn’t bow or bend when you handle it. No tape! Glue only.• Build the private spaces as single elements. (Connected private spaces should be built as one form.)• Don’t just build the sides. Build the entire block as a solid. Build the private spaces and base out of the same material.• If your site is sloped. Simplify it. Build it as a single sloped plane (don’t build individuale layers).• Adhere the floor plans to your model.
Step 1 take trace and place over your plans and sections and draw out the circulation. Circulation is a space so draw it as such. That means the width and height of the hallways/circulation space are the space. Do this for all floors and at least on section. Step 2: in a 2d computer program such as illustrator, autocad, or photoshop, diagram the circulation based on your hand drawings. Circulation will interlock so show the overlap in a heavier line weight. Finished computer generated diagrams should be about 5” x 5” minimum in size.
• Build the interlocking circulation spaces on top of plan. Use your circulation diagrams as your guide.(Build circulation as a solid piece with voids removed at sleaves for interlocking. Finish the ends of the circulation. Your circulation is removable. The pieces are taken away as you go through your circulation sequence.
Public Space Sequence Rhino Model
Case Study: Seoul National University Museum by OMA
Private Space Sequence Rhino Model
Circulational Sequence Rhino Model
Spatial Sequence Model
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MOBILE FARM PASADENA CITY COLLEGE NIELE NORHEIM (GROUP PROJECT) ARCH14 SPRING 2006
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The South central Mobile Farm Project in conjuction with Not A Corn Field was an intense collaboration of form and function. Thi groug assignment was to create a fully sustainable moblie farm that could get up and go on a minutes notice. The 6’ x 3’ bins that were given to us as a starting point needed to integrate a fully sustainble irrigation system andbe able to attach themselves to other bins as part of a network. A shading device was require as a shield from the elements.
PROJECTS CONCEPT The main innovation that we challenged ourselves with was to create a working irrigation system that was integrate within the Bin. The trick was to find commonly used part from any hardware store and create a irrigation system that could be manually pumped, pushed, pressed, squeezed. to create water pressure with out an electric energy source.
Side View
Plan
Perspective View
Top View
Front Elevation
Side View
Front Elevation
Section Detail
Front Elevation
Section
Exploded View
Section
Structural Frame (Water Tank)
Structural Frame (Water Tank)
EAMES HOUSE INTERVENTION PASADENA CITY COLLEGE PETER DE MARIA ARCH 12B SPRING 2007
Exterior Perspective
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project is about creating intervention to the eames house. This intervention to me was not only about bring the two halfs of the eames house together but rather to bring it’s surrounding closer with the eames house. The organic shape that this intervention has a natural connection with the over grown landscape which has taken over the eames house. The intervention I designed functions as Louver system which protects the house from the sun and also the gusts of with the come over the bluff.
PROCESS DESCRIPTION: 1. To analyze the natural surroundings and landscape. (Plants, Trees, shrubs, natural grade) 2. Looking for any sustainable systems that the original eames house had and adding to it. 3. Thinking about “Form and Function” 4. Using nature to influence the design
Solid Skin
Elevation
Wirefrane Skin
Interior Perspective
Site Model
Interior Perspective
Interior Perspective
VOTING CENTER PROJECT PASADENA CITY COLLEGE CHRISTOPH KORNER PHILIPPE ARIAS ARCH 10A FALL 2006
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The “No Voter Left Behind” Project was intended as a study of how we could stream-line the voting process while at the same time create a place where people can slow down to think and enjoy voting on that important day.
PROJECT CONCEPT
The concept for this design was driven by the idea that the circulation of this building should be as efficient as a human heart. So by using components such as valves and chambers, I created a basis for how my circulation would flow. The idea that valves keep the circulation moving in one direction was key for creating a stream-line voting process. The chambers would work as the pre-voting areas, where people can walk around rather than standing in line. Using these key elements the voting center would make the experience more pleasant and memorable.
Main Gallery space Voting Area Cafe’ Check-In Gallery Space Site Plan
Circulation Diagram
Entry Level (Gallery Space)
Lower Level (Voting Area)
Sections
LAWN CHAIR PASADENA CITY COLLEGE BARBARA KAPLAN (Group Project) ARCH 11 FALL 2006
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The chair project Arch 11 rules. The chair was to be design to work for a perticular place with in campus. The chair could be designed to work together with any object that is stationary anywhere in the campus. (trees, buildings, landscape, ect.)
PROJECT CONCEPT The way that grass is mass produced and used.Grass really feels like an organic carpet that is used in endless fields courts and lawns. The Lawn Chair TM, was designed be activate the landscape by adding a stronger texture to the fields courts and lawns with out losing the greenscape. Assembly
Front Elevation
Side Elevation
Assembly
Assembly
Final Mock Up
Rendered Perspective