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PROFILE
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PAR is an idea driven office, committed to intellectual and artistic rigor and recognized for architectural innovation. Comprised of a collaborative team working on projects ranging in scale from housing and interiors to large complex building schemes, PAR approaches each project with a fresh perspective, believing that each design arises from conditions particular to the site and program. Founded in 2003, PAR is led by partners Jennifer Marmon and Angus Goble with offices in Los Angeles and New York. Recent projects include housing in Los Angeles, the Ibid. Galleries in LA and London, the AD18 boutique hotel in Los Angeles, several international competitions and an upcoming exhibition at the 15th International Architecture Biennale di Venezia. PAR has received numerous awards and honors, including an International Architecture Award in 2014, American Institute of Architects Honor Award in 2013 and an American Architecture Award in 2013. In 2014, PAR received the Presidential Emerging Practice Award from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles. The work of PAR has been featured in exhibitions at the US National Building Museum, the New York Center for Architecture, the European Center for Architecture, the Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale and the Istanbul Architecture Biennale and international publications such as DAMDI, Architecture, Concept, Future Arquitecturas and MARK. 5
PARTNERS
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JENNIFER MARMON, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP FOUNDING PARTNER
ANGUS GOBLE, BA (HONS), DIP. ARCH. ARB, ASSOC. AIA PARTNER
Jennifer founded Platform for Architecture + Research in Los Angeles after completing an M.Arch. degree at The Southern California Institute of Architecture in 2003.
Angus is partner in charge of the New York Office. He has over twenty years of international experience having worked on a range of high profile public projects in the United Kingdom, Australia, PRC and the US. Prior to joining PAR, Angus has worked as a Senior Architect for internationally acclaimed architects and engineers including Santiago Calatrava, Philip Johnson Architects, Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners and Terry Farrell and Partners.
Her work with PAR has received numerous awards and honors, including an International Architecture Award in 2014, American Institute of Architects Honor Award in 2013 and an American Architecture Award in 2013. In 2014, PAR received the Presidential Emerging Practice Award from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles. PAR has been featured in exhibitions at the US National Building Museum, the New York Center for Architecture, the European Center for Architecture, the Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale and the Istanbul Architecture Biennale among others and in publications such as DAMDI, Architecture, Concept, MARK and Future Arquitecturas.
Angus was also a founding partner of Front Inc, a leading international façade consultancy, where he collaborated on projects landmark projects with Frank O Gehry Architects, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Herzog and De Meuron, Kengo Kuma, SANAA and KPF, amongst others. Angus gained his bachelor degree with honors from Canterbury College of Art and his diploma in Architecture from The University of Westminster, London. Angus draws upon his wealth of technical, façade, and detail design experience to promote the practice’s interest in research, sustainability, innovation and the use of new materials and methods in construction to ensure design excellence.
Alongside her architectural practice, Jennifer is a frequent critic, juror and panelist at universities and institutions. Recently, she has been a guest critic at Harvard University, GSD and Columbia University, GSAPP and since 2010, serves as a visiting critic at SCI-Arc and USC Schools of Architecture. Jennifer has been invited to numerous architectural juries and panels including the Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards Jury in 2015, the Architizer A+ Awards Jury in 2015, the Los Angeles City Planning Design Review Panel in 2015, the World Architecture News Transport Awards Jury in 2014 and Civic Awards Jury in 2013 and the A+D Museum Exhibitions Committee since 2014.
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OFFICE CV
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AWARDS + EXHIBITIONS
2016 Fortis17 Housing, Los Angeles, US 2015 H House, Los Angeles, US 2015 AD18 Boutique Hotel, Los Angeles, US 2015 LA Forum Installation, Los Angeles, US 2015 Wilshire Tower, Los Angeles, US 2015 Bauhaus Museum, Dessau, DE 2014 Ibid. Gallery, London, UK 2014 Ibid. Gallery, Los Angeles, US 2014 Guggenheim Museum, Helsinki, FI 2013- T House, Washington DC, US 2013 Taichung Cultural Center, Taichung, TW 2012 Helsinki Central Library, Helsinki, FI 2012 Keelung Harbor, Keelung, TW 2012- Rancho José Ignacio, Jose Ignacio, UY 2012 Lemesos Museum, Cyprus, GR 2012 Cagliari Art Museum, Sardinia, IT 2011 The Archipelago, Leeuwarden, NL 2008 M House, Los Angeles, US 2006 Desert Houses, La Quita, CA, US
2013 World Architecture News (WAN), 21x21 Award, Finalist, London, UK 2013 American Institute of Architects, National Emerging Architect Award, Helsinki Central Library 2013 AIA New York Awards Exhibition, Helsinki Central Library, New York, US 2013 The Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-Arc], 40th Anniversary Exhibition 2013 AIA New York, Projects, Merit Award, Helsinki Library 2013 ACSA 101 New Ecologies Exhibition, Helsinki Library 2013 D3 Unbuilt Visions Exhibition, Keelung Harbor Terminal 2013 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum, Helsinki Library 2012 Architects Journal Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award Nominee, London, UK 2012 Yangming Marine Museums, Keelung Harbor Terminal Exhibition 2012 AIA Los Angeles, NEXT LA Award, Merit, The Archipelago 2012 Keelung Harbor Tower, Keelung Harbor Terminal Exhibition 2012 Keelung Harbor International Competition, Honorable Mention 2012 Keelung Harbor International Competition, Finalist 2012 Heart of the Metropolis Exhibition, Helsinki Library, Jätkäsaari Bunker 2012 Dwell On Design + Architects Newspaper Studio Tour 2012 National Building Museum, American Institute of Architects National Convention Exhibition, The Archipelago 2012 American Institute of Architects, National Emerging Architect Award, The Archipelago 2011 The Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-Arc], Alumni Exhibition
AWARDS + EXHIBITIONS 2016 Time Space Existence, 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, IT 2015 World Architecture News (WAN), Future Building Award, Finalist, London, UK 2015 Interarch Triennale Exhibition, International Academy of Architecture, Sophia, BG 2015 Unbuilt Design Award, Boston Society of Architects Taichung Cultural Center, Boston, US 2014 International Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum / European Center for Architecture, Taichung Cultural Center, Chicago, US 2014 AIA Los Angeles, Presidential Award for Emerging Practice, Los Angeles, US 2014 The City and The World Exhibition, 3rd Annual Biennial of Architecture, Istanbul, TT 2014 International Design Award, Conceptual, First Place, Taichung Cultural Center 2014 International Design Award, Conceptual, Second Place, Helsinki Central Library 2014 International Design Award, Institutional, Second Place, Taichung Cultural Center 2014 International Design Award, Institutional, Second Place, Helsinki Central Library 2014 Rethinking the Future Awards, Concept, Honorable Mention, Taichung Cultural Center 2014 Architecture + Design Museum, Annual Gala, Silent Auction Exhibition, Los Angeles, US 2014 Azure AZ Awards, Finalist, Taichung Cultural Center, Toronto, CA 2013 AIA Los Angeles, Next LA Awards, Honors, Helsinki Central Library, Los Angeles, US 2013 The City and The World Exhibition, 14th Annual Biennial of Architecture, Buenos Aires, AR 2013 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaum/ European Center for Architecture 2013 AIA New York Awards Exhibition, 14th Annual Biennial of Architecture, Buenos Aires, AR 2013 European Architectural Envisioning Association [EAEA] Exhibition, Performance of Form 2013 American Institute of Architects National Convention Exhibition, Helsinki Central Library
JURIES + BOARDS 2016 Los Angeles Forum for Architecture + Urbanism, Board Member 2015 Progressive Architecture Awards, January, Juror, New York, NY 2015 Architizer A+ Awards, Juror, February, New York, US 2015 India Architecture Festival (IAF), Advisory Board Member, January-October, New Delhi, IN 2015 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design Symposium, Speaker, Los Angeles, US 2014 Southern California Development Forum (SCDF), Design Awards Juror, November, Los Angeles, US 2014 World Architecture News (WAN), Transport Awards Juror, London, UK 2014 International Design Awards, Architecture Juror, Los Angeles, US 2013 World Architecture News (WAN), Civic Awards Juror, London, UK 2013 - Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) 2015 Alumni Council Member, Los Angeles, US 2013 - Architecture + Design Museum Exhibition Committee, 2015 Los Angeles, US 9
WILSHIRE TOWER
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TYPE: Residential High-Rise LOCATION: Los Angeles, US STATUS: 2015, Exhibition AREA: 654,000 sf CLIENT: Architecture + Design Museum CURATORS: Sam Lubell, Danielle Rago ENGINEER: BuroHappold ENVIRONMENTAL: BuroHappold VISUALIZER: BloomImages ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Angus Goble, Partner; John Chang, Designer; Miwa Espinoza; Julian Huang; Patrycja Jurczak; Matthias Malicki; Jack Reidler; Jesse Segura SPONSORS: BuroHappold, Architecture + Design Museum
EXHIBITION Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles, Architecture + Design Museum, Los Angeles, US, August-November 2015
The Architecture + Design Museum of Los Angeles presents Shelter: Rethinking how we live in Los Angeles, visions by six architects for the future of the city. Seeking to change expectations for living within the expanding metropolis, the exhibition explores how new forms of housing can respond to changes in the cultural fabric and physical landscape of Los Angeles, better addressing its pressing issues. For the exhibition, PAR proposed Wilshire Tower, a new model of high-rise courtyard housing, integrated with mass transit, on LACMA’s proposed tower site along
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Wilshire Boulevard. The tower typology, an important element in the contemporary metropolis, has become anonymous, defined mainly by its height. Typical residential towers, while successfully providing density, rarely produce unique living environments with access to green space, two qualities that are emblematic of Los Angeles living. PAR’s proposal, developed in close collaboration with BuroHappold, acts against this endemic monotony, creating a 930 foot tall stack of individual houses, each with a direct connection to nature through oversized terraces, some containing common spaces and leisure zones.
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Level 40 +447’ Medium 6,850 sf 3 Units
Level 70 +789’ Small 5,750 sf 2 Units
Level 20 +219’ Large 9,450 sf 4 Units
Level 1 Institutional +0.0’ XL 16,200 sf
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TYPE: Housing LOCATION: Los Angeles, US STATUS: 2015-, Schematic Design AREA: 3,000 sf CLIENT: Undisclosed ARCHITECT: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Angus Goble, Partner; Malcolm Galang; Darrell Ibanez; Luke Feiderer; John Chang
Architectural design for a 3 story private residence on Hollyridge Drive in Hollywood, CA. Additional text coming soon.
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IN PROCESS
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INFINITY LA FORUM
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TYPE: Cultural LOCATION: Los Angeles, US STATUS: 2015, Complete AREA: 300 sf CLIENT: LA Forum for Architecture + Urbanism ENGINEER: Arup ARCHITECT: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Angus Goble, Partner; Malcolm Galang; Darrell Ibanez; Luke Feiderer; John Chang SPONSORS: Arup, LA Forum for Architecture + Urbanism
The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design invited PAR to design a temporary structure, Infinity, for their annual ForumFest benefit held at the Sixth Street Viaduct in Fall 2015. Embracing the brutality of the site with an extraordinarily light structure, the design revealed a subtle play on light and perception, its reflective forms changing
EXHIBITION Time Space Existence, Global Art Affairs, 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, IT, May-Sept 2016
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according to the light and movement of people around it. The floating aluminum structure, suspended by a series of delicate steel cables, provided an undulating field for activity where people could celebrate within the viaduct. Elements of the structure varied in height, creating lighting canopies and table surfaces, where the ForumFest events program could be presented.
Concept Sketches
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TYPE: Cultural LOCATION: Dessau, DE STATUS: 2015, Competition AREA: 3,100 m2 CLIENT: Bauhaus Foundation ARCHITECT: Jennifer Marmon, Partner In Charge; John Chang; Matthias Malicki
This pavilion for the Bauhaus Museum Dessau is both an exhibition space for the museum’s art collection, and an education facility. The museum is centrally located in the social green between the Dessau Cultural District and the Bauhaus and will be a focus of activity. Our proposal integrates with the existing East-West pedestrian axis, generating a binary museum organization of permanent and temporary collections. Interstitial perimeter zones create a buffer between institution and city while enabling impromptu events and large scale installations a visibility beyond the walls of the museum. Conceived as a compact, single story volume penetrated by courtyards with sight lines through layers of transparent walls, the visitor experience will always involve the surrounding landscape. Green spaces are captured within the perimeter of the building. The openness of patios and visitor zone serve to connect the institution within the park and city, providing a possibility for non ticketed visitors to move through the visitor zone, accessing the
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cafe, patio and shop. Transparency offers views to the park and surrounding areas along with views through the building. From outside, visitors can see through the museum and also to many internal spaces, understanding events and atmospheres of the moment. Individually, each zone is enclosed by clear glass or solid partitions, resulting in cavity walls that act as a buffer between different climates; visitor center, museum exhibition spaces, education center, and the outdoors. The plan is derived from a grid of various rectilinear shapes reflecting programmatic adjacencies, with room-toroom connections achieved using curving surfaces. The visitor flows with the form through a series of interconnected spaces.
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TYPE: Cultural LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA STATUS: 2014, Completed AREA: 12,000 SF CLIENT: Magnus Edensvard, IBID. Projects ARCHITECT: Jennifer Marmon, Partner In Charge; Robert Mojica, Project Architect; Team: Victor Gonzalez, Thao Trinh, Austin Morgan, Liz Van Dyke
For IBID. Gallery in Los Angeles, PAR developed a plan for the international gallery to expand into the historic urban fabric of the Los Angeles Arts District, a low rise area in the eastern part of the city. Industrial buildings and lofts characterize this neighborhood, which is currently being infiltrated by newly constructed galleries, boutiques and cafés. The project involved transforming an abandoned garage warehouse and large courtyard into a 12,000 sf exhibition and event outpost. Working closely with our client, Magnus Edensvard, we were able to preserve the
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original aura of the structure while at the same time, create a new spatial quality for the gallery. The design includes a reception, two large galleries, private lounge, office, archival space, and service area. Conceived as an open and flexible space, the exhibition area shows works of varied scale and video installations. The exterior includes an event courtyard, outdoor workspace and an outdoor lounge. Mobile furniture elements designed to transition and connect the interior galleries and courtyard expand activities outdoors. The gallery opened with a painting exhibition by Christian Rosa.
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TYPE: Cultural LOCATION: Helsinki, FI STATUS: 2014, Competition in Procedure AREA: 12,100 m2 CLIENT: Guggenheim Foundation ENGINEER: Arup ENVIRONMENTAL: Arup ARCHITECT: Jennifer Marmon, Partner In Charge; Robert Mojica, Project Architect; Team: Victor Gonzalez, Thao Trinh, Austin Morgan, Liz Van Dyke
The Guggenheim Museum Helsinki, located on a prominent waterfront site, is a gathering of eight soft volumes of varying sizes and undulating heights that reflect the Helsinki skyline and surrounding waters. The volumes lightly intersect with one another leading to a collection of spaces with soft connections to all sides. The resulting institution is a unique, transparent, and light building, clustered in between the park, water and historic city center and immediately visible to visitors arriving by sea. All city traffic is directed along the Laivasillankatu with the drop off and bus zone concentrated along the North and South edges. The plan’s openness connects with the context while the central plaza maintains public waterfront access from the park. Breaking up the museum into smaller pieces, we avoid blocking site lines while creating programmatic specificity. Further opening up the site, visually and physically, central volumes are elevated and translucent, introducing a public void in between the galleries. The volumes
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sit at angles to one another and overlap at the corners to link lobby, exhibition spaces, amenities and service areas within the museum. Translucent mesh drapes from the edges of the roofs to create curving curtains that spatially define and lighten the building. The curtains conceal elevated walkways, connecting to viewing terraces that look onto the complex and the city at large. Visitors enter through access points into a large plaza in the centre of the complex. A grand circulation loop connects all public spaces with galleries while alternate paths integrate outdoor sculpture gardens into the visitor experience. Positioned at interstitial spaces between inside and out, terraces are protected from the harsh Helsinki climate. Oriented toward sky and vistas, terraces offer unparalleled allseason event spaces.
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TYPE: Housing LOCATION: Washington, DC, US STATUS: 2013-2015, Construction 2016 AREA: 3,000 sf CLIENT: Shawn & Anastasia Traylor ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Team: Ross Ferrari, Jason Lee, Robert Mojica, Victor Gonzalez, Austin Morgan
T House is designed for a family who want something different than a conventional home. The clients are looking to develop a house that would affect their lives and create opportunity for a social yet, private family lifestyle. The family requested for a house which felt like a connected space, and to save the landscape as much as possible, especially its characteristic fig trees. The site is located in a semi-urban lush district of Washington in a terrain that slopes gently down to the Potomac river in the southwest. The desire for a house with lots of light and connection to the surrounding landscape is a challenge in
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relation to close building adjacencies. Our design strategy utilizes the building to frame private views and is characterized by a central void that interconnects living spaces under the sky. The house consists of a two story volume with a basement. The first level contains the living room, media, kitchen and dining along with a child’s suite. Most private spaces such as master bedroom, study and child’s room are on level two, while the basement functions are divided between playroom, guest suite, utility and garage.
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TYPE: Cultural LOCATION: Taichung, TW STATUS: 2013, Competition AREA: 62,000 m2 CLIENT: Taichung City Government ENGINEER: Buro Happold ENVIRONMENTAL: Buro Happold VISUALIZER: Luxigon, PAR ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Matthew Young, Project Architect; Team: Ross Ferrari, Leandro Yuang, Josshua Mattias, Ruben Rodela, Youree Hong AWARDS International Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum/ European Center for Architecture, Chicago, 2014 Unbuilt Design Award, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, 2014 Re-Thinking the Future Awards, Concept, Honorable Mention, 2014 International Design Award, Conceptual, First Place, Los Angeles, 2014 International Design Award, Institutional, Second Place, Los Angeles, 2014 Azure AZ Awards 2014, Finalist, Taichung Cultural Center, Toronto, 2014
The new Taichung Cultural Center, TCC, located within the Taichung Gateway District will house two regional agencies the public library and fine arts museum within one single institution. Our proposal arranges the new cultural center around a public space open towards the city of Taichung and Gateway Park. The building is conceived as a single loop of public space and cultural institutions twisting into a continuous organization that combines the virtues of both institutions, maximizing interdisciplinary exchange while preserving the autonomy. TCC is conceived as a symbiosis of urbanity and nature. Like Taichung, which is located in the heart of the Taiwan mainland, it will be integrated into the heart of the park. The two institutions and their shared public facilities are gathered around an outdoor space framing a fourth program, an urban plaza which opens towards both Park Avenue 2 and Gateway Park. The multiple ramps and stairs of the building create an institution that is publicly accessible and welcoming on the inside as well as the outside. The
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urban plaza will attract the everyday life of Taichung flowing through its gateway while framing views of Taiwan Tower. Informal roof seating and stairs will make the TCC a lively place and a natural extension of the life within the park. On special occasions it will turn into an outdoor gallery or urban stage to extend the art into the city as well as the city into the institution. The main entrance to the new Taichung Cultural Center lies to the northwest adjacent to an auto drop off along Park Avenue 2. Visitors enter through a shared lobby underneath the building’s 6m lift which leads to the public plaza. The south wing of the building tilts into the park landscape for co ntinuous pedestrian access over top of the building from Gateway Park and Taiwan Tower.
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TYPE: Housing LOCATION: Los Angeles, US STATUS: Design 2008, Construction 2012-2013 BUDGET: $1.5 M USD CLIENT: Russell Tolman, Kim Tolman AREA: 300 m2 | 3,200 sf ARCHITECT: Jennifer Marmon, Partner In Charge; Team: Bertrand Geniost, Devon Montminy, Ross Ferrari
This residential commission is situated in a canyon near the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory where there already exists a contemporary architectural context. The project emerged from the idea of making a suspended house that floats over the canyon, thus taking advantage of the Los Angeles skyline and generating many partially covered terraces for outdoor living.
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The dwelling is organized into two levels. The public areas, such as the gallery, living room, dining room, and kitchen, are on the lower level; the upper level includes three bedrooms and a semi-public leisure area adjacent to the pool which is naturally screened by topography. The hovering 60’ long building is supported by a podium built of local stone predominate in nearby fortifications.
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TYPE: Civic, Library LOCATION: Helsinki, Finland STATUS: 2012-2013, Competition AREA: 14,000 m2 CLIENT: City Of Helsiniki, Helsinki, Finland ENGINEER: ARUP; Environmental: Russell Fortmeyer, Senior Consultant VISUALIZER: Labtop ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Matthew Young, Project Architect; Team: Ross Ferrari, Allison Klute, Cory Ringo, Seyoung Choi, Ryan Fagre, Tom Ames, Reza Hadian, Garrett Runck, Aliya Popita, Yen Vo, Cici Luong AWARDS International Design Award, Conceptual, First Place, 2014 International Design Award, Institutional, Second Place, 2014 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum/ European Center for Architecture, 2013 American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles, Next LA Honor Award, 2013 American Institute of Architects, New York, Merit Award, 2013 American Institute of Architects, National, Emerging Professionals Award, 2013 World Architecture News (WAN), 21x21 Award, Finalist, London, UK, 2013 CONFERENCES Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 101 Conference, San Francisco, US, March 2013 Facades + Innovation Conference, Extreme Ocularity, Chicago, US, October 2012
EXHIBITIONS The City and The World Exhibition, 14th Annual Biennial of Architecture, Buenos Aires, AR, September 2013 American Institute of Architects, New York, Awards Exhibition Center for Architecture, New York, US, April 2013 The Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-Arc] 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Los Angeles, US, April 2013 American Institute of Architects, National Awards Exhibition American Center for Architecture, DC, US, March-April 2013 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 101 Conference New Constellations Ecologies Exhibition, San Francisco, US, March 2013 Heart of the Metropolis Exhibition, Jätkäsaari Bunker, Helsinki, FI, October 2012
In contrast to the other buildings in the Töölönlahti District, an essential component of the design involved creating a public space at the top of the library—visually connecting Töölönlahti to Senate Square and the city at large. The library is organized by six intersecting axes that afford spectacular vistas toward a celebrated landmark. At the earliest stage of design, environmental analysis via simulation tools en-
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abled design decisions that optimized the sustainable performance of the building form and envelope. The concave geometry optically magnifies light and heat, focusing it into the building and reducing energy demand. A series of 11.5 m deep floor plates are stacked to create a narrow building that is optimizes natural light thereby creating an ideal reading environment crucial for the library. The program of the library is subject to ever changing ways of accessing and sharing knowledge in a realm that is becoming more and more and immaterial. The long span truss system provides a flexible, column free plan suitable to the demands of a 21st Century library and guarantees it’s viability as a building adaptable to future alternatives. The landscape block is at the same time integrated and outstanding, traditional and contemporary. It creates a stagelike space for the annual gathering of the National Day of Finland, becoming a symbolic center for the city.
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TYPE: Civic, Office LOCATION: Milano, IT STATUS: 2012-2013, Competition AREA: 23,500 m2 CLIENT: Expo 2015 S.P.A. BUDGET: €50 M ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Matthew Young, Lan Chen, Project Architects; Team: Ross Ferrari, Devon Motminy, Jesus de Anda, Leandro Yuan, Chen You Chien EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT: Undisclosed ENGINEER: Undisclosed
An ambitious master plan for Expo 2015 was developed to revitalize an industrial zone outside the city of Milan. In the spirit of this plan, a competition was launched for the design of a pavilion to exhibit the virtues of Italian culture while in a second life, adapting into a research facility. Interpreting the criteria of the brief, maintaining openness at the ground was essential for access and a perception of transparency. The translation of this criteria gave birth to a building that contains a series of spaces stacked one over the other, in some places projecting over the piazza by varying degrees, connected through a loop of continuous circulation. Creating a space of national unity, we have enveloped the building in a continuous surface. Seen from the Palazo Italia, the Cardo and from the Lake Arena, the new building takes on differing aspect from every vantage point and thus This architectural variation is further reinforced by sinuous bands in the façade surfaces. The façade openings react to it’s solar orientation as well has the ideal amount of light for each room’s
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content. The façade of the building is largely homogenous, ornamented only through the subtle twist of the pleated metal siding. The building face presents a perceived parabolic shadow, made possible by a louvered system over the central windows of the pavilion.
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TYPE: Transit, Office LOCATION: Keelung, TW STATUS: 2012, Competition Finalist AREA: 120,000 m2 BUDGET: $211M USD CLIENT: Taiwan International Ports Corporation DESIGN ARCHITECT: PAR, SES EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT: Ricky Liu Associates ENGINEERING: Buro Happold, Envisions TRANSPORTATION: Moffatt & Nichol, Landdesign, Mega Trans IMAGES: Labtop, PAR AWARDS International Competition, Honorable Mention, September 2012 EXHIBITIONS The Southern California Institute Of Architecture [SciArc] 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Los Angeles, US, April 2013 D3 Unbuilt Visions Awards Exhibition University of Louisiana, US, March-April 2013 Keelung Harbor Tower Exhibition, Yangming Marine Museum, Taipei, TW, October 2012 Keelung Harbor Tower Exhibition, Keelung Ever green Hotel, Keelung, TW, September 2012
Keelung is a gateway that through its history, climate and the customs of its inhabitants, is predestined to make use of its exterior space. For this reason, we decided instead of planning the building as an independent object within an open space, we would propose buildings that will generate and structure this open space. The project form, together with the lighting, aims to provide a dramatic entry experience to Taiwan from both the sea and the city of Keelung. To become a landmark, our proposal adopts a form that resists easy classification to free-associate with successive symbols of the utilitarian, the industrial, the poetic. The Harbor Tower is a clearly identifiable landmark. It’s portal becomes a framing devise for the city while providing passage at the plaza. Given it’s location and placement, the figure of the tower takes a geometrical stand in relation to the mountains and transit network. Cutting diagionally through the terminal platform, multiple relations between the
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concourse and other levels of the building are established, while permitting new angles of vision and a changing play of light. A collection of prisms crown the terminal’s Departure, Domestic and International Halls with luminous vaulted spaces. Derived from the interstitial space between Halls, the Marine Plaza projects inward bringing the outside in. The roof garden and interiors are designed as hybrid spaces, not only blurring the boundaries between exterior and interior, but which also easily adapt to the variable program. Existing public pedestrian flows along the western edge are enhanced by creating an elevated public plaza adjacent to the concourse with independent circulation. Overall, an experience of directed yet functionally separated flows lends an aura of energy to the terminal building. A global gateway, the tower represents Taiwan’s cultural progress, innovation, and modern commerce.
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TYPE: Cultural, Museum Extension LOCATION: Cagliari, Sardinia, Italia CLIENT: City Of Cagliari STATUS: 2012-, Competition In Procedure AREA: 12,000 m2 ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner in Charge; Ross Ferrari, Project Architect; Matthew Young, Doy Laufer Cruz, Yen Vo, Jessica De Vries, Ryan Fagre, Cory Ringo, Reza Hadian, James Hwangbo, Bowen Wu
Set upon a panoramic plateau in the ancient district of Sardinia’s capital city will soon sit the Cagliari Galerie Comunale D’Art’s new extension. Our concept formulates a network of separate but interconnected “clusters” that unfold, open and invite museum visitors inside. Single-height exhibition spaces are anchored by four clusters, each with an adjoining sculpture garden. Gallery volumes and arrangements were inspired by seminal works within the museum’s permanent collection, including ancient bronze and marble statues and works by the late Renaissance painter Pietro Cavaro. The museum extension is designed to complete the cultural complex while preserving centenary trees and visually opening to the ancient fortified wall and city beyond. Simple, primitive forms and local materials reflect a Sardinian sensibility, while the gesture of breaking up the new museum into discreet volumes transforms the simple cluster of galleries into an architecture that is at once contextual and abstract. A very direct organizational logic yields
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a form that works effectively for both internal and external spaces. Planned within a cartesian grid, all museum program with exception of galleries is efficiently organized on axis with the historic 18th Century Beaux Arts museum. By rotating the galleries 20 degrees to true north, optimum solar orientation enables naturally illuminated exhibition spaces with northern light. Just as interior and exterior spaces interpenetrate, so do two types of forms: the orthogonal-polygonal, as perceived from the exterior, and the organic, which produces a series of spatial surprises or ‘follies’. Occurring at passage points of incongruency between rotated galleries and the rest of the museum, the follies create connections. Where the exterior building envelope is heavy and rough, composed of locally-formed, sand-cast concrete the folly materiality is soft, transparent and irrational. With an almost labyrinthine character, visitors traverse the museum through a grand circulation loop of intervening spaces.
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TYPE: Cultural, Museum LOCATION: Lemesos, Cyprus, Greece STATUS: 2012, Concept Design AREA: 9,000 m2 CLIENT: City Of Lemesos ARCHITECT: PAR: Jennifer Marmon, Partner In Charge; Cory Ringo, Project Architect; Matthew Young, Doy Laufer Cruz, Yen Vo, Jessica De Vries, Ryan Fagre, Reza Hadian, James Hwangbo, Bowen Wu
In 2012, the City of Lemesos held a competition for architects to propose designs for the Lemesos Museum of Art in the shorline district. One of the competition’s aims was to contribute to the consolidation of a cultural center composed of iconic architectural and programmatic attractants, projecting a singular and contemporary identity on behalf of the city. Our proposal integrates and reveals the complex layers of history and urbanism that weave through this site, where the Lemesos Museum of Art will be situated for years to come. Acknowledging these complexities, the strategy was to adopt the existing, diagonal circulation axis which generated a binary museum organization of permanent and temporary collections. Interstitial perimeter zones create a buffer between institution and city while enabling impromptu events and large scale installations a visibility beyond the walls of the museum.
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We were interested in offering an architectural vision where the paradox and conflicts between building and city, diversity and simplicity, individual and populace erode. As Lemesos seeks to reinvent its cultural center, this building capitalizes on the seduction and impact of the singular image while sustaining that effect through the attenuation of complex informational, structural, and atmospheric systems.
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THE ARCHIPELAGO
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TYPE: Master Plan, Housing LOCATION: Leeuwarden, Nl STATUS: 2011, Competition SITE AREA: 19 ha BUILDING AREA: 46,500 m2 CLIENT: Elkien Housing Corp, City Of Leeuwarden ARCHITECTS: COLAB: Joshua Beck, Joana Gomes; PAR: Elizabeth Almaraz, Taylor Ferry, Diana Kichler, Timothy Logan, Jennifer Marmon, Fenty Muladi, Jason Tucker, Yen Vo, Lena Watanabe, Andrew Yang; Joris De Baes AWARDS American Institute Of Architects, National, Emerging Professionals Award 2012 EXHIBITIONS American Institute of Architects, National Awards Exhibition American Center for Architecture, DC, US, March-April 2012
Our proposal for the Leeuwarden Kanaalzone provides a new framework for an urban geography where the best elements from both the natural landscape and project program create a unique condition for living on the water. The framework enables an organization of housing program that is flexible and varied, envisioning a district where history and future, density and openness, identity and diversity coexist. The resulting spatial experience fluctuates between variation and continuity while relating to the canalized way of life in the Fryslân region. In order to cultivate our emphasis on diversity, we imagine the Archipelago as a multifunctional district. In addition to mixing-in retail, restaurant and leisure functions, our strategy avoids mono-spatial qualities through a mix of buildings. Drawn from a study of waterfront cities, a collection of 9 housing typologies, each with it’s own individual character, create neighborhood identities based on their unique relationship to water. Our proposal for the Leeuwarden
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Kanaalzone provides a new framework for an urban geography where the best elements from both the natural landscape and project program create a unique condition for living on the water. The framework enables an organization of housing program that is flexible and varied, envisioning a district where history and future, density and openness, identity and diversity coexist. The resulting spatial experience fluctuates between variation and continuity while relating to the canalized way of life in the Fryslân region.
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Aerial Site Plan
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TYPE: Housing LOCATION: Los Angeles, US STATUS: 2004-2008, Completed CLIENT: Western Pacific Development BUDGET: $3.3 M AREA: 1.300 m2 | 13,860 sf ARCHITECT: Jennifer Marmon, Partner In Charge, Bertrand Geniost, Pooya Guidarzi, Matthew Ribault (Visualizations) ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Jay Vanos Architects
Despite an increasing density Los Angeles continues to drift and expand boundlessly into undeveloped territory necessitating compact growth and infrastructural overhauls. Within the context of global urbanization, the past decade has provided opportunities to address outmoded patterns of residential development and domestic space in Los Angeles. A renewed interest in an urban lifestyle has prompted private development of higher density alternatives in a city that has long been infatuated with single family houses and private gardens. Our Shutter Houses proposal was initiated by a desire to embrace density and optimize the building volume within a densifying Hollywood neighborhood. The building is conceived as an abstract volume wrapped in a seemingly random pattern of windows which creates a sense of unity amongst the dwellings. The windows, each carefully positioned function as framing devises for the surrounding urban context. A series of operable shutters enable residents
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to individually modulate shading and privacy which in turn expresses use. In automated mode, the shutters respond to environmental conditions, creating light-modulating privacy screens in the dynamic facade.
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Plan Detail
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West Elevation
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South Elevation
Level 1 Floor Plan
East Elevation
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Roof Plan
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TEAM & COLLABORATORS 2014
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