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A r c h i t e c t u r e Po r t fo l i o Univer sity of Califor nia Berkeley

Table of Contents Architecture Studio 100C The New World: Life After Work Instructor: Keith Krumwiede

Architecture Studio 100B Good Food - SOMA Street Instructor: William Di’Napoli

Architecture Studio 100A Double Negative / Stair / Library Instructor: Raveevarn Choksambatchai

Architecture Construction 160 Steel Stair Project Instructor: Dana Buntrock GSI: Nikita Tugarin

LOVE &

St. Gall Precedent Study

Architecture The goal of this studio is to imagine new forms of collective dwelling that focuses on fabricating a future for a world in which individuals are freed from the requirement of work as a means of survival. The studio addresses the question by developing new set of parameters by imagining new social, economic, and political context represented through compellingly beautiful narratives and story-telling that make collective life seem both more necessary and more desirable.

Narratives of Collective Living & Love

Isometric of St. Gall

Remixing of House Plans

Architecture Studio 100C The New World: Life After Work Instructor: Keith Krumwiede

I want to believe that the society of the future will put this newly found liberation and excess of time to chase our own fundamental interests. The abundance of time will allow us to enrich our lifestyle by embarking on a quest for humanity and the common good. Freedom, to pursue our best quality - LOVE. The design proposal is developed on the premise of using proxemics - the study of human interaction - and the intermingling it with domesticated architecture to create a new social order that challenges the notion of the “house” and the “dream”.

LIFE Dream House Plans

1996 GRAVES

1997 RATTENBURY

1998 JACOBSEN

I chose affordable source houses designed by famous architects from the LIFE Dream House magazine, which I remixed by superimposing the points of social interactions - collisions - within the circulation of the floor plans to create what I have formally defined as “The Pile�.

The pile situates itself in the middle of Walnut Creek, California, an idealized community for the American dream by lending itself to the familiarity of domesticity. This willful form making results in building out of the known into the absurd unknown.

Remixing of LIFE Dream House Plans

Isometric

“The Pile”

South West

By re-reading the initial “Pile” superimposed floor plan the Micro Village is born out of the response for desire through the eloquent and meaningfulness of architecture. These sequences of spatial relationships play off of the overall mass and their articulated parts by providing an awareness for new order that is aligned with our dreams and aspirations for love.

By choosing houses from the 1990’s underlines the passage of time and the difference between domesticated life in the past and present. The choice of this representation is certainly speculative since it is absurd yet familiar, which is critiquing the notion of the domestic home.

South East

North West

North East

Elevation Oblique

Suburban Setting Walnut Creek

MicroVilla ge 37°53’49.2”N 122°02’53.2” W Floor Area:15,846sq.ft.

Proper ty Area: 48,130sq.ft. (~1 Acre)

Roof Plan

First Floor

Second Floor

Micro Village Scenes

“A healthy self-lo ve means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vaca tions, why we sleep la te, why we buy ne w shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfor table doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”

Andre w Ma the ws, Being Happy, 1988

It didn’ t ma tter ho w big our house was; it ma ttered tha t there was lo ve in it.

Peter Buffett, Life Is Wha t You Make It: Find Your Own Pa th to Fulfillment, 2010

So yes. It had fla ws, but wha t does tha t ma tter when it comes to ma tters of the hear t?

We lo ve wha t we lo ve. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise lo ve is the truest lo ve.

Anyone can lo ve a thing BECAUSE. Tha t’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.

But to lo ve a thing DESPITE. To kno w the fla ws and lo ve them too.

Tha t is rare and pure and perfect.

Pa trick Rothfuss, Wise Man’s Fear, 2011

It is perhaps ob vious tha t human desire has shaped the built environment, sometimes in ways tha t today we may judge as unsuitable for the common good.

Alber to Pere z-Gome z - Built Upon Lo ve, 2006

Unrolled Section Cut

GOOD FOOD SOMA

Autumn Solstice September 21

S T R E AT

Winter Solstice

December 21

Drive chain track (behind)

Drive chain track

18’ - 0”

This project approaches the studio with a common set of interests. These interests are centered around food awareness, education, challenging the norms of mass food production advancing food research, slow food, promoting and supporting urban farming and food production, and the celebration of good, healthy, local food. By working within a key set of design strategies such as dealing with program, energy, and building performance as part of the activators and approach of this studio.

This side must be accessible Shelves pinned to and hung from chain

Architecture Studio 100B

Site Plan - South of Market

Water wheel

March 21

Water trough

Drive mechanism

Research Design - Good Food Instructor: William Di’Napoli

Spring Solstice

ELEVATION

SECTION

ELEVATION

Min 2’ Aisle

Min 2’ aisle at water wheel

No clearence required

4’ Work aisle one side PLAN

Drive chain track (behind)

Summer Solstice

Drive chain track

June 21

18’ - 0”

The programmatic premise of the project is open-ended and embodies the belief that urban life provides a continually shifting set of needs and continually evolving infrastructure which support those needs. By negotiating the primary elements of the project; the program, urban fabric, food research, Sky Green Modules and culinary incubators can help with the planning phase to study the performance and material effects of this project. The Sky Green Modules as depicted above will also serve as both a constraint and activator for the project to develop the productive merger and interaction of these programs through the spatial typologies they produce.

6’ - 0”

10’ - 0”

This side must be accessible Shelves pinned to and hung from chain

Water wheel Water trough

Drive mechanism

ELEVATION

Sky Greens Module

SECTION

ELEVATION

Min 2’ Aisle

10’ - 0”

Fish Eye Lens Sun Path

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SUN PATH DIAGRAM

WINTER SUN

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Isometric Diagram of Air & Light

By reading the flow of secondary traffic the division and placement of the programs were determined to accommodate foot traffic, loading dock, and sun path.

Determine the placement for the sky greens modules and back of house programs by having a dialogue and response with the flow and rate of foot and vehicular traffic from the major one way street.

Subtract volumes from the over all mass as a response to the prevailing NW winds providing natural ventilation for each of the programmatic needs.

Configure the form as a response to the urban fabric and determine the continuous flow of foot traffic into the deeper spaces of the vertical program.

Connect the urban fabric and modify the form to lend itself as both the main circulation and blend the gradient of private and public programs.

plans

HICKORY STREET

RESEA RCH/ PROD UCTIO N

PUBLIC/ EVENT SPACE

F4

F3

F2

Y SPACE

F1

KITCHENS RUORBOAMN

MARKET

Program Diagram

EXHIBITION

GALLER

HALL

OAK STREET

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5’

10’

50’

20’

S2

PUBLIC OUTDOOR PARK

S3

S1

The building is designed to allow the continuous flow of traffic coming in from the intersection of Oak Street and Franklin Street. Where the ground floor accommodates a large common space for the market hall, loading, and service areas. Majority of the hall is and connects with the street level by allowing passerby to experience the kitchen incubators through the senses of smell, sight, and sound. As you travel along the ramp you are experiencing the two primary programs: Urban Test Farm and Research Facility. At the top of the building a giant Public Outdoor Park that allows everyone to enjoy and have their lunches away from the direct impact of the city. By gathering different programs around a shared subject of interest, or for public/private access, or a building that has a similar set of spatial elements combined together.

RF

F4

F2 RF

FRANKLIN STREET

Floor

F1

F3

RF

Exterior Scene From the corner of Franklin and Oak Street the recessed facade and the Sky Green Modules work together to advertise the building inviting people into the market hall leading them upward to where the commissary kitchens will be working as culinary incubators growing their own food in the Sky Green Modules. From the Second Floor people will have the opportunity to walk through the floating gardens where the vegetables are picked fresh for the kitchens.

S1

Interior Scene At the ground floor the heart of the building varied groups of people that work in the building daily range from scientist to farmers and bakers are at the fore front of the threshold between public/urban fabric and the inner private portions of the building.

People will have first hand experience to see the actual production and assembly of food for distribution and consumption.

This also doubles as an educational tool for food awareness from children to adults.

S2

Roof Scene The urban sky farm is wedged between the utility volume that also acts as a bridge between services and the programs. The vertical sky farms is the core of the building where majority of the food grown is and consumed for the incubator test kitchens.

People walking by will have the opportunity to walk between the sky farms. This produces an opportunity to educate the public about food, farming, and waste. The roof of the building is the final program that the public will reach. This shared space is elevated above the city fabric and calls for enjoyable lunches and outings within the city.

S3

Potrero Hill Library Double

Negative

The programmatic investigation for this project revolves around the conceived detailing of the book stacks as poche. The housing of books brings with it a host of dimensional and logistical requirements that allow the organization of the programs to explore and exploit the social aspects and interactions from gathering spaces, computer terminal access points, community meeting rooms, children’s nooks and quiet areas. This position on how a contemporary library should be designed is reinforcing the realm for new experiences that adapt the needs of its customers through the evolving public and private realm.

Architecture Studio 100A

Double Negative / Stair / Library Instructor: Raveevarn Choksombatchai

This project investigates the nature of the contemporary library by designing the social and individual space, sequence and vertical circulation through the negative and poche program space that has a dialogue and relationship with the form and envelope in a constrained site.

By designing with the previous concepts in mind, it is an evolution of the stair and double negative project where the investigation of space free from many building constraints.

First Floor

Second Floor

Ground Floor

Architecture Studio 100A

Double Negative / Stair / Library Instructor: Raveevarn Choksombatchai

This project is an extension of the double negative project that works with scale, program and a highly specific site. By expanding upon the spatial and formal architectural language developed in the last project design a vertical and horizontal circulation of stairs and paths that connect Connecticut Street and 20th Street.

The project programs include 2 contemplative viewing spaces fro 1-3 people and a small gathering area for 15. Because the site is located in San Francisco the consequence of its geography is a stair case that also reflects the steep San Francisco streets that are legendary and immortalized in film and television. The circulation allows its viewers a scenic view to the bay that considers urban context as an opportunity to develop the programmatic elements within the pathway or circulation.

Architecture Studio 100A

Double Negative / Stair / Library Instructor: Raveevarn Choksombatchai The approach of this studio was to resist the design of external form at the expense of interior space and vice versa. By focusing on space and form as a complementary and subtractive process the result is a three dimensional spatial construct, a double negative, where the subtraction of volumes/voids intersect producing a third condition.

The project focuses on a conceptual premise that promotes rigorous and specific thought combined with more generalized abstract thinking to produce a formal and conceptual language through out the series of projects. By choosing a sculpture by the artist Tony Smith as the basis and origin of geometric relationships design and study form, scale and abstraction of negative space making. Choosing Smoke (1/3), LACMA, 1967 I investigated the abstraction of gridded geometric translation and rotation. The result was a scale of void that permits volumes to shift from large scale to smaller scale from a singular point of origin.

Tenseg rity Stair Architecture Construction 160 Steel Stair Project Instructor: Dana Buntrock GSI: Nikita Tugarin The objective of this project was to construct a stair case that was made entirely of steel. The stair case had to demonstrate our understanding of steel components and their ability to withstand compression and tension while complying to the rules and regulations that govern stair codes. Our design was born out of the idea of Tensegrity and using only cold connections to build each and independent step.

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