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This Is Not A Party Wall UCLA Fall 2018

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Instructed by Katy Barkan

You Live In A Model UCLA Spring 2019

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Instructed by Alfie Koetter

Muted Vision UCLA Spring 2018

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Instructed by Georgina Huljich

The Fit-Out UCLA Winter 2018

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Instructed by Erin Besler

Flat Studio DVC Spring 2017

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Instructed by Anthony Grand

Freehand Sketch (Pencil)_Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Great Bell and Arc de triomphe de l’Étoile

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This Is Not A P a rt y Wa l l 0 9 .2 0 1 8 - 1 2 .2 0 1 8 Aca d e m i c: U C L A AU D .1 2 2 In str u cto r : Ka ty Ba r ka n TA: C o n n o r Ve r te r a m o ; D a n i e l Po l k

The project is an exploration on

space based on the design process of a residential house for two families. With some basic forms extracted from a given abstract plan diagram of regulating lines, the overall cubic space is divided into a center and its periphery. Each family occupies either the center or the periphery at the bottom, but bleeds into each other as programs go up.

Two families have rather different approaches to interior division: the less light-demanding family (A) has traditional partition walls as division; whereas the more light-demanding family (B) has no interior partition walls but shifting ceiling heights to indicate function changes. Staircases for both families grows along the centrual party wall on different sides, creating distinct scenes and user experience.

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Program Distribution

Based on the given plan diagram,

geometrical shapes are extracted from plan to approximately meet the area requirement.

Forms further break down and shift vertically; finally are distributed to two families according to demand on natural light

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1: Details on Physical Model 2: Program Distribution (Adobe Illustrator) 3: Circulation (Adobe Illustrator) 4 - 7: Floor Plans of 1st - 4th 3

Levels (Adobe Illustrator)

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Yo u L i v e I n A Model ( s e l e c t e d f o r C U R R E N TS e x h i b i t i o n )

0 4 .2 0 1 9 - 0 6 .2 0 1 9 Aca d e m i c: U C L A AU D .1 2 3 In str u cto r : Al fi e Ko e tte r TA: D a n i e l Gr e te m a n ; N o a m Ta yl o r Pa r tn e r : Ji n g yu a n Qi u ; M a r y Wa n

The project proposes a heterotop-

ic mini city in San Pedro, California, which embeds the idea of constant search of center(-ness). The general nine-grid city plan is further divided into the outer ring, the middle ring and the inner ring. as an individual goes towards the physical center of the city, the scale of architectures decreases; on the contrary, an awareness of existing increases. By extracting and condensing eight different architectural moments of the city of Los Angeles into the outer ring, an illusion of lost psychological center(-ness) with eight different miniatured physical centers of LA crowding together.

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Beverly Hills - Hotel

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Hollywood - Theater

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Griffith Park - Rock Climbing Field

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Santa Monica - Shopping Mall 1

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Koreatown - Foodcourt

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LAX - Luxury Store

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WATTS Art District - Art Studio

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DTLA - Office Building

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1: Details on Physical Model 2: Site Plan (Rhino + Adobe Illustrator) 3 - 4: Section Cut (Rhino + Adobe Illustrator) 5: Top Plan (Rhino + Adobe Illustrator) 6: Illusionary Panorama Collage of Physical Model (part)

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Muted Vision ( s e l e c t e d f o r C U R R E N TS e x h i b i t i o n )

0 3 .2 0 1 8 - 0 6 .2 0 1 8 Aca d e m i c: U C L A AU D .1 4 3 In str u cto r : Ge o r g i n a H u l j i ch TA: M i a o j i e ( Te d ) Zh a n g Pa r tn e r : Ji n g yu a n Qi u

Muted Vision is an intervention

of the main office in Perloff Hall on UCLA camapus, heavily depending on the duality of surfaces. Certain surfaces in the office behave in two opposite ways according to two types of viewers. For staffs, surfaces, such as closet doors and desktops, function as containers of complexity, holding the office tools and utilities. For visitors, they behave as blindfolds, hiding the chaotic little objects.

This project exaggerates the contradiction of the two sides of the same surface, minimalizing the complexity of the visitor side and maximizing the richness of the staff side.

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Color Intervention

Recoloring everyting outside the re-

ception desk in different shads of nuture gray to mute the space

Form Intervention

Extruding desk shelves all the way to

the ceiling, and creating a non-existing gap between reception desk island and the rest of office area to further separate the island with the rest

Quantity Intervention

Manipulating office items and filling the

reception desk island up to bring in chaotic mass in the island area

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1: Details on Physical Sectional Model_Intervention 2: Digital Sectional Model (Rhino)_Intervened 3: Details on Physical Sectional Model_Intervention 4: Details on Physical Sectional Model_Intervention 5: Details on Physical Sectional Model_Intervention

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6: Details on Physical Sectional Model_Intervened 7: Details on Physical Sectional Model_ Intervened 8: Overall Physical Sectional Model_ Intervened

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The Fit-Out ( s e l e c t e d f o r C U R R E N TS e x h i b i t i o n )

0 1 .2 0 1 8 - 0 3 .2 0 1 8 Aca d e m i c: U C L A AU D .1 2 1 In str u cto r : Er i n Be sl e r TA: Al e xa n d e r Ab u g o v; Jo sh u a N e l so n Pa r tn e r : Bu r cu Ya se m i n Tu r ka y

The Fit-Out demonstrates the sen-

ario where the algorithm directs the layout of an architectural plan in a pre-designed base building (core included). During the design process of the four-floor office area, a quadrant of the plan is designed and mirrored along two perpendicular axes of symmetry; content gets cropped off whenever it hits the building boundary. Absence of manual intervention has caused certain amount of unusable space and amorphous forms. *Base Building Credit to: Michael Lee; Joseph Guadagno

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Horizontal Algorithm

Based on the “H” form that generates

base buildin, one quadrant of layout bounded in the “H” is initially designed and mirrored twice to fill up the form. Content gets cropped off once hitting the actual building boundary

Vertical Algorithm

Although profiles of floors shift and

misalign, layouts are arranged exactly according to the “H”; content gets cropped off once hitting the building boundary

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1: Details on Physical Model 2: Digital Model of Base Building (Rhino+Adobe Illustrator) 3 - 6: Floor Plans of 7th - 10th Floors (Adobe Illustrator)

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Flat S tudio 0 1 .2 0 1 7 - 0 5 .2 0 1 8 Aca d e m i c: D VC AR C H .2 2 0 In str u cto r : An th o n y Gr a n d Pa r tn e r : Xi n ya o Zh o u

Flat Studio is an experiment where

only 2-dimensional approaches are utilized in developing a 3-dimensional architecture.

During the design process of an art and architecture studio located in uptown Oakland, plans are worked out solely at the beginning, followed by elevations which will cooperate with plans; section cuts are finally produced as a result

of the former two documents.

Working back and forth on all drawing is allowed if demanded. No 3-dimensional representations are required in the project.

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1: Freehand Sketch (Ink)_Site Visit 2: Roof Plan (Adobe Illustrator) 3 - 6: Floor Plans of 1st - 4th Floors (Adobe Illustrator)

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7: West Elevation (Adobe Illustrator) 8: North Elevation (Adobe Illustrator) 9: East Elevation (Adobe Illustrator) 10: South Elevation (Adobe Illustrator) 11: Section Cut (Adobe Illustrator)_C 12: Section Cut (Adobe Illustrator)_A 13: Section Cut (Adobe Illustrator)_B

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