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Gun Srisawat M.Arch II

Southern California Institute of Architecture

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Gun Srisawat M.Arch II

Southern California Institute of Architecture

Table of Contents Statement 06 2GAX

Design Studio I Visual Studies I History Theory I Advanced Materials and Tectonics 2GBX

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Visual Studies II 44 History Theory II 56 Advanced Building Systems 60 Advanced Structures 64 Design Studio II 70

Statement Gun Srisawat is currently enrolled in the M.Arch 2 Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. Gun has worked for practices in Bangkok Thailand in Dolsawad Construction and LYNK architect for one and a half year before moving to the US to pursue Professional degree in architecture. Gun graduate with a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) from Faculty of Architecture and Planing Thammasat University, Thailand While a study in final year he were doing a final project with a group of his friend on advance bamboo design and construction technology and build a pavilion in the resort in the north of Thailand. And while study he work in a wide range of activity with another faculty and in 4th year he also writes and directs a screenplay about Shanghai mafia with other universities which become an architect drama association or â&#x20AC;&#x153;ADAâ&#x20AC;? later on. After Gun graduate, he worked closely with an engineer in a construction company before applying for LYNK architect. While here, Gun gained practical experience in interior design and renovation for a single house.

SEMBLANCES Design Studio

Instructor : Herwig Baumgartner Team : Peter Chu

This studio will interrogate the potential of new forms of digital perception in architecture. The studio will exploit contemporary methods of measuring and analyzing 3D form and space in conjunction with human and computational forms of design production to identify how this transforms our understanding of the relationship between context and architecture. The technology behind data collection allows for the production of overwhelming quantities of information which need to be interpreted and structured. How can we rethink our relationship as designers to these methods to allow for new possibilities in architectural production. Our focus is on the aesthetic dimension of architecture and the possible production of new modes of being in the world. If, as argued above, the shift in modes of reproduction accompanies transformations in the architectural invention, a contemporary approach to architecture would be affiliated to modes of imaging that dislocate the subjectivity of single point perspective, such as machine vision. As a starting point we will work on producing a composite form of selected source material derived from the site context that redefines the formal relationships inherent in selected elements and shifts these toward an architectural scale.

QR code link to Final Animation in Youtube or Click https://youtu.be/tIoxn8uDUak

1. Original Soaps 2. Duplicate and Reasemble 3. 18 Cuts by read the texture and shape 4. Developing new envelop

Top View panning

Site Plan and Contex, Not to scale

Cross Section Drawing, Not to scale

Chunk and Interior, Not to scale

1. Panning Elevation, Event space 2. Panning Elevation, Main Entrance 3. Physical Model Powder Print scale 1 to 32 4. Site Model CNC and Powder Print scale 1 to 32

Visual Studies I FALL 2017 VS4200 ( 2GAX ): Visual Studies 1 Instructor: Kristy Balliet & Casey Rehm Partner : Weitse Yuan

The course will cover issue of contemporart representation and development of splines in relationship to complex digital form and physical and visual space. Visualization today encompasses the development, exploration and communication of information and idea in multiple mediums. This course will engage recent techniques related to splines, gesture interface and virtual reality. And develop critical visual literacy and review methods for generating and evaluating line, surfacees and volume. We will review modes of drawing and modeling in three dimensional space, including the importance of precision and abstraction. Exercises and assiciated tutorials provide opportunities to discover novel concepts through transformation and tactical work flow, multiple realities and digital/physical fabrication.

The Gestural Line Exercise 1 The first exercise requires the generation and design of lines through gestural animation. You will create a series of lines in space and then redesign their relationships and qualities. The initial digital models will engage two different techniques. The first model will be the result of a set of designed lines in Maya and the second model, the generation of lines in Virtual Reality, using Oculus Medium. Both models will use an imaginary bounding area. The project will develop by evaluating and modifying the quality of the

Composite Model Exercise 2 The second will deal with patern, tecture, and surface articulation with VR environments. By choosing three diferent object and read it as a surface of the model. Model in both digital and physical form. We will review modes of drawing and modeling in threedimensional space, including the importance of precision and abstraction. The character of the final modelwill be designed and built by every team. You will be expected to develop expertise and execute your intentions with clarity.

1. Control point of Kendo motion, Draw in Oculus Medium

2. Surface Contour, Not to scale

Texture Model Exercise 3 The final project will ecplore processing and tecturing mapping. The final project will be a refinement of all concepts. Textures and reconstructed models untilize Processsing on previous models. Students will produce an unrolled texture map of their 3D printed model of exercise 2 using slit scanning. Each student group will then develop a 2D pixel bending algorithm to manipulate those maps and reproject them back onto their 3D models. In the second half of the project, students will voxelize their 3D model and develop 3D algorithms based off of their image scripts to modify, transform, add, and subtract from their 3D model. The final output will be an object transformed through algorithms and texture mapped with new 2D scripts. This model will be color printed. Focus on utilizing bottom up logic and intelligent agent based algorithms to manipulate color and matter at a granular level of resolution. As part of this exercise students will produce their own software to operate on both 2D image manipulation and generative 3D solid manipulation.

1. Perspective view. 2. Physical model, Color Powder print, Front view. 3. Physical model, Color Powder print, Back view. 4. Texture mapping through manipulate from Proceesing.

Histroy Theory Paper I 2GAX 2017 Architectural Acts of Appropriation Instructor : Marcelyn Gow Timothy Ivison

How design can guide technology development. This is the first time in the modern history of technology has the architect or designer, been a more critical part of technology’s future. In this essay, I want to focus very little on architecture but to focus a little bit around on a company that I believe that will create an invention of technology in this century “Tesla”. First, I want to discuss how designer use software as a tool for design, which has been significantly developed by technology, right now designer interacts with computers in a very unnatural sort of 2d way and trying to create these 3d objects using a variety of 2d tools. And if this it doesn’t feel natural doesn’t feel normal the way people should do things, So Tesla started playing around with the idea and using a few of things that are available out there such as the leap motion, VR and AR, which it was used as a game engine before. Moving next to Tesla, How can electric car company have enough fund to research rocket technology like Space X and renewable energy like Solar City. By examining and comparing the idea from one man who behind all of the creation “Elon Musk”. The goal of Tesla electric car has always been to have a sort of three-step process, where version one was an expensive car at low volume, version two is medium priced, and medium volume, and then version three would be

low price, high volume. And right now Tesla now in step 2 at the time. In the beginning, Tesla had a 100,000 dollars sports car, which was the Roadster. Then they have got the Model S, which starts at around 50,000 dollars. And their third generation car, which should hopefully be out in about three or four years will be a 30,000 dollars car. According to Elon Musk “whenever you’ve got really new technology, it generally takes about three major versions in order to make it a compelling mass-market product.” As a designer, we should be aware of everything that’s going on all the trends that are happening how those trends might impact the society and how a designer can adapt the work that we do to influent and creating a possible future. Tesla has been focusing on visualisation resources thinking forecasting future vision on sustainable energy and mar colonise. Tesla quite confident that the primary means of power generation will be solar. This gigantic fusion generator in the sky called the Sun. And we just need to tap a little bit of that energy for purposes of human civilization most people know but don’t realise. Everyone knows that the world is always entirely solar powered already if the Sun wasn’t there would be a frozen ice ball at 3 degrees Kelvin. And the Sun powers the entire system of precipitation the whole

ecosystem is solar-powered, but in the gallon of gasoline, it comes from efficiently thousands of years of Sun power compressed into a small particle. Solar industry today is a 40 billion dollar a year market producing 20 gigawatts of power. Unfortunately, that’s less than 1/10 of 1% of the energy that American people demand. Even though by now, people probably all seen Tesla solar panels gracing the rooftops of nearby homes. These clean energy alternatives convert sunlight into electricity that can be used to power electronics device. However, hindrances like the atmosphere and nighttime have led Tesla design team to ask the question: “What if we put solar panels in space?” But before we get into that, let’s talk about Solar technology. Put solar panels either on the ground or on rooftops where every night it gets dark, And it waits for the Sun to rise and harness whatever energy they can before the Sun sets. Some of the incoming radiation from the Sun is reflected back into space by the clouds, atmospheric particles, or bright surfaces on the ground. And even more, is absorbed in the atmosphere by things like water vapour and ozone. Not only do earth have the day and night cycle which guarantees intermittency but what about clouds and weather and different variants on gradients of latitude. But what if there was a way that people can actually harness the power of the Sun 24 hours a day and be able to capture that and use it in a way that provided the holy grail of renewable energy base on solar power. In the near future, Space X design team aim to collect energy from outer space, by taking solar panels and put-

ting them into a geosynchronous orbit about 35,000 kilometres above the Earth where its orbital period matches Earth’s rotational period. And the solar satellites that may potentially go here are pretty wacky looking. And now Tesla has the technology to be able to convert that electricity into a transferable microwave frequency beam it back down to earth. With pinpoint accuracy safely and reliably to create constant energy generated by the Sun 24 hours a day. In contrast lot of people question has always been asked of space-based solar power can it really be done and if so how?. The questions now really have been centring on when will it be done and who to be first? Wireless power transmission has been the subject of investigation since Nikola Tesla’s experiments in 19th century. Tesla famously began building a 57-meter tower on New York’s Long Island, hoping to use it to beam power to such targets as moving airships, but his funding was cancelled before he could complete his dream. According to Tesla and NASA, back in 1968 a renowned scientist Peter glacier first proposed the concept in the 70s. He did some studies and tests to verify that the physics of wireless power transmission worked. More studies were done in the 80s, and then a fresh look in the 90s all through the same conclusion is yes, Space solar power is technically feasible. The challenge has never been the technology the challenge has always been economics, But it could become a reality in the not so distant future due to Space X a subsidiary of Tesla company a which make an investment in a rocket technology, and the cost of launching cargo into space comes way down.

Reference image from : 5 Insane Elon Musk Quotes About The Futuristic World He Thinks Technology Will Bring Us.

Looking at the most creative country in the world Japan, Japan has taken one more step ahead of anyone by studies this potential source of renewable energy in the future. The reason for this might be the disaster at Fukushima, has lead to them to aware more of dirty fuels.Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), added further weight to the notion of a space-based solar power. The agency is planning a roadmap involving a 1 Gigawatt solar farm in space and sent it back by microwave beam on a man-made island in the Tokyo harbour, which could be used collect and convert energy from space and supply power to Earth by 2040. How SolarCity raises their fund. The answer is having Google as huge partnership. By help them install a solar panel on their power plant. SolarCity purchases and installs the panel on the roof and

then charges the homeowner or business owner a monthly lease payment, which is less than the utility bill. And the Owner gets a long-term commercial benefit from that power. It like a kind of building a new type of distributed utility. And I think it’s a good thing, because utilities have been this monopoly, and people haven’t had any choice. So this it’s the first time there’s been competition for this monopoly, because the utilities have been the only ones that owned those power distribution lines, but now it’s on your roof. A private Space company. The first things I think about this is why on earth would someone do that?. Before 2008 Space X came very close to failure, but they managed to get through that point. The goal of SpaceX is to try to advance rocket technology, and in particular to

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try to crack a problem that I think is vital for humanity to become a space-faring civilization. Which is to have a rapidly and fully reusable rocket. As an architect and designer we always dream of designing an architecture to take humanity to Mars at scale. For example, Guidice’s painting are closer to those in another urban design reference, “Compact City: A Plan for a Liveable Urban Environment (1973), by George B. Dantzig and Thomas L. Saaty. This book described a scheme for a new Earthbound city with in 250,000 residence, in the shape of giant ring, with stacks of terraced housing and office around and inside it. The drawing in Compact City, by architect John Lange, show landscaped interiors with plants growing under artificial light. These has linked the impulse behind the design if these habitats, especially as promoted by Stewart Brand, to broader notion of the frontier.

In his book, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006). And the very iconic work from Don Davis. :” Construction along the Standford Torus Rim, 1975. And: “Stanford Torus Cutaway view, Rick Guidice for NASA, 1975. In Conclusion, I’ve learned from the very innovative company that great design always solves problem. But to be a professional designer, we have to know more than how to design a good building. But we have to gain an ability to think at a system level of design that pulls together design, technology and business into one package, synthesize it in your own way, test it and if you fail, test it again, no matter how many times it fails. Finally I belive that this is the crucial time for a designer to lead the development of technology by integrating the understanding of human behaviour and science together.

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Advanced Materials and Tectonics AS 32000

Fall 2017 ( 2GAX ): Instructor: Maxi Spina Team : Peter Yun Chu, Weitse Yuan, Sandy Lao The class paired areas of investigation and speculation are Tectonics predominantly building envelopes and performance largely consisting of technical, technological, cultural and environmental dimensions. Working in groups throughout the entire semester, the student analyzes and document a precedent in order to formulate a series of hypotheses in an attempt to construct a number of interrelated tectonic conjectures. In scrutinizing building assemblies, the class will attempt to positionconstruction analysis so as to produce both technical knowledge and critical awareness of embedded cultural habits. The class will thus seek out an alternative understanding of the tectonic one that not only mirrors the realm of construction materials, methods, sequences, tolerances, etc. But also embrace architectural processes of expression, encompassing issues of geometry and technique posture and character; etc.

1. Axonometric of Envelop system, Not to scale.

The Silo Design Transformation. This design transformation aimed at exploring approaches for heat gain reduction and shading through facade design, The study used digital simulation from Ladybug to analyze radiation analysis and shadow studies which take place in Los Angeles, California. Testing took place from June to December 2017. The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of thermal transformation and orientation from Original Building â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Siloâ&#x20AC;? which located in Nordhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark. According to the climate in Nordhavn, the external screen shading for this building has to be resistant to the sea breeze and salty moisture from entering a building. Stainless steel is the best material solution for this context. But the problem is the Climate in L.A. is hot and dry almost entire year. So our study was compared three different shading strategies to determine its effect on thermal mass in the building. The First type is to increase the angle of cladding material to reflect more sunlight. The second is adding more upper shading, and third is rotate the entire shading. In summary, the results of the study showed that adding more shading in the west and south sides of the building are very effective to reduce UV light. And the study also found that another way to reduce heat mass during the night from a concrete wall is to constructing two layers of exterior wall with space in the middle and changing the window glass from clear to 6 mm-thick green tinted heat absorbing glass might be the best way to save investment cost.

Sunlight Hours Analysis

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Solar Radiantion- Facade

Solar Radiantion- Interior

The new facade is successfully decorated the old building, but it also blocks the 80 percent of the sunlight. To solve this situation, Architect uses perforated Galvanized-steel to allows more sunlight into the building.

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Precedent Study: The Silo System: Galvanised-steel Cladding & Steel

Radiation Analysis

Copenhagen_DNK 1 Jan 1:00 - 31 Dec 24:00

Sunlight Hours Analysis

Annual Windrose

The main facade of the building is facing the east and west side, and these two side is not shading by the building around. The south side of the building get the most sunlight, but it is the narrowest side of the building to receive the sunlight.

Based on the climate data in Copenhagen, The Average Temperature of the year is 8.5. Therefore, the building prefers to prevent the heat going outside, instead of cooling down the interior. This building utilizes the triple-layer glass to prevent the heat leak to the outside. Meanwhile, in order to reduce the construction fee, this building can use the triple-layer glass at the west side, double-layer glass on the east and south side and single-layer glass on the north side which do not face any wind.

Solar Radiantion- Interior

Solar Radiantion & Wind

Facade blocks almost 80 percent of sunlight. People have to go to the balcony to get the sunlight and it is why the architect design such modulate facade with a balcony. Also, on the rooftop is an open space with fulfilling sunlight that allows people to go and enjoy the sunshine.

This building utilizes the triple-layer glass to prevent the heat leak to the outside. Meanwhile, in order to reduce the construction fee, this building can use the triple-layer glass at the west side.

ENVIRONMEN

Advance Tectonic Gun Srisawat _ Lingchen “Sandy“ Liao _ Weitse “Alfred“ Yuan _ Yun “Pete

Enevelop Detail, Not to scale

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Big Picture Visual Studies II

Spring 2018 ( 2GBX ): Visual Studies II Instructor: Ryan Tyler Martinez & Casey Reas Partner : Siyao Zheng

It introduces Processing, a flexible software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, and advanced 3D modeling in Zbrush and Autodesk Maya for the production of architectural representation through the development of digital techniques. Beginning with the fundamentals of Processing, the course will examine the notion of “Regularity and Random”, “Growth, Form, and Simulation”, and “Emergence” in both two and three dimensions. Students will be required to constantly work between code and output, gaining familiarity with the constraints and advantages of the software. Later in the semester students will work in teams of two and will be introduced to XGen, a geometry instancer that lets you populate the surface of polygon meshes with an arbitrary number of primitives either randomly or uniformly placed. XGen lets you quickly populate large-scale environments, including grass savannas, forests, rocky landscapes, and debris trails. As a final deliverable for the class, teams will work with other teams to create large pictorial landscapes using the combination of their output from Processing, spherical envelope volumes in Zbrush and XGen surface textures in Autodesk Maya.

QR CODE TO Processing Animation in Youtube.

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Sperical Envelopes Exercise 2 Students will be asked to investigate and research Topiary Gardens as a surface treatment for their massing studies that will be used in their large pictorial landscapes. Using XGen to deploy grass, fur, vegetation, etc., the development of graphic gardens, field conditions, and intricate landscapes will be at the forefront of this assignment. Students should revisit their output (data) from processing for the making of interstitial spaces between volumes and ground, land and vegetation.

Object 1 Using primitive like square, triangle and circle shapes and a letter, create a more formal spherical envelope.

Object 2 Using typography only, create a complex spherical envelope.

Detail 01

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Histroy Theory Paper II 2GBX 2018 Architectural Acts of Appropriation Instructor : Erik Ghenoiu Henry H Yang

Architectural Intelligence “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

Stephen Hawking

AI services on top in an effort to differentiate their offerings. And by using artificial intelligence as a strategic weapon to help achieve their outsize ambitions. But what are the resources that they were using for improving their AI, of course, it “Data”.

People all over the world are mourning the death of legendary physicist Stephen Hawking, who just passed away on Wednesday, March 14th. In this essay, I want to focus very little on architecture but to focus a little bit around on Hawking’s last comments on Reddit during his AMA,

“Data is the new oil”. Base on the stastistic form Internet World Stats to the increase of the internet users in the word by the end of 2017, The total number is 4,156,932,140 peoples with forecast form the statistic that this number will be rocketing at the end of 2018. Working with Big

Ask in 2016. The discussion focused on artificial intelligence. What are Stephen Hawking warnings us about the risks of AI and as an architect how can we adapt to the coming age of AI?

Data by collecting ocean of information gathered by our devices and stored in the Cloud amounts to much more than the material conditions of the world around us. According to form the article form Rron Beqiri on Future Architecture Platform. “ By already knowing everything about us, our hobbies, likes, dislikes, activities, friends, our yearly income, etc. AI software can calculate population growth, prioritise projects, categorise streets according to usage and so on, and thus predict a virtual future and automatically draft urban plans that best represent and suit everyone.” Gathering and analysis information about a project and it is constraints is often the first

By now we’ve all heard of AI, remember when it was just science fiction and then one day there it was in your pocket like Siri, Alexa or Google just another normal everyday thing that you been using from your smartphone. Base on these big name company like Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and yes Microsoft, These tech giants who have a cloud computing business are adding

stage of an architectural design process, traditionally involving travelling to the site, like measuring, sketching and taking photographs. But In the Social media like Instagram, there is already a swarm like an abundance of data for the architect to tap into the hashtag, already linked and referenced against other sources allowing the designer to, in effect, simulate the surrounding site without ever having to engage with it physically. Let’s go back to Stephen Hawking for a little bit before we continue. One Reddit user also asked him “How smart do you think the human race can make AI?”, “while ensuring that it doesn’t surpass them in intelligence?” and he answer “It’s clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: We evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents. The line you ask about is where an AI becomes better than humans at AI design, so that it can recursively improve itself without human help. If this happens, we may face an intelligence explosion that ultimately results in machines whose intelligence exceeds ours by more than ours exceeds that of snails.” This gave me as a clue that AI might growing rocketing. As “Moore’s law” explains, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years. This means that in the future, a computer can design a better one that can design a better one and so on. But how smart is AI right now in the year 2018? According to the research paper form A.I.

Architecture Intelligence May 2016 Architecture and Urban Planning in the age of Artificial Intelligence in an article by Rron Beqiri. “ There are also projects by IBM and Google that produce supercomputers capable of beating humans basically at any game. Watson by IBM beat humans at Jeopardy, Deep Blue, another supercomputer by IBM beat Garry Kasparov at chess and lately DeepMind by Google beat Lee Se-dol at what’s known as the most complex game ever invented, the Chinese board game “Go”. At this point all the A.I. in the world is what’s called ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence), or as it’s sometimes known, Weak A.I. This means that it can handle a chess game or complex algorithms, but is not capable of making intuitive decisions or learn as it ages, it’s not even nearly as smart as humans.” So as an architect how can we adapt to the coming age of AI?. There is research form Oxford, November 2017, by Phil Bernstein. This question was recently explored further “ The Way We’ll Work Tomorrow”. Which suggested that modern knowledge work, as much of that performed by architects today, should be considered not so much as “by job” or “by task”. And that tasks are likely to be automated in the next five years. Professions exist to systematise expertise and, by extension, control access to it. Computation democratises access to that expertise by digitising and distributing it, but does this lead to an inevitable decline for the need for professionals themselves? Also, he imagines the future of design tools as “systems that accept any type of input that a designer can produce a collaboration

with the computer to iteratively target a high performing result that meets all the varied needs of the design team”. In Conclusion, this new tool might be future for architects to be less in the business of drawing and more into specifying requirements of the problem, making them more in collaborating with their machine counterparts in a project. And architects who adopt AI tools first would have the ability to “synthesise a broad set of high level requirements from the design stakeholders. For clients and engineers, and produce design documentation as output”, in line with Engelbart’s vision of AI augmenting the skills of designers, It is only a matter of time until it becomes the one and only way.

Advanced Building Systems AS 32001

Spring 2018 ( 2GBX ) Instructor: Russell Fortmeyer Team : Peter Yun Chu, Yu Lieng, Gabbri Zabbri This course asks us to consider the integration of advanced building systems in the contemporary architectural project. Rather than accept the conventional basis of this position, which is arguably a stillborn legacy from 20th-century modernist and state-supported capitalist agendas, this course will reframe the terms of what is considered “advanced” in light of global resource scarcity and the continuing pressures of climate change, political instability, and income inequality. We will explore the key topics of technology—building envelopes, mechanical, electrical, lighting, plumbing, fire/life safety, controls and security, and vertical transportation—as symptoms of the failure of the fundamental and passive basis of architecture to find expression, learning new analytical and modeling approaches to progressive design that re-instates the core values of an architecture for people. Students will learn alternative approaches to technical documentation and economic models that underpin the architectural project. The class is structured around lectures, exams, and readings, with an on-going semester group project on a precedent project.

Shadow Simulation Perspective view : Overall Summer Using the data and building location form sunchart and generate a simulation in lumion 8 understand the shading for daytime use.

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Aldo’s Kitchen

Top view Wind Simulation in Overall Summer Arpil - July

Location : Sibang Kaja,Bali Client: Green School Site Area: 45.000 sqm Floor Area: 500 sqm Bamboo Material Use (structure): 12.000 m’ Completion: September 2007 Aldo’s kitchen is a living legacy of the brilliance of the late Aldo Landwher. This structure was one of the earliest expressions of some of the key architecture concepts currently used by IBUKU. It was a prelude to Green School’s Heart of School, which is a extrapolation of this original design. Aldo’s kitchen is three stories high, and includes a basement and a secret underground tunnel. It is currently used to house the IBUKU design team. It was initially designed to be a restaurant, but it is currently the headquarters of the IBUKU office, highlighting the versatility and longevity of the bamboo structure. Defit Wijaya, senior architect of IBUKU, explains that the design was based on the shape of a snail, spiraled and without orthogonal parts. “With 3 levels and a large central tower, it allows the entrance of zenithal light and was fitted with the exhaust chimney for the kitchen at the core of the ground level.” Due to the climate of the region, there are no perimeter walls, allowing for abundant ventilation, which even runs through the floors, due to the permeable bamboo floor. Large eaves do not allow rain to enter the environment.

Axon view Wind Simulation in Overall Summer Arpil - July

Advanced Structures AS 32002

Spring 2018 ( 2GBX ) Instructor: Greg Otto

The course is an introduction to the structural concepts available to the designer to imagine and ultimately design long-span, large-volume architecture. The desire to create enclosure - space that is protected from the external environment has continued to evolve, pressing for greater span and more imaginative solution. Scale and geometric complexity create significant challenges unique to this subset of building typologies. Knowledge of the concepts, their strengths and the associated challenges in both design and construction, will enable the design decision making process to arrive at appropriate solutions.

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Man Made Nature DS 1201

Spring 2018 ( 2GBX ) Instructor: Kristy Balliet Partner: Siyao Zheng Issues of labor, commerce, tourism, and global economies marked the final phases of what is usually called “modernization”. This process can be described as the end of nature - using Zizek’s words, “Nature is over, there is no nature anymore.” And while classical ideals of nature disappear, the territory of nature has silently become an area for work, speculation and potentially a new aesthetic of architecture. It is precisely in this arena that the studio will look for new architectural opportunities. This year the 2GBX Design Studio will take on this controversial discussion - how contemporary “architecture” engages with “nature” within a high density city setting like Downtown LA. The project is productively situated between a mid-rise and tower massing, during one of the fastest economic turns that transformed a low density industrial zone into a highly valuable land for mixed-used developments. These definitions are often relative to context and are relevant here, as the area of the project is in transition from horizontal fringe to a vertical landscape condition. This mixture of expansive market hall and repetitive vertical housing units will be exploited through the deliberate integration of nature, real, implied or fake. This combination will require innovative reconsider of circulation models, hybrid structural systems and an extensive exploration of material and color. Mixed-use

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Sequence of Experience Kristy Balliet’s studio will focus on an architecture that flickers between multiple grounds – fore, middle, and back – grounds. The studio will review qualities of the picturesque, notably, the disruption of the promenade in favor of the oblique, a preference for the elevational over the planimetric and a calibration of multiple centers. The designs will calibrate accidental irregularities to challenge the consumption of a complete or primary image. We will engage a multitude of orientations, leaning on a jostling of the massing between expectation of repetition and abrupt idiosyncrasies. As a typology, mixed use buildings often trade in negotiation or indifference. We are not interested in the hybrid or the generic but aim to amplify the experience of the distant mass, the intermediate glance and the intimate view all at once. Finally, in lieu of crisp distinctions and as an acknowledgment of the swallowing of a market hall within a repetitive massing, the projects will oscillate between background gestures and distributed highlights. Elevation

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Egress / Accessibility / Circulation In this version, the ground floor is open to the public with a couple of original and new entrances and connected to the pedestrian area. People could enter the market from any street corner or pass through the market hall from Maple Ave to Wall Street.

The exposed spherical volume allows the users to go directly up the rooftop area from street level and then enter the elevator to upper event space. For the residents, they could enter the residential tower from both the Maple Ave and Wall Street. The market area has four egress exit with a loop egress access. The tower has two egress exit for residential and an extra exit for public event space.

Massing Study Selected Version In this version, the original historical market was kept as a plinth, and new market pavilions with different but similar forms are inserted into the plinth. This approach maintains the historical fabric and reorganizes the internal circulation of the market. It creates new experiences interacting with the old market and elevated urban space that connects to an adjacent city in different ways. The market reconfiguration and the new rooftop are

similar to the precedent of Le Corbusierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CitĂŠ Radieuse and SANAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, which both designed the objects and the spaces in-between. The tower consists of many different volumes that are wrapped into one integral massing, which extends the experience of the city beyond street level into multiple levels. It orients towards east and west to minimize the heat gain, and its curved elevation provides different views of city for each residential unit.