Architecture Portfolio 2013 - 2015
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Date of birth January, 1st 1991 Curriculum Vitae
Ryan Farnam
Nationality Iranian-American
Launguages Fluent English and Farsi
Objective Statement I am seeking an opportunity to further develop the design knowledge and sensibilties of my architectural education within a professional enviornment. Through this experiences, i hope to become an integral member of a collaborative team that leverages my abilities and creates opportunity to develop new ones.
Work Experience California Pizza Kitchen, Santa Monica, CA Host/Take-Out/Server, Feb 2011 - 2013
Cold Stones Creamery, Santa Minica, CA Staff Member, Feb 2007 - Mar 2009
Baseball Field Snack Shack, Santa Monica, CA Food Service, Feb 2009 - Jun 2011
Education Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc), Los Angeles, CA Graduate 2018
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA Architecture Candidate, Jun 2013
Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, CA High School Diploma, Jun 2010
ool, Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA High School Diploma, Jun 2010
Software Proficiencies Rhinoceros 3D sas
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Maxwell Studio AutoCAD Vray Maya - Illustrator
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Frameworks, Sites and Context Boys & Girls Club, Hollywood
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Form Works, Program Element : Food Science Institute
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Material and Behavioral Strategies for the Physical World A Small Space
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Conceptial Strategies for the Physical World Los Angeles Center for Architecture (LACA)
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Visual Studies Technologies of Description
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Frameworks, Sites and Contexts - Boys & Girls Club 2nd Year Studio Instructor - Ben Smith Fall 2014 The emephasis of the project was on the development of disciplinarly infromed frameworks and sophisticated techniques for design proecesses, outcomes and discourse. After studying overarching or contingent organizational strategies in significant architectural precedents. The project composed of a small institution on an urban site with inteligible organizational interrelations of form, geometry, site conditions, context, and program. There is also a strong emphasis on the understanding of solid/ void relationships, delineation, and choreographing movement through space.
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- Massing Strategies
Analyzing physical relationships and volumetric characteristics of mass through strategies and operations. These categories allow volume and massing to emerge and operate as formal geometrical transformations -- defining architectural characteristics. It was during this massing segment that I developed an interest in a weaving schematic. After creating a handful of iterations, many of which dealt with a simple extrusion of parts risen to different heights (13), I concluded on a weaving form in which was comprised of two independent free flowing forms that never once come to a point of intersection.
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Stacking + Rotating
Wrapping + Abstracting
Monoliths + Booleans
Aperatures + Booleans + Repetition + Adjacencies
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Weaving + Stacking
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to the massing ideals to further study form-program relationships. I went about developing the organization by grouping the different programs into categories (public, private, inside/outside, education, fitness, adminision, etc). Once I exhausted this grouping mechanism, I began placing down pieces that I felt complimented one another, using my formal weaving strategy as my placemat.
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Name Entrance (2) Offices Storage/Janitorial Space Bathrooms Library/Study Center
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Teen Center
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OD Space of Faculty
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Parking Lot (2) Gymnasium Locker Room (2)
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My Proposal
- Boys and Girls Club, Hollywood
The merging of two fundamentally opposing formal languages; this is the concept that drove my project forward. I derived this idea from my early study of weaving massing strategies, where on one end, the form was constructed through a simple extrusion of parts risen to different heights and always in contact; and the other, through means of a free flowing curvilinear form that never once comes to point of intersection. I wanted my Boys and Girls Club to find the balance between both these logics, a place where orthogonal meets curvilinear.
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Roof : // 36’
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Frameworks: Programs 2nd Year Studio Instructor - Emily White January 2015 Programming - a thorough analysis of the quantitative and qualitative requirements of a building or site - has long been at the core of the architectural practive. Cultural values and traditions, politics and technology have hostorically all driven programmatic principles. By extension, the relationship between form and program has similarly evolved based on the context of the time.
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Develop an understanding of the relationship between the form and the function of a building. It should be understood that the relationship between form and funciton is reciprical in nature. Meaning form informs function and function informs form.
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Program - Food Science Institute
Test Kitchens (35,000 CFT) Fire Food Science Lab (42,000 CFT) Test Kitchens (35,000 CFT)
Sensory Room (6,000 CFT) Sensory Room (6,000 CFT)
Food Science Lab (42,000 CFT) Sensory Room (12,000 CFT)
Meats & Fish Fabrication Room (5,000 CFT)
Seminar rooms (15,000 CFT)
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Seminar rooms (15,000 CFT)
Edible Garden (3,633 CFT) Computer lab (4000 CFT) Food storage (3,502 CFT)
Auditorium (40,000 CFT) Edible Garden (3,633 CFT) Library (11,500 CFT)
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Student lounge (31,852 CFT)
Market (15,000 CFT) Dining hall / Cafe (6,000 CFT) Exhibition space (6000 CFT) Computer lab (4000 CFT) Cold Food Storage (4,000 CFT) Food storage (3,502 CFT) Restrooms (10,000 CFT) Building facilities storage (3,000 CFT)
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Given Program 1/32” = 1’-0”
Dining hall / Cafe (6,000 CFT) Exhibition space (6000 CFT)
Circulation (53,432 CFT)
Circulation (53,432 CFT)
Total buiding interior (334,752 CFT)
Meats & Fish Fabrication Room (5,000 CFT) Cold Food Storage (4,000 CFT) Restrooms (10,000 CFT) Library (11,500 CFT) Dorms (15580 CFT)
Dorms (15580 CFT)
Administration (10,000 CFT) Lobby (9,000 CFT)
Auditorium (40,000 CFT)
Administration (10,000 CFT) Lobby (9,000 CFT) Market (15,000 CFT) Building facilities storage (3,000 CFT) Total buiding interior (334,752 CFT)
Program Distribution by Type and Volume 1/32” = 1’-0”
Program Distribution by Micromorphology 1/32” = 1’-0”
Diagrammatic axonometric 1/32” = 1’-0”
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Material & Behavioral Strategies for the Physical World - Truncated Dodecahedron 1st Year Studio Instructor - Betty Kassis September 2013 This work serves as an introduction to the fundamental means and manners of working spatially and abstractly. The territory of architecture is as broad as the work around us, it can be thought of at a global environmental scale, or at the size of cities and planning, transportation and infrastructure, buildings and structures, and even down to the smallest objects taht surround us. Whatever the size of architectural intervention, there are fundamental asects of space, form and experience that transvers all scales.
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In this series transformation, I aim to reverse the dominant and subdominant role of the interwoven geometries (decagons & triangles) that make-up the given form. I accomplish this by creating a void that acts as a blackhole for the decagon, absorbing it into itself and leaving primarily triangles to dominate.
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A Small Space - Phenomenological Program In a site only as big as a parking lot space, this project aimed to include a limited set of programs that related closely to body dimension. Inheriting the interrelated transformative process from the previous project, the main idea expressed is that of ascension, in the litteral and figurative state. This notion was accomplished with the introducton to a design mechanism with an emphasis on stepping.
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7’-3” (222 cm)
6’-1” (185 cm) 5’-7” (173 cm)
4’-7” (143 cm) 4’-3” (130 cm)
2’-7” (82 cm)
1’-8” (54 cm)
4’-2” (128 cm)
STANDING
5’-6” (169 cm)
3’-0” (91.4 cm)
LOUNGING
6’-1” (185 cm)
LYING DOWN
4’-5” (136 cm)
3’-2” (96 cm)
EGYPTIAN POSE/MIME POSE
2’-4” (74 cm)
2’-2” (68 cm)
SITTING AT A DESK
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Conceptual Strategies for the Physical World Truncated Dodecahedron 1st Year Studio Instructor - David Feedland September 2013 This foundation sequence serves to develop analytical and conceptual strategies that direct notions of spatial ordering systems and architectural form. A series of evolutionary and interrelated projects involving various media (both digital and physical) will serve to guide the students toward an understanding of sophisticated notions of spatial compositions and material considerations.
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The Plan - Formal Analysis of a Historical Precedent The project was to construct the Altes Mueseum through a series of carefully clibrated drawings that align its programmatic, structural, and formal ordering systems. Emphasis will be placed on conceptualizing the precedent’s formal organization through clearly measured and annotated regulating grids and lines.
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Figure- Transformation of Formal Analysis Project 2 focuses on a particuar point of complexity, discontinuity, or instability in the formal analysis and elaborate on the geometric systems that generated this condition in a new figural building fragment. Extending the planimetric studies from the first exercise into three dimensions, the formal concept will be constructed through section and physical model. Returning to the set of 10 precedent drawings and the figure highlighted. Making a 3-dimentional figure will be a composite of primites only (planes, boxes, pyramids, cones and cylinders.) The surfaces of these primitives will intersect and trim each other to produce a single closed volume. w
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Top: Figure Transformation with Construction Geometry Left: Mother Figure designed based on the the geometries that were used to construct the plan figure identified. Right: First transformation
In this series transformation, I aim to reverse the dominant and subdominant role of the interwoven geometries (decagons & triangles) that make-up the given form. I accomplish this by creating a void that acts as a blackhole for the decagon, absorbing it into itself and leaving primarily triangles to dominate.
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Field - Multiplication of Figure The project will recompose a new whole from its isolated fragment through distribution of the fragment into a differentiated field. First studying potential of overlaps and adjacencies between parts, this will develop a variety of spactial conditions through continued control and manipulation of the systems of geometry that generate a fragment. Emphasis is placed on created concentrations of solid and void while maintaining an equal balance between the two, prefiguring the central programmatic and spactial challenges of the building to be designed.
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Los Angeles Center of Architecture LACA will culminate the studio with the design of an architecture archive and exhibition space.
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Visual Studies - Technologies of Desciption 2nd Year Studies Instructor - Anna Neimark September 2013 The focus of these drawings are of a light bulb, a technical object. Based on the historical exhibition of light bulbs in the Burndy Object Collection at the Huntington Library, the objective was to measure, construct, and intersect these late 19th century nearly spherical specimens through drawing, projecting and rendering. Emphasis will be placed on the problem of differentiating between formal geometric descriptions and pixel based imaging.
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Using a measuring device that was constructed, analyzing the shape of the bulb by locating its singular or multiple center/s, symmetry lines, inflection points,width to height relationships, differences between parts (tips, globe, base), allowed for precise drawings which illustrated the bulbs unique properties of geometry.
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RYAN FARNAM (310) 991 - 7081
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