SARAH SAGER ALHOMAIDAH
M.ARCH.
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
2019
SARAH SAGER ALHOMAIDAH CIRRCULUM VITAE
Education 2016 - 2019 University of Southern California - Los Angeles Master of Architecture, First-Professional July - 2018
Sci - Arch. - Los Angeles Making+Meaning - Summer program
April - 2015 AA Visiting School - Dubai, UAE Accelerating proccesses - EXPO City 2020 2005 - 2010 Kuwait University Bachelor of Science Major: Interior Architecture
Work Experience Dates March - April 2018 Company Dennis Gibbens Architects Position Freelance - Worked on an international competition to propose three distinct prototypes of residential vilas for Emaar developers in Marassi Egypt.
Dates Company Position
January - May 2018 USC School of Architecture Class Assistant
Dates Company Position
June 2011 - January 2015 SSH International Consultants Interior Designer - Worked on schematic and construction documents for several projects including the Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Center in Kuwait city. - Researched specifications of materials, finishes and helped create material boards.
Dates Company Position 2
May 2009 - August 2009 KEO International Consultants Interior Designer - Intern
Information Address
11235 Richland Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064
Mobile
(310) 904 - 8170
sarah.alhomaidah@gmail.com
Computer Skills AutoDesk
AutoCAD Revit
Adobe
InDesign Illustrator Photoshop
3D Modeling
Rhinoceros V-ray Grasshopper Keyshot Enscape
Microsoft Office
Word PowerPoint Excel
Video & Images
Imovie Aperture
Honor and Awards 2017-2019 School of Architecture USC Merit based scholarship award 2018 AIA 2x8 Los Angeles Honorable Mention Languages Arabic
Native
English
Fluent
Japanese
Beginner
Korean
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Content
Work Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Cultural Center
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Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre
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School 01 / 705 lorem ipsum
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02 / 605A Comprehensive studio
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03 / 505B Enfold
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04 / 505B Project I
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05 / 505B Sitting Under a Tree
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06 / 499 Movement Morphogenesis
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07 / 505A Project I
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08 / 505A Shifting Grounds
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09 / Model Making
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10 / 605B Interstitial Space
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11 / 793 Architectural directed design research Thesis
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Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Cultural Center
Aerial render.
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Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Cultural Center
Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Cultural Center Professional Work, Kuwait 2013 - 2017
The Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Theater project consists of four jewel shaped buildings that are set to be the centrepieces of the new cultural district at the heart of Kuwait city, close to Kuwait’s historic Flag Square. The Centre hosts various cultural events including music, theatre, film, workshops.
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Alsalam Palace
Night scene rendering.
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Library
Conference Center
Music Center
Theater
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Flag Square Park
The Symphonic Concert Hall.
The Symposium Hall.
Exhibition hall.
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Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre
Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre Professional Work, Kuwait 2013-2016
This cultural district is a 13 hectare site in the Alsha’ab area on the western shore, it houses four world class museums, a fine art centre, a theatre and two infromation centres which are linked by a covered central ‘street’ that leads visitors from the city to the seashore of the arabian gulf.
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Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre
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Displays and exhibitions spill out into the landscape.
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Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre
Conference room.
Exhibition hall.
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Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre
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Natural History Museum
Science Museum
Fine Arts Centre Planetary Museum
Islamic Museum
Ground Floor Plan
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Studio 705 / Instructor: Anthony Morey 2018 This studio delves into the question
creating place and space while acting
of ‘how do we know architecture
as the thematic framing for our
when we see it?’. Just like how we
memories and imaginations.
can recognize lorem ipsum as a
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layers of architectural inquiry and
used to focus more on the design
start to find it in new and unusual
rather than the content. Part of the
ways? We experimented with different
process was to look into what make
forms of documentation and created
architecture recognizable without
narratives that helped unravel aspects
the traditional modes of classical
of architecture that only existed in the
representations.
shadows.
The studio focused on the role of Architecture as the means of
“A memory labyrinth of monuments and moments through the urban scene of Los Angeles.”
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Physical models at midterm exhibition.
After studying the Nolli map of Rome, and each student worked on detailing a section of downtown Los Angeles. Using different media forms from google maps to the video recordings we took earlier. The end result was a 2D plan that expressed a bit more than just the urbanscape of downtown Los Angeles. Later on a 3D physical model was created that reflects more of the “in between� spaces of the city and highlight the experiences of walking in DTLA. Using artifacts and everyday objects to represent the urban fabric through different layers. Top view of physical model.
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Giovanni Battista Nolli-Nuova Pianta di Roma (1748)
Nolli Map of Los Angeles. 2018. Image via Lorem Ipsum Studio
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Physical model [dimensions 3’x3’]
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Visual reality scene.
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‘Here we present an experiment in the ritual of juries. We walk through the various aspects of a review but present it wholly online. The students received a set of questions, a set of inquiries which they answered over the course of the week leading up to the exhibition of their work.’
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Online midterm reviews on Archinect.
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The last and final part of this studio was to create a 3 dimensional universe using those artifacts that we each deconstructed from our maps and videos. Each cluster is forming a different experience and documenting each individual narrative we had through downtown Los Angeles, recreating those spatial experiences. We played on the scale and gravity factors to develop a landscape of monuments that questions how we see a city, and how we see architecture. The final project was presented using visual reality goggles as a media to experience flying through all the different clusters. The sense of scale was highlighted and the viewer was able to walk through each detail.
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605A / Comprehensive studio
South facade patio render.
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Comprehensive studio Studio 605A / Instructor: Wes Jones 2017
In this comprehensive studio we take a project from analysis through to the schematic design phase, with an emphasis on structure, building assembly, and building code. To utilize a formal and spatial transformation as an agent of contextual change towards achieving performative goals. Understanding the tectonic requirements of building design, and assert its generative and figurative potential; and be able to express this understanding in the delineation of the design. The project deals with the study and analysis of existing conditions, including an existing parking structure, on During
the
precedent
USC
campus.
research studies
phase,
contained
qualities that are carried through into the project. Qualities such as co-existence, transparency and
Precedents:
1. Project name: Espai Barberi Location: Olot Girona Architect: RCR Arquitectes Year: 2004 - 2006
2. Project name: Ipanema Office Building Location: Brazil Architect: Bernardes Arquitetura Year: 2015 3. Project name: stacking green house Location: Brazil Architect: Vo Trong Nghi Year: 2015
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Perspective section.
East elevation.
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Program Organization: The program is divided into two distinct zones; South facing office spaces and library with lounge spaces on the East facade across from a garden view. While a garden exists outside the building on the east, the south facing offices have outer roof garden on every alternating level. This garden space acts a breakout space for the occupants as well as provides an opportunity to soften the views out towards nearby buildings. Massing diagram.
Facade and pre-existing building render.
Exploded axonometric diagram.
South elevation.
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Program Plan 01/ International students office 02/ Open offices 03/ Library 04/ Storage 05/ W.C. 06/ Cafe patio
07/ Cafe 08/ Gym 09/ Workout classroom 10/ Multi-use playground 11/ Lockers 12/ Showers
13/ Low-ceiling storage 14/ Circulation courtyard 15/ Janitor room 16/ Patio 17/ Fan room
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SUPPLY DUCT RETURN DUCT FAN ROOM COOLING TOWER BOILER AND CHILLED WATER ROOM
HVAC Diagram.
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Circulation Diagram.
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‘Enfold’
Studio 505B / Instructor: Gary Paige 2017
In this project we designed a nonsectarian university chapel on USC’s campus. The main concept revolved around “Enfold”. How things coexist, revolve, relate and embody one another. The concept of this project was to deconstruct and develop an anti-thesis of what a chapel can be. How can we sense and experience a space that is introverted or extroverted. How a building can create a journey and fold into itself, and how that can translate into its occupants spatial experience.
“ You think you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire universe ” Ali Ibn Abu Talib
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Site drawing.
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Sectional model.
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Section.
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Light study.
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505B / Project 1
Site photographs.
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Project I
505B Studio / Instructor: Gary Paige 2017
For this project we worked on designing a parking structure facade. The process started with observing patterns around us in nature and in the built environment, analyzing and deconstructing it. The process of design attempted to understand the scale and tectonics of a facade system as well as how it can effect the building inside out.
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Elevation.
Pattern study.
Pattern ouline.
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Unrolled facade panels.
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505B / Sitting Under a Tree
Physical model photograph.
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Sitting Under a Tree
505B Studio / Instructor: Gary Paige 2017 For this project we designed a stand alone library focusing on light as an important factor in the space design. My design reflects the basic concept of sitting under a tree and reading a book. Using a double layered perforated light screen partially on walls and the ceiling, allowed the light to filter through in a unique and ever changing manner throughout the day. Creating on the interior space a set of different patterns as the sun angle and direction changed throughout the day.
Form diagram.
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Sections A.
Light screen study at different times of the day.
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Sections B.
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Above: Double perferated light screen diagram.
Exploded isometric diagram.
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499 / Movement Morphogenesis
Wax formations.
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‘Movement Morphogenesis’ Form finding 499 / Instructor: Alvin Huang 2017 In
was
a deep bucket of water,
interested in developing
this
class
I
while a hand moves the
a
systemized
way
surface of the water or
to
understand
and
lower down in the water
categorize movements
bucket. That movement
within
matter.
will be captured by the
Methods of capturing
melted wax as it hardens;
and controlling water
documenting a series of
surface movement and
movements.
within, through a set of
The experiment revolves
experiments with wax
around understanding a
as a casting medium.
taxonomy of movements
Through a series of
within liquid, in order to
experiments I try to
develop an understanding
understand such form
of the kind of forms
finding
and
that enfold within such
systemize the process
material. All the while
to create a controlled
maintaining a constant
consistent
environment
liquid
systems
sample
of
with
forms. Using wax as
controlled variables to
a casting medium the
ensure accurate results
process
that can be compared.
starts
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Cold water
Ladle driping
Push down
Fast extrusion
Hot water
Syringe driping
Surface turbulence
Slow extrusion
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Porosity 30% transloucent
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65% transloucent
Tension lines Regular wave pattern
Repetitive wave pattern
Thickness 3/4”
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Wax formations.
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505A / Project I
1D/3D
Studio 505A / Instructor: Lisa Little 2016 This studio revolved around the idea of how reproduction has changed from making 2d drawings to making physical models to reflect the concept of smaller units that make up a larger whole. Small units are taken and aggregated with the help of an organizational strategy of scaling and directionality. The physical model is later on cut in half to reveal the sectional quality of the interior spaces. This project begins by taking single dimensional elements -lines- and transforming them gradually through a series of procedures into three dimensional objects. The three dimensional objects get represented into drawings, digital models and finally a physical model. The dimensional explorations are culminated in this last
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phase into a physically inhabitable space. The 1D, 2D and 3D transformations are still reflected in the line work of the architectural drawings and the final physical model invites the viewer into the space. This project is an attempt to produce an architectural space that relates to the human proportion and facilitates the movement of bodies through it. A staircase is introduced into this vertical space, and openings to the outside work to establish a connection between indoor and outdoor. Carrying on from the previous assignment’s goal of creating a human proportioned space, this assignment adds to its composition three objects to form spaces of varying sizes moving from small, medium to large.
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Right view.
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Back view.
Left view.
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Level 0 Plan
SECTION 2
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Level -1 Plan
SCALE 1’:1/8’’
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Physical model stairs [inside].
Physical model detail.
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Physical model.
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SHIFTING GROUNDS
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Shifting Grounds
Studio 505A / Instructor: Lisa Little 2016 To experience L.A. means to connect with different cultures and backgrounds, it is a city to be experienced through the people. Walking into the morphed space where walls move and the ground underneath have been shifted up to nest within it without disturbing the environment around a space. A space where the urban grid is woven and entwined, Through hosting exhibitions and creating a social platform where people connect and meet. As the form of the space shifts and change to adapt different programs it interacts with the spacial conditions and creates new experiences to be visited and discovered, attracting locals, students and tourists. Developing a platform of social networking and cultural exchange.
Sketch models SKETCH MODELS
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NATURAL MUSEUM
ROSE GARDEN
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CAPACITY: 100 PERSON PEDESTRIAN
STREET
METRO
CAPACITY: 60 PERSON
STREET
PEDESTRIAN
USC
RESIDENTIAL
CAPACITY: 30 PERSON
Structure movement and capacity.
STRUCTURE MOVEMENT & CAPACITY
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Program narrative.
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Jefferson Blvd
CITY OF L.A. USC Campus
NATURAL MUSEUM
Figueroa St
ROSE GARDEN
SOCIAL GATHERINGS SITE
CAPACITY: 100 PERSON
Trojan
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PLAN [ SCALE: 1/16” ]
Site plan.
Expo/USC Metro Station
Exposition Blvd
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
AWARENESS METRO
Exposition Park
California Science Center
PEDESTRIAN
STREET
ARTS
California African American Museum
CAPACITY: 60 PERSON
STREET
SITE
PEDESTRIAN
CULTURE PARKING
USC METRO LA84 Foundation/ JohnC. Argue Swim Center
DIVERSITY FREEWAY
RESIDENTIAL
Jefferson Blvd
CAPACITY: 30 PERSON URBAN ENVIROMENT CONNECTIVITY DIAGRAM
DIAGRAM OF SPACIAL CONDITIONS
IBILITY
PORTATION & ACCESSIBILITY
SPACIAL CONDITIONS USC Campus
ENVIRONMENT CONNECTIVITY
STRUCTURE MOVEMENT & CAPACITY
CITY OF L.A.
Figueroa St
SOCIAL GATHERINGS Vermont Ave
Trojan
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Residential area
Exposition Park
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Jesse Brewer Jr. Park
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AWARENESS
Expo/USC Metro Station
Exposition Blvd
California Science Center
ARTS
California African American Museum
Elevation 1
SITE
CULTURE PARKING
METRO LA84 Foundation/ JohnC. Argue Swim Center
DIVERSITY FREEWAY
URBAN ENVIROMENT CONNECTIVITY DIAGRAM SITE TRANSPORTATION & ACCESSIBILITY
SITE TRANSPORTATION & ACCESSIBILITY
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DIAGRAM OF SPACIAL CONDITIONS
SPACIAL CONDITIONS
SLIDING RAIL DETAIL
ENVIRONMENT CON
NNECTIVITY
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PLAN [ SCALE: 1/16” ]
Jefferson Blvd
CITY OF L.A. USC Campus
NATURAL MUSEUM
Figueroa St
ROSE GARDEN
SOCIAL GATHERINGS SITE
Vermont Ave
Trojan
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PEDESTRIAN
Residential area
STREET
AWARENESS
Expo/USC Metro Station
Exposition Blvd
METRO
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Jesse Brewer Jr. Park
Exposition Park
California Science Center
ARTS
California African American Museum
STREET
SITE
PEDESTRIAN
CULTURE PARKING
USC METRO LA84 Foundation/ JohnC. Argue Swim Center
DIVERSITY RESIDENTIAL
FREEWAY
URBAN ENVIROMENT CONNECTIVITY DIAGRAM SITE TRANSPORTATION & ACCESSIBILITY
SITE TRANSPORTATION & ACCESSIBILITY
DIAGRAM OF SPACIAL CONDITIONS
SPACIAL CONDITIONS
ENVIRONMENT CONNECTIVITY
STRUCTURE MOVEMENT & CAPAC
Plan oblique.
NATURAL MUSEUM
ELEVATION 1 [ SCALE: 1/4” ]
ROSE GARDEN
SITE
CAPACITY: 100 PERSON PEDESTRIAN
STREET
METRO
CAPACITY: 60 PERSON
STREET
PEDESTRIAN
Elevation 2ELEVATION 2 [ SCALE: 1/4” ] USC
RESIDENTIAL
CAPACITY: 30 PERSON
STRUCTURE MOVEMENT & CAPACITY
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605B / Interstitial Space
Site panorama.
Site map.
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‘Interstitial Space’ Studio 605B / Instructor: Jennifer Siegal Team work with Jiming Bai
2018
For this studio we designed a satellite campus for USC’s Marshall School of Business, our design encourages physical connection and hands-on communication with LA’s future business entrepreneurs, students and faculty. An expanding multicultural urban destination, we envision an evolution of the historic Broadway theater district. The 30,000 sf 7-story building occupies an existing infill lot nestled between two existing concrete and steel reinforced office structures. The design strategy articulates three uniquely shaped vessels assigning both natural ventilation and daylighting to their function. The thickened
Honorable mention AIA 2x8
skins provide for interstitial cavities which are embedded with a variety of natural and passive cooling elements such as water curtains and green walls. A purposeful play between indoor and outdoor environmental building systems, the central atrium acts as a chimney that directs and propels hot air upward and out toward the oscillating roof openings. Our design is an analogy to the dynamic learning, working and built spaces of tomorrow. Our future buildings will be occupied by an ever changing set of needs and uses, embedded with intelligence, and will ultimately function externally from the grid.
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1. Mechanical Room 2. Landscape 3. Public Space 4. Main Entrance 5. Lobby Fifth Floor 6. W.C. 7. Storage 8. Exhibition 9. Cafe 10. Study Room 11. Student Collaboration 12. Classrooms 13. Lecture Hall 14. Shared Offices 15. Private Offices 16. Studio
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1. Mechanical Room 2. Landscape 3. Public SpaceCurved staircase 4. Main Entrance 5. Lobby 6. W.C. 7. Storage Facade: steel struc8. Exhibition ture with perferated 9. Cafe stone panels that 10. Study Room allows for naturalWater curtain: provides 11. Student Collaboration 12. Classrooms ventilation. passive air conditioning 13. Lecture Hall on both from and back 14. Shared Offices facades along with 15. Private Offices humidity control. 16. Studio
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Hydroponics / Gray water: The basement holds the building gray-water system along with hydroponic units.
Fifth Floor
Steel skeleton with operable double glass panels.
Natural Ventilation diagram. Structural Shell
Structure
Shear wall Natural Ventilation
Columns
Structure diagram.
Green wall / Landscaping: This helps to further condition and filter the outside air as it travels through the spheres cavities. All landscape irrigation is provided from a gray-water system 80 in the basement.
Steel skeleton
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Exterior egress staircase
Egress and elevators
Core and back of house
Curved staircase Facade: steel structure with perferated stone panels that allows for natural ventilation.
Steel skeleton with operable double glass panels. Structural Shell
Exploded Axonometric diagram.
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Sectional phyiscal model.
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Physical model.
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Precedent: Louis Vuitton Foundation Frank Gehry Thesis 793A / Architectural directed design research Instructor: Wes Jones
My main approach was to develop a simple ‘move and rotate’ motion that can transform the sails from their fixed status to a more fluid one. The sails moved mainly in two scales. A small one that affects each individual glass panel and a bigger scale movement that affects the entire sail as a whole. The new movements challenged the form of the building and how it interacts with the surrounding landscape. Due to that I felt a need to change the landscape layout and open up the water garden below to nest the moving sails and further interact with its movement. In the end, what I am aiming to achieve is a set of different transformations that would enable the building to morph and communicate a sense of fluidity that can hopefully further elaborate and provoke Gehry’s idea of material identity and limitations.
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is to choreograph a series of simple
movements that would challenge the rigidity of the steel and glass; extending, expanding and transforming the space in-between the ‘Iceberg’ and the ‘Sails’.
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Original sails position
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Final movement video rendering.
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