CONTENT
01. URBAN RETREAT
02. BROADWAY COMMUNITY HOUSING
03. OPTIMAL OFFICE
01 URBAN RETREAT Project description
Design a housing building at the intersection of Wilshire blvd and Hoover st in Downtown Los Angeles with the following program: provide different unit types with outdoor spaces to accomodate a variety of occupants, provide recreational spaces for residents as well as the rest of the community, propose a succesful evacuation strategy and design underground parking.
Concept description
The stepping terraces transform the facades into cascading arrangements of vertical plaza, each plaza host different types of activities. The plazas are interconnected through bridges that run across the central courtyard thus emphasizing the sense of community.
PROJECT TYPE: Housing building DATE: August-December 2016 LOCATION: Downtown L.A.
Urban Retreat will located in the intersection of Wilshire boulevard and Hoover Street in Downtown Los Angeles. The site is surrounded by tennis courts and parks that are highly visited by neighboring communities. The proposed building will act as complementary of this spaces and provide further recreational spaces for the community.
siteplan
Concept diagrams
existing site conditions.
courtyardyard typology allows for natural lighting.
the design opens up on the northeast facade to allow for pedestrian access and on the southwest allows for vehicular access.
the modular nature of the design allows for flexibility. southeast modules are removed to maximize natural lighting.
modules in every other floor shorten to create circulation.
modules are pushed and pulled to create balconies on each unit.
Process models
Axonometric view
Perspective View
Floorplans
unit a 400sqft
unit b 1700sqft
unit c 1100sqft
unit d 700sqft
02 BROADWAY COMMUNITY HOUSING Project description
The project consists of three parts. The first one is to design a street paving pattern. The second one, is an ihabitable street object that is suppose to run through broadway street and serve as a temporary installation than could be assemble and disassembled. And the third one, a building which program should be determined by the designer.
Concept description
Paving - Combines the historic nature of Broadway with modern Los Angeles by incorporating some of the materials found on Broadway like brick, with bold colors. These shapes are organic so that the urban object emerges off of it. Urban object - The intention for the urban object was to provide Broadway with green areas where people can gather; they’re called “elevated picnic areas”. Building - For the building expands upon the idea of communal spaces and green areas from the urban object and proposes community housing with specific communal spaces. Bigger openings correspond to the communal spaces within the building and the smaller ones communal spaces within the units.
SITEPLAN
park addition + connection to spring ave.
spring ave. existing park
community housing
existing conditions
Physical models
Axonometric view
Floorplan level 1
Floorplan level 5
Unit types
Section a-a
Northeast elevation facing broadway street
Southwest elevation facing alley
03 OPTIMAL OFFICE Project description
Design a 36000sqft flexible office space with a maximum of 4500sqft at ground level in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles. The proposal must have a CLT structure, be ADA compliant and provide sufficient exit routes for the size of the building.
Concept description
The main goal of the design was to maximize rentable space by moving the building to the property line on the East elevation and pushing the core to the side, and a column grid that allows for maximum uninterrupted space in the interior. The design also focuses on being sun responsive and provides different facade conditions on each elevation that address sun orientation: South (horizontal louvers); West (vertical louvers); North (exposed Shear walls that follow interior grid); and East (fire-rated wall because is on the property line).
Siteplan
Developmental diagrams
Physical model
Axonometric view
Sun diagram
Typical floorplan
Louver system
Frameplan
Axonometric view
Section perspective
