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Emotive House
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Trompe L’oeil
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Inverted Glacier
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Orchestrated Manoeuvres
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Modularity Luminescent
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Mountain Path
Emotions as driver for an alternative form of housing
Metropolis film translated into an architectural building
Resurrection of the Vistulian glacier in a new urban form
Robotic intervention on architectural moulding process
Modular transformation to allow for different functions
Housing dwelling mimicking a hiking experience
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Journalism School Site & Media research
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Architecture that provides anonymity in the masses
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Study of line morphology and it’s implication on shapes
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Site History Collage
Emotive House Degree Project: 2015
Woodbury University Instructor Berenika Boberska Stephen Marshall The development and ubiquity of Tract housing in America has allowed houses to be built quickly and cheaply. However, in creating endless enclaves of identical houses these houses have become constrictive and unresponsive to both the pervasive demands of contemporary life and the forces of the external environment. This thesis contemplates an alternative form of housing that takes emotion, responsiveness, personality and character as its key drivers. Thanks to the integration of pneumatic systems and alternative construction details, the emotive house can peal its walls, reveal hidden spaces, converse and flirt with the neighbor’s house and in the extreme, protect the neighborhood from the unpredictability of its surrounding environment. Here, a new suburban sphere is formed through the transgression and distortion of property lines where the dialogue between the house, its inhabitants and environment become critical and dynamic catalysts for the radical rethinking of domestic space.
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By engaging architectural history, sociology, economics, and technology in the pursuit of a
new domestic sphere. It was clear that
current conditions lacked the ability to adapt to the continuous
shifting domestic demands, and the environmental unpredicatability of the site. The necessity to adapt in this ever shifting conditions brings forth the
collaboration between advanced technology and traditional housing systems. The integrated pneumatic systems allows the emotive house to
respond and communicate with the inhabitants, neighboring house, or external threats. The emotive house can inflate and expand the spaces and rooms to allow larger gatherings. Or it could collapse spaces or rooms to make it nonfunctional. The house could communicate with the neighbor’s house and even open spaces to each other
creating a new unidentified space, that’s neither private nor public.
Seasonal brush fires has the ability to completely wipe out neighborhoods. This became a crucial point of the project, where the project splits into two phases. The first Pre-Fire
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phase, where the focus is on the house’s ability to communicate and interact with internal and external stimuli. The second phase happens after the fire, the focus of the project shifts towards protection. The Emotive house will respond to a fire threat by inflating the concrete canvas layer embedded inside the
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pneumatic material. The concrete canvas is a concrete impregnated fabric that is flexible and foldable until its wet, and cured . In case of a fire, the concrete canvas would inflate and harden in the area facing the fire. This allows the house protects not only
itself, but with the collaboration with the neighboring houses it could protect the rest of the neighborhood behind them. This allows a neighborhood to have a first layer of defence against brush fires.
The Site The site is located in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, CA. The Cul-de-Sac is located next to a ravine and the mountains. This location is crucial
since its the first contact point between the houses and the fire that threatened the peace of the neighborhood.
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Pneumatic Models Models were used in the beginning to figure out an approach to the project. It was important to think about scales and how the pneumatic system could work on different scales. For example the big model was built to show to scales of the project, one at the scale of a room and how the pneumatic system can completely change the dynamic of a room by distorting the corners of a room. The second scale could be preserved at 1:1 scale of the how the system could take over the spaces between the structures, creating a new type of insulation that could be
responsive to temperature and different condition.
Attached to the big model an electronic control board that allows me to con-
trol the pneumatic materials by inflating, and controlling the pressure of the cavity inside the silicone membranes.
The smaller study models later became important moments of the project, from a wall that inflate and hit an object responding to that object, a spaces
that is hidden and are only accessible when it inflates, to a slight distortion of a space that turns a homely space to an uncanny one.
The final the site model was used to tell the narrative of the project. The narrative follows the impact of fire from left to right. From left the fossilized house in concrete. The middle two houses show the reaction of the fire not fully fossilized yet. The far right who the house that was protected by the cooperation of the houses facing the fire. Pre-Fire House
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Trompe L’oeil Studio 5A
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This project focuses on the relationship between film and architecture. The film Metropolis presented an opportunity to morph the illusion and duality in the film to a sound building. The building will house the new REDCAT theater. Trompe L’oeil
is the concept of creating an illusion, the same way mirrors were used to create an illusion of a miniature model occupying a huge room. Illusion is meant to take a confined space and super-impose programs
from around the building to create an infinite space within said confined space. Programs will now be occupying not one plane but multiple planes of performance. This concept plays off the duality exhibited not only by the film but the site, and the program as well.
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In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners. The son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. The scene revolves around Freder ( the son of the city’s mastermind) visiting the machine room. Freder witnesses an accident in the machine room that takes the life of a lot of workers. Freder then Witness the machine turning into a monster that feed on the workers’ lives. The scene incorporate the Schuffton process, the process relying on a miniature model and mirror to create an illusion of bigger building. The scene is shot through a series of single shots. SS02
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As Human Beings, we interact with the real world using our senses, mostly our eys. The concept of creating an illusion comes from the movie metropolis, where mirrors were used to create an illusion of minature model occupying a huge room. The idea of the illusion is to take a confined space and cuper impose programs from around the building to create an infinite space within the confined space. Program will now be occupying not one plane but multiple planes of performance.
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Schuffton process was first introduced while film metropolis. It was used to insert actors into shots of miniatures of skyscrapers and other buildings. A plate glass was placed at 45-degree angle between the camera and the miniature model. The camera’s viewfinder was used to trace the outline of the area which the actors would later be inserted. That area would be transferred onto a mirror and the reflective surface that fell inside the outline was removed. The actors were placed several meters away from the mirror so that they would appear at the right size.
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The duality observed in the film got translated in the concept. The concept revolved around the objective and the subjective side of the brain. Private The objective (left) side of the brain handles processes, logic, and information that we use to make decisions with our physical reality. The subjective (right) side of the brain responsible for visual imagery, auditory processing, and spatial abilities. Private The illusion occupy and superimposing over each other the space between the building will magnify and create an infinite Public the space in between, by distorting program Public space. Objective Subjective Objective Subjective Objective Subjective
Site Research
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Program Layout The program is split into an objective side and subjective side. The subjective side houses the black box theater and exhibition / screening spaces. While the objective side As Humanthe Beings, weadministrative interact with the real world using our senses, mostly ouracademic eys. The concept of creatingside an illusion of the building. The program is then laid out vertically from private to public, the intention is to force people to the highest houses and comes from the movie metropolis, where mirrors were used to create an illusion of minature model occupying a huge room. The idea of the illusion is to take a confined space and cuper impose programs from around the building to create an level. Then as they circulate down, they experience the illusion the building casts. To be able to make use of the views of the site, the building is elevated from the ground infinite space within the confined space. Program will now be occupying not one plane but multiple planes of performance. level, this offers the public program unrestricted views of city scape. Neighboring Buildings
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Building Diagram Program
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Service Core Outdoor Lobby Kitchen Cafe Office Space Classrooms Library Screening B.B. Theater Exhibition
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Inverted Glacier Studio 4B Study Abroad
View looking at the Philharmonie
GRAM THE CITY LANDSCAPE AND THE WATER TABLE AND THEIR HISTORY, THERE IS A CLEAR PRESENCE OF A CYCLE. THE CYCLE OF THE LANDSCAPE AND GLACIER LOSING THEIR FORM (STATE) AND REPRESENTED INTO A NEW FORM. IN THE CASE OF BERLIN PE WAS ERODED AND COMPRESSED BY THE VISTULIAN GLACIER, IT WAS RESURRECTED THROUGH THE RUBBLE MOUNDS AND CITYSCAPE. IN THE CASE OF GLACIER THAT MELTED AND BECAME PART OF THE GROUND LAYERS, IT IS NOW REPRESENTED THROUGH T RUNS THROUGH OUT THE CITY FROM CONSTRUCTION SITES TO THE NEAREST RIVER OR CANAL.
Woodbury University Instructor Berenika Boberska Eric Olsen Gerard Smulevich
REPRESENTATION OF TRANSFORMATION AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LANDSCAPE AND WATER THROUGH-
The original philharmonie project called for a small visiting musician’s residence within close proximity of the main building. The project focus on the stitching between the urban fabric of Berlin and adjacent buildings program to the site. The project sits between two historical architecture buildings
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Hans Scharoun Berlin Philarmonie, and Mies Van-De-Rohe the Neue Nationalgalaerie in the kulturforum. Keeping a visual connection between the two building is crucial.
Berlin is a city with wet feet, water pocket can be found a few feet underground, in the future Berlin will have an abundance of water. The idea behind the design is to resurrect the dormant glacier lying underground, and bring it back to the surface in a new form. The resurrected glacier will take the forum of pink water pipes than run throughout the city. The pipes will create a grid that connects Scharoun and Mies together , but in the same time doesn’t block the visual connection. The
program is inserted in the spaces between the grid.
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Before the ice age specifically the Vistulian glacier 25,000 years ago, the landscape of Berlin was not flat. The sheer weight of the glacier compressed and eroded the ground layers, turning the landscape flat. As the glacier melted the water seeped in the underground layers. During the war buildings were damaged and almost destroyed. The rubble from those buildings turned into rubble mounds that resurrected the original landscape of Berlin. During rebuilding and reconstruction, water pipes get used to move the water from the ground and transfer it in the rivers and canals. This is also seen as the resurrection of the glacier. The cycle of the landscape and glacier losing their form (state) and represented into a new form. In the case of Berlin where the landscape was eroded and compressed by the Vistulian glacier, it was resurrected through the rubble mounds and city scape. In the case of glacier that melted and became part of the ground layers, it is now represented through the water pipes that runs through out the city from construction sites to the nearest river or canal.
Hand Sketches Through out the study abroad trip, a journal was kept to document the visited buildings, and general information about the city of Netherlands and Berlin. These information was sketched out and became in it’s own way part of the design process of the project. These sketches represents my own interest, interpolation, and understanding of the buildings and the city’s urban condition.
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Orchestrated Manoeuvres Mini-Studio 2014
Robot Arm
Woodbury University Instructor Jason King Biayna Bogosian Partner Robbie Mehring
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Platform for: Arduino Uno Breadboard Battery pack
The integration of robotics in the architectural process has been at the center stage in the past few years. This project contemplate the use of robotics arms in the modeling process. This project focuses on the translation of study models from the digital realm into the physical realm with the use of an integrated grasshopper definition. The definition allows the translation of surfaces into an equa-
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Step 1- Pull out fabric frame and prepare the machine.
The process starts by creating a digital model, from there the grasshopper definition breaks down the digital model surface to points. By analyzing the points of the surface and finding highest and lowest control points. The definition communicate with the lower robot arm to pull and push control points on a physical fabric surface. After the desired surface is reached the top robot arm would then lay a layer of plaster that hardens the fabric in minutes.
Step 2- Clip fabric to the frame using Alligator clips.
Step 3- Wait for point analyzation from the digital model.
Step 4- Physical response from the digital model.
Step 5- Physical surface ready.
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Modularity Luminescent Studio 4A
Primitive Evolution PLANS + ELEVATIONS
Woodbury University Instructor Ewan Branda Narineh Mirzaeian Partner
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Zumbtobel lightning, is a company focused on creating radiant and luminescent lighting concepts and intriguing spaces. Located in Downtown LA, among the massive, monolithic buildings, this project focuses on dissolving the
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monolith “massing” with an aggregated system “module”. The aim is to use the a flexible aggregate that would completely take over the monolith and with distinctive zones it will create open spaces. This led to the idea of a monolith within a monolith. The building consists of two zones, a kinetic sculpture garden and private offices.
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repetition of the modules lends itself to various scalar shifts which then create four distinct public spaces: an open space, canopy space, pin - up space, and the show room. The scalar shifts not
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Therefore, order to achieve corporate transparency, both zones must coexist in the same space. The formal breakdown of the building is through a modular system which is repeated to fill the given square footage to create a monolith. The systematic
only create opportunities for each space to be unique, but it also gives each of the aggregates a different treatment of light. Using a penalized system from repetitive modules, the panels between natural and artificial lighting throughout the day. Eventually, the modulation would lend itself to create an atmosphere of constant natural lighting.
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The building geometry is based of ruler surfaces that creates a grid. The geometry and curvature of the building pushes water to the outside of the building. Drainage channels then collect the water and bring it from the roof to the underground and connect it to the main drainage pipes underground.
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Structure system: the building geometry is based of ruler surfaces that creates a grid. The grid of the surface becomes its structure. The grid makes the structure more rigid, and resist lateral loads, and since the lines of the grid are straight lines they transfer the loads from the top to the ground. Other systems can now connect to the structure, like skin system, and mechanical, and electrical systems. Operable Panels
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Lighting system: since this is a lighting company, lighting plays a big role. The showroom is used to test and exhibit work from the company and it is open to the public. The lighting system uses the seams of the surfaces to blur the boundaries between the surfaces, that way the interior space will look as if it was a continuous undulating Surface. Panel system: the building is a steel building and the panel system responds to the structure and the geometry. The panel connect to the structure. There is two types of panel, depending on the curvature of the geometry the panels are either square panels, for the not so steep curvature, or a triangulated panels for the steep curvature. Embedded in the panels fixed windows for natural light, mechanical windows for natural ventilation. Panel system in the public zone are thermal metal than peal up to create natural ventilation when the space gets too hot.
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Passive system: the glass panels allow natural light to penetrate the space, making the building more sustainable. The glass panels are all at different angles to diminish the amount of the unwanted direct sunlight, and maximizes indirect sunlight. The thermal metal panel act as a passive system when they peal to create natural ventilation by letting hot air out of the building and cooling the air below.
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Active system: air condition pushes cold air inside the building,
while the radiant floor stabilizes the temperature inside the space. Mechanical windows are used to create natural ventilation when desired, and to control the amount of sunlight that penetrates the building. Panels open at different angles to control the amount of direct or indirect sunlight wanted. Lighting system is used to compensate for natural lighting when needed. It is also used to light up the space at night, and create the atmosphere at night.
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Spanish colonial Storybook Dingbat Gable front American colonial American craftsman Californian bungalow
The objective of this project is to create a housing dwelling where the tenants get to experience the mountains in the comfort of their homes. The mountain manifest itself in the dwellings in two ways, one is physical where the first floor of each unit follows the topography of the site to get the experience of hiking or walking on the mountain. The dwelling units will not be separated by walls but completely open. The second way is through camera obscura located in the bathroom of each unit. The camera obscura is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography. The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced,
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Ranch:
The ranch house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground rofile, and minimal use of exterior and interior decoration. The houses fuse modernist ideas and styles with notions of the american western period working ranches to create a very informal and casual living style. Their popularity waned in the late 20th century as neo-eclectic house styles, a return to using historical and traditional decoration.
upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved. The image can be projected onto paper,
and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation. Camera obscura will project the reversed image of the mountains on the walls of
the bathroom and bedroom.
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Cape cod:
A cape cod cottage is a style of house originating in new england in the 17th century. It is traditionally characterized by a low, broad frame building, generally a story and a half high, with a steep, pitched roof with end gables, a large central chimney and very little ornamentation. Traditional cape cod houses were very simple: symmetrically designed with a central front door surrounded by two multi-paned windows on each side. Homes were designed to withstand the stormy, stark weather of the massachusetts coast. Modern cape cod architecture still draws from colonial designs.
The spanish colonial revival style was a united states architectural stylistic movement that came about in the early 20th century, starting in california and florida as a regional expression related to history, environment, and nostalgia. The spanish colonial revival style was also influenced by the opening of the panama canal and the overwhelming success of the novel ramona set in alta california. Based on the spanish colonial architecture from the spanish colonization of the americas, the spanish colonial revival style updated these forms and detailing for a new century and culture.
A dingbat is a type of formulaic apartment building that flourished in the sun belt region of the united states in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two- or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking. The elevation view of a dingbat is "half parking structure, half dumb box.".
Storybook:
A storybook house refers to an architectural style popularized in the 1920s in england and america. The storybook style is a nod toward hollywood design technically called provincial revivalism and more commonly called fairy tale or hansel and gretel.
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Modern:
Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely. In a broader sense, modern architecture began at the turn of the 20th century with efforts to reconcile the principles underlying architectural design with rapid technological advancement and the modernization of society. It would take the form of numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles, some in tension with one another, and often equally defying such classification.
American craftsman:
The american craftsman style, or the american arts and crafts movement, is an american domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art American colonial: movement it remained popular into American colonial architecture the 1930s. However, in decorative includes several building design arts and architectural design it has styles associated with the colonial continued with numerous revivals period of the united states, and restoration projects through including first period english present times. (late-medieval), french colonial, spanish colonial, dutch colonial, german colonial and georgian colonial. These styles are associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period between about 1600 through the 19th century.
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A gablefront house, also known as a gable front house or front gable house, is a vernacular (or "folk") house type in which the gable is facing the street or entrance side of the house. They were built in large numbers throughout the united states primarily between the early 19th century and 1920. A gablefront cottage is a smaller variant, consisting of either a single story or a story-and-a-half. They were typically used as working-class dwellings, most being rather simple in design
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Californian bungalow :
California bungalows, known as californian bungalows in australia and are commonly called simply bungalows in america, are a form of residential structure that were widely popular across america and, to some extent, the world around the years 1910 to 1939.
Shoebox:
In architecture, shoebox style refers to the functionalist style of modern architecture characterised by predominantly rectilinear, orthogonal shapes, with regular horizontal rows of windows or glass walls. Along the same analogy, it refers to undistinguished styles of apartment houses, such as dingbat apartments. The puritan and repetitive shoebox style is seen as a way to low-cost construction.
A courtyard house is a type of house — often a large house — where the main part of the building is disposed around a central courtyard. The main rooms of a courtyard houses often open onto the courtyard, and the exterior walls may be windowless and/or semi-fortified and/or surrounded by a moat. Courtyard houses of this type occupy an intermediate position between a castle or fortress, where defence is the primary design consideration, and more modern plans in which defence is not a consideration at all. In england the courtyard house was a popular design for large houses in the sixteenth century, after noblemen has stopped building themselves castles, but before thoughts of defence were altogether forgotten in the planning of country houses.
Program Diagrams To break the field a vision between public domestic space, and private domestic space without separation wall a rule was set that the angel between “public” program and public will be less than 90 degree and same goes for private to private program. The
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Tenants will be able to walk all the way through their units and leave from the other side through a small path behind the units.
Tenants will be able to walk all the way through their units and leave from the other side through a small path behind the units. The thin units interlock among each other to create corners where program can occupies .
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The bathroom is oriented toward some of the landmarks around our site. The bathroom act as a camera obscura, blurring the boundaries Between public and private. While in the bathroom a Person can turn off the light and the projection of the Landmarks will be projected at the wall of their bathroom.
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The tenants will be able to access their Own exterior space. From the exterior space the tenants can then access their bedroom/bathroom. Camera obscura is located at the end of the bathroom
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Hydr-o-City Studio 3A
Manifesto
Woodbury University Instructor Berenika Boberska
through a horizontal flat common path that passes through all the units’ roofs. Water incor-
The community appears divided through the lack of party walls between the dwellings, but is joined
porated into the project will give A uniqueness to each project. A deployable water collection system will be set on the roof to collect water outside the air right of dwellings. The collected water then stored with the architecture of the house.
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This project focused on the subdivision of a shared lots between a group of student. Subdivided lots must have to share a certain amenities and easements as determined by the lot-group
Inspiration for water collection system.
and the small lot ordinance. A particular attitude about a selected site through a process of
collaboration, observation, analysis, design and representation. This project begins with the
analysis and subdivision of a large lot site and the
articulation of a shared set of design guidelines that will govern the development of each subdivided unit, and the lot as a whole. Lotgroups are expected to author a set of CC&Rs that will guide the shared development of each lot. A decision was made to focus the architecture towards water related issues, and means of water collection. CC&Rs provide the architect with an opportunity to consider modes of inhabitation for developments that liberate conventional design strategies from standardized templates and foster experimental models of living that consider
sustainability through economic, social, and environmental means, encouraging both diversity and conformity.
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A shared preselected lot in Los Angeles located at 3843 Evans St. Los Feliz. Due to the topography of the site the dwellings varied in height.
A portion of the third floor program must be dedicated to a communal space. The a part of the third floor will be shared among the tenements, creating a gathering space or a garden that will be accessible to everyone.
A perfectly horizontal easement must join the communal spaces of all tenements. The easement will become a datum line along the division of the units, unifying the otherwise separate spaces along a traversable pathway.
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My intention was to create an experience out of the water collection system. By creating an elongated collection system, people will be able to enjoy their time outside when its raining . Water collected then goes through the pipes. The pipes create a separation wall between the mezzanine floors.
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Without letting any water be discharged into the sewers, water collection systems must expand 50% outside the perimeter of an individual lot and is deployable. Varying deployable roof structures will expand past the air right of each dwelling, helping collect more water.
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50% Of interior space must open to exterior spaces. The walls within units will be retractable allowing for free access to the outdoor spaces using sliding and/or folding methods.
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75%Of the collected water must be visibly contained within the architecture. Water storage system will be expressed through architecture. Walls, stairs, and floors will work as a filtration system and will be visible to the tenements inside or outside the unit.
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Journalism School Studio 20B
Site evolution
Pasadena City College Instructor Coleman Griffith Group Project
This research project investigate the unique relationship between old and new media and how they work to deliver news to the public. The research investigates different forms of media that exist on the site located on the heart of Los Angeles where the 405 fwy meets Wilshire Blvd across from the federal building. Researching past protest
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1920’S Wilshire blvd. had just been extended from eastern Los Angeles to the west coast. Residential areas with very few houses where seen throughout the boulevard.
1920’S Wilshire blvd. had just been extended from eastern Los Angeles to the west coast. Residential areas with very few houses where seen throughout the boulevard.
and demonstration around the federal building and their formation process.
Part of the 20B class to mentor 20A and 10B students on how to research and Diagram Information regarding the site and how different aspects of the site would effect the media and the public demonstrations.
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I was responsible for drawing the site plan,
researching and diagramming transportation on the site, the figure ground, and the shadow diagram. As well as mentoring the 20A and 10B students.
Figure ground Identifying areas of high and low density using a figure ground. Low density areas are under the federal government protection.
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1964 The interstate 405 was developed and has became a major north-south highway in southern California. This highway has a prominent connection to west wood, and the federal building.
1969 The federal building was built across from the veteran cemetery. It contains 19 floor levels, and controls the social security administration, the VA, most of the various veterans organizations, and the I.R.S..
Present Today protest are being held in front of the federal building, in hope that their voice and opinion be heard by the entire nation, and then globally.
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Crowds begin to gather in the early hours of June 15 2009, to protest against the Iranian elections. Police keep the crowds safe from any traffic accidents and prepare for growth.
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Protesters from Los Angeles are gathered in front of the federal building, to make their opinions heard from Los Angeles to Iran and soon to all countries. Police begin to shift and call for back up as these crowds begin to expand.
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As the crowds of protesters double so does the police activity. The cops begin filtering the crowds, and keep a controlled environment to prevent violent crimes.
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Blur Studio 20B Pasadena City College Instructor Coleman Griffith
Inspiration for water collection system. Data mining is the process of extracting data (Information) from the users to sell to advertisement Companies that uses different medias to get back to the User. “Due to ever-expanding communications network and the immeasurable web of interrelationships they generate, the worlds has shed the anachronism ‘global village’ and is transforming into the more advanced state of the ‘Metacity’. How to study his metacity? Initially, one can describe its vastness and explore its contents perhaps only by numbers or data. Its web of possibilities seems so complex that statistical techniques
seem the only way to grasp its processes.”
Winy maas metacity/data town
Site Plan
Investigation of the unique relationship between the government, news media, and the public
and how social network is effecting this relationship. This project was inspired by the events that was happening in the Middle East at the same time, and the public ability to stand against the government. This was critical to our site since it
has been an evolving area of protest in the heart of Los Angeles. Using the research project as a tool to design a building which houses a journalism school, a working new media, and a drop box components for critical information. The design concept revolved on reversing the panopticon and giving the public the power to keep an eye on the governments actions. The site is located next to an evolving area of protest and authenticity. The site is in heart of Los Angeles where the 405 fwy meets Wilshire blvd. across from the federal
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building which houses the FBI and other government organizations. Our building site is where the new Marches and protests will pass by located at Gayley’s Ave and Linbrook dr.
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Nowadays, extracted data define a person’s identity, while before these data were private information but in today’s time the advanced technology blur the boarders between private and public since these data is exposed to the public.
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Zoning: c4-2d-o Lot number: 5+6 Plot: 4363023030 Sq: 13019.753 Far: 6:1 Height: 75’ minimum Overall sq: 78118.518
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The core wraps outside the building to create an entrance ( lips ) to the building. The lips creates a transition between the existing grid and the new grid to the site. I also decided to create a landscaped floor to create a hierarchy between important programs in the building, and its visible from outside. The landscape floor creates a directionality to the building’s entrance from Linbrook’s side.
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Infinite Mountain Studio 12B Pasadena City College Instructor Kelly Bair
The investigation of the concept of Nurbs modeling and the construction on refinement of self-similar curve geometries as well as output techniques, preparations for laser cutting and model
building. This investigation focused on the basic command of Nurbs curvature using control points to construct said curves. A set of curves is used to create
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