S I R I N A L AW PORTFOLIO WNTR & SPRG 2019 ARCH 353 | Stacey White California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page # Designing Resiliently Project Connections Form Iteration Project Purpose Performance Goals Project Program Formal Influences First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan Site Plan Materials & Resiliency Structural Circulation Thermal and Ventilation Systems Renders Physical Models
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BIOGRAPHY SIRINA LAW Sirina is currently a third year Architecture student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She was born and raised in Hong Kong for 11 years before she moved to Cupertino, California for middle and high school. Her passions were always more geared towards the artistic side. She dances, plays a Chinese instrument at senior homes as a volunteer, and she loves working with kids at an art school back at home. Even though she hasn’t really gotten the chance to pick up any of those in college, being able to express her creativity and working at studios for architecture has definitely satisfied her artistic needs here in college.
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DESIGNING RESILIENTLY One of the strongest assets of a town like Paradise is an already existing strong social network; the connectivity between residents at town events and the warm atmosphere reminiscent of home is what draws people in. Designing with the intent to renew and strengthen this existing local fabric woven with everyday lives is something this initiative has had to keep in the forefront of its progress. Allowing for spaces that don’t just serve an expansive group of populations, but also designing at a macro and micro level; paying attention to how a space creates a safe nook for an intimate interaction, or how the skylight opens to allow a natural lighting condition to inspire creativity. While the existing social condition of Paradise has remained strong throughout both tragic fires, the economic viability of the town itself has dwindled through the years. As more and more generations grow up in this small town, very few children return to Paradise after high school with the exception of visiting family members. Alongside this decrease in retention is a lack variety within incoming town revenue; the main source of jobs being work in medical buildings, logging, and small businesses. When pursuing the bigger question of designing for economic resiliency in mind, finding a medium that targets these two weakness is how the paradise coworking center came to fruition. Creating an institution that guides and connects with the academic roots of Paradise as well as spurs entrepreneurial passions in new and old residents of Paradise. This center aims to further contribute to the larger revitalization of a concentrated downtown that mixes new retail, office, and housing opportunities that all hope to raise economic standards in Paradise for futures years. The Paradise Coworking Center specifically channeled an approach to resilient design in not just the material of choice and application but also the approach to space planning. By choosing terra cotta as an exterior cladding surface, the coworking center is responding to Paradise’s high risk fire conditions and also adds a performative factor with rainscreen and water catchment systems.
PROJECT CONNECTIONS The Paradise Coworking Center is located adjacent to other major civic spaces in the redesigned downtown. While one side of the Coworking Center consists of office use space, the other sides of the building is surrounded by commercial mixed use to create a dense, suburban downtown. In respect to other projects within our studio, we right across the Paradise Public Market (across Almond Street) and diagonal to the Paradise Town Hall.
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PARADISE COWORKING CENTER
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FORM ITERATION
PROJECT PURPOSE
The form of the Paradise Coworking Center is designed to be a response to the proposed condition of the new downtown and it’s thoroughfares. By opening up the building towards the anticipated high population density faces, the coworking center invites both people walking through downtown and The Food Habitat across the street.
The Paradise Coworking Center aims to stimulate and encourage growth with the combination of knowledge and economy. While also creating a variety of spaces to empower teens and young adults to grow in their entrepreneurship interests, this center will serve as a downtown business and social hub for working professionals and larger space for town gatherings.
PERFORMANCE GOALS The ways in which the Paradise Coworking Center performs is responsive to the existing conditions of the already sited parcels. Since the target range of illuminance in an office building is approximately 28 footcandles, the aim during design development was to open up and use as much of exposed pockets of glazing as possible. The center has glazing surfaces spanning taller in order to allow as much exposure to exterior natural assets and an open transparency between populations both inside and outside. The trick of avoiding glare on screens from large window expenses but also letting in the right amount of light to illuminate the work space was a continual decision driver. While the concept for openings was orientated to be site specific; opening up towards north and south where daylight isn’t as harsh or thermal heated. By also creating a shading system that is unique to the intended design of community and individual growth, where vertical fins “grow” up towards the more intendedly shaded points. The fins also provide variation every 50’ feet or so in order to fit within the complex new context of the proposed concentrated downtown. Alongside the close proximity to other major civic spaces in the downtown, the Coworking Center is directly adjacent to the Food Habitat to encourage social interaction, but also in sustainable energy management. The Food Habitat across the way, serves as an energy feeder to this coworking center as well as the Paradise Town Hall through their anaerobic digester. Within Paradise the climate through the years has been reported to have high levels of yearly precipitation. Due to this research we can rely on the assumption that rainwater catchment design integrated within the coworking center’s facade will benefit wastewater management. By choosing to utilize a sloped roof within downtown, this building uses its terracotta rainscreen facade.
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PROJECT PROGRAM
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FORMAL INFLUENCES Paradise, CA has brought forward a conversation that has long been in the background for many years. The conditions within a town as complex and yet simple as Paradise led to the tragic results after the fire. In many ways, Paradise has been ingrained within California’s history and like many historical events, moving forward also means learning from the past. Designing for a town like Paradise with its rich history requires respect for the influences that come along with this initiative. By researching the cultural atmosphere of Paradise; many will see how it captures the idealistic image of the american dream; white picket fences and neighbors you’ve grown up near. Looking at the strongest assets of Paradise; the natural surroundings themselves, this is the most prominent driver for all proposed projects within the (re)imagining paradise initiative, the Coworking Center included. The center aimed to open up the building’s interface to create an inner courtyard and atrium that invites users to experience Paradise’s natural surroundings along the main functions of happenings within the center. Creating opportunities for this type of interaction within the coworking center quickly became an integral part of the design decisions. Beyond the need to respect existing influences within the town; California is transitioning into a new realm of building performance. Within a couple years California buildings code will have required residential to commercial structures to be completely net zero. This is a huge step towards a more responsive way to systems thinking within California architecture. By designing this Coworking Center towards the same standard of the future; Paradise becomes more than the staple american dream image, but also begins the conversation about a cleaner and greener architectural model.
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1. gathering 2. circulation 3. we-work (group) 4. we-work (individual) 5. learning 6. retail
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MATERIALS AND RESILIENCY Assigning with material properties in mind for this coworking center required exploration into the many different weaknesses and strengths in the final selected facade palette. Terra cotta is a clay-based ceramic typically used as roofing tiles in early years but has since been utilized as a type of cladding for exterior facade of buildings. Due to its strengths as a fire resistive material a place such as Paradise demands a material that can withstand against this; moving towards a fire prevention model. Cross laminated timber was chosen for the stronger connection to the context of Paradise and its forestry, as well as also utilizing the possible opportunity for milling leftover lumber debris.
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STRUCTURAL The Paradise Coworking Center has a pretty equal bay lengths across the whole building with a 30 feet bay on the North East Corner of the building and 40 feet bays across the building along the north face and 30 feet feet bays across the building along the west face. The columns, beams, girders and trusses are made with heavy timber while the floors are concrete slabs. The exterior consist of a combination of terra cotta, glazing and aluminum for the vertical fins for louvers.
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CIRCULATION From the first floor to the second floor; the circulation throughout the building is designed for both a more direct path of purpose and a meandering means of circulation. Due to the site’s topography, measure about an elevated level of about 10 feet from the south side of the building to the north, designing with intent and access remained more important than ever. With that in mind, the points of entry into the building total to four. The main entrance is located in the heart of the building through the sunken courtyard and along the atrium opening. This entrance is intended to be the more direct and where denser populations of people will enter and socialize; a hot spot for quick meeting and leisure hangabouts. The next entrance can be seen along Birch where pedestrian populations walk along, peering into the building with a possible interest; coming from the food hub, town hall, or even hearth and rescue center. Other two entrances aren’t as grandeur and are located on the south end of the build to receive people along the pedestrian midblock. Located at main entrances of buildings will be reception desks and free standing lobby furniture and as you travel deeper into the building and more towards the center atrium, office spaces move from flexible workspaces to individually partitions rooms and lastly to collaborative we work spaces and education rooms. At the tail end of the coworking center is an attached apple store for tech retail needs on the 1st floor, and a terrace on looking towards the north and inner courtyard.
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THERMAL AND VENTILATION SYSTEMS The Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems for the Paradise Coworking Center use radiant heating and cooling. Coils run through the concrete slab that supply heating and cooling directly to the floor and then onto the spaces above. Prevailing winds in paradise come from the northeast and the coworking center uses this to an advantage by orienting the accessible downtown entryway in this direction, allowing ventilation to pass through. A combination of nano walls, glazed openings, and skylights throughout the building allow for stack ventilation.
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EXTERIOR RENDER
north east view
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EXTERIOR RENDER
from pedestrian walkway
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EXTERIOR RENDER
side courtyard
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EXTERIOR RENDER
middle courtyard
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INTERIOR RENDER
common space
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INTERIOR RENDER
interior
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INTERIOR RENDER
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PHYSICAL MODEL
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