Made in L.A., 2040 Future Manufacturing Districts in Downtown L.A. ADVANCED STUDIO V Fall 2010
The Orsini 5F, 297 units
Residential Real Estate Developments in Downtown Los Angeles
Lucia Tower 31F, 200 units
(past decade, built+proposed)
Union Station Apartments
Critic: Site:
Laurie Hawkinson + Christian Uhl Los Angeles, CA
Lengends:
Adaptive Reuse
1027 Wilshire
The Piero
48F, 402 units
7F, 116 units
27F
27F x 2, 627 units
The Met Lofts 8F, 264 units
12F, 80 units
With the emergence of new manufacturing trends (clean, small scale, data-driven hyper-customization, service oriented), factories and spaces of material production could once again take advantage of the urban environment - not only as source of labor, but also for its connectivity, accessibility and proximity to markets, intelligence, and exchange.
Evo South
Olive St Lofts
23F, 311 units
17F, 105 units
Elleven
13F, 176 units
1100 Grand Lofts
40F x 2, 400 units
12F, 143 units 12F, 84 units
Main Mercantile Bldg
Barker Bros. Convertion
6F, 40 units
8F, 82 units
19F, 236 units
City Lights on Fig
SCI-ARC Towers 6F, 128 units
Shybarry Bldg
13F, 168 units
Reserve Lofts East Columbia Lofts 7F, 60 units City House and The Olympic 13F, 147 units Broadway Plaza
5F, 230 units
Santee Court Phase II
Molino Street Lofts
4bldgs, 165 units
Santee Court Phase III
60F & 50F
Luma
5F, 100 units
12F, 139 units
Chapman Building
34F, 324 units
Bridge Lofts 2F, 8 units
Alexan Savoy Phase II+III 18F & 25F, 497 units
Hikari
Mercantile Arcade Bldg
10F, 90 units
18F, 200 units
Figueroa South/East Tower 34F, 324 units
4F, 303 units
22F+6F x 3, 750 units
Teramachi Senior Housing 8F, 127 units
12F, 65 units
Bartlett Building
Union Bank Bldg
Hope Condos
El Dorado Lofts
12F, 84 units
Brockman Bldg
Alexan Savoy Apartments
Block 8 Little Tokyo
11F x 2, 370 units
12F, 153 units
Shybarry Tower
28F, 156 units
Concerto
Figueroa South/West Tower
40F, 300 units
The Medallion
Security Bldg
12F, 55 units
12-22F, 132 units
Higgins Bldg Rowan Bldg 10F, 135 units 12F, 200 units
Mandell Bldg
Sky Lofts
4 phases, 1190 units
717 Olympic
Vibiana Lofts
10F, 60 units
13F, 99 units
FIDM Tower South Village 19F
53F, 548 units
Trinity Towers 34F
5F, 38 units
Rives Bldg
Library Court The Milano 6F, 90 units
Packard Lofts Hanover Tower
Victor Clothing Lofts
Title Guarantee Bldg 12F
16F, 222 units
37F, 214 units 47F, 288 units
5F, 40 units
50F, 302 units
655 Hope St. 17F
Roosevelt Building
9th and Flower St.
UNION STATION
Pan American Lofts
Zen Tower
8F, 225 units
1010 Wilshire 17F, 240 units
The Medici
6F x 6, 632 units
Metropolis Phase II Metropolis Phase I
3F, 91 units
9bldgs, 445 units
Santee Court Phase I 12F, 64 units
308 E9th St.
Sixth Street Lofts
5F, 38 units
2F, 63 units
8F, 66 units
Glass Tower 25F
Biscuit Company Lofts 7F, 104 units
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Custom Fabrication District
Jewelry District
Farming District
Fashion District 2040
Santee Alley
Tissue & Organ District
City Market of Los Angeles
Gamification Devices District
Fancy Packaging District
Personal Mobility District
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Custom Electronics District
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Downtown Los Angeles provides a prime opportunity for a new center of future manufacturing with its existing and proposed infrastructural connections, its leading and growing importance in logistical flows and cultural production. A relatively under-developed and under-defined area, it is a site to experiment and exploit the new relationships between the city and the spaces of production and consumption, and call for new infrastructural strategies, building interventions, and urban experiences.
5F, 278 units
Grand Ave Plan
Mixed use development, 2600 units
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Stephen Chou
Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University
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3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138
stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com
Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate Housing for Entrepreneurship CORE STUDIO III: HOUSING Fall 2010 Critic: Team: Site:
Michael Bell Stephen Chou Allison Rozwat Hoboken, NJ
The focus of “Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate� is exploring how architecture and spatial form may influence social interactions - a topic that has a long history in architecture discourse. We proposed to create a mixed-use development specifically for harboring startup companies and entrepreneurs in the master planning phase. As the scope concentrates onto housing, we seek to create a new spatial form - different from the existing hallway model - that not only adequately regulates public/private in an entrepreneurial, extrovert environment, but also respond more to the richness of human interactions.
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Stephen Chou
Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University
3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138
stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com
Janette Kim The High Line Chelsea, NYC
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Monitoring Station
The Museum of Diaspora
An Exhibition of Atmospheric Environments CORE STUDIO II: Museum of Diaspora Spring 2010
The Museum of Diaspora provides curators an opportunity for an extra dimension of sensory experiences - the atmospheric environment - an experience that has long been neutralized with the wide-spread of air-conditioning technologies and notions of “modern� comfort. The project then seeks to disintegrate conventional air-conditioning technologies and building envelops to create and contain diverse atmospheric environments in the museum.
Critic: Mark Wasiuta Site: Chinatown, New York, NY AHU AHU
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Stephen Chou
Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University
3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138
stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com
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The Airlab aims to respond to the urban conditions of the site - as a science research institution, how to benefit from the high density of audiences on site; as a building, how to strategically share spaces to the public, while taking advantage of the surrounding opportunities.
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CORE STUDIO I: Degrees of Uncertainty Fall 2009
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The Urban Science Research Institution
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Airlab
Re-circulating 60 Broad St. Retrofit Strategy for New York Glass Towers C-BIP Integrated Design Studio: Building Strategy Phase Spring 2011 Critic: Laura Kurgan Team: Stephen Chou, Collin Anderson Alexis Burson Related skills: Parametric design in CATIA and schematic environmental analysis
Through double-skin cladding that houses perimeter stairwells and programmatic breakout nodes, the retrofit strategy for 60 Broad Street pairs new methods of inhabitant connectivity with passive ventilation and natural daylighting to recirculate people and recirculate air. The goal of the retrofit strategy is to positively alter the internal life of the building, drive down energy costs and decrease carbon emissions. RECIRCULATING 60 BROAD STREET RECIRCULATING AIR AHU
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structural efficiency
aesthetic
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Climatrium
Optimized Plug-in Sunrooms
programmatic qualities
adaptability to existing floor plans
structural efficiency
aesthetic
programmatic qualities
structural efficiency
programmatic qualities
circulation efficiency
adaptability to existing floor plans
structural efficiency
aesthetic
programmatic qualities
adaptability to existing floor plans
structural efficiency
adaptability to existing floor plans
aesthetic
programmatic qualities
circulation efficiency
circulation efficiency
structural efficiency
adaptability to existing floor plans
structural efficiency
aesthetic
programmatic qualities
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adaptability to existing floor plans
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C-BIP Integrated Design Studio: Building Element Design Spring 2011 Critic:
Laura Kurgan
Related skills: Parametric design in CATIA
The Climatarium adds to the building envelope an inhabitable buffer space between interior and exterior climates. Environmental parameters (sun angle, orientation, building level, context, etc.), building parameters (window spacinigs, dimensions, etc.) and aggregation patterns were integral in the parametric design of these building units to suit different building conditions and effects.
Stephen Chou
Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University
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2.942 m2 9.583 m3
3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138
The buffer air space can either be inhabitable, or reduced in depth to form a double skin facade.
Change in overhang to introduce more sun exposure into element.
The width and height of the element are user-definable to create a variety of spaces for different uses and performances.
The percentage glazing can be controlled to meet desired conditions.
stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com
Crinkle! SURFACE, SCREEN, STRUCTURE Fall 2011 Instructor: Joseph Vidich Team: Stephen Chou Kelsey Lents Allison Rozwat Related skills: Modeling and shop drawing production in Solidworks. Construction of physical prototypes. Design developed through physical modeling and Rhino + grasshopper.
Crinkle! is a sunscreen panel system developed for the Adidas Sports Performance Store on 610 Broadway. It consists of lasercut stainless steel sheet metal units that aggregate into a 3-dimensional, undulating, porous system that not only dissolves the severity of the original gridded facade, but also wraps around the building to accentuate the top levels of the street corner. 8
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Filtro-Kiosk is a specially developed brick system to construct a wall that is able to carry the flow of water through cascading levels and multiple filtration units. These filtration kiosks are sited in a school in Malawi, where water infrastructure is under-developed and main access to water are through water kiosks. The goal is not only to provide for useable water, but to also visualize the filtration process, and create a visually and ambiently compelling space.
Related skills: Rhino modeling + MasterCAM (CNC), material experimentation and concrete casting.
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Stephen Chou
Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University
3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138
stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com
Overheard
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VISUAL STUDIES: LIVING ARCHITECTURE Fall 2009 Instructor: David Benjamin + Soo-In Yang Team: Stephen Chou Momo Araki Kyle Hovenkotter
Elevator mood change
mic 1. Speech Recognizer
“fantastic!”
“ewww!”
“awesome!”
“dammit!”
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Related skills: Programming in processing, building interactive installation with Arduino
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(count good or bad exclamation)
3. Deliver data to Pachube
“fascinating!”
“bad!”
4. Data Retrieval
Through the integration of speech recognition technology, internet live feed services, and responsive architectural outputs, the “Overheard” project seeks to transform qualities of our physical space - such as mood and atmosphere - according to our spoken words, creating an environment that would actively respond and participate with the conversations of its inhabitants.
5. Process to change output lighting pattern / color / intensity
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What drives urban motion, post Web 2.5?
Ippudo NY
Count: 3,383 Rating: 4
Joe’s Shanghai Count: 1,646 Rating: 4
STUDIO RESEARCH Spring 2012 Instructor:
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Spoken words
Pommes Frites Lombardi's Pizza Count: 2,075 Rating: 4
Count: 1,942 Rating: 4
Katz's Delicatessen Count: 2,370 Rating: 4
Juergen Mayer + Marc Kushner
Related skills: Programming in processing to retreive and manipulate data from web APIs; Rhino + Grasshopper; GIS
Lower East Side
Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University
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With abundant (and growing) amounts of publically shared experiences, accumulated opinions hybridized into pseudo-factual information, and the proliferation of hand held devices - this map starts to graph a data that starts to influence why we travel to a place in the city, how we get there, and what we plan to do there...
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