Taylor Donsker Professor Techentin Spring 2010 Arch 502
I N B E T W E E N space
Mapping of the two dĂŠrives and their relation to local landmarks. How better to understand the inner workings of a location than interviewing its ultimate drifters, the homeless.
On-site sketches of key moments during dĂŠrive arranged in the order of experience.
Final dĂŠrive map displaying perspectival, spatial representations of key moments. Pink and blue paths depict the two dĂŠrives while Hollywood landmarks at the bottom represent key historical buildings from the eyes of the homeless interviewee.
Selections of my photographs of iconic buildings around the site
Case study of between spaces (alleyways) in Old Towne Pasadena, navigated by foot. These alleys continue across blocks to form a larger network of secondary transportation. Their material and spatial relations are documented on the following page.
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Diagrams of landmarks and alleyways (left) and a sketch of the possible interconnectability of alleys towards the creation of a uniquely off-the-boulevard tourist route of Hollywood (below).
Early Works: Conceptualizing the In-between
Early sketch, conceptualizing in-between space as linkages between buildings.
Conceptual sketch creating layers of space and analyzing the space between these layers
Section imagining the excavation of space beneath the post-office and the filling of it with an audible program of sound.
A perspectival reimagining of the layered space sketch on the opposite page. A spatial realm is created in a completely internalized environment. Space flows in vertical and horizontal dimensions, carving out buildings.
Translating the concept of layered programs into physical dimensions of a 3d Model
Creating linkages or “in-between� spaces (green) in the form of bridges, containing amenities and connecting housing blocks (tan). The theater program (magenta) was atomized to allow for edges, corners, and unique spatial experiences as visitors explore the site.
Through programmatic and spatial layering, “between� moments develop where visitors are in vertical shafts containing museum exhibition space (bottom, private), site and theater circulation (center, emi-private), and residential units (above, private).
Experiential sketches of the above rendering.
Hollywood Mixed-Use Final Images
The final project focuses on in-between spaces. Within this mixed-use project, between spaces attempt to erode boundaries commonly created by varying programmatic adjacencies. The notion of semi-private, intimate space is intensified between buildings to create a sensation of enclosure, an outdoor-interior.
View from North-east corner with Museum of the Moving Image in the foreground
Hollywood Boulevard, showing the two buildings selected for removal.
1. Museum Lobby 2. 150-Person Theater 3. Gallery 4. 300-Person Theater 5. Residences 6. Live-Work Patio 7. Offices 8. Rooftop Bar 9. Roof Garden
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1. Main Entrance 2. Museum Gift Shop 3. Museum Restaurant 4. LACE 5. Los Angeles Forum 6. Retail 7. Residences 8. Theater Village 9. Performance Space 10. Hostel
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By preserving most of the pre-existing buildings along Hollywood Blvd and selectively removing two, the resultant voids form two entry points: one into the site and the other into the cinema museum. Adjacent businesses reorient their main entrances into these newly created spaces, lined with aged masonry walls (below).
The cinema museum is lifted above these buildings , making use of their roofs as well as the resultant views to the distant Hollywood hills (top right). As it twists through the site, it creates a ceiling for the ground floor (right), a background for the theater village, (next page left) and an outdoor-interior patio for live-work units (next page, right).
As visitors emerge from the main entrance, under the museum, they are greeted with a network of private 10 person and 50 person theaters (Top Left). The courtyard orientation of the theater village, with overhead bridge elements, creates intimate spaces within the broader context of the site yet remains porous. Select theaters open during or between shows, allowing a passerby to watch a show previously unintended. Many of the roofs are accessible as casual eating and drinking locations between shows (Bottom Left).
The live-work patio forms a space interiorized by the close proximity of the cinema museum. As the cinema museum rises to suit the sloped theater floors, an entrance space is formed that squeezes the visitors under the cinema floor before expanding onto the open-air patio.
West Section cutting through the parking garage and museum.
North Section cutting through the single and double story live-work residences, museum, theater, and parking.
Detailed section cutting through museum. The slope of the roof acommodates the 30* angle necessary for optimal photovoltaic panel efficiency. It also creates space for HVAC equipment and a dynamic roofline. The gallery space features a two foot thick wall, just seven feet above the ground, marking a transition from walkway to gallery space.
Diagram displaying access points to the site, maintaining the off-theboulevard openings to neighboring blocks.
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Cor-ten Steel Tubing Shading System Double Glazing/Mullion Structure Diagonal Cross Bracing
Photovoltaic RoofSystem/Structure Mechanical/Plumbing Space Above Ceiling
Structural Glass Floor Structure
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View of site model
View from street to Museum entrance.
Main entrance into the site marked by light-filled pathway and Museum in background.
View of the Theater village with Museum in background.