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ELEMENTS 01 - Three Dimensional Organization 02- Design Through line: Lifeguard Station 03- Translation: Culinary School 04- In Situ: Community Garden
Three Dimensional Organization Exploration This project explores the idea of organizing a series of interconnected volumes and spaces in three dimesions. The project started by developing a series of hierarchical volumes extruded from a two dimensional grid developed in a previous project. Then, each of the volumes is organized in a three dimensional grid and connected vertically and horizontally, creating complex and experiential spaces.
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Design Through Line: Lifeguard Station The lifeguard station was one of a series of projects that explores different elements of architecture. This project uses lines as the only architectural element to design the lifeguard station. The idea was to create a station that incorporates the traditional program in a non-traditional lifeguard station form that imitates the movement of the sand and wave.
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Translation: Culinary School The design of the culinary school explores the idea of translating a two dimensional organizational system, developed in the previous project, into a three dimensional system between the constraint of a cubic form. Then, this translation is adapted to fulfill a set of programmatic requirements of a culinary school.
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Design through Abstraction: Community Garden The project started by creating a series of a two dimensional drawings that reinterprets an abstract organizational system that exist in nature found on the site of the project. The final system was integrated into the design of the community garden located in a sloped site.
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MATERIALITY 05- Intallation: LEVITATING CUBE The levitating cube is a third of series of projects that explores architectural materials linked to a precedent. In this project, we were asked to design a spatial installation that uses previously explored materials and integrating them to a site condition. The installation concept is based on the idea of reflection, refraction and transparency of different materials surfaces that change according to different conditions that exists on the site.
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Levitating Cube: Realization The levitating cube design proposal was selected as a base design to be fabricated at a 1:1 scale. During the re-design process materials, construction details and layout modification were done to strengthen the initial design concept.
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MATERIALITY 06- Material Assembly: Aquatic Center The design of the aquatic center explores the use of simple materials and the effect of light to create spaces that produces a type of emotional reaction in the user, which is accomplished by providing a series of unique pools with specific design elements such as colored surfaces and material variation to create an ambient for each of the pools in the center.
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HOUSING STUDIO 07- Multifamily Housing The objective for this housing design project is to transform a typical single family house property into a denser multifamily housing and provide public and semi public spaces for both the resident and neighbor such as a gathering space at ground floor and an elevated communal space, that links all the housing units.
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HOUSING STUDIO 08- Midrise Multifamily Housing This housing design proposal re-explores the idea of the typical los Angeles courtyard housing - the Donut shape. The design creates a connection between the interior space of the courtyard with the rest of the city by opening up the impermeable design of the traditional courtyard housing, and creating a more dynamic form that interacts with the surrounding urban context.
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Center for Architecture 09- AIA Office & Museum of Architecture The objective of the New Architecture Center for the city of Los Angeles (CALA) is to create a new presence of the AIA in the city, by expanding its services and relationship with the people of city. The proposed design incorporates the AIA Los Angeles headquarters and the A+D museum, creating a unique architectural hub that will provide special services to professional and facilitate discourse around architecture issues for the general public.
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The site for the CALA currently houses a historic mural of Anthony Quinn, by the artist Eloy Torrez, in one of the walls of an adjacent building. As an effort to conserve the view of the mural, the design of the CALA uses the mural as backdrop for the gallery, which allows the general public to appreciate it as people move through the gallery floors.
EVACUATED TUBE PARABOLIC REFLECTOR
PIVOT-CONNECTION FASTENER INSULATED WATER TUBE COLUMN BEYOND CONCRETE SLAB ON METAL DECK T-BAR
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