STEPPED HEATING

Group Work: Yitao Gu, Zephyr Zeqiang Zhu

September -November 2022

Instructor: Yara Feghali

Los Angeles, CA

The project has proposed a demonstrated landscape featuring power, on the LADWP site in Westwood, Los Angeles. Our demonstrated landscape has adopted materials including sand and gravel to work toward bringing LADWP’s remote operations at Owens Lake closer to the city and citizenry it serves.

The project has utilised architectural elements including walls and roofs with different covering ratio to generate phases emphasising the relationship between shading, solar power, heating and lighting. The project intends to construct phases or steps which the users can experience different temperature and lighting condition as roofing coverage changes.

Multiple paths and accesses are designed in this demonstrated landscape, the users can access different roofing phases in their own order. The folies also provide alternative circulation to observating the demonstrated landscape, experiencing the stepped heating and lighting.