The Merchant of Venice Design Studio Fall 2017 3GBX Instructor: Eric Owen Moss
The project is to design a housing apartment for homeless people on the beach of Santa Monica next to Canal of Venice. The canal is of long history and with the dream of creating the Venice in Los Angeles. The project start with the idea of mountain from the water. The pond will be the headwater connecting to the Canal. The geometry of mountain shape grows organically with small islands, bays and mainlands. The commercial area is programmed inside the mountain, while there is an diamond on the top for standard housing units. The project discusses the issue between the two elements as the way to merge them. Special windows are designed to merge the boundaries of the shapes.
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The Sphere of Knowledge Design Studio Fall 2017 2GBX Instructor: Elena Marferdini CONCEPT Devices for future architects
Computer will be the main high technology that architects will work on.
Architects will use VR to actually see and experience their design space, and discuss with partners or
3D Printer or robots hands will be used more for models making, instead of hand making.
Activities and spaces for future school
When architects work alone, they will only need a computer, VR and 3D maker. Space will be flexible, only if there is space for playing VR. Less requirements for the space.
On the day of presentation, audiences would be required to wear VR to see and experience the space. Space needs to be bigger but again flexible. It can be any empty space.
The concept is to create a big VR auditorium for any scale of model to display, while a few amount of small VR experience room surround it.
Étienne-Louis Boullée used the sphere as a symbol of enlightenment ideas in his Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton. In his view, the sphere was the geometry which represents innovation and perfection of new knowledge. In this project is not only about planning a new school but also envisioning the future learning environment. Especially for architecture education, there has been continuous development of new computational tools for 3d modeling and advancing design approach. So adopting new technologies became inevitable.
While speculating new learning spaces, we are focusing on Virtual Reality devices. In our scenario, make new SCIstudent can use VR devices actively and share those exciting moments with their classmates and public. For the phase 1, which called the Oculus, we've transformed Boullée's sphere into new VR showroom. New studio spaces will be located surrounding this huge spherical space and work as backstage for the showroom. Also, it has a close relationship with current workshop area and Magic Box so eventually working as a total production area. In the case used as outdoor screening area. Our scheme for the public area is broadening VR experience into a sunken plaza. To make it possible, We are adopting the grid which represents X-Y-Z coordinate system in the VR world as our ground areas between phase 1, phase 2 and current SCI-Arc. Once visitors stepped into the grid patterned sunken area, they
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Undergraduate Project
Architecture Office Design
The design is to devide office into two main programs. One is general working space, the other one is isolated office. The working space is the space requires more diffuse daylight, communicative space arrangement, and broad view . However, for individual office space, it requires quiet environment, isolated and less interaction with others. The finalized design composites of three concrete columns , which is also programmed with office, and a long cantilever of the general working space . The Columns have been pulled down to ground to support the building instead of hanging as Scheme Three. The cantilever has been uplifted 20 ft, to provide studio with more diffuse daylight and a better view over the streets. The building has been designed dedicated for diffuse light. There are extra void space created between office column and the general space. The south facing facade is covered by opaque glass to minimize the direct sunlight, or concrete walls have been erected for passive solar design. In the summer time, the light would hit the concrete wall, and reflect some into the working space. Building has big glazing facing north, where the diffuse daylight would be welcomed into the building. Since Columns are 15 ft taller than the working space, shadow would be created to prevent the direct sunlight .
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Performa Tower Fr-ee Fernando Romero Summer 2017 Internship
673 56th ST NY Tan Architect Summer 2016 Internship