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California State Polytechnic University, PomonaPursuing Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture - 2013

SWA Group Intern

Metis Garden Festival Competition in collaboration with Atypical Architecture + Penelope Stewart

Front City Competition - Landscape Animation

Lantern Bay Park, Dana Point Site Installation - Renderer + Animation

Orange County Great Park Solar Decathlon - Site Design

AutoCAD3ds Max DesignRhinoGrasshopperGoogle SketchupMicrosoft OfficeLumion

Adobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe InDesignAdobe After EffectsAdobe PremiereAdobe Lightroom

4 Year High School Architecture Award, Ayala High School

SkillsUSA Chapter President

ASLA Student Chapter Member

Landscape Architecture Outstanding Sophomore Award/ Top of Class 2011

SkillsUSA Architecture Regional Gold Medal Winner 2008

Eagle Scout

Summer 2011Summer 2012

Assisted in developing design: renderings, presentation assembly, detail drawings, and video animation.

Laguna Beach

Types of work: Public works, Urban design, Planning, Competition

E X P E R I E N C E

T O O L S

A W A R D S + A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S

Hopes + Dreams of Dodger Stadium p. 39

Metis Garden Competition - Apian Etude p. 35

Void + SpaceSpecies OccupationCMhUForged BoundariesMind the PathAn Image of an Other

p. 1p. 3p. 5p. 7p. 9p. 11

Cultivation of the HomiesEast River VultariumEpidermis + Ostealis

p. 21p. 25p. 29

Curiosities p. 15

URBAN DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

SITE DESIGN

COMPETITION

CREATIVE WORKS

C R E AT I V E W O R K S

1 Creative Works

A series of plaster castings seeking to create pockets and voids within a container. These castings are a study of occupable space for wildlife.

To use the container as a tool and not as a form, the castings were formed from the notions of a fresh water mussel and the plaster was dripped on the expanded surface of rubber and plastic. These were the results.

VOID +SPACE

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3 Creative Works

A model of a fresh water mussel in sectional layers.

These models were used to establish the parameters of the volume needed to house a host animal. The models were in to be assembled in laser cut layers without the bind of glue.

The assembly of the models was an example of positive and negative space that animals or people occupy.

SPECIES OCCUPATION

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5 Creative Works

A multi-functionary use for the concrete masonary unit. These CMhU will provide habitat for the fresh water mussel in underwater structures such as boat docks, piers, or water retainment walls.

These units are built with the notion that they will degrade over time, however the occupational space will not be lost because of the collection of soil and sediments that these units collect from the tide. The collected soil will retain the structural support and still continue to provide for areas of attachment and embedment for the mussels.

The CMhU acts similarily to the mussel in the sense that it is also a filter of water.

CMhU DECONSTRUCTION + RECONSTRUCTION

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7 Creative Works

Destructure Evan LeeAn Applied FutureStructure in Opprotunity

Forged Boundaries

The destructure of the voids and masses of spatial habitat can lead to the implementation of a primative space that contains no restrictions and thus no limita-tions of opprotunity that can occur. Culturally, humans seclude in built structures that act as barriers (physically and mentally) that isolate themselves from said values of wilderness (usefullness, harmful, and mystery). The human need for privacy and shelter has created a dogma that predicates the general meaning of wilderness.

An absence of this physical boundaries would seek to question peoples notions of attachment, especially to ones residency. The integration of a “wild” setting in Los Angeles without spatial confinement, suggests the that interconnection of a city because of the lack of dimen-sionality in habitatable space amongst is residents. Its usefullness would be quite controversial in the sense that people would have a large amount of space to occupy, but no actual place to call home.

Evan LeeAn Applied FutureStructure in Opprotunity

Removal of voids and masses in spatial environments.

Limiting surface structure in current context.

Void and mass of Los Angeles based on current myth.

Subsurface opprotunity.

Limiting barriers.

Social ties to governing form.

Opprotunity through unformed structure.

Building typologies without privacy and shelter from the urban context.

Destructure Evan LeeAn Applied FutureStructure in Opprotunity

Forged Boundaries

The destructure of the voids and masses of spatial habitat can lead to the implementation of a primative space that contains no restrictions and thus no limita-tions of opprotunity that can occur. Culturally, humans seclude in built structures that act as barriers (physically and mentally) that isolate themselves from said values of wilderness (usefullness, harmful, and mystery). The human need for privacy and shelter has created a dogma that predicates the general meaning of wilderness.

An absence of this physical boundaries would seek to question peoples notions of attachment, especially to ones residency. The integration of a “wild” setting in Los Angeles without spatial confinement, suggests the that interconnection of a city because of the lack of dimen-sionality in habitatable space amongst is residents. Its usefullness would be quite controversial in the sense that people would have a large amount of space to occupy, but no actual place to call home.

Evan LeeAn Applied FutureStructure in Opprotunity

Removal of voids and masses in spatial environments.

Limiting surface structure in current context.

Void and mass of Los Angeles based on current myth.

Subsurface opprotunity.

Limiting barriers.

Social ties to governing form.

Opprotunity through unformed structure.

Building typologies without privacy and shelter from the urban context.

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A construct questioning the term wilderness. Wilderness can be defined as an unknown area without the physical structures of a known area. Physical boundaries give us protection and comfort because of the awareness of surroundings and a limited space that we can occupy.

The wilderness I was seeking was one were boundaries such as walls were absent creating an open structure. No boundaries lead to no sense of the immediate known area, which creates wilderness.

An absense of physical boundaries would seek to question peoples notions of attachment, especially to ones residency. The idea that the entire city of Los Angeles will have no permanent residency of anyone that lives there, relates to the ideas of a primitive social structure that is open for opporunity across pre-established borders.

The existing typologies of Los Angeles remains an established area constructed by human behaviors to isolationism and pragmaticism that relates more to the aspects of wilderness then much of what we could create when seeking such ideals. Los Angeles is a wilderness surrounded by a fence in much of the terms that make it a city compared to an unknown environment.

FORGED BOUNDARIES

9 Creative Works

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Mind the Path was an inquiry about the system that govern what we do and what we are lead by. This installation was part of three for the 4th year class of 2013. It is an idea based on the observations of outside our studio space. Students are forced to walk down the path without the option of any alternative, even if their destination is right off the ledge.

This installation was not meant to command the attention of its visitors: it is small and discrete to invoke a sense of inquisition, of wonder, and of contemplation. The goal of the installation was to cause people to think, be amused, be appreciative, begin to question the systems around them, and even possibly attempt to traverse a new path.

Addition straw ladders and stickers were located around the installation and the department building in which students and faculty could place where ever they felt necessary; questioning the meaning or placement of the objects they adhered to. The spread of these stickers and ladders grew across the campus and parking lots along with the message of inquiry.

MIND THE PATH

11 Creative Works

A 4’x10’ mural constructed to show landscape within landscape even at the most minute scale. This image was meant to surround the viewer in which their periphery was enguled by the one image, by isolating and embracing.This

AN IMAGE OF AN OTHERuntitled image was depicting the influence that human emotion has within the landscape and the symbols, such as power, fear, and joy, that we associate to certain landforms.

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P H O T O G R A P H Y

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Pictures were taught to capture moments and phenomena, however what they also do is reveal ideas or feelings from the photographer. Every photograph is taken for a specific reason either showing what is, or what can be.

I believe that seeing photos that show qualities that captivated the photographer, reveals more about the individual rather than a personal statement.

CURIOSITIES

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S I T E D E S I G N

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An expansion of the farm to table program at Homegirl Cafe, part of Homeboy Industries. This expansion occupies the adjacent police impound lot and provides seasonal production and opportunities for rehabilitation through urban farming.

The idea of the design was to tie in the surround context and uniqueness of the Metro goldline. The crops grown would provide for the Homegirl Cafe and their mission statment, Grow, Prep, Serve. The agricultural area provides a full cycle tending and serving of various vegetables and fruits adjusted to Homegirl Cafe’s menu. The at-risk members of Homeboy Industries can use this area to learn skills that can land them a job in the food industry outside the shelter of the rehabilitation program.

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Juxtaposition between United Nations [unity of countries] and the unity of cultures.

Political realities v. Corporal reality.

United Nations supports the peaceful coexisting of Nations.

Embassy supporting more than coexistence of cultures but the interaction and exchange amongst them.

Cultural individualism in burial traditions and beliefs.

Death as unifying factor of humanity.

Celebration of life, contrasted by impermanance

Mourning of impermanance.

Preperation of impermanace.

SOIL = DENSITY

PROXIMITY OF CULTURES

FEELING OF COLD

REMOVAL OF CORPSE

REPRESENTATION

BURIED IS CLOSING OF MEMORY

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social - logical level

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ISLAM

MOURNING PERIOD

FUNERAL SERVICES

DRESS CODE

SPACE

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CHRISTIANITY

MORTALITY

Death

The concept of mortality, based on our physical state, is the known condition in which all that we have achieved and experienced in our lives comes to an immediate end. We all have a shared ignorance in the subject of death, for there is nothing to know about it. However, there is an inherent value that everyone has with the cognitive knowledge that each life will end. Instinctively, the preservation of life is the highest of precedents based on the fundamental qualities of self awareness. Dealing with death is a unifying factor that is forced upon all living beings regardless of background. The ambiguity that surrounds death is the origin of our fear and the questioning of what actually happens once your body ceases to function.

Mortality is the inception of the known methods cultures use to deal with the uncertainty of death. The vast methods of handling our dead are often symbolic of the believed journey we take with the intent to represent either rebirth or the preserva-tion of the body. Based on cultural beliefs, this journey is through the deterioration of our bodies to become ash, the final resting place underground, the fluidity of water, being carried away by birds, etc. The importance of these interpretations of the passage is a shared value, because we try to understand a fate that can not be known. Varying around the world, each esoteric custom dealing with the dead is estrange to outside cultures, even seen as barbaric. Our position is to unify the diversity of customs that humans believe in to prepare for what lies beyond our shared misunderstanding. The unity of shared customs will provide the means for dramatically different cultures to seek understand-ing through the common means of existing in this realm. The collective knowledge of how we deal with death is also a symbolic representation of our answer to the unknown.

Mortality and death are comparative subjects however one ultimately results from the other. Death is a component of mortality as it represents

the end to the establishment of life. Mortality is the ongoing process overtime on the fragility of the human body along with other shared lived experiences. Dealing with mortality also includes the adaption and interpretation of dissolving, dismembering, wrapping, burying and burning to change the physical state of the corpse. Death deals more with the emotional and metaphysical presence of losing a person.

Afterlife

A reoccurring belief among spiritual teachings is the notion of a repeated existence or reincarnation. This most commonly occurring in the Buddhist concept of impermanence, which is the idea that all of life and what happens afterward is in a constant state of flux. This state of flux is similar to the process a leaf goes through; from growth to the deterioration back into soil. The change that is mentioned in our doctrines of existence represents the continuation of human presence beyond our lifetime. Ideas of change in form, state of being, and awareness within our project limitations will echo the notion of impermanence. The value is present in our need to be comforted after our irreversible change in life (child to adult) to alive and deceased. The dormancy of life between existence is a salient notion that most teachings depict as the next stage of existence progresses.

Methods of dealing with the loss of a being also brings the fragility of life. Issuing and preforming burial acts addresses the issue to deal with a rotting body that could contain disease. However such is not always the case with the decomposing of natural tissue. Tieing the sentamental question of where the mind and conscious of person has gone to is also a barrier to what we can precieve as valuable. Memory and image seems to play an important role in dealing with the loss of being in the physical presense.

Metaphysical site

All functions of the preparation of death deal with the absence of the physical world and into the

LIGHT + DARKNESS

SPACIAL QUALITY

EMBASSY OF MORTALITY

CULTURAL VARIATION EMPTINESS + DENSITY

SKY = ETERNAL

SOFT TEXTURES

NATURAL LIGHT IS OPENESS

KNOWNVISUAL + RECOGNIZABLE

CULTURAL DISCOMFORT

ABSENCE OF LIGHT

MATERIAL DESTRUCTION

METAPHYSICAL + PHYSICAL QUALITIES

PROCESSES DEALING WITH THE BODY

ETERNAL PROGRAMMING

NABYL MACIAS/ EVAN LEE/ CHRISTINE AYDT/ EDDIE CAMPBELL/ ADJA ABDOUARCH 401/ LA 401 BOBBY BROOKS INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN STUDIO

CONCEPT OF IMPERMANENCE

MANIFESTO

Spacial enclosures used to bring in distance of adjacent spaces.

Proximity to water and sky in regards to ambient light and shadow.

Feeling of weightlessness and heaviness.

Patterns of light representing control and disorder.

Light giving safety and shadow creating discomfort.

The mythodology with the process of burying, burning, dissolving, dismemberment, and wrapping influence the

metaphysical and physical space associated with the aspects of the Embassy of human mortality.

Physical space dealing with the complexity of mortality as a living experience.

Adjacency and physical connection to soil creating vacancy of space.

Underground pockets for cultural connection and closeness.

Organization of forms varying density.

Complexity of space dependent on location.

Visual variation and separation .

Sky Burial Grave Burial River Burial Cremation Burial Mummification Dismemberment

Play on wind

Visual FlutteringBird Sanctuary

CavesEnclosureSilence

Play on elevation

Water manipulation

Symbolic way finding

Open FireField of ashesUse of black

Deformation of materialsRegeneration

Encasement Entombment Enclosure

Preservation underground

Tension of separation of form

Relationship between separate components

eternal. A physical space for a non physical environment is meant to give a feeling beyond what is comprehensible. Entering the realm of the eternal in our known sense is the presence of drastic conflicts of light and dark; emptiness and density; physical and metaphysical. Our value is to make a space beyond its corporeal sense to represent the passing of life in its context.

Based on our associations with burial traditions and treatment of the body after death, we can bring relations of: dismemberment, dissolving, burning, burying, mummification, and disposing. Methods used in sky burials can be used for audio and visual queues depending on location, also the institution of a aviary. Underground burials can be represented through the use of caves and underground forms that contain dark shadows and temperature changes. Allowing the relocation of the river into the site can allow the dissolving and movement of features. The element of burning will allow texture shifts and the disruption of form. With the representations of burial, site elements can include vulture perches, airborne fluttering, strong verticle audio, burning fields, ash walkways, building encasement, river bathing, animal or human caves, and deformation of materials.

As our site reflects the collective associations with the afterlife and dealing with death, the embassy stands for the collective linkage of cultural ties. An embassy of mortality would seek to unite people in the journey to discover what can not be known through the collection of our beliefs. This environment is important within the context of New York because of complexity of its programs and the coexistence of its various cultures. The Embassy seeks to deal with the complications of modern cities and people's desire to be part of a busy and obligatory way of living. As an outpost, mortality stands as a final pitch against our ultimate fate as living beings. Also as time progresses, space will quickly disappear for the retention of our deceased and our methods to handle their passing. The outpost for mortality/humanity will be the last memory of our existence in the greater scheme of our imperma-nence.

SKY DELIVERER TO THE ETERNALEARTH DEFINITIVE RESTING PLACEFIRE REFORM + REBIRTHWATER PASSAGE FROM MIND

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East River Vultarium is an embassy/outpost for the human value of mortality, or the awareness of ones end. It is located adjacent to the United Nations in New York City.

Mortality is the inception of the known methods cultures use to deal with the uncertainty of death. The vast methods of handling our dead are often symbolic of the believed journey we take with the intent to represent either rebirth or the preservation of the body. Based on cultural beliefs,this journey is through the deterioration of our bodies to become ash, the final resting place underground,the fluidity of water, being carried away by birds, etc. The importance of these interpretations of the passage is a shared value, because we try to understand a fate that can not be known. Varying around the world, each esoteric custom dealing with the dead is estrange to outside cultures, even seen as barbaric.

Our position is to unify the diversity of customs that humans believe in to prepare for what lies beyond our

EAST RIVER VULTARIUM

Mourning

Stages

Stage 1MourningExperience feeling of self, corporeal reality, and fragility. Loss + mystery.

Stage 2BodyElements. Aspects of dealing with the body. Dismember-ment, cremation, burying, wrapping, + transformation.

Stage 3SpiritAspects of journey + unknown. Continued or discontinued path. Feeling of the afterlife.

Wooded areaBeginning of a journey, barrier. Visual block. Used to isolate bring down city. Habitation area.

Wooded area

MistMinor sense of feeling. Change in senses and temperature. Removal of sight and heighten senses.

PhasingSeparation of sense, spacial destinction.

Body

Experience of airAscending of spirit through birds. Raising of self. Verticaltopography. Temperature changes. Air rising.

Submersion of body, bathing, movement of water, transport,transparency, + cloudiness.

Experience of water

Experience of fireTranslation, state of change, destruction of material, gathering, and scattering.

Experience of earthSeasonality, calmness, slowness, association of memories.

Spirit

EternalEnd of journey, interaction, reincarnation.

Waterfront

FloatingSeparation, bathing, transportation.

Transportation, reconnection of senses.

Mourning

Stages

Stage 1MourningExperience feeling of self, corporeal reality, and fragility. Loss + mystery.

Stage 2BodyElements. Aspects of dealing with the body. Dismember-ment, cremation, burying, wrapping, + transformation.

Stage 3SpiritAspects of journey + unknown. Continued or discontinued path. Feeling of the afterlife.

Wooded areaBeginning of a journey, barrier. Visual block. Used to isolate bring down city. Habitation area.

Wooded area

MistMinor sense of feeling. Change in senses and temperature. Removal of sight and heighten senses.

PhasingSeparation of sense, spacial destinction.

Body

Experience of airAscending of spirit through birds. Raising of self. Verticaltopography. Temperature changes. Air rising.

Submersion of body, bathing, movement of water, transport,transparency, + cloudiness.

Experience of water

Experience of fireTranslation, state of change, destruction of material, gathering, and scattering.

Experience of earthSeasonality, calmness, slowness, association of memories.

Spirit

EternalEnd of journey, interaction, reincarnation.

Waterfront

FloatingSeparation, bathing, transportation.

Transportation, reconnection of senses.

shared misunderstanding. The unity of shared customs will provide the means for dramatically different cultures to seek understanding through the common means of existing in this realm. The collective knowledge of how we deal with death is also a symbolic representationof our answer to the unknown.

An embassy of mortality would seek to unite people in the journey to discover what can not be known through the collection of our beliefs. As an outpost, mortality stands as a final pitch against our ultimate fate as living beings. Also as time progresses, space will quickly disappear for the retention of our deceased and our methods to handle their passing. The outpost for mortality/humanitywill be the last memory of our existence in the greater scheme of our impermanence.

The site is broken in three parts: mourning, body, and spirit.

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An expansion to the East River Vultarium, Epidermis + Ostealis is a self exploration of the site and possibilities that deal with the mortality of New York City as well as the body. The plan attempts to show the migration of birds as a cultural symbol of death and is the last species of animal that will occupy the space when New York is flooded.

The site will contain a memorium of individuals that acts as the next cemetery without the constains of space and housing of the body.

Heavily symbolized by the narrative of mortality and the duality between the body and spirit, the site is programmed for adaption versus sustainment. Residential housing units are placed above the memorium and remembrance of deceased is caused from the heat signature of a hand.

The project also serves as a waterfront on the East River. This would be one of the only public spaces that could access this side of Manhattan. The waterfront edge would include features that would cause awareness of the body and phenomena that would cause a feeling rather than visual sights.

EPIDERMIS + OSTEALIS

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONADEPARTMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING : BOBBY BROOKS MEMORIAL INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN STUDIO

EAST RIVER VULTARIUM

EVAN LEELANDSCAPE ARCH.4TH YEAR UNDERGRADUATE

epidermis + ostealis

The ellapse of time via lived experiences and the perpetual growth of human developement. An embassy <> outpost of mortality will express the duality between:

body + spiritbone + skininfrastructure + ruin

The site involves movement to the waterfront through the aspects of light and shadow to ulitmately ascend out into the river and revitalize the East River of Manhattan.

The embassy would be a vessel of memory that would persist over time. People act as a catalyst to initiate the memories of the lost.

Using a system of developed bone and skin, the structure and surroundings act as a catalyst for collection and accumulation. This structure outlasts the memory of human occupation through the build up of New York’s disposal.

A structure to reflect the mortality of New York as much as to memorialize the mortality of the individual.

EPIPHYSES

ARTICULAR PROCESS

SIDE FOSSA

EPIDERMIC ORIGIN

PHYSICAL FORAMEN

EPIDERMIC SURFACE

EPIDERMIC DETERIORATION

ARCHIVAL OF MEMORY

SYMBOL OF THE BIRD

CREVASSES + ACCUMULATION

EPICONDYLE

Terminal end for interior structure.

Occupation of NY post ruin/flood.

Occupation of residential + memorial space.

Existing infrastructural grid.

Human circulation.

Water edge.

Bird travel paths.

Absence of surrounding structure due to submersion.

Accumulation onexterior surface from debris in the river.

Surface projections to create a network of canals and crevasses.

Depressed and indented area for memorial space.

Developement of exo-surface for incasement, niches, and exterior accumulation.

Passages into residential space.

Exo-surface as a catalyst for occupation.

Collapse of exo-surface leading to callusing.

Life description, video, and family projections.

Stage 1:Recently passed.

Stage 2:Associated connections.

Stage 3:Ancestry.

Stage 4:Similar life stories.

Symbol of the vulturetranslate to the sparrow of NY.

Transcendence of flight. Symbol of the bird to infrastructure.

Habitation of avian ecology.

Celebrating the mortality of humankind. This memorial network will function with the interaction of a human touch and release of network of established data. This data will link the individual to lost family members or friends that have past away regardless of residency in New York.

Built below a residential space, this memorial of humankind expresses the duality between a living being and a figurative spirit hoping to abolish the dogma of the dead.

The bird is a cultural symbol of power and the release of a spirit. A birds significance as a symbol comes for the reason that they can do what human beings cannot, fly. This ability allows birds to remain during the collapse of New York long after the occupation of humans.

Time will allow the bird to become the symbol that we see it, the representation of the human spirit flying above the ruin of our civilization.

With the creation of voids and space between residential structures, debris and soil will begin to accumulate. This process helps establish varying conditions of occupation and the space built for the involvement of the human body.

This accumulation will establish the structure over time with the materials that New York disposes, similiar to the removal of a body. In the end, the remnant of New York after the flood, will be comprised solely of what it disposes.

Structural encasement and interior exterior joint.

1” = 300’

BUILDING BASE>EXTENSION NORTH AND SOUTH>CONTAINMENT OF BODY + SPIRIT>MEMORIALIZE PEOPLE

HABITATION>AVIAN >DENSITY>FEELINGS ASSOCIATED TO THE BODY

TOPOGRAPHY + BLDG LAYERS>QUALITIES OF LIGHT>IMMEDIACY OF TIME>OVERLAP OF SYSTEMS>BONE + SKIN INFRASTRUCTURE

SPATIAL DISTORTION / EXISTING CONDITION

SPATIAL DISTORTION + FUTURE CONDITION MORTALITY OF NEW YORK

VALUE OF MORTALITY

SKINLAND

CAVITY/ INTERLOCK

MORTALITY

NYC MORTALITY

VISION OF EAST RIVER VULTARIUM

HUMAN BODY - HUMAN INFRASTRUCTUREOriginating from the fragility of the body with the ellapse of time compared to the fragility of the city.Development of this fragile form is the callusing of this systems via cavities and crevasses.

Built structure for something to outlast the mortality of man with the occupancy of birds.

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CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONADEPARTMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING : BOBBY BROOKS MEMORIAL INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN STUDIO

EAST RIVER VULTARIUM

EVAN LEELANDSCAPE ARCH.4TH YEAR UNDERGRADUATE

epidermis + ostealis

The ellapse of time via lived experiences and the perpetual growth of human developement. An embassy <> outpost of mortality will express the duality between:

body + spiritbone + skininfrastructure + ruin

The site involves movement to the waterfront through the aspects of light and shadow to ulitmately ascend out into the river and revitalize the East River of Manhattan.

The embassy would be a vessel of memory that would persist over time. People act as a catalyst to initiate the memories of the lost.

Using a system of developed bone and skin, the structure and surroundings act as a catalyst for collection and accumulation. This structure outlasts the memory of human occupation through the build up of New York’s disposal.

A structure to reflect the mortality of New York as much as to memorialize the mortality of the individual.

EPIPHYSES

ARTICULAR PROCESS

SIDE FOSSA

EPIDERMIC ORIGIN

PHYSICAL FORAMEN

EPIDERMIC SURFACE

EPIDERMIC DETERIORATION

ARCHIVAL OF MEMORY

SYMBOL OF THE BIRD

CREVASSES + ACCUMULATION

EPICONDYLE

Terminal end for interior structure.

Occupation of NY post ruin/flood.

Occupation of residential + memorial space.

Existing infrastructural grid.

Human circulation.

Water edge.

Bird travel paths.

Absence of surrounding structure due to submersion.

Accumulation onexterior surface from debris in the river.

Surface projections to create a network of canals and crevasses.

Depressed and indented area for memorial space.

Developement of exo-surface for incasement, niches, and exterior accumulation.

Passages into residential space.

Exo-surface as a catalyst for occupation.

Collapse of exo-surface leading to callusing.

Life description, video, and family projections.

Stage 1:Recently passed.

Stage 2:Associated connections.

Stage 3:Ancestry.

Stage 4:Similar life stories.

Symbol of the vulturetranslate to the sparrow of NY.

Transcendence of flight. Symbol of the bird to infrastructure.

Habitation of avian ecology.

Celebrating the mortality of humankind. This memorial network will function with the interaction of a human touch and release of network of established data. This data will link the individual to lost family members or friends that have past away regardless of residency in New York.

Built below a residential space, this memorial of humankind expresses the duality between a living being and a figurative spirit hoping to abolish the dogma of the dead.

The bird is a cultural symbol of power and the release of a spirit. A birds significance as a symbol comes for the reason that they can do what human beings cannot, fly. This ability allows birds to remain during the collapse of New York long after the occupation of humans.

Time will allow the bird to become the symbol that we see it, the representation of the human spirit flying above the ruin of our civilization.

With the creation of voids and space between residential structures, debris and soil will begin to accumulate. This process helps establish varying conditions of occupation and the space built for the involvement of the human body.

This accumulation will establish the structure over time with the materials that New York disposes, similiar to the removal of a body. In the end, the remnant of New York after the flood, will be comprised solely of what it disposes.

Structural encasement and interior exterior joint.

1” = 300’

BUILDING BASE>EXTENSION NORTH AND SOUTH>CONTAINMENT OF BODY + SPIRIT>MEMORIALIZE PEOPLE

HABITATION>AVIAN >DENSITY>FEELINGS ASSOCIATED TO THE BODY

TOPOGRAPHY + BLDG LAYERS>QUALITIES OF LIGHT>IMMEDIACY OF TIME>OVERLAP OF SYSTEMS>BONE + SKIN INFRASTRUCTURE

SPATIAL DISTORTION / EXISTING CONDITION

SPATIAL DISTORTION + FUTURE CONDITION MORTALITY OF NEW YORK

VALUE OF MORTALITY

SKINLAND

CAVITY/ INTERLOCK

MORTALITY

NYC MORTALITY

VISION OF EAST RIVER VULTARIUM

HUMAN BODY - HUMAN INFRASTRUCTUREOriginating from the fragility of the body with the ellapse of time compared to the fragility of the city.Development of this fragile form is the callusing of this systems via cavities and crevasses.

Built structure for something to outlast the mortality of man with the occupancy of birds.

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Spring BloomsAquilegia CanadensisAureolaria grandifloraLupinis perennisSilene virginica

Spring-Summer BloomsLinum grandiflorumCentaurea cyanusGypsophila elegansIberis umbellataDelphinium consolida

Summer BloomsEpilobium angustifolium Eschscholzia californicaHelianthus annuusMeconopsis cambricaMonarda didymaRudbeckia hirtaLiatris spicataAsclepia tuberosaPhlox paniculataMeconopsis 'Lingholm' Silene armeria

Late Summer-Fall BloomsCosmos bipinnatusCoreopsis tripterisEchinacea purpurea Ratibida columnarisLobelia cardinalisSolidaga graminifoliaAster Novi-belgiiPhysostegia virginiana

Red ColumbineYellow False FoxgloveLupineFire Pink

Scarlet FlaxCornflower-Bachelor ButtonBaby's BreathCandytuftLarkspur Giant Imperial

Fireweed California PoppyDwarf Sunflower Sunspot'Rubra' PoppyBee BalmBlack Eyed SusanBlazing Star Butterfly WeedGarden PhloxHimalayan Blue PoppyCatchfly

CosmosTall CoreopsisPurple ConeflowerMexican HatCardinal FlowerFlat Top GoldenrodANew York AsterObedient Plant

Swarm Theory Planting

Planting Palette

Swarm Theory

Apian ƒtude ApproachBlack paths shaped from bee swarm behavior patterns meander thru annual wildflower meadows strategically seeded for monthly colour and bloom variations, leading to a massive human scale beehive cloaked in white netting.

Exterior The giant hive comprised of rhythmic modules similar to the contemporary beehive utilizes localized wood framing. Inserted randomly into the exterior are peepholes for adults and children to view into the chamber when the door is closed.

InteriorA large metal door opens to reveal an interior chamber that amazes

and delights the senses. The use of bee product in three material states (solid, liquid and gas) create a magical environment. Three walls are lined with high relief beeswax tiles that compel touch while the fourth is a composite of honeycomb and honey painted window panels. The space creates a sensory intensification, where touch, smell, and sight collide creating a full somatic experience.

ReturnScattered throughout the meadow, a group of ÔnormativeÕ non-functioning beehives are inscribed with social, biological and production text. This design reflects our hybrid architectural-artistic practice.

Installation Views

Spring BloomsAquilegia CanadensisAureolaria grandifloraLupinis perennisSilene virginica

Spring-Summer BloomsLinum grandiflorumCentaurea cyanusGypsophila elegansIberis umbellataDelphinium consolida

Summer BloomsEpilobium angustifolium Eschscholzia californicaHelianthus annuusMeconopsis cambricaMonarda didymaRudbeckia hirtaLiatris spicataAsclepia tuberosaPhlox paniculataMeconopsis 'Lingholm' Silene armeria

Late Summer-Fall BloomsCosmos bipinnatusCoreopsis tripterisEchinacea purpurea Ratibida columnarisLobelia cardinalisSolidaga graminifoliaAster Novi-belgiiPhysostegia virginiana

Red ColumbineYellow False FoxgloveLupineFire Pink

Scarlet FlaxCornflower-Bachelor ButtonBaby's BreathCandytuftLarkspur Giant Imperial

Fireweed California PoppyDwarf Sunflower Sunspot'Rubra' PoppyBee BalmBlack Eyed SusanBlazing Star Butterfly WeedGarden PhloxHimalayan Blue PoppyCatchfly

CosmosTall CoreopsisPurple ConeflowerMexican HatCardinal FlowerFlat Top GoldenrodANew York AsterObedient Plant

Swarm Theory Planting

Planting Palette

Swarm Theory

Apian ƒtude ApproachBlack paths shaped from bee swarm behavior patterns meander thru annual wildflower meadows strategically seeded for monthly colour and bloom variations, leading to a massive human scale beehive cloaked in white netting.

Exterior The giant hive comprised of rhythmic modules similar to the contemporary beehive utilizes localized wood framing. Inserted randomly into the exterior are peepholes for adults and children to view into the chamber when the door is closed.

InteriorA large metal door opens to reveal an interior chamber that amazes

and delights the senses. The use of bee product in three material states (solid, liquid and gas) create a magical environment. Three walls are lined with high relief beeswax tiles that compel touch while the fourth is a composite of honeycomb and honey painted window panels. The space creates a sensory intensification, where touch, smell, and sight collide creating a full somatic experience.

ReturnScattered throughout the meadow, a group of ÔnormativeÕ non-functioning beehives are inscribed with social, biological and production text. This design reflects our hybrid architectural-artistic practice.

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In collaboration with Atypical Architecture, Apian Etude was an attempt to understand and represent a planting scheme based on swarm theory. Swarms, flocks, and schools are groupings of animals based for survival or instinctual. The relationship of the plant types would occur in a similar way with the dispersion of planting seeds in groupings of varied densities.

An exaggerated bee hive used for harvesting would be at the center in which people could occupy a space surround by hot casted bees wax tiles that smell of honey.

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“Underwent a profound transformation as it hit the coast.”

“Seventy square miles, but rarely seventy years old.”

Geo-urbanism

Aesthetic Chaos

“Bringing prejudices, motivations, +ambitions.”

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In understanding the layout of Los Angeles in approaching the Marooned No More, a map was developed to show three factors based on planning. The first was the local language of the site including: sun, ocean, people, mountains, influence of migration, and the midwest. Second was the shapers of the land and how the city grid is shifted when met with the topography lines of the surrounding hills and Dodger Stadium. Last is the layers of growth that Los Angeles is built on, with land being the bottom layer, followed by aspects of geo-urbanism, a 70 year history, consumerism, sprawl, and continued developement. This map shows the graces and grotesqueries of Los Angeles.

HOPES + DREAMS

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Another map was generated to show the missing factor in planning. People moved to Los Angeles with the hopes and dreams of a better life. The factors that produce this better life vary through out Los Angeles’s history.

The connection between the mountains and ocean create the settlement of people that would eventually create the notions that make Southern California what it is based on human value upon the land.

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Since the Dodgers relocated from Brooklyn, a unique baseball culture has developed throughout Los Angeles. The foundation of Dodger culture stemmed from a redevelopment of the Chavez Ravine, the land that the stadium was constructed on. Although the stadium was established with much controversy, the topographic conditions provide for perceptual qualities which include 360 degree views of Los Angeles with angles wide enough to view downtown LA, the ocean and mountains. These qualities associated with the site are of exceptional value to Dodger culture, as it is the only stadium of its kind, resulting in high land values. A majority of the site is contained by parking lots.

The hopes and dreams of this project are derived from the experience associated with the California dream. The idea that there was a sense of aspiration and a value of equity in the people that first moved to the southern California region can be proven, as hopes and dreams continue today with people moving to Los Angeles in hopes of fame and fortune.

The five systems created by the progression of a dream are: open space (public realm), commercial-retail, institutional and education, commercial-business, and residential housing. The mixing and overlap of these systems creates varieties that will encourage social interactions on a level that is successful within an urban setting. The overlaps in the various forms of land use encourage mixed use buildings that piece the narrative of hopes and dreams together.

Transportation networks were important in determining connections from Dodger Stadium to the greater LA area. This concept emphasizes equity and the integration of all modes and methods of transportation that currently exist within the downtown area. Modes of transportation include bus, car, rail, bike, foot trails, on and off site parking availability, and the proposed gondola lift. By providing a wide variety of transportation modes, a more innovative approach to the ¬hopes and dreams of transportation can be achieved. Transportation is significant in giving the urban form of this plan a value in hierarchy.

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dense forest condition

vertical boundary

amorphous canopy

surface lichen

wooded veil

CLOUD LANDSCAPE PATTERNING

Amorphous planting structureForms public interfaceCreates atmospheric condition

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DENSE FOREST CONDITION

VERTICAL BOUNDARY

AMORPHOUS CANOPY

SURFACE LICHEN

WOODEN VEIL

To create environment of a dream, a system of cloud landscape patterning would occur throughout the site. The cloud represents the image of a dream and much as the framework of the project represents hope. The dream is translated to an experience by creating a diverse atmospheric condition through different types of massing.

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