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CONT

ENTS Los Angeles Kunsthal 15

Perloff Hall AUD 23

Californian Steel House 29

Between The Sheets 39

GEOGRAPHICS 11

Little Tokyo Design Week 1

Ultra Expo 5

Manifold Destiny 33

Professional

Graduate Work

Fabrication

1collaboration with Jeffrey Inaba, Simon Battisti and Yasmin Khan

This was a collaborative effort with INABA INC. to fabricate and design the INTRO pod for down-town Los Angeless Little Tokyo design week, hosted by Hitoshi Abe: Dean of The University of California Los Angeles Archi-tecture department and Japanese Studies department. The pod has an elegant design with a raised wooden floor and drop ceiling to house projecting equipment. The back wall is bare for projecting while the side walls are corrugat-ed with vinyl graphics creating a lenticular effect.

Intro Podlittle tokyo design week

Site

Program

Size

Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

Entry Pod

Shipping container view from approach

interior view

graphic articulation

view from street

lenticular effects

5collaboration with Sylvia Lavin

Ultra Expo explored aspects of the Osaka Exposition of 1970, the first world exposition to be held in Japan. One of the best attended expos in history, it did not so much expose Japanese culture to the rest of the world as stage a veritable implosion of East and West, high art and popular culture as well as new technology and traditional ways of life. Add-ed to this heady mix was a spirit of research and development supported by international corporations, the leisure time an aesthetic sen-sibilities of a developing youth culture, moon rocks, time capsules and rock and roll bands. As did the 1970 event, Ultra Expo went be-yond conventional exhibition formats to cre-ate an unorthodox way of displaying historic material emphasizing its contemporary cur-rency rather than nostalgic exactitude. Of particular emphasis in the exhibition installa-tion will be the use of film, video, and photog-raphy to produce anew the no longer extant atmospheres of this once exemplary architec-ture of the future.

Ultra Expo at LA design week

Site

Program

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Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

installation

2000 sq. ft.

axonometricdrawong

Instructor: Neil Denari

collaboration with Sebastiano Zecchetto, Colin Prothero

Westwood Village, an already insular area of West Los Angeles provides a rich programmatic context for a new kind of urban-ism. The consistent increase of students at UCLA demands an increase in studenthousing and more efficient use of land. It also stages an area of localized and economy, providing all the amenities of an inde-pendent city.We start with the contemporary givens of the city, namely that of extrusion and maximization of floor area. These two condi-tions often make for a massiveness lacking in public void space. Given design controlover a large area, we exploit the potential to promote connectiv-ity and networking of this mass.To challenge this phenomenon we started to punctuate the city plinth level (usually a 1 to 6 story extruded mass) with public and private void space. We did this by constructing a tower and courtyard modulethat interlocks with itself. The design of this module inherently builds in void space, operating both horizontally and vertical, that then changes the usual extruded city mass into an airy city network, wherecity tower and city plinthe, verticality and horizontality seem together into a cohesive city lattice.This typology allows for maximum density as well as maximum sun expose with as minimal shadowing as possible onto the 4-story lattice. While the towers remain thin (100M S.) cluster-ing can lead to largerfloor plate. This specific tower density and tower clustering generates the correct amount of surface area for the use of Solar Performative skin. LED lighting systems will define the new citys aesthetic motifand ultimately become part of the general and programmatic gestalt. The LEDs that engulf the lattice constitute a direct output of the skins efficiency.

GEOGRAPHICSWireframe City SURFACE, SPACE, AND GEOMRTRY IN URBAN GEOSPACE

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Program

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Instructor: Jeffrey Inaba

collaboration with Sebastiano Zecchetto

Typically,the structure of a building is designed to reinforce an idea, or it is the idea. In other words, it may be designed concur-rently with other elements of a building as a secondary element and not the generator of the form. And for aesthetic or economic reasons it may in some cases even assume a background role to the extent that it may be for all intents and purposes invisibleinoperative in the experience of architectural form. Alternatively, the structure may be the organizing idea, where the buildings form and structure are one in the same: the form is generated as structure and it is the architectures expression. The structure may even function as a didactic tool, omnipresent at all levels of the formal expression which conditions multiple scales of the ar-chitectural experience. Structure is all foreground. This project explores structure and form as the central thematic of a build-ings design. Our Kunsthal proposition engages a structural concept of mate-rial weakness to allow a formal strategy and experience informed by specific material properties. Although robust construction methods and materials promote formal design freedom, the ma-terial qualities of glass suggest a more narrow window within the architectural form. Decisions concerning site massing, form, and distribution of program, are thus linked through this idea of design through material appropriateness, and the structural and experiential qualities of glass are exploited as means of cultivat-ing a new gallery experience.

Kunsthal Los Angeles

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15,000 sq. FT, sunset trip & La Cienega West hollywood, CA

temporary exhibition space

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Interdependent Steel Foor Structure

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Verendeel Truss System

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vault_glass intersection

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31. studios: 800sq. ft.2. vertical circulation3. metal scrim4. shop entrance5. studio balcony: 7500sq. ft.6. main space: 3000sq. ft.

total sq. ft.: 64,000

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Although the existing AUD school building is a man-ageable size architectural project, it is organization-ally very complex and perfomativelly challenging. The organizational solutions have to be on one hand open and connected and on the other hand isolated and disconnected. The building carefully delineate its relationship to the campus landscape, infrastructure and milieu. Overall, the building design needs to make a positive contribution to the campus as a whole and create an internal architectural and social landscape which is functional and atmospherically conductive to learning. This project, if it were to be manifest-ed, would lie in place of the existing aud building (architecture/urban design; Perloff Hall). Initially the form was shaped from analysis of the studio/mainspace diagram. There after the values in which a student would circulate through a design school was accounted for by the roof design; the rest of the building was then was then resolved as a layered sys-tem assembled through use of the roof s conceptual agenda. The roof houses the library and a covered exterior space. The design was ordered to promote interaction among multi-disciplinary students.

Instructor: Craig Hodgetts

Perloff HallAUD (renovated)

Site

Program

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500,00 sq. ft. parcel: UCLA campus

Architecture School

110,000 sq. ft.

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Section/ transverse

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studios

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Detail/ slab edge

Diagram/ passive cooling

This house is to be built for a developer, requesting that the house is mainly constructed of steel to deal with the perils of construction and environment in Southern California, such as fire, seismic and open space design. This client further asked for a speedy process of design and realization, in order to avoid lengthy regulatory slow downs and variances; on re-quest the project has been carefully built within the boundaries of the site and consideration of the spe-cial surroundings of the site and its context has been taken into account; compliance with the current code and zoning regulations has been addressed. The client is also an admirer of the California case study houses, Eichler homes and Modernism in gen-eral. As a developer he would like to make a similar contribution to the culture of architecture only in more contemporary setting and infused with concerns of today, such as durability of construction, sustain-ability and the design of a prototypical project. The client is also interested in the idea of prefabrication and off site manufacturing of parts or sections of the house and in the possibility to use the design on other sites, such requiring a more generic use of space and amenities, along with large multi-usable spaces with high volumes and vertical spatial orientation, which will require large spans and moment frames mainly constructed of steel. In an effort to adhere to the cli-ents requests the methods of detailing are simple, pre-fabricated and are built to be variable (i.e. the external louver system). The house is wrapped entirely of glass and enveloped by a dynamic louver system to provide privacy and solar shading.

Instructors: Mark Mack, Ben Refuerzo, Barton Myers, Jurg Lang

The Californian Steel House

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Size

30 x 90 lot Linney Canal, Venice, CA

single family residence

3500 sq. ft.

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hot tub

kitchen

Living Room

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patio

Master Bedroom

balcony

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bedroom 2

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plans

Skin/Envelope concept diagram

south elevation

generic form

glazing

rendering\ south west corner

Manifold Destiny the bendsinstructor: Jason Payne

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Standard Skate DeckWilliam Morris

[textiles]

Eames Splint

[unrolled]

Working with william morris textiles and the compound definition of the splint-deck and enables deployment of certain attributes shared by the latter two objects toward a new, third thing. This has been accomplished through prototyping, or the modeling of a series of initial forms poised for subsequent refinement. This prototypes are crude, involving only a select set of fundamental operations and attributes that have not yet evolved to-ward higher levels of specialization. This prototyping requires the transfer of the friendly attributes of the splint to deck. Simply put, imagine the skate deck might bend in ways already observed by the splint. The deck will order to be rendered (redefined) more supple through com-parative analysis, and alludes to a limited (read:simple) set of new formal and mate-rial moves.

Program

Size

an Abstraction [a Standard Skateboard Deck]

31 x 7.5 x 7/16

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Skate deck with deformation

This project is specifically interested in exploiting the double curvature of a standard skate

deck beyond its material capabilities to create bends that can only be achieved by predeter-

mined slits and darts. Charles and Ray Eames engineered six different darts into the leg splint

in order to allow the various curvatures for each part of the splint; in addition, each slit in

the ply rotates around a central pivot point to create slits rather than cuts. The formal

expression of the bulges arrayed across the surface was chosen by displacing the areas of

double curvature to specified locations. The result of the displayed double curvature is a

reaction to forces of nine localized curvatures. The combination of these nine forces results

in unique areas of localization that are doubly curved to resolve the surface within the

provided parameters.

The final built deck adds a third truck not as an alteration to function but rather as a result

of the preferred formal iteration. An iterative process of various slits based on the Eames

splint was used to conclude that an x shape slit is the best option for achieving maximum

curvature of a bulge with minimum negative material reaction.

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The standard technique of mold/form to object, through use of a VAC bag was use to produce a mutated skate deck. By layering wood oak veneer to build strength and spread the stress of the expanding and bending wood, a multitude of variation was achieved. Carefully placement of the bulges, in the form, enabled maximum deformation throughout the deck. The form was molded out of birch ply and coated with polyurethane.

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instructor: Heather Roberge

Digital design has given rise to formal experimentation that out-paces advancements in construc-tion methods. This technology seminar attempts to choreograph formal experiments in step with computer aided manufactur-ing processes such that the two are linked from the outset. Par-ticipants design and prototype formed aluminum panel arrays for use in building envelopes. In or-der to incorporate highly crafted, custom panel manufacture, the design proposals will limit tooling costs by limiting unit types. The unit will be understood as a tes-sellation unit capable of drawing topographic fields with geometric rhythm. Modulation of pattern, shape and texture are the primary design techniques with each rely-ing heavily on intense fields of geometric description.

Between The Sheetsa tessellation experiment

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Rain Screen

15 x 15 [wall coverage]

primatives

linework

edge condition

contour

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