New School

New School
Spring Quarter 2009: Landscape Studio Instructor: Roger Sherman

Students were tasked with redesigning UCLAs Architecture building, Perloff Hall. New School operated within a field condition and focused on the interplay of negative and positive space and the interaction of public, semi-public, and private programs. Shared and publicly available facilities such as administration, classrooms, rest rooms, faculty offices, the architecture library and auditorium were assigned to self-contained, concrete polyhedric volumes. The arrangement of these masses controlled public wayfinding through deliberate sightlines. Exhibition, jury, and studio spaces were developed from the residual spaces of the concrete masses. Publicly accessible jury and exhibition spaces form along major circulation axes to invite curious passers-by; more private, collective spaces of studio are placed at the periphery of the building, largely hidden behind the concrete structures. A ribbon of glazing circumscribes the concrete volumes to create an environmental perimeter and to define the studio spaces with minimal visual obstruction. An inhabitable roof garden appears to hover above the glazing ribbon. The roof top slopes upward to meet the various concrete masses which then divides the roof into a series of distinct spaces. Bands of skylights wrap around each of the concrete volumes creating a halo effects around the masses when seen from inside. Apertures also puncture the ramped portions of the roof above the public spaces offering birds eye views of critiques and general people watching.

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rock split-distribution plane as landscape

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Spring 2010 - Facade Systems Instructors: Michael Ra & Jeffrey Kock Cohorts: S.Kepford, A.Pandjiris
Concrete beam and shell structure for soil mounds

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Sky Lounge

Goals in this group project were two-fold: develop program and a facade system for a high speed rail terminal. Emphasis was placed on responding to Chicagos climate and to its urban context. The northern skin was comprised of a blanket of ETFE pillows which housed a conservatory, sky lounge, and a new Great Hall. The transparent skin offered expansive city views and abundant daylight during the winter. Summer months remained cool using a patterned, inner baffle to reduce light transmission. In stark contrast, the southern pillowscape was made of a concrete shell structure which created an outdoor urban lounge and afforded users a respite from the sun while inside.
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Winter Quarter 2010: Steel House Studio Instructor: Barton Myers
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Studio design focused on the development of a flexible living environment that could change with the occupants needs. Situated in the temperate climate of West LA, it was an ideal location to explore the interaction of exterior and interior spaces. Large scale sliding doors enabled each of the three discrete structures to extend into the various yard spaces. The perimeter walls and foliage expand the occupants privacy to the edge of the site. The central buildings north and south facing walls are comprised almost exclusively of sliding glass doors. When opened, the ground floors open plan expands further to encompass the opposing yard spaces. Even when closed, the doors transparency offers a visual immersion into the outdoor spaces. Upstairs, cantilevered decks flank the northern and southern sides. Sliding and pocket doors allow for various room configurations. For entertainment purposes, the two bedroom layout (excluding the side office) can transform into one large room; users can walk unobstructed from one deck to the other. Walls of both the garage and painters studio slide open to extend their respective work spaces beyond the structures confines.

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1550 VINE
Winter Quarter, 2011 Instructor: Heather Roberge Cohort: Elan Lipson

What can architecture glean from the material qualities of fabric? How can sewing techniques and haute couture influence building design? Studio utilized analogue and digital design tools. Hand and machine sewn study models explored the potential of fabrics materiality; 3D modeling was implemented to further develop formal studies. Upon refinement, both tool sets were utilized to create physical models.

Program The over-arching goals of studio were studied within the parameters of a mid-rise tower in West Hollywood, located near the prominent intersection of Hollywood and Vine. Program design focused on a boutique hotel, retail, bars and restaurants. Local ordinances and building codes were studied; requirements for parking and height limitations were followed. Rather than compete with adjacent building heights and the glitz of nearby tourist attractions, my groups design sought to internalize itself to create a microcosm within West Hollywoods urban context. A modified tower-plinth scheme was employed where open air spaces and pedestrian traffic took priority. A hotel tower was positioned at the back of the site, away from the bustle of Vine Street. This move helped to unify the diverse program and gave hotel guests an ideal range of views; the towers height and its unique form strengthened the sites overall presence. A porous plinth comprised of retail gave priority to hotel guests and local pedestrian traffic. The plinths top was populated with a the hotel pool and a mix of restaurants, bars and clubs.

Sheet Logics The design exploited two, distinct fabric logics. A series of involutions, distributed as a field condition, created the open air shopping experience on the ground level. The involutions transition their direction of distribution, from perpendicular to the ground to parallel, to form discrete hotel rooms that comprise the Vine Street facade. These rooms overlook the roof deck (top side of the retail involutions) where outdoor hotel amenities such as the pool commingle with restaurants. The pleat-sheet, or double-sided, perforated rainscreen forms the second tower facade. From the interior, the screens semi-transparency affords guests both privacy and views of the Hollywood Hills. Positioned to face the formal entrance, the screen appears to flow down the tower before it transitions its to form an ornamental soffit in the hotels lobby.

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Spring 2011 - Geographics Instructor: Neil Denari Team: S.Lau, D.Madsen

Westwood Village was chosen as the site to explore possibilities of future urban systems. A class trip to Tokyo with particular interest in Shibuya and Shinjuku, helped to frame the studios goals. Solar film technology in conjunction with saturated media environments and their graphic implications were cultivated. Aeroponic technology, high density, and solar energy production were incorporated into the urban design to provoke present definitions of sustainablity. By subverting the importance of the automobile in favor of pedestrian environs and public transit, the overall urban form freed itself from typical North American, orthogonally-based city grids. Pedestrian paths unfold across the site, in a manner more conducive to meandering; the sites modest urban scale accommodates such progressions. A variety of building typologies were organized across the Westwood site. Interior voids were incorporated as a means to limit floor plate depth and to control light quality and access to air. A series of massing slices were performed on the extruded massings of the city. Aesthetic and performative criteria prioritized solar gain, northern light, and street views of the interior voids. Skin design sought to synthesize pattern and image-making with solar and LED technologies. Gradient patterns organized these technologies with glazing and frit design. Solar orientation dictated the density of photovoltaics; south facing facades contained densely packed areas of photovoltaics, whereas northern light was utilized for ambient lighting.

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