Architectural Design


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UCLA RUMBLE 2020 Group Submission

////WINTER STUDIO: 2+2/////

Plan of composed of interactions between rotated simple shapes.
In section, the plan is composed of a rotated rectangle and a truncated cone (trapezoid). The rectangle is slightly sunken into the ground, which causes the program of the house to be organized by areas of different elevations, with stairs in the spaces between the intersecting shapes in plan.

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////FALL TECH STUDIO: EXQUISITE CORPSE////

////SCHINDLER HOUSE: FUTURE ANTERIORS////

This project was the first stage of a journey in deconstructing and reimagining the Schindler House in Los Angeles. In this first project, we were tasked with creating a 3D digital model for a section of this building based only on one photograph. Therefore, it required translating from 2D to 3D without any other reference. Since a photograph only provides limited information about the building, we were allowed a creative license in imagining what was behind walls, doors, and dark sections.

I chose this corner of the house because I believed it had interesting tectonics and relationships between spaces. It is the entrance to the Schinder Studios in the house with a “sleeping basket” above the entrance.

The model, with a distant basis on the Schindler House in West Hollywood represents the products of many alterations and reworkings of the spaces, tectonics, components, and general understanding of a specific corner of the house. The model, as its name suggests, has two portions. The left side of the model is the “real side” of the model, based on a 2D image of the house. The right side is the developed side, where the house has been altered through rotations, separations, displacements, stretches, duplications, and intersections. These alterations helped to create an uncnany version of the house, where common sense starts to unravel.

However, the two sides are not alien to one another. There is a relationship between the two sides through an opening, suggesting the idea that one could travel between the two. This portal was the center of much of the design of the model, as I focused on creating different spaces depending on the angle that the opening was viewed through, so as a person walked around the model, they could appreciate them.

The model is held up by the center vertical plane that separates the two models, acting as both the structural axis for it and the datum for the separation of the two components. Therefore, all the model is supported from this center plane.

Relief Model

This relief model is a conceptual design based on the collage bellow from pictures I took of the Schindler House in LA. The focus of this model is to create a sense of depth and an ambiguous relationship between the suggested spaces that are created.


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