CELSA DOCKSTADER UC BERKELEY 2011 ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY DESIGN
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WEST OAKLAND PROJECT
100B STUDIO, UCB
STREET FURNITURE
URBAN DESIGN, DIS
SANKT ANNAE PLADS
URBAN DESIGN, DIS
THE SKETCHBOOK PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN ART FORM
VISUAL JOURNALING, DIS VISUAL STUDIES, UCB
STEEL AND WOOD
CONTRUCTION, UCB
GALLERY DESIGN
100A STUDIO, UCB
INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING PHOTOGRAPHY
ED 11A, UCB
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EDUCATION2 Like a film strip, each bedroom captures the changing of sunlight throughout the day. EXHIBITION3
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WEST OAKLAND PROJECT 100B STUDIO
This production facility is located near the urban core, in an affordable neighborhood that allows for expansion. From the largest scale to the smallest, it makes use of unconventional programmatic adjacencies
and stresses sensitivity to context. The site is composed of the film school and related administration, a production facility, and professor housing. The envelopes of each of the three main buildings are ribbons, wrapping around the interior volumes and creating varying degrees of engagement with the exterior urban environment.
Between the buildings, wide alleyways provide for flexible social space and circulation. The aesthetic of project is a response to the industrial quality of the Oakland Port, the urban residential areas nearby, and the filmmaking culture. The onsite housing units were inspired by a fusion of standard shipping containers, film set trailers,
Diagramatic progression of the housing unit concept.
and work-live lofts. This fusion metal shell provides protection, Housting Units Floorplan: is explored both in function and containment, and industrial character. Spaces enclosed appearance. in wood provide the intimate, TOP Because the homes are located private living quarters. Concrete on the film school site, much portions of the buildings provide consideration was given to workspace. While the bottom gradients of privacy. The floor studio opens up with a large materiality of the dwellings warehouse door to welcome BOTTOM serves as an indicator of both student visitors, the top floor the function and social quality features a private, inward-facing of each space. The corrugated courtyard.
Located at strategic points on the site there are four shelters provide transportation. These Bus-Stop-News-Stands not only provide basic shelter while waiting for the bus to arrive, but they also provide versatile hubs for news. The shelters are create ever-changing shadow designed to capture sun and to gardens around them. Housing module section
Film School exhibition building and outdoor screening area.
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This project is an exploration of concepts of traffic, usability, human comfort, sustainability, and interaction through the insertion and integration of urban elements in public space.
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SANKT ANNAE PLADS URBAN DESIGN
Located along Copenhagen’s harbor and within walking distance to several social and cultural hotspots, this plaza was an ideal site for reinvention.
The rooftops on every street in Copenhagen are lined with dormers--protruding windows that reach out to capture every ray of light, and that provide opportunities for unique spaces and programatic elements. The dormers light up at night, signaling warmth and life of people inside each space.
In my concept, I combined the language of the docks lining the harbor with the dormers from the rooftops in order to create a new type of public, yet intimate space. Along the waters edge, these spaces mimic the city in a new light, with endless possibilities for urban activity.
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SKETCHBOOK VISUAL JOURNALING
During a journaling course at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, I used drawing as a tool for understanding spaces around me from the human scale to the urban.
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN ART FORM
This series is a study of the body in relation to space, light, and human experience. While some images delve into raw expressions of the darkest emotions, others discuss humor, inhabited geometric
space, surrealism, and the body. This studio provided me with the opportunity expand from documentary photography into the world of staged visual imaging.
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CONTRUCTION STEEL CHAIR PROJECT
Challenge: construct a portable steel chair that can support two-hundred pounds six feet above the ground. Our design featured a tension system that allows for a strong, lightweight, folding cantilever. The chair was composed of a triangular base and five pyramids that when unrolled, are suspended by a tension cable that managed to hold over three-hundred pounds.
WOODEN WATER JUG TRANSPORTATION Challenge: create a unique machine that transportsaa five gallons of water at least three feet. Our structure achieved forward movement by rolling and unrolling with custom hinges.
CONCRETE TORTILLA GRILL Challenge: design and build a tortilla grill made of an original cement mix that weighs under twenty pounds and provides a grilling surface that will hold six tortillas one foot off of the ground above a fire. Our team used glass microbeads in order to create a lightweight, smooth finishing concrete, reinforced with gridded wire. The formwork was constructed of clear, flexible plastic sheets braced by wooden posts.
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100A STUDIO, UCB GALLERY
This outdoor gallery serves both the architecture and art department on the UC Berkeley campus. It bridges the two buildings, while simultaneously connecting the work produced to s public audience. The structure offers a gradient of interaction possibilities, allowing occupants and passersby to intimately view the exhibition, glance into the space, use its exterior for sitting and laying, or simply walk through or along the bridge it creates.
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TIME LAPSE CIRCULATION STUDY
BOTTOM FLOOR
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INTRO TO DRAWING ED 11A
1. “Tree.” Charcoal, 3’x6’ 2. Self Portrait. Charcoal, 3’x6’ 3. Cafe Milano, Pencil, 18”x24”
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PHOTOGRAPHY
The Bay Bridges, new and old.
Occupy Oakland Protests 2011
UC Berkeley Protests 2010
Mountains in (1) Canada and (2) Mallorca
Rural Ecuador 2011
Rural Ecuador 2011
Rural Ecuador 2011