Benjamin Kolder | Graduate Portfolio | 2015-2016 Sample

2015-2016 A.UD

PORTFOLIO SAMPLE

ACADEMIC

WQ-2016

02

ACADEMIC

ARCH&UD 415

STEEL HOUSE COURSE:

Comprehensive Studio

CRITIC:

Neil Denari (Principle, Neil M. Denari Architects)

QUARTER:

Winter / 2016

LOCATION:

Los Angeles, California

PROGRAM:

203 Chautauqua Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90272

SIZE:

3,000 S.F.

Q-1 - “I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood.

They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”

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- Andy Warhal

STANDARD / CUSTOM

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“What happened when steel was introduced into building construction was nothing less than a seismic shift in the way in which architecture would be designed and executed from that point on. Like air travel though, today we hardly notice the effects that it has on our discipline since the miracle material turned commonplace long ago. When Harry Bessemer injected oxygen into molten iron in 1856, a method that evolved through fits, starts, and input from other industrialists, a revolution began, one that would lead to the invention of a new language of architecture, 20th century Modernism.

Beyond Chicago’s (and later New York’s) advances in high rise construction, and Europe’s radicalization of the social project of architecture via the polemics of Mies and Le Corbusier among others, Los Angeles reaped the benefits of these pioneering efforts in the realm of residential architecture.

R-01

Throughout the 1930’s, steel houses were designed largely by anonymous companies under the spell of profitability. Repetitive, high volume industries like aerospace and automotive design were seen as models for mass housing. Indeed, although there was little in the way of real technology transfer going on in architecture, the kit of parts steel framed house represented the material reality of Le Corbusier’s machine-à-habiter.”

- AUD415 Comprehensive Studio, Introduction

This home reconsiders the machines of the contemporary as a means for developing a

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new “steel” house that relies on standardization while also accommodating user desires of extreme customization.

R-03

R-01

Richard Meier, Smith House / 1967

R-02

Pierre Koenig, Case Study 22 / 1959

R-03

Royal Oak Laptimer Michael Schumacher

N-01

Geometric studies

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Plan, 1st floor

With the background and history of the 20th century as a backdrop, the project focuses on the constraints and logics of grids, geometric prisms, and platonic spatial typologies (N-01) within a 3,000SF residence located on another backdrop of significant importance, the site of the Eames / Entenza compound.

The Eames site offers a secluded space that suggest proposals pointed towards High Modernist forms and languages. Expanding beyond the singularity of the WQ-2016

transparent house, there’s a desire for both seclusion (R-01) and openness (R-02). Designed like highly articulated product (R-03), the home becomes a new

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machine for living.

STEEL HOUSE

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DOUG AITKEN PROJECTION

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ENTRY / LIBRARY

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FILM / PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO

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ROOF ACCESS

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1ST FLOOR

HOUSE = PRODUCT

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01 aluminium parapet cover

07 concrete topping screed (2in)

01 white polyure

02 aluminium panel

08 reinforced structural concrete slab (3in)

02 concrete top

03 multiplex plywood

09 2.0 composite deck

03 reinforced st

04 formed gutter

10 W24X? steel member

04 2.0 composi

05 steel L-profile

11 fibre cement sheet (1/2in)

05 W24X? stee

06 white polyurethane flooring (1/8in)

12 thick insulated ceiling panel with stucco finish (1-1/2in)

06 fibre cement

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Macbook Air unibody, 2008

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iPhone 4 design, 2010

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Royal Oak Laptimer Michael Schumacher

We focus on standardizing but we dream about custom.

We obsess over complexity (R-02 Royal Oak Laptimer Michael Schumacher has been labeled as one of the most complicated mechanical chronographs yet to be built) yet, we constantly aspire for a higher purity (R03) Apple’s iPhone 4 release marked the phone’s first major design update since it’s introduction in 2007.)

01 lamenated safety glass (1in thick)

07 2.0 composite deck

01 fixed double

02 silicone joint

08 W21X? steel member

02 white polyure

03 steel frame (1/4in thick)

09 spreader beam (1/4in thick; 3in x 12in)

03 concrete top

04 white polyurethane flooring (1/8in thick)

10 lamenated safety glass (1/2in thick)

04 reinforced st

05 concrete topping screed (2in thick)

11 dropped ceiling (louvre system)

05 2.0 composi

06 reinforced structural concrete slab (3in thick)

06 W24X55 ste

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The home functions as a machine that indulges the

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ROOF OVERHANG

technicians that occupy its walls. From it’s integrated

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ROOF & GLAZING

features (N-03) to it’s minimal aesthetic (N-06), the

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SKYLIGHT

home aspires to a higher ergonomics equal to the level

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BALCONY

of product design.

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FIXED GLAZING

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ATRIUM STAIR

STEEL HOUSE

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07 thick insulated ceiling panel with stucco finish (1-1/2in)

01 lamenated safety glass (1in thick)

07 white polyurethane flooring (1/8in)

08 double glazing

02 silicone joint

08 concrete topping screed (2in)

tructural concrete slab (3in)

09 rigid insulation (2in thick)

03 steel frame (1/4in thick)

09 reinforced structural concrete slab (3in)

ite deck

10 double steel member

04 bolt

10 2.0 composite deck

11 steel l bracket

05 multiplex plywood

11 steel tube

12 mechanical shade (1 = shade, 2 = projection screen)

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07 silicone joint

08 1/4in thick steel tube (2x2in)

02 1/8 in thick white polyurethane flooring

08 multiplex plywood

pping screed (2in)

09 3-1/2 x 3-1/2in steel angle

03 2in thick concrete topping screed

09 steel plate

tructural concrete slab (3in)

10 condensation channel

04 reinforced structural concrete slab (3in)

10 1/2in folded steel plate (hand rail + stair wall)

e glazing (3/8in+3/4in+1/4inx2)

ethane flooring (1/8in)

05 2.0 composite deck

ite deck

06 W24X55 steel member

eel member

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ethane flooring (1/8in)

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07 welded steel joint (1/2" thick)

02 silicone joint

08 gwb (1/4in)

03 metal bracket

09 aluminium stud

04 footplate

10 curved l.g.s.f

05 exposed filange (1/4in x 3in)

11 down-pipe (d=3in)

06 steel web (1/2in x variable depth)

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The Tote, Serie Architects / 2009

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Botanical Garden Greenhouse, id-A / 2012

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Château Margaux, Norman Foster / 2015

Examining the potential structural organizations of steel within a circular building geometry (N 11-14), the house utilizes the steel branch as a means for developing a series of standard parts. The column branch has taken many forms, ranging from the excessive (R-06) to the minimal (R-07) to pure techtonics (R-08). Rather than expose the steel members as pure expression, they take on the visually similar form while also playing the role of mediator between structure, expression, and function WQ-2016

throughout the home (N-10).

01 fixed double glazing

08 gwb (1/4in)

03 metal bracket

09 aluminium stud

04 footplate

10 curved l.g.s.f

05 exposed filange (1/4in x 3in)

11 down-pipe (d=3in)

06 steel web (1/2in x variable depth)

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07 welded steel joint (1/2" thick)

02 silicone joint

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column-beam 2 (14’-7”L)

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column-beam 2 (14’-7”L)

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column-beam 3 (20’-0” L)

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column-beam 4 (34’-7“L)

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curved-beam (17’-11”L)

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column-beam 5 (40’-0”L)

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curved-beam (35’-10“L)

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6-way column connection

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curved-beam (35’-10“L)

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2-way beam connection

B-1

column-beam 1 (10’-0”L)

1-2

2-way beam connection

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column-beam 1 (10’-0”L)

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4-way beam connection

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column-beam 2 (14’-7”L)

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4-way beam connection

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column-beam 2 (14’-7”L)

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6-way beam connection

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column-beam 3 (20’-0” L)

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6-way beam connection

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column-beam 3 (20’-0” L)

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2-way special (overlap)

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column-beam 4 (34’-7“L)

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2-way special (overlap)

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column-beam 4 (34’-7“L)

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curved-beam (17’-11”L)

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column-beam 5 (40’-0”L)

A-1

curved-beam (17’-11”L)

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column-beam 5 (40’-0”L)

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Column-A detail.

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Column (B-C-D-E) variations.

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Structural organization 1: column clusters (X3)

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Structural organization 2: column clusters (X6)

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Structural organization 4: column clusters (X7)

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Structural organization 3: column clusters (X12)

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+12’-4” T.O.F. +9’-10” T.O.C.

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C 7.36

7.36 29.44

+22’-10” T.O.P. +20’-4” T.O.C.

+12’-4” T.O.F. +9’-10” T.O.C.

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ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO 2015 - 2016

ACADEMIC

FQ-2015

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ACADEMIC

ARCH&UD 413

DRIVE-IN CITY COURSE:

Building Design & Landscape Studio

CRITIC:

--

QUARTER:

Fall / 2015

LOCATION:

Los Angeles, California

PROGRAM:

Mixed-housing, “Drive-In” Series

SIZE:

N/A

Q-1 - Cameron (Alan Ruck): “The 1961 Ferrari 250GT California. Less than a hundred were made.

My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love, it is his passion.”

Ferris (Matthew Broderick): “It’s his fault he didn’t lock the garage.”

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- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

CAR CULTURE

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To newcomers, Los Angeles is defined by a limitless interconnected hierarchy of roadways, but those of us who live here know better. It is housing, in its suburban form, that gives Los Angeles its extensive grid, fuels the demand for the road system, provides recognizable districts, neighborhoods and sorts the city’s demographics. 413 studio is interested not in housing as a typological specialty, but as the genetic source that shapes the urban fabric that connects built form with landscape, and that in turn characterizes the manner in which we inhabit the city.

With land acquisition booming, investments being negotiated and hipsters scrambling to move in, Frog Town in the Elysian Valley is Los Angeles’ next big attempt at an urban renaissance. Captured by the hard edges of the 5 freeway to the southwest and 2 freeway to the north, Frog Town encompasses 79 miles of single family housing, light industry and amenity latent lands with river adjacency. Upon channelization of the river in the 1930’s to reduce the impact of flooding on the low lands of Atwater Village and East LA, the natural edge of the river was dissolved into a hard one. This control over nature divorced the city from the river, and more importantly from the ecosystems it connected. With the passing of a 1-billion-dollar federal investment in rejuvenating the riparian past of the LA River, interest has shifted once again to reinventing this once forgotten edge of the city with Frog Town proclaimed as its new center.

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- AUD413, Introduction

Historically, the highway has been a tool for

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segregation and public dispute. Rather than straying away from highway development, can we imagine an alternative model that adds value (financially, spatially, socially) to new highwaycentric communities?

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Jonathan Castillo, Car Culture / 2015

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Edward Burtynsky, 105&110

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Michael Maltzan, Carver Apartments / 2009

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Livable Streets, Donald Appleyard / 1981

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Concept, Vertical Dingbat

Los Angeles is a city built around the car (R-02).

For most Angeleno’s, we drive as part of our daily commute, but we also drive for the pleasure, and we drive for personal needs (R-01). The car isn’t something we can avoid - it’s part of the city fabric.

We may look at Donald Appleyard’s Livable Streets diagram (R-04) and think it’s time to eliminate this personal object from our daily lives. Historically, the highway has been a tool for segregation and power struggle. Is it possible to invert our relationship to the FQ-2015

highway with living for a new Los Angeles housing?

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distance between two points. The designer searches

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Early consideration was made to the role of the car as well as the cyclist and the pedestrian. Each form of mobility solicits varying degrees of restriction regarding its ability to turn / navigate at varying speeds. Operating between the freeway and LA river, these circulation studies (N 3-11) consider how multiple thick vectors could begin to develop a new zoning map (i.e. mobility-based zoning) for a mixture of programs that could link freeway, neighborhood, and river into one interface.

LOCAL VS. TOURIST

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ACADEMIC

4 SINGLE-UNIT SUITES / DIRECT ACCESS

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01

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02 EL

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DN

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04

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05

13

14

R-04

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UP DN

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DN UP

11

09

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10

06

11

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12

08 09

2-BEDROOM / 2 CAR-GARAGE

R-05 N-12

4 SINGLE-UNIT SUITES / DIRECT ACCESS

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02 EL

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DN

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The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles

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R-05

The Houser, Dingbat

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DN UP

11

N-12

Hotel + Apartments, Ground Floor

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EL

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N-13

Hotel + Apartments, 1st Floor

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N-14

Partial Plan, 1st Floor

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R-04

Can we generate a optimal community environment for both tourists and locals? What sorts of new

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currently define Los Angele’s housing landscape?

20

DRIVE-IN CITY

DN

2-BEDROOM / 2 CAR-GARAGE

programs can be produced within this mixture? Can this be an opportunity to rethink the basic types that

EL

N-13

09

ACADEMIC EL

EL

UP DN UP

EL

EL

UP

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WC

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WC

VALET

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EL

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N-14

PORTFOLIO 2015 - 2016

EL

EL

EL

EL

UP DN

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UP DN