STRETCHING THE ENVELOPE
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Residual space is the space in between volumes. It is the empty space that connects the nested volumes within a single mass or envelope. This space could be considered left over in terms of program, but it serves as a buffer zone mediating the spaces from both interior and exterior. I seek to challenge contemporary architecture by creating a building in which nested volumes (programmed space) open the residual space by pushing and stretching the envelope generating the form of the overall mass. By hybridizing the enclosure (surface) and strands (structure) to the nested volumes, extreme shifts in scale of members and volumes occur. These wide ranges of spatial and formal variation alter the way we experience architecture.
NESTED VOLUMES STUDY: 3 SHELLS (SURFACES)
ZONE 1
(3 VOLUMES)
(1 VOLUME)
(MULTIPLE VOLUMES)
MANIFOLD SURFACE (INTERIOR LINER BECOMES OUTER SHELL 3 SPATIAL ATMOSPHERES
PROGRAM_MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN ART:
ZONE 2
ZONE 3 RESIDUAL SPACE PROGRAMMED SPACE INTERSTITIAL SPACE
HYBRIDIZING VOLUMES TO ENCLOSURE STUDY:
SURFACE TO STRAND TO VOLUME: HYBRID STUDY: MICRO VOLUME
MEGA VOLUME
INDEPENDENT THESIS: DAVID ERVEN
LA houses one of the largest art scenes in the country. It is important to acknowledge emerging talent and put starving artists on the map. This museum is dedicated to the exhibition, education, collection and preservation of the contemporary urban arts, and to showcase artists who continue to work outside the conventional art establishment. This museum will allow talented ar tists who go unnoticed by the mainstream, the oppor tunity to display their talents beyond an independent scale.
STUDY MODELS:
SHELL, SKIN, CONTINUITY, RESIDUAL SPACE, NESTED VOLUMES • EXAMPLES OF NESTED SPACES, OR VOLUMES WITHIN VOLUMES. • • EXAMPLES OF A FOLDED CONTINUOUS SURFACE. RESIDUAL SPACE, NESTED VOLUME STUDY:
BUFFER ZONE ZONE OF OF RESIDUAL SPACE D E F I N I N GAND AND DEFINING TRANSFORMING TRANSFORMING T H ESPACE S PA CON E OTHE N THE THE EXTERIOR EXTERIOR ANDAND THE THE INTERIOR. INTERIOR.
• RESIDUAL SPACE BETWEEN THE INTERIOR LINER AND THE EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURAL SHELL CREATES SUBDIVISIONS OF NESTED VOLUMES. THIS RESIDUAL SPACE IS CAPABLE OF STUDY MODELS: OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE WHILE ALSO INFORMING THE TRANSFORMING THE EXPERIENCE OVERALL GEOMETRY OF THE BUILDING
SHELL, SKIN, CONTINUITY, RESIDUAL SPACE, NESTED VOLUMES
• EXAMPLES OF NESTED SPACES, OR
HYBRIDIZING VOLUMES TO ENCLOSURE: TOP VIEW