Cal Poly Pomona 2019-2022
2530 Cesar Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles
Cal Poly Pomona, 2022
With Liam Brown, Michael Abe, Bethanie Cayaybab, & Isabelle Ngyuen
Instructors: Irma Ramirez, Ernesto Perez, Walt Disney Imagineering
Programs: AutoCad, Rhino3D, TwinMotion, Adobe Creative Cloud
The Bobby Brooks Studio is to research, program and design an urban vision for the design of a cultural grounds complex that celebrates and supports the presence of immigrant communities in the context of the city of Los Angeles. We are calling this complex a collaborative village with the intent of being a collaborative campus type project.
The grounds are to serve as a place of communal bridging, learning, reflecting, healing, thriving, and celebrating. All architectural, landscape and public realm concepts and strategies must support the presence and memory of immigrant communities.
Teams are to use the collective experience of the team to work through mapping, analysis, and design. Utilize drawings, diagramming and writing to research the systems of the place and connect the relationships of the site as a vision for development. It is expected that this phase will yield the design principles and guidelines that will guide the form of the larger urban design project.
In the end the results of this site-based research and programming shall express a point-of-view on the unique potential and opportunity of the site located in the vibrant community of Boyle Heights, a neighborhood in Los Angeles just east from DTLA.
Throughout the history of Boyle Heights, cultural shifts have been evident. With these cultural shifts, the civil rights movement has had its uprisings. The lack of voter representation of the community will be aided with the programs of the design. This space will become an overall safe space where the youth have the ability to engage, organize, and empower the community.
BOYLE HEIGHTS 2022, SITE ANALYSIS
Gerlie Rodriguez, Liam Brown, Michael Abe, Bethanie Cayaybab, & Isabelle Ngyuen
Gerlie
Liam Brown, Michael Abe, Bethanie Cayaybab, & Isabelle Ngyuen
The goal of this project is to provide a place that supports political engagement and fosters empowerment within the community, especially the youth. The youth are the future voting generation today. These programs will advocate their needs for a place to organize resistance while instilling excitement and imagination. The lack of voter representation of the community will be aided with the programs of the design.
Rodriguez, Liam Brown, Michael Abe, Bethanie Cayaybab, & Isabelle Ngyuen
Building upon the precedence of the Chicano Movement in the 1960’s, art was a prominent aspect in projecting the voices of the many Latinx individuals. With printmaking being a prominent medium of art, many artists were able to include their mesoamerican culture of rectilinear geometry and color palette to convey their message. I have included An amphitheater through stairs is incorporated for the events within the community to demonstrate and microdesigned seating to encourage public community engagement.
BOYLE HEIGHTS 2022, MODELS
Gerlie Rodriguez, Liam Brown, Michael Abe, Bethanie Cayaybab, & Isabelle Ngyuen
Gerlie Rodriguez, DonnoVan Vo, Michael Ortiz, Isabelle Nguyen
