02) Think tank library

// Massing and facade tectonic evolution of the library buidling proposal // Exploded axonometric program diagram of the library buidling proposal

// Ground ffoor plan of the library buidling proposal // Fifth folorplan of the library buidling proposal

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Engagement- Single family housing

Design Guide / Michael Casey Rehm Scale / Residential Location / Los Angeles,California Collaborator / Giovanna Lima

KeywordsTower within a tower Urban voids Interface Architecture Coded slats Python scripts Processing scripts Co-existence Synthetic wilderness Envelope threshold

Considering the imminent housing crises in Los Angeles, our project – “a tower within a tower” attempts to revitalize the urban wilderness in cultural district of LA. The site for the project is based on synthetic wilderness in urban voids as we explored them in downtown LA. Architecture has historical methods of interface. The physical material of the building mediates the internal and external systems of exchange. This workshop looks at how the designer can operate through interfacing high resolution digital site data and their own intentions. The workshop project will explore both how we can design through interface, and how we can represent architecture as interface. Chosen site is located in the cultural district of downtown LA- the broad museum and the area around it. Currently underutilized, the open spaces around the broad museum and its surroundings challenged its own wilderness. This offered a range of new possibilities to infill within the voids which are very fragmented and scattered. This allowed our design intervention to be vertically driven. We opted for three such points (or fragmented voids) from the existing fabric as anchor points for our towers.

Left image // view of the single family building dwelling 1

// Massing and facade tectonic evolutionusing photoscans of the fowers

Right image // Massing and facade tectonic evolution using python script and processing