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Nomadic City Los Angeles River, Downtown Los Angeles Professor Stephen Phillips Studio: 2010 Sep - 2011 Jun
Nomadic City is my research project to find out how spaces can be generated and also meet programmatic, circulatory, structural, and service requirements. As a result, the patterning system is introduced as a hybrid version of different methods of folded plates that leads into a complex form. This also introduces dynamic - variety to the space. Secondly, kinetic structures are integrated based on my animation experiments. This allows the patterning plates to react and respond to the surrounding environment. Thus the overall system is elastic. As a site placement, this small city can walk along the Los Angeles river, as the site never becomes a permanent place. Lastly, investigations on today’s society shows that digital media is always linked to people’s daily lives. The spaces are organized so that the theaters (dependent) are concentrated in the center of the overall layout and the housing and other commercial units (independent) are organized on the outside of the form to be easily manipulated. Conceptual laser cut file of “Flower” in gradual difference of openings and shapes Nomadic City 2011 Thesis Project