K&K APARTMENT

Instructor: Ramiro Diaz-Granados

Partner: Kimmy Van

Fall 2020

3A

Locate at the heart of China Town, Los Angeles. This micro-housing is focusing on providing affordable housing to Down Town LA. The agenda is to create as slender and porous massings as possible to participate in the aesthetic realm of delicateness, fragility, and precariousness architecture. It is creating a section-active dwelling unit using a planar, faceted geometry to correspond to the site’s tectonic logic.

The units types should be loosely based on the various types discovered in the precedent pairing research. Consider how the volumetric units might tessellate (tile) into larger patterns that produce a textured or smooth massing effect.

The facade of the model is made of an aggragation of modular pieces, mocking the aesthetic of ruinism. The modular pieces later on trnasformed to residential units.

Different sizes of units in 3 aperture variations with 2 opposing chamfer directions equaling 18 unit types. These units are arranged into 15 vertically stacked columns, all spanning 50

Ground Condition Render

Each unit of the building comes with a built-in full size bed and beautiful kitchen wooden cabinets. Large windows provide residents a complete view and experience of Chinatown and Downtown LA