SUSPENDED VOIDS : CABCU CAMPUS & LIBRARY STUDENT UNION

Campus Design

Concept Statement

The BIGGIE BIGGIE BIGGIE painting by Mark Bradford acted as the basis of the structural skeleton for the campus and the student union/library. The approach was to extract the void spaces that existed within the mapping of a city, in our case the city of Los Angeles. This led to the concept of suspended voids where the two main components, the gridshell (the veil) and the campus buildings (voids) exist in coexistence. The veil acts as the protective covering that drapes over the campus and creates an atmosphere with a sense of protection and wellbeing. While the campus building acts as the voids that support student growth and elevate the status of African-American students by raising the spaces that support learning and creating a sense of float or suspension above the true ground level. Both these elements together create an environment of collaboration and mutual respect for one another while embracing the site that exists in proximity.

SUSPENDED CEILING CURTAIN WALL

RAISED ACCESS FLOOR CONCRETE DECK