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Rachel Pump Architectural Designer

SCI-Arc, B. Arch | Los Angeles, CA

773. 600. 7988 rachelpump@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/rachelpump www.rachelpump.com

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AUGMENTED CITY

SUSTAINABLE SMART CITY | COMPETITION

SOOMEENHAHM DESIGN LTD | SPRING 2023

DIRECTOR SOOMEEN HAHM

Internship Work

Work included in print publication “Production Urbanism, Daegu as a Circular City” book on future urbanism.

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FILM SCHOOL LA

HIGH SCHOOL FILM EDUCATION CENTER

3B DESIGN STUDIO | SPRING 2022 INSTRUCTOR MARGARET GRIFFIN

Academic Project

Architecture Masterprize 2022 Award: Student Winner for Educational Landscape.

Work selected for exhibition at SCI-Arc Spring Show 2022.

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BIG TWIST

MIXED-USE & MICRO-HOUSING

3A DESIGN STUDIO | FALL 2021 INSTRUCTOR ERIC MOSS

Academic Project

Project featured and presented at the Pando Populous 2021 Event, selected to represent SCI-Arc in the Shelter category for MegaMicro housing.

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TAKE CARE

UG THESIS | 2023-24

ADVISOR PETER TESTA

Academic Project

*Work selected for exhibition at SCI-Arc Spring Show 2024.

This thesis is a critique of the modern hospital, which has lost touch with the needs of the world outside its envelope. Looking to the impending climate emergency, the continued miniaturization of technology, and evolving understandings about spaces of wellness, the requirements of the hospital are shifting. Yet, the modern hospital typology is not prepared for the uncertainty ahead. This project asserts that wellness is an ecological condition and proposes a loosening of fixed relationships within the hospital to create new exchanges between different spaces, practices, materials, and needs.

Within the Emergency Care Center in Montenegro, the typical hospital visit is unpacked from its rigid bounds, unrolled, and laid down as a ribbon-like journey from arrival to recovery. The project is a lamination of building and site, hospital and garden, circulation and program–the layering of which creates a unique strength and flexibility in the face of uncertainty. This vision of Emergency Care at the Clinical Centre of Montenegro challenges the hospital to make room for negotiating an architecture of care in a transitioning future.

This thesis begins with a study of hospital precedents in the form of a chronological comparison of their typological evolution. The diagram highlights the rapid evolution of the hospital over the last 100 years with the advancements of the machine age. It critiques the prioritization of efficiency over all else, highlighting both gains and losses in relation to ecological health & wellness throughout the hospital’s evolution.

Precedent Study | Hospital Typologies Diagram

The project positions itself as being part of a new “family” of hospital typology that recognizes the ecological conditions that sustain health and wellness. This type of thinking has led to hospital designs that develop away from the mega-hospital typology toward a more open and grounded form, with oriented circulation and a connection to nature.

Old Main Hospital, Michigan, c.1925

02 Moses Taylor Hospital, Pennsylvania, c.1892

03 Paimio Sanatorium, Alvar Aalto, Finland, c.1932

416 New North Zealand Hospital, Herzog & deMeuron, Denmark, c.2014-2025

This diagram set considers the linear order of operations occuring within a hospital and maps the routes of a typical journey from arrival to recovery. Paths of circulation are unrolled as if falling in a straight line in order to understand relationships between inside and outside, circulation and treatment.

The emergency center is nestled into 250,000 sqft of designed garden landscape. A typical visit follows a ribbon like path with constant views to the public gardens and interior courtyards.

The facade system controls what is seen and from where; the length of its undulating slats corresponds to both the orientation of the sun and the program area, in order to modulate light, shade, privacy, openess, and orientation.

Aerial Perspective

Reception Area

Cafe Lounge

The building’s figure is embedded in the slope of the surrounding garden, while the figures in the lanscape are garden elements that create the path of circulation outside. Every interior space has an intimate relationship with the landscape, and circulation through the hospital can be read as a continuation of the garden path.

The final form can conceptually be drawn as a single continuous line, and the whole building can be walked through along ramped corridors, without stopping, in an infinite loop.

A walk-in visit begins in the garden, enters reception and waiting, either indoor or outdoor, then triage and diagnostics, passing a surgery unit, ramping up to exam and treatment rooms, and finally to the second floor patient rooms, admin and offices.

The section is presented as an unrolling of a trip through the hospital, because the section is not about any single cut, but about the series of consecutive moments encountered along the journey.

Unrolled Section

The snapshots framing the section are vignettes capturing typical views, orientations, spatial dimensions, and materials encountered in the moments along the way.

1/16” Model on Base

1/32” Topographical Site Model Detail

This vision of emergency care is not only a challenge to the modern hospital, but an acknowledgment that for architecture to face an uncertatin future, fixed relationships must find flexibility. The project aims to not only take care in negotiating an architecture of care, but also to make room for the needs of a transitioning future.

1/16” Interior Model

OUT-OF-ARCHIVE

OPEN STORAGE MUSEUM (ADAPTIVE REUSE)

5A VERTICAL STUDIO | FALL 2023

INSTRUCTOR DARIN JOHNSTONE

Academic Project

program

* Models, drawings, & renderings selected for public exhibition at 21c Museum Hotel (October 2024).

This adaptive reuse project converts an LA Port Warehouse building from 1917 into a new open-storage museum that makes a public exhibit of the art which has been historically confined to closed-off storage spaces. The project confronts two major challenges: using architectural form to engage spaces of storage for display, and converting an outdated warehouse into a collection of spaces that can accommodate such a program.

The museum’s design carves figural voids out of the existing structure and redistributes areas of storage to become engaging vertical and horizontal elements that line the gallery’s procession. The featured collection, titled “Out-Of-Archive,” hopes to challenge traditional ideas about what it means to collect, store, display and engage, and bring a new sense of familiarity and exploration to the museum.

The Met’s Out-Of-Archive: A Museum of the Future

25 Oct 2023

With an ever expanding collection of permanent storage items, the Met is embarking on a mission to make a larger portion of their vast collection a resource for the public.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over two million items in its archive, 95%of which is kept in storage and currently inaccessible to the public. After acquiring half a million square feet of additional off-site storage space, the museum will open its archives to the public in an open storage museum model. The featured collection, titled “Out-Of-Archive,” will be displayed as it exists in storage format, accessible for the public to browse. The practice of open storage is a democratization of the museum collection, allowing the public to take part in the ownership of the art where it was previously reserved for only a select few.

The Met’s first open storage display, established in 1988, was met with success due to its breaking away from the formal and pretentious structure of gallery space. Instead, the model of open display and searchable archive offers museum visitors a sense of familiarity with the work, as well as a unique opportunity for research and education.

ThenewOut-Of-Archiveoffersamuseumexperiencethatnavigatesbetweenopenstoragedisplaysandconventionalgalleryspaces,challengingtraditionalformatsaboutwhatit means to collect and store.

The museum space will be split between two off-site storage locations at the Port of Los Angeles and in Louisville, Kentucky. Both out-of-archive collections are first organized by material, allowing the requirements and systems of storage to be spatially differentiated. The new buildings employ architecture to express these storage systems, blending storage units such as shelf, slot, or case with architectural elements like a floor, a wall, a staircase, or a ceiling. The open storage collections are meant to be exploratory and wrap around the museum’s procession. The Met’s new extensions open in December 2023 and invite the public to explore its newly Out-Of-Archive collection.

This project began with the development of a project narrative that would identify the types of collections to be exhibited and support the nature of their open storage displays.

Research into modern precedents for open storage museums as well as availabe types of storage formats was the first step to identifying design needs and strategies.

The final project explores a series of open storage types, ranging from semi-accessible to interactive, to create a more familiar and exploratory museum experience.

Project Narrative

The museum’s final displays of art modify these dynamic storage formats to become part of the conventional gallery procession.

The first stage of this design process involved the creation of a catalog of 3D assets taken from famous artists’ collections, such as Gordon Matta-Clark, James Turrell, and Rachel Whiteread.

Figural combinations of these assets were multiplied and analyzed for potential as interesting void spaces around which program could be organized.

The final parti emerged from a particular set of figural combinations that were analyzed for spatial qualities and found most conducive to directing circulatory flow through sequential spaces and storage formats within the massing of the historic warehouse building.

Parti Diagram

In order to bring natural light into the concrete structure, brick units throughout the historic facade were strategically pushed out or angled 40º inward along the North-South axis and fitted with fenestration.

The effect is a textural tiling of the elevations that produces a bright, indirect natural light throughout the interior and avoids any direct sun.

Figural voids were strategically carved out of the existing slabs in order to create large, new open spaces throughout the museum’s gallery’s procession.

Facade Exterior Render

The physical model at 1/16” = 1’ 0” scale fabricated for this project displays the building’s interior qualities, highlighting the figural voids carved out of the historic structure, the areas where columns and slabs have been either removed or preserved, as well as the types of open storage employed throughout the museum.

1/16” Interior Model

1/16” Interior Model Close-Ups

PHOTOTROPE

BIOTECH RESEARCH LAB

3B DESIGN STUDIO | FALL 2022

INSTRUCTOR SOOMEEN HAHM

Academic Project

program location sqft

Biotech Research Facility Los Angeles, CA 200,000

*Work selected for exhibition at SCI-Arc Spring Show 2023.

Phototrope’s biotech research lab in Los Angeles serves as a centre of research, education, and technological development on the use of microcultures as a source of renewable energy, carbon sequestration, and water treatment. It is a hub where the latest research and progress from across the world is gathered, shared, and implemented towards our sustainable future.

The project’s design process involved in-depth digital exploration of spatial experience through the use of Unreal’s game engine software, film animation, and curated perspectives in photography. The final project was presented as a narrated film, exploring the building’s critical spaces through orchestrated camera shots that reveal extensively modeled architectural elements.

Portfolio

The pre-design phase of this project involved extensive research into and development of a design narrative around an emerging area of biotech.

An in depth evaluation of technological components was required in order to strategize and implement their systems at an architectural scale.

This project’s narrative studies the emerging applications of algae microcultures in systems for alternative energy production.

BIOMASS ELECTRICITY

Supply

A supply of H20, nutrients, and fresh microalgae culture medium are pumped through a mixing unit and flow toward the photobioreactor.

Carbonation

CO2 enters the stream and bubbles are delivered to the photobioreactor. In a closed system, compressed CO2 is released and continually cycled. In an open system, carbon is also captured from the atmosphere.

Photobioreactor

Microalgae culture is suspended or fixed in a medium within the PBR, where it receives solar or artificial light energy to facilitate photosynthesis inside the chamber.

This is where biomass, electricity, and heat are generated. Wastewater is also treated in the PBR.

Output

Biomass and electricity produced in the PBR flow out to be harvested (or treated, in the case of wastewater treatment).

Sensors & Sample Testing

A system of sensors gauges output data such as temperature, pH, flow pressure, and chemical composition of microalgae culture samples.

Cooling System

The heat produced in the PBR chamber is cooled, usually via a heat-exchange system using cool water to control internal temperature.

Degasser

Oxygen produced in photosynthesis is removed in a gas exchange chamber so output liquid can re-enter the flow cycle.

Cyclical Flow

Recovered H2O re-enters the flow cycle.

Waste Separator

2 1 9 10 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 2 1 9

In wasterwater treatment systems, output from the PBR is separated into solid matter (biomass) and liquid (greywater). Some H2O is recovered, treated, and directed back into the flow.

Filtration & Treatment

The separated algae “slurry” is filtered, usually via press or centrifuge. More H2O is recovered, treated, and directed back into the flow.

Separated biomass enters bacterial treatment before re-cycling as fresh culture medium.

Biomass (Output) (PRESS or CENTRIFIGE)

Recovered H2O

Fresh Culture Medium Algae Slurry

PHOTOBIOREACTOR SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS

Raceway Pond

[concrete, polymer, or plastic-lined basin] [glass or polymer panels]

Plate Horizontal, Vertical, Inclined Suspended Plastic Bags Rotating Biofilm Belt

[parallel spacing @ 3+ ft O.C.]

Flate Plate Airlift

[glass or polymer tubes] [glass or polymer chamber] [plastic film bags] [biofilm or polymer membrane]

PBR configurations may vary in scale and size depending on available area, light source, and scale & type of mechanical system.

Optimal conditions provide ample light (UV) + CO2, large surface-to-volume ratio, short light path through microalgae culture medium, and

Convention Center Chunk

Wet Lab Chunk

The first phase of design involved the extensive 3D modeling of several programmatic building chunks, each aimed at producing a single, curated photographic perspective within a critical program area.

The spatial qualities of each chunk were designed to create dynamic perspectives, and were also constantly evaluated for sectional qualities such as ceiling height, varied levels of floors, connecting circulation paths, and generally interesting void shapes.

Processing Facility Chunk

The building’s section is a strategic compilation of the individual sections taken from the previous programmatic chunks.

The final drawing is a resolved composition that stiches together of each of these spaces in order to create unique sectional voids that float within the larger massing, while also adhering to program needs and adjacencies.

The tubing along the roof is part of a system of tubular photobioreactors that allow micro algae to flow through water to sun-lit spaces and generate electricity and manage waste water.

This section was further explored as both a detailed digital setion model as well as a physical chunk model at 1/4” scale.

This physical model at 1/4” scale is an exploration of materiality, tectonics, and structure. Great detail and attention was given to the construction of the window system, which is suspended along steel cables from the building’s roof.

1/4” Sectional Chunk Model

1/4” Sectional Chunk Model Details

The building’s ground level courtyard functions as both a working microalgae raceway pond--generating electricity through photosythesis--and also a public plaza with engaging water elements that displays the type of work and research that continues on inside the building.

This detailed sectional model was developed alongside the physical model, yet explores the inhabitation of the building, program specific interior design, as well as rendered materiality and animation of the model through film.

Left: Exterior Render

Right: Site Plan Render

AUGMENTED CITY

SUSTAINABLE SMART CITY

SOOMEENHAHM DESIGN LTD | SPRING 2023

DIRECTOR SOOMEEN HAHM

Internship Work

program location team

Smart City Infrastructure

Daegu, South Korea

Rachel Pump, (Designer)

Raymond Jin, (Designer)

Hanjun Kim, (Project Manager)

Soomeen Hahm (Project Director)

software

Rhino, Unreal Engine, Photoshop

*Work included in print publication “Production Urbanism, Daegu as a Circular City” book on future urbanism.

In the wake of the AI revolution, humanity is confronted with an unprecedented challenge: the relentless march of exponentially advancing technologies. Our cities find themselves at the forefront of this transformative moment, tasked with the formidable challenge of accommodating these rapid and continually evolving technological advances.

To address the challenges arising from the rapid pace of urbanization and population growth in Korea, the Smart City Proposal takes advantage of autonomous vehicle technology and existing urban infrastructure of mega-intersections and high-rise buildings. Using real-time sensing and traffic monitoring systems in combination with developing autonomous vehicle technologies, our vision is to create free-form streets that flow vertically as well horizontally to seamlessly integrate into the buildings above.

The resulting urban system augments existing architecture and frees up congested urban roads to become dynamic and interactive public squares. This proposal offers a unique chance to re-imagine urban spaces and promote a more livable and vibrant city for residents and visitors alike.

My Role:

As a designer on this project, my role included proposing and developing design concepts through sketches, drawings, renderings and 3D modeling.

Revolutionizing Urban Living, Autonomous vehicle integration in Daegu:

An autonomous vehicle system directs the bustling thoroughfares of BumUh Crossroads, renowned as the widest and most congested district of Daegu. Our proposal installs a facade structure that gracefully wraps around the pre-existing apartment skyscrapers that characterize the area, relieving traffic at street level by allowing AVs to navigate on elevated streets and along the buildings themselves.

This proposed enhancement not only redefines the urban fabric, but offers a meeting point between cutting edge AV technologies and the evolving contemporary smart city.

My work in this project was included among other works in a publication by the project’s director exploring the captivating scope and reach of future technologies that are poised to reshape how we live, work, and interact across our urban landscapes.

Production Urbanism; Daegu as a Circular City

Production Urbanism; Daegu as a Circular City 2023.12.

Hahm, Soomeen, Contributor Dongwoo Yim(Ed.), Domansa (pp.249-282)

ISBN 979-11975499-4-6

FILM SCHOOL LA

HIGH SCHOOL FILM EDUCATION CENTER

3B DESIGN STUDIO | SPRING 2022

INSTRUCTOR MARGARET GRIFFIN

Academic Project

*Architecture Masterprize 2022 Award: Student Winner for Educational Landscape.

*Work selected for exhibition at SCI-Arc Spring Show 2022.

The new Ghetto Film School campus in Los Angeles provides an introductory film education program to high school students in the heart of LA.

The project transforms an undeveloped slope into an urban garden of curiosity and exploration, bringing to life an artificial realm where the imaginary takes form and creativity can grow in abundance. Its traversable landscape of interconnected courtyard spaces becomes a sheltered fabric of outdoor spaces. Visitors are invited to wander among the architecture, find sanctuary beneath the canopy, and engage with a dynamic network of surfaces transitioning between softscape and hardscape where architecture and landscape interact as part of a single ecosystem.

The site is a 50,000 SF sloped corner lot in downtown L.A. with 3 exposed streetfacing edges. The campus buildings house two 200 seat theaters, two soundstages, a making workshop, exhibition space, a library and resource center, kitchens and lounge areas, administrative offices, and a variety of hybrid classroom spaces and film production facilities.

Award: This project was awarded the 2022 Architecture Masterprize for Student Winner in Educational Landscape.

In the pre-desing phase of this studio, a mapping exercise involved an intimate assessment of the neighborhood through walking and photography.

This isometric collaged illustration of the site’s surrounding context maps out landmarks, establishments, social encounters, typicalities, and singularities.

The drawing portrays both the ideal and unideal realities of life in a dense, lowincome housing distric of LA’s downtown.

Isometric Site & Context Mapping

The first stage of the design process involved the collection and collaging of grayscale graphics and shapes in order to arrive a conceptual figure/ ground configuration.

The collaged drawings aim to conceptualize the site as an urban garden, mapping out possibilities for building and landscape, streets and courtyards, etc.

Figure /Ground Collage Exercise

Concept Figure Ground

Portfolio

Rachel Pump

SECTION CUT A-A

Team 2 - Margaret

Jacy (Ha Young) Jun

Zili He

Paul (Byung Min) Kang

Joani Cuko

David Aroush

Matthew Scholtz

Abdulrahman AlKhudhari

Mariam Alothman

Zihao Xu

Ali Alramadhan

Rachael Pump

Design Development

Fall 2022

Instructors AS 3040

Scott Uriu

Pavel Getov

Drawing Name

Scale

Sheet Number

LEGEND:

SMALL SOUNDSTAGE

LARGE THEATRE

CLASSROOMS

MAKING SPACE

TECH ROOMS

LARGE SOUNDSTAGE

Portfolio

Portfolio | Rachel Pump

Team 2 - Margaret

Jacy (Ha Young) Jun

Zili He

Paul (Byung Min) Kang

Joani Cuko

During the Design Development phase of this project, a mega-chunk of the campus and several smaller building chunks were selected for in depth research into material selection, structure, assembly, architectural details, ADA, egress, lighting and acoustic, carbon emissions, and cost assessment.

David Aroush

Matthew Scholtz

Abdulrahman AlKhudhari

Mariam Alothman

Zihao Xu

Ali Alramadhan

Rachael Pump

Instructors AS 3040

Instructors AS 3040 Team 2 - Margaret

Scott Uriu Design Development Fall 2022

TIMBER GLULAM BEAM 5.5X9.5

TIMBER TRUSS FRAME 2X6

TIMBER JOIST 2X6

TIMBER GLULAM BEAM 6.5X18

TIMBER FRAME 2X10

TIMBER VERTICAL 2X4

STEEL C-CHANNEL C16

HORIZONTAL STEEL I-BEAM W 16X100

VERTICAL STEEL I-BEAM W 6X25

VERTICAL STEEL I-BEAM W 16X100

CONCRETE COLUMN

STRAP FOOTING CONNECTING BEAM

CONCRETE FOOTING

CORE

TIMBER

TIMBER GLULAM BEAM

TIMBER TRUSS FRAME 2X6

TIMBER JOIST 2X6

TIMBER BELT FRAME 2X6

Mega-Chunk Roof Structure

C-CHANNEL C16

HORIZONTAL STEEL I-BEAM W 16X100

VERTICAL STEEL I-BEAM W 6X25

VERTICAL STEEL I-BEAM W 16X100

CONCRETE COLUMN

STRAP FOOTING

CONNECTING BEAM

CONCRETE FOOTING

Mega-Chunk Primary Structure

STEEL

30’ 12’ 65'

Rachael

Chunk 2 Detail

Partial Wall Section

ZINC PANEL

WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE

WOOD SHEATHING

U-CHANNEL STEEL

L-CONNECTOR BRACKETS

BATT INSULATION

POLYTHENE VAPOUR CONTROL

PLYWOOD BOARD

HVAC SUPPLY DUCT

U-CHANNEL STEEL

ZINC PANEL

WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE

WOOD BLOCK 2X4

L-CONNECTOR BRACKETS GUTTER

BOLT WELDING WALL BRACKET

POLYTHENE VAPOUR CONTROL INSULATION

TERRIUM PVDF COATING METAL CLADDING PLYWOOD

WOOD SHEATHING PLASTER

CLIP ANGLE SPACER

SILICONE SEALANT FLASHING

BOND BREAKER

ALUMINUM WINDOW FRAME

THERMAL BARRIER POLYAMIDE

TRIPLE GLAZED WINDOW

STEEL I-BEAM

METAL SHEATHING

METAL CEILING

STEEL C-CHANNEL

01 ROOF TO GLASS WALL SECTION

02 ROOF TO GLASS DETAIL RENDER 1

Drawing Sheet

Design

Rachael

Ali Alramadhan

David

Abdulrahman

Zihao Matthew Mariam Joani

Paul (Byung

Team

Zili He

Jacy (Ha Glass

Roof to Glass Detail

BATT INSULATION

WOOD SHEATHING PLASTER

CONCRETE FLOOR DECK REBAR METAL DECKING STEEL I-BEAM STEEL C-CHANNEL

FLOOR FINISH TIMBER

HALLWAY SCREENING ROOM

2x10 WOOD BLOCKING

WOOD SHEATHING

Interior Wall to Floor Detail

WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE

POLYTHENE VAPOUR CONTROL INSULATION

CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER

STEEL STRUCTURE

U-CHANNEL

TIMBER STRUCTURE 2x4

NON-OCCUPIABLE SPACE

4% SLOPE

GUTTER

ORIENTED STRAND BOARD

STEEL I-BEAM

WOOD SHEATHING PLYWOOD

C-CHANNEL CLIP

GLAZED TERRACOTTA PANEL

RIGID INSULATION

TIMBER STRUCTURE

TESLA SOLAR PANEL

STEEL

ZINC PANEL

01 ROOF FACADE WALL SECTION

Roof to Facade Detail 1

Rachael

David Aroush

Abdulrahman Zihao

Mariam Alothman

Joani

Zili

Jacy

Facade to Floor Detail

Rachael Ali David

Abdulrahman Zihao Matthew Mariam

Zili

Jacy

01 WALL TO FLOOR RENDERING

02 WALL TO FLOOR SECTION

Facade to Floor

L-CONNECTOR BRACKET

C-CHANNEL

Roof To Facade Detail 2

WALL GROUND AXON

Facade to Ground Detail

BIG TWIST

MIXED-USE & MICRO-HOUSING

3A DESIGN STUDIO | FALL 2021 INSTRUCTOR ERIC MOSS

Academic Project

program location sqft

Mixed-use & Microhousing Venice Beach, CA

100,000

*Project featured and presented at the Pando Populous 2021 Event, selected to represent SCI-Arc in the Shelter category for Mega-Micro housing.

Big Twist is a housing project in Venice Beach, CA accommodating a variety of residential units as well as mixed-use public spaces. The site is located 2 blocks from the beach, covers an entire block, and is bisected by a salt marsh water habitat.

Residential units are housed in the Western portion of the building raised above the water, with framed window views gravitating toward the ocean. Due to the building’s twisted frames and sloping ceilings, each of the units is completely unique and no two spaces are the same.

Retail, dining, and community spaces are available throughout the entire East end, where visitors may traverse the green landscape from any direction. An arts center featuring artist lofts, workshop spaces and an exhibition hall fill the third and fourth levels.

Big Twist invites the community to spill into its landscape and engage with a new neighborhood program.