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Arch 505A Fall 2010

charter school

The design of this Charter School was influenced by the concept of creating a link between the school and the community. As a center for the neighborhood, the design relates to the surrounding site. Its form is driven by two main buildings which serve as nodes. These buildings are rotated toward the grid pattern of the site at the intersection between Hoover Street and Adams Boulevard. They consist of classrooms and faculty offices and are connected through an underground level.

Representing the link to the community and the nearby park, a physical connection is also created between the two nodes by slanted green roofs. These roofs blend the landscape with the building while creating inviting outdoor gathering spaces for the students, faculty, and community.

Hoover Street

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Hoover Recreation Park

Building program of 31,000 sf.

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Creating a link between nodes and community.

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Creating a link between the school and the community, this design blends the landscape with the building while creating inviting outdoor gathering spaces for its students, faculty, and community.

Hoover Street Section

LANDed Studio Summer 2011

museum

sacred space + the body object

The design of this Art Museum was influenced by a promenade of trees that is unique to the site found within Exposition Park. Located across the street from the University of Southern California, the surrounding area consists of museums, sport facilites, and places for recreation for local residents, visitors, and students.

However, while the park is full of gathering and activity, the promenade of trees lacks the same livelihood. With the potential to serve as a wonderful promenade full of activity, the design of the Art Museum weaves under, above, and between the trees so to create various indoor and outdoor museum gallery spaces.

An art installation design was first developed as a conceptual mapping study of the site. This installation created a pattern and encouraged activity from people passing by.

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Highlight the promenade between the trees of the site.

Extrude form to connect design to surrounding site and buildings.

Raise height of parts of design to mimic the change in height of surrounding trees.

Emphasize circulation of the design by utilizing circulation as gallery space and creating movement through the design.

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Environmental Systems Diagram passive and active cooling and heating systems

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Isometric Diagram

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Encouraging circulation and movement, this design weaves indoor and outdoor museum gallery spaces throughout the promenade of trees that are unique to the site.

Located at the LA River, this Knowledge Center is 1,000,000 sf of mixed use program. A work and live environment, the Knowledge Center also consists of various green spaces along the river for landscape and gathering. This design focuses on the issue of urban planning and revitalizing the LA River to create environmental, social, and economic benefits to the community.

The design of the Knowledge Center consists of two buildings each with a work tower for offices and live tower for residences. With the surrounding zoning consisting of work on one side of the river and live on the other, each building creates a bridge that crosses the river to integrate the work and live environment of the site with the work and live towers of the building.

Arch 605B Fall 2011

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Along the LA River is one side full of work spaces and offices while the other is mostly live spaces and homes. Two buildings along the river fill the 1,000,000 sf of program.

To revitalize the LA River, the design creates green spaces for landscape and gathering. Revitalizing the river will then provide environmental, social, and economic benefits to the community.

live To integrate both existing programs of the surrounding community, this design crosses across the LA River to provide live spaces to the existing work and work spaces to the existing live.

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live The design and its crossing serves as a bridge to allow for residents and employees to cross from one side of the LA River to the other.

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live On each side of the river is one tower for work and one for live to integrate the program of the design with the existing program of the community.

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A bridge crosses over the LA River to integrate work and live with the existing zoning and allows residents and employees to walk from one side to the other.

BIM projects

google sketchup

residence

Apparel Product Design and Merchandising 370 | 2010

market rate apartmentsmarket rate apartments 1,000 sq. ft 1,000 sq. ft

Arch 505B | Spring 2011

non-typical apartmentnon-typical apartment 850 sq. ft 850 sq. ft

apartment units

Purpose of assignment was to take an existing house and build a Revit model with renderings.

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Arch 507 | Spring 2011

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low-e glazing to a light in and reflect

natural ventilation from operable balcony doors low-e glazing to allow natural light in and reflecting heat

radiant floor heating for heat distribution/thermal efficiency

environmental systems diagram

passive and active cooling and heating systems

Arch 505B | Spring 2011

apartment units environmental systems diagram

passive and active cooling and heating systems

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Arch 507 | Spring 2011

This 2,000 sf High-End Residential apartment is an actual project located in Manhattan, New York. As part of the renovation of the apartment, Construction Documents for a Landmarks Approval Package were developed for the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. Along with making changes to the Demolition Plan and Construction Plan, a Window Section and Window Schedule were created. Approval was needed in regards to the change of the window facades and window materials.

high-end residential

Professional Experience | FZAD Architecture + Design | New York