to participate in the vertical studio lottery or enroll in a vertical studio until the hold has been cleared. Eligible students will participate in the vertical studio lottery held during the first week of each term. Following presentations by the vertical studio instructors, eligible students complete an online ballot ranking all offered studios in order of preference. A digital lottery system is used to sort students into individual vertical studios based on ballot rankings and overall student GPA (or portfolio review in the case of traveling studios). Students who fail to submit a vertical lottery ballot by the deadline will not be allowed to participate in the vertical studio lottery and will be assigned to a vertical studio with available seats. Please note that these courses are not offered every semester and are subject to change. Check the latest course schedule for current course offerings, and visit my.sciarc.edu for each semester’s course descriptions. Recent vertical studios include: DS4000 (09) | Stadium at LA Live Eric Owen Moss, Ming Fung The design studio examines the prospect of a new downtown football stadium, integrated in the LA Live complex. Unlike many of the more conventionally constructed new stadia around the world, the hypothesis studied here will be that of a stadium with “no outside,” that is, the stadium will not be a free standing structure surrounded by the usual sea of parking, rather the concept involves the prospect of associating the new stadium concept with other adjoining uses already part of the LA Live venue. That means that entertainment, retail, office, housing, hotel and convention amenities, recreational options, theaters and museums, and parking will combine in a complex which becomes a “future” city within the city.
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DS4000 (12) | MEGACHURCH Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto This studio assembles around the broadcasting of a religion, in this case a spectacular, technological event. This building must engage users within a wide range of scales and interests from the client, The Crystal Cathedral located in Garden Grove, California, to the producers who broadcast a weekly event, “The Hour of Power,” around the globe, to those who are live spectators either viewing as pedestrians or from the seats of their automobiles. This project encompasses a multiplicity of events and uses within a complex yet coherent whole, integrating the typologies of a drive-in theater/ parking lot, a religious sanctuary, facilities to view and produce television coverage of the event, and landscape into a unified yet diverse suite of environments in which the movement of various modes (car, pedestrian, goods) at different speeds will inform the very organization of space itself.