Minquan Wang_Work samples

David Chipperfield Architects Shanghai

01| Jinqiao Art Center 02| NIO House Beijing Huaxi LIVE

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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates NY Minquan Wang Work samples 2024

03| XRL Topside Development

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Chongqing International Land-Sea Center

05| Baker Circle

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Academic Works

06| Détournement of Allure 07| Easy Office

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Miami Beach Oceanfront Development

Culver City Concept Art Studio

Minquan Wang, AIA

Post-Pro M.Arch 2018, Yale School of Architecture B.Arch 2014, M.Arch 2016, Tsinghua University

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Jinqiao Art Center |01

Professional Work at David Chipperfield Architects 10/2022-03/2023 Competition Role: leading designer of internally selected scheme.

Role: responsible for design development, 3D modeling, and visualizations throughout.

Jingqiao Central Park development is an anchor development in the uprising of Jingqiao as a new epicenter of Shanghai.

Six renowned international architectural offices were invited to compete for the three key buildings in the development plan, among which is the Jingqiao Art Center.

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Given the vastly ambiguous nature of the client program brief and the Central Park’s explicit civic quality, DCA envisioned an art center parting way with the collectioncentered classic museum model, replacing it with a social condenser that lends itself as a gathering place for the city and challenges the traditional cultural programs with an fusion with community programs. The final project took form as an stack of said programs under an allencompassing roof permeated with light, air, and nature.

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Program boxes

Cavity

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Platforms

Circulation

Sunken plaza

The Art Center sits on the southeastern corner of Jingqiao Central Park.

The massing strategy takes on a urban approach that views the Art Center as a node interconnecting the surrounding landscapes and key destinations. A series of occupiable surfaces takes on the visitor flow from the park side onto the platforms above the Art Center’s massing, where vibrant cultural and community activites take placce. An enclosed full-height atrium stretching from the basement to the roof pays special attention to the changing elevations from the street to the park side and renders itself as the concourse of public activities.

Weather barrier

Road network

Roof

Green system

Site plan

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Multiple nodes of circulation invite the general public roaming in the park to continue their journey directly onto the open platforms of the Art Center without having to go through the tickteting service in the atrium lobby. While the atrium enclosure ensures that access to all ticketed spaces are managed at ease, the external platforms are enabled to be open to the public 24/7, lending the Art Center as the city’s living room and playground for the people.

The gently fluctuating roof slopes down towards the park side, creating a humble sihlouette blending into the lush nature.

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1. Terrace platform: plant gravel fro drainage geofabric 10cm root barrier concrete composite slab corrugated steel deck steel beam

2. Facade: Low iron laminated IGU powdere-painted aluminum back pan aluminum mullion steel beam

金桥中央公园艺术中心 Jinqiao Central Park Art Center 金桥中央公园艺术中心 Jinqiao Central Park Art Center

The detailed composition of a singular structural module and the flow of internal forces is presented hereafter. The structural system is leading to a lightweight and

The detailed composition of a structural singular structural and thethe flow of internal intention. sustainable solution,module underlining architectural forces is presented hereafter. The structural system is leading to a lightweight and 如下介绍单个结构模块单元的详细结构组成以及其内部力流。此结构体系旨在提供轻量化、可持续的结构解决方案， sustainable structural solution, underlining the architectural intention.

现建筑设计意图。

如下介绍单个结构模块单元的详细结构组成以及其内部力流。此结构体系旨在提供轻量化、可持续的结构解决方案，实 现建筑设计意图。

Normal forces in primary truss elements and edge beams

illustration: Normal forces in primary truss elements and edge beams / 图：主桁架及边梁构件中的轴力

illustration: Normal forces in primary truss elements and edge beams / 图：主桁架及边梁构件中的轴力示意

The roof falls upon thirty-two 18mx18m structral modules. The roof form initiates from flat plates. To allow for natural lighting, one side of the roof is lifted to create a shingled configuration. Upon further structural studies, a curved profile is selected for the roof section, as this minimizes the structural height with an efficient combination of internal force flow: tensile hanging forces carried through the axial beams and bendingmoments taken by the curved truss structure. Lateral forces within each module is minimized with this setup, effectively eliminating the need for lateral bracings to the columns.

illustration: Flow of forces in curved shell element / 图：曲面结构模块单元中的力流

illustration: Flow of forces in curved shell element / 图：曲面结构模块单元中的力流

Flow of forces in curved shell element

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The interior spaces are organized in several independent clusters, where ticketing are set at entrances into each individual venues.

When the atrium is opened, the public spaces of the art center are shared with the cities, and visitors are allowed to freely roam around while each gallery cluster is run by an individual operator. When the atrium enclosure is closed, the Art Center functions as a traditional monolithic musuem, while the perimeter community spaces remain leasible to external agencies.

Model 1: independent program clusters

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Model 2: traditional art center with leasible community space

This dual configuration greatly alleviates the managerial stress of having to open the entire building as one, preventing the Art Center from becoming a “white elephant”, as seen in many large-scale contemporary cultural institutes.

Outdoor circulation Indoor circulation

Platform space

Community art space Institute art space

LEISURE AMPHITHEATRE PARK SPORTS LANDSCAPE SUNKEN PLAZA

LARGE SCALE INSTALLATION PERFORMANCES LECTURE CROWD ART BASKETBALL PING-PONG LEISURE INDIE-ART GALLERY ART FAIR DANCING STUDIOS KIDS CENTER FASHIONFORUM

VERTICAL GARDEN

OPEN HOUSE EVENT SPACE

SHOW

BADMINTON OUTDOOR EXHIBITIONS GRAPHICS PAINTINGS POP-UP REHEARSAL ROOMS WORKSHOP LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION L E ISURE E XHIBITION CAFE F&B AUDITORIUM GROUP KITCHEN SEATING PRIVATE GALLERY VIDEO & FILM PASSAGEWAY SMALL SCALE INSTALLATION OUTDOOR DINING COMMON AREA LOUNGE SEATING ART SHOP ARTS STORE COMMUNITY HIS T ORY GARDEN CAVITY ENTRANCE MARKET F&B

PERMENANT EXHIBITION

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TOD HOTEL

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OFFICE SPORTS SHOPPINGBUSINESS

RETAIL APARTMENT

The building has two sets of independently operating circulation system. The first circulation system traces around and above the outdoor platforms, directly accessible from the park landscape. They connect outdoor civic spaces including sports and recreation, outdoor exhibitions, and gathering spaces. The second circulation system stems from the central atrium and connects between the various interior programs. This means that ticketing could be managed by simplying controling the atrium enclosure itself. The interior art programs are further divided into community art spaces (small privately operating art agencies) and institute art spaces (large museums and galleries etc.). The community art spaces are located near the outdoor platforms.

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NIO House Beijing Huaxi LIVE |02

Professional Work at David Chipperfield Architects 02/2022-06/2023 SD/DD Role: concept design/clubhouse development/DD set production

NIO House is NIO’s user center integrating vehicle exhibition and user community space. A NIO owner could use the clubhouse spaces to his will and participate in the various community events hosted by NIO. DCA was commissioned to design and execute the NIO House in Beijing Huaxi Live. Unlike many previous NIO Houses sited inside existing shopping malls etc. with the design scope confined to the interior, the Beijing Huaxi Live NIO House project provides DCA an opportunity to remodel an existing structure inside out, allowing for a much more architectural approach covering not only the interior design, the furnishing and fitting, but also the space planning and the facade design.

As a major contributor in the design team, I participated in the project from the initial concept design through the DD drawing set production, with a focus on the upper floors clubhouse spaces. I also designed the custom furniture and exhibition system used in the clubhouse.

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The exterior facade utilizes back-lit fritted glass to create a warm, luminescent image.

The fenestration accurately reflects the layout of interior spaces.

While the ground floor is used as a retail space, the upper floors of the project carry the NIO user community spaces: a clubhouse containing cafe, shared workplace, private meeting rooms, gathering and event spaces.

The facade design intentially avoids indifferent glass curtain walls commonly seen in car retailers around Huaxi Live, and opted for a “wall and window” vocabulary, so as to resonate with the house typology pointing towards the real goal of NIO Houses: to cultivate user community culture a be a home they could return to at any moment.

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GF Plan

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Centerpiece

The focal point of the upper floors clubhouse is a double height atrium space called the “centerpiece”. It anchors the functional rooms around it, allows light, air, and activities to flow in between, and becomes the central node for social events and services.

The initial design conceived a skylight at the top of the atrium to invite powerful nature lighting into the space. Due to the owner’s request to avoid complicated constructibility issues caused by such feature, the skylight was subsequently replaced with an LED diffuse light screen, which preserves the atrium’s overarching visual importance.

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3F Plan

A series of custom furniture and exhibition system was developed for the project. They blend into the warm palette of upper floors and work in tandem with the pre-set installation slots per interior design. Lighting fixtures were also integrated into the exhibition system, creating a delicate, minimalist appearance.

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XRL Topside Development |03

Professional Work at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates 03/2021-07/2021 Competition/Planning Approval Submission Role: Designer of Client-picked competition scheme; Office Tower main contributor, responsible for design studies and model/drawing management throughout.

Assistance in retail facade design.

Situated in the famous Kowloon district in Hong Kong, and projected to be an emerging city center, this mix-use development comes up with unique challenges.

The project was initially conceived together with the adjacent XRL (Express Rail Link) station as part of a larger XRL West Kowloon topside development plan. The site sits on the continuum of West Kowloon Parkway, which offers serial urban green spaces extending across the city to the water front. Due to planning approval issues, the original design scheme of the mix-use site was suspended, even though the XRL station and the basement of the mix-use site itself were already fully built. The new design has to accommodate to the existing structure and lend itself as an integral part of the West Kowloon Parkway sequence.

KPF was invited by the owner, SHKP, into a competition to reconceive the site. After being awarded the project, KPF continued to work with SHKP to develop the design scheme for Town Planning Board approval submission. I designed the Client-chosen scheme during the competition phase, and was the main contributor to the office towers design in the subsequent Planning Board submission phase. I also participated in the retail podium facade design.

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Client base scheme

KPF scheme

The scheme initiated from a unique massing composition that responds to the rather bizaare spatial/programmatic requirement of the site.

The city’s major pedestrian circulations are on L2 via a pedestrian bridge network as part of the West Kowloon Parkway, with the vehicles circulate through driveways to reach the drop-off area, which is on L2 as well. With the office drop-off zones disconnected from the city and cut into seperate zones by the Client’s 3-tower base schemes, it was very hard to form a cohesive sense of arrival.

Challenging the Client’s base scheme with three towers longitudinally arranged along the site, our team proposed an alternate solution, where three deformed tower volumes revolve around a concentrated drop-off plaza. The driveway ramps continue to L3 while the entire L2 is allocated to retail. This allows for not only a shared plaza with memorable office drop-off experience, but also dynamic open spaces to further activate the retail components.

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KPF worked with the landscape architect, JCFO, to blend the project into the surrounding retail to form an enriched, integral urban experience.

The office tower overlooks the vast landscaped areas with cascading terraces, creating a vibrant living scene. The retail colonade defined by the towers’ overhang traces along the site’s boundary to form the missing link between the upperstream West Kowloon Parkway and the XRL Crossing landscapes opening towards the southern waterfront. Events and activities are scattered along the Parkway connection pathway, providing incentives for pedestrian flow. The atriums invites visitors to explore the interior and redirect them to the open spaces on various terrace floors.

Due to the basement being already built, the towers have to work with the existing structure. A transfer plate below L2 is introduced to transition the podium column grid into the tower column grids.

L02 Plan

L03 Plan

The towers cascading form also proved to be a challenge regarding structural feasibility. Transfer beams below terrace floors were eventually added to reconcile the column shifts where plan change occurs.

L05 Plan

Floor #

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4.50 4.20 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.80 4.50 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 5.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 4.25 6.20

114.65 110.15 105.95 101.75 96.95 91.95 87.75 83.55 79.35 75.15 70.95 66.75 61.95 57.45 53.25 49.05 44.85 40.65 36.45 31.45 26.45 21.45 18.95 14.70 8.50

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T1 Area

5,549 5,549 5,549 5,549 6,296 6,298 6,300 6,302 6,304 6,306 6,138 6,138 6,313 6,316 6,541 6,541 6,541 6,541 6,541 1,200 0 0 0 118,812 109,080

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lobby void Lift shaft

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Floor to Floor

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4.50 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.80 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.20 4.20 4.20 5.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 4.25 6.20

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98.95 94.45 90.25 85.45 80.45 75.65 71.45 67.25 63.05 58.85 54.05 49.05 44.85 40.65 36.45 31.45 26.45 21.45 18.95 14.70 8.50

1,996 sub-total

T2 Area

5,179 5,179 5,930 5,932 5,935 5,938 5,941 5,943 5,765 5,765 6,535 6,535 6,535 6,535 6,535 1,050 0 0 0 91,232 85,951

MEP

240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 0

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lobby void Lift shaft

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Floor to Floor

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4.50 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.20 4.20 4.20 5.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 4.25 6.20

F.O.F

94.15 89.65 85.45 80.65 75.65 71.45 67.25 63.05 58.85 54.05 49.05 44.85 40.65 36.45 31.45 26.45 21.45 18.95 14.70 8.50

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T3 Area

2,704 2,704 2,992 2,994 2,997 3,000 2,916 2,916 3,388 3,388 3,388 3,388 3,388 3,388 350 0 0 0 43,901

MEP

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lobby void Lift shaft

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41,862 Total Office Total Retail Target Delta

L11 Plan Being characteristic of Hong Kong’s urban planning, the main public space is elevated on the L2 terrace, interconnected by a network of foot bridges.

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The project directs the pedestrian flow across the site with carefully orchestrated retail interfaces, with the office towers’ dramatic gestures adding to their spatial definition.

In being responsible for the office tower design, I managed various aspects of the project evolvement, including massing and facade studies, plan studies, sectional stacking, GFA control, structural coordination, etc.

I also maintained the area chart througout the project to ensure Client development goal.

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Chongqing International Land-Sea Center |04

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Chongqing International Land-Sea Center is a large scale mix use development in Chongqing, China. The project consists of three office/hotel towers, a retail podium, and a light rail station. The project was initially conceived over a decade ago. Due to the project being transacted to the new owner (Vanke) and the subsequent design changes, KPF was comissioned with a major redesign of the podium facades in 2018.

Professional Work at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates 02/2019-02/2020 SD/DD/Tender set Role: Main contributor in retail podium & LRT station facade design, Responsible for design studies, drawing production, presentation materials etc. throughout.

I was the major contributor of the retail podium and LRT station facade redesign, and managed design studies, 3D models, drawing productions, and presentation materials throughout the process.

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The design of both the LRT station facade and the shopping mall’s southern stone facade encountered various MEP and fire rescue window demands. To accommodate to the required facade opening rate without compromising the facade’s visual solidity, a fluid gradient pattern was applied to dissolve any discernible boundary between open/ventilated areas and nonopen areas.

To maintain the double-curve geometry of the shopping mall’s stone facade, extensive studies were done to modulate the stone panels and examine any potential visual tolerance issues.

Parametric tools were applied to streamline the process with added accuracy.

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The shopping mall’s SW main entrance was highlighted with a conical facade with rather convoluted deductive geometries. To accomodate to the fast-paced design iterations, I fully parametricized the facade allowing for automated regeneration of geometric setout, modulation, panelization, and curtain wall member modeling.

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Baker Circle |05

Henderson Hung Hom is a mix-use project of residence and retail development encompassing seven blocks. The project aims at creating the next generation of mix-use. It emphasizes on experiential retail with a blend of art and culture, and speaks of the lifestyles of the younger generation of visitors and occupants. A vastly extraverted retail experience allows the existing urban fabric to permeate into the internal site to facilitate synergy with the intimatel scale of Hung-Hom neighborhood. Anchor stores are strategically positioned and brought to highlight so as to frame the urban spaces, while activating commercial value.

Professional Work at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates 05/2020-08/2020 SD/DD Role: Main contributor in retail podium and key public spaces design; Responsible for design studies, visualization, presentation materials etc.

Through SD and DD, I worked on the retail podium design in general and focused on a series of anchor stores and gateway volumes defining the entries into the project’s site and the interstitial public spaces.

Détournement of Allure

Miami Beach Oceanfront Urban Development

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YSOA Advanced Design Studio Instructors: Emre Arolat, Gonca Paşolar, Kyle Dugdale Partner: Istvan van Vianen Fall 2017 YSOA Feldman Prize 2018 Nominee Site Location: Miami Beach, FL, US 34

Miami Beach is among the ultimate tourism destinations in the US. The city has been remembered and fantasized for its seashores, bars, clubs, and tropical flair. What underlies all these tokens of Miaminess is its vibrant social life. However, consumerist developments have been gnawing at social life on the beach. Profit drives developers erect privatized luxury hotels and condos, chopping the beachfront into fenced bubbles. Since contributing to the urban life goes against their privilege and profit, beachfront developments are increasingly disengaged from the city.

The most pertinent challenge in our face is not to design good architectures with high quality urban spaces, but to ensure such spaces are respected and maintained as they are intended to by the owners. In other words: can we design a game in which publicness is anchored at the core of profitability, thus invite beachfront developments to play along?

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EMBRACE THE GAME

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Instead of fighting Miami's beachfront development pattern, the project works with it.

Five mix-use hotel blocks each is an islands of varying tastes and lifestyles, manifesting the will of individual owners, whereas the Halo bridges them to achieve a unified gesture and experience. The sixth block, a former parking lot, is transformed as a performance park joining the Halo.

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On-Site Exploded View Each hotel block is designed with a cascading podium bringing pedestrian onto its top, and one or multiple guest-room towers elevated above.

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The Halo is broken into several segments on different heights to fit itself onto the site, but the circulation maintains continuous.

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Public Flow Ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators lead people from the street all the way on to the podiums of hotel blocks, and further up to meet the Halo. Program attractors (retails, amenities, etc.) are spread along to keep the flow pumping.

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1. Hotel Podium 2. Hotel Guest-Rooms 3. Performance Park 4. Beachfront Pool 5. Outdoor Theatre

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6. Atlantics Hotel 7. Casa Faena 8. Faena Versailles Classic 9. King David Tower 10. Beach House 8 Exhibition Hall Auditorium

11. Halo Service Shaft 12. Halo Multi-Functional 13. Halo Auditorium 14. Halo Exhibition Hall

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Halo-Hotel Joints The Halo has its stand-alone program attractors to establish its own presence, not necessarily relying on the hotels.

While the public program attractors of the hotels are profit-driven, the Halo carries three non-profit driven show spaces. They are managed by the Halo's stewarding agency and cater to non-profit driven public events, such as lectures, talks, exhibitions, etc.

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GROUND FLOOR: CONSUMERIST HETEROTOPIAS

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The podiums contain most of the hotels' public programs (reception, retail, amenities, etc.). These are fully managed and operated on an individual basis, and configured to aim at commercial interest. From the ground floor, the project almost fully comply to the current model of development on the beachfront: profit driven consumerist heterotopias independently run by hotel owners.

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HALO: NEUTRAL UNIFICATION

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The Halo unifies the individually operating hotels with neutral urban leisure spaces and show spaces managed by a non profit driven third party agency. The Halo's neutrality, reinforced by the performance park offering its independent access & program attractor, facilitates a steady public flow, making sure that cooperating with the Halo scheme stay lucrative to property owners. Public life is thus anchored at the center of profitability.

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Show The Visitors... And The City!

All the show spaces on the Halo are designed with maximum transparency. They are meant to show not only to the visitors within, but also to the city. Even though the content of the shows are not always visible to the people on the street due to distance, a vibrant backdrop with the awareness of "something is up" is enough to lure people in.

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EASY OFFICE

Culver City Concept Art Studio

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YSOA Advanced Design Studio: Pita & Bloom Instructors: Florencia Pita, Jackilin Hah Bloom, Miroslava Brooks Individual Work Spring 2018

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Site Location: Los Angeles, CA, US

In the documentary Brillo Box (3¢ Off), when Andy Warhol is asked why he turned a common Brillo box into sculpture, he casually responded “because it’s easy to do”.

Appropriation yields irony which is easily interpreted, but is paradoxically difficult to attain without an alignment of particular social, economic and cultural forces at play.

This studio investigated appropriation, misinterpretation, and abstraction as tools to generate formal agendas in the adaptive reuse of a warehouse building in Culver City into an Easy Office. Students were asked to hunt everyday items and curate them into a collection to express their sensibilities and obsessions, and convey it through collages.

They then compressed the collection of objects into well thought ensembles, and dematerialized them with vacuum-forming. As levels of abstraction goes up, a formal agenda was extracted from each student’s work, which was ultimated transposed into an office interior.

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Object Collection

2D Collage

The studio initiated with collections of daily items to express a viewpoint, a sensibility or an obsession. My collection focused on streamlined industrial product with highly specific forms.

The sharpness, linearity and hinge in these objects implied a tension between connection and exclusivity.

The images of the objects were then composed into collages to inform a formal agenda. The collages here stitched together disparate objects following their intrinsic formal logic, forming a mechanical Frankenstein, where the individual objects fade away into a new collectivity.

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Drawing for Misinterpretation

Defamiliarizing the Objects

The developed surface drawing transposes the formal techniques from the previous iterations onto an architectural site. Item collections from the site were added to the initial collections, and together composed onto the unfolded interior surface of a warehouse. This results in a "technical drawing done wrong". In trying to make sense of the paradoxical readings, geometric mutations were made.

The tracings of the collected objects were manipulated to disrupt their readings. Lines were taken and misplaced, making their geometries ambivalent, but still hinting the original forms. The linework eventually becomes neither recognizable figures nor completely meaningless abstractions, leaving the viewer hesitant to make an identification.

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The play between the figures and the approximations results in a versatile field that flickers between identifiable forms and fluid aggregations. Small squads of conceptual artists or freelancers find their temporary niches by their preferences and constantly shuffle as projects proceed.

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