USC Arc 202b

Anthony Quiroz Mohr studio

USC School of Architecture: ARCH 202B SPRING 2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS PROJECT 01- PG. 3 PROJECT 02- PG. 14 PROJECT 03 - PG. 25

USC ARCH202B: MATERIALITY STUDIO

project 01

Mies-Behaving In Project 1 I had to examine and persue existing forms of generic and authored joinery, in ether the wood or steel variety. By carefully documenting these joints, I began to craft the “tale of a detail” by defining the hidden behavior within each material. This featured technical information will open up a dialogue between the newly “defined” joint and the distinctive characterisitics of its user. These new attitudes in expression will culminate into the proposal of a living structure in the form of prototypical study. Throughout this project I learned how to consider documentations and proper use of drawings conventions of material systems. How to properly model a selected material joinery and understand their material properties. Create clear grayscale drawings with the respective materials. Lastly, positing subject to object transformation that builds and delivers richer personalized conclusions.

To begin, the Hidden Behavior Cheat sheet helps set the stage for my design. The two words I chose were Awkward and Colide. I was exploring the abstract Art of Wassily Kandisky and focused on his art piece named Compositon 8. The shapes and colors that Kandisky composed reminded me of the words Awkward and Colide. The awkwards shapes and colors colide together to create a beautiful art piece that represents music. Then I chose Jazz as the representation for Colide. Since jazz sounds like a colision of instruments, I figured it would pair up perfectly with the first image.

Lastly, what ties this all up together it the Anxious Test Taker. I can picture the art piece of Kandisky in the students mind while a fast pace Jazz song is playing in the background. So, the two joints I selected were the Generic Shear Connections Joint and the Authored Mies Corner Joint. My goal was to break all of Mies’s rules in his design work. In my design I expose each joint conection to make it visiable to the guest. I wanted the space to feel awkward with these controlled joints that are placed specificly throughout the design. At the same time, I was focusing on work by Peter Shire and his art work helped me create the process of a student taking an exam in Mies-Behaving.

The story of my design starts with the students entering the exam. Therfore, the steel circles represent the final thoughts before enter the test. Then the studetns confidence starts breaking down as they start taking the test. This is represented by the Abstract Wooden facade that provided shading to the overall work room. Lastly, the final thought bubbles are expressed on the back as the studetns exits the exam and the guest enters the final room.

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project 02

W.S Learning Center In project 2, I re-adapt the fruitful productions of prototypical study from Project 1 into a proposal of temporary structue, where study will frame and be framed within the bounds of the literary pop-up.

I first consciously adopted a local site, documented and drew local finishes, and re-adapted these surfaces to an entirely new skin which seeks to be shaped by its behavior. Framing will then act as the first part of a dialogue on materiality where the wall or roof will fill out these conversations through poche. These frames among frames will then address the peculiar condition of “details among details” where composite drawings will be shaped by the narrative my materiality wishes to tell.

Therefore, the concept of this project was inspired by the movement of dance. Since the site of the project was located in Mariachi Plaza, I wanted my design to be another character in the site.

The first material I designed was a wooden shading structure that has similar colors to the metro entrance in the site. The wood was cut and placed specificly to capture the spin in the dance.

The second material is a fiber glass reinforced concrete attached towards a steel grid that wraps around the book collection. The material was inspired by the curved concrete found in the Music Plaza at DTLA. Lastly, throught the design a colorful, wood grained terrazzo ties up both structures together as guest make there way through.

The program is split up into two seprate pavilions, starting off with the wooden structure here guest will find the main entrance to the learing center. As they make there way up, guest will find a reading garden that provides shading and a view to the entire site. Next, guest will cross the concrete bridge that will land them on the steel pavilion. There they will find a sunny and shaded study hall.

Lastly, at the bottom of the steel pavilion will hold the book collection. All togther the W.S Learing Center becomes the dancing character in the site.

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project 03

Chopped In Project 3, I had to take stock in the enriched manners of storytelling from Project 2 into a proposal of a collective archive, where these specialized collections will be curated, and crafted according to the peronalized interests of both localized site and material character. These personifed individuals will then shape a narrative filled with particularisms as they blend both techincal detail into atmospheric frames against the setting of permanent structure. I will tell a tale through the semester-long investigations on materiality as they will move beyonf the tpical drawing frames where scenes may break fee from the page and gain a sense of drawing autonomy. Here the drawings, themselves, will collapse into “several layers of thought” as this panelized dialogue will reach new attittudes of material expressions.

The main concept of this design comes the world of culinary. Since my collection holds essential kitchenware equipment for pop-up food vendors. I wanted to show the contolled chaos that happens in a kitchen. So, to start, I created these two characters that pop up throughout the design sheet. Casper and his best friend Martin are the main inspiration towards the final design. The material character was inspired by the techniques chefs use to chop produce. The first one represents the normal method of chopping, while the second material represents a dicing style of cutting. Both materials work as a rainscreen to the structure, the chopped material is made out of steel and the second material is made out of aluminum. They are both attached with a hidden steel hinge that is cut into the material to stay in place. Then the material is placed ether on the concrete wall or steel mullions. Now, the site of my design is at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. Ground floor contains, the two split collections that hold the kitchenware. A cooking lessons area, a recpetions desk, and a farmers market. The slice veggies are sculptures that guest can interact wiht them. The second floor has a viewing deck so that guest can still be engaged with the cooking lessons bellow and ontop of the collections is additional space. Lastly, at the very top guest can find a cookbook collection, private offices for the staff, and a split storage room. On the thrid floor guest will also have acess to private balconies.

The interior elevations show how the second floor of the collections stores single items while the ground floor contains the bigger packets. So, the direction of the design creates an axis from the residenial neighborhood on the right side of the design that heads down to the center stage in the plaza. Lastly the painted concrete and colored material characters represent the produce that the farmers market have to match with the site

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