Yelena Tamrazyan

PORTFOLIO

CONT ENTS

PROFESSIONAL

MOJAVE HUB

collaborative space within the vibrant desert

JKSN SQUARE

inspired by local historical buildings

UNI HOUSING

indoor-outdoor connections for student living

TRIANGLE PLAZA

reimagining the modern workplace

ACADEMIC

DIVERGING CONVENTIONS

two households under one(ish) roof

TOPIARIC FINDS

what you see is not what you get

HOUSING THE AIRSTREAM

how to house the “house”

INT_EX

forming spaces via juxtaposition

IMAGINARIUM

alive

fiction come

MOJ AVE HUB

Type: Competition

Program: Shop & Office

44,340 SF

Summer 2023

DESCRIPTION

A competition entry for a transformative innovation center nestled in the raw beauty of the Mojave desert. The vision is to harmoniously blend technology with an appreciation for the natural environment. The entry lobby provides views of the surrounding desert and serves as the gateway to the facility. Functioning

as a dynamic space for product display and circulation, it establishes a buffer zone between gathering and private work spaces while also allowing for interior space for events. The project endeavors to cultivate a vibrant collaborative atmosphere, fostering meaningful connections between designers, engineers, and technicians.

Mojave Hub _ Program

Exploded Axonometric _ Layering of Parts

Interior Rendering _ Main Entry / Atrium Covered with Solar Capturing Panels

Exterior Rendering _ Main Entry Approach

MULTI-FUNCTION CAFE

LOBBY ATRIUM

OFFICE 5 WORKSHOP 6 PATIO 7 EXISTING BUILDING 2 5 6 7 A B C D A SOLAR PANELS B INTEGRATED SOLAR PANELS C MASSING ENCLOSURE D DEFINING WALL PLANES 1 4 3

Mojave Hub _ Imagery

Exterior Rendering _ Patio

JKSN SQU ARE

Type: Proposal

Program: Mixed-Use

Residential

339,600 SF | 245 Units

Fall 2023

DESCRIPTION

Replacing a surface parking lot and singlestory office building, the proposed project harmonizes with the existing architectural fabric of the warehouse district by drawing inspiration from the existing volumes of adjacent historic buildings. It creates a vibrant central hub that enhances street activity

through ground floor commercial spaces, improves pedestrian connections in an otherwise underutilized sidewalk area and creates outdoor seating opportunities in the form of widened sidewalks, a pocket park and a reclaimed former alley.

JKSN Square _ Precedents & Project Development 1 W MADISON Historic Property To Be Renovated RETAIL F&B SURFACE PARKING LOT SERVICE ACCESS (PREVIOUSLY ABANDONED ALLEY) LANDSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS IN 1st AVE RIGHT-OF-WAY ALONG PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY MOVABLE PLANTERS AND SEATING IN ABANDONED ALLEY RIGHT-OF-WAY EXISTING LINE OF CURB CONSTRUCTED WITH LIGHT RAIL TRACKS EXISTING ACCESS EASEMENT ACROSS ADJACENT PARCEL 20 W JACKSON GARAGE ACCESS PEDESTRIANIZED PORTION OF CENTRAL AVE RIGHT-OF-WAY WITH ENHANCED PAVING AND MIX OF FIXED AND MOVABLE PLANTERS & SEATING (SERIVCE DRIVE 20' WIDE AND 14' HIGH). REMOVABLE BOLLARDS AT JACKSON AVENUE CURB RAMP REALIGNED CURB W MADISON STREET S CENTRAL AVENUE S 1ST AVENUE W JACKSON STREET RETAIL F&B LOBBY TRASH MEP MEP GENERATOR BIKE PARKING 27 W MADISON Not A Part FOOD BEVERAGE BRICK-LIKE FINISH CEMENTITIOUS FINISH PAINTED METAL PICKET GUARDRAIL WINDOWS WITH OPERABLE VENT INTEGRATED EXHAUST IN WINDOW FRAME PAINTED LOUVERS-50% OPEN CEMENTITIOUS BASE PAINTED METAL LEVEL 01 100' - 0" ROOF 240' - 0" LEVEL 05 139' - 0" (10) FLOORS OF APARTMENTS 101' 0" (4) FLOORS OF PARKING 39'0" 145' 0" T.O. PARAPET 160' 0" T.O. ELEVATOR

DISTRICT 1" = 20'-0" PA2.0 SOUTH ELEVATION 245'-0" T.O. PARAPET 260'-0" T.O. ELEVATOR BRICK-LIKE FINISH CEMENTITIOUS FINISH WINDOWS WITH OPERABLE VENT INTEGRATED EXHAUST IN WINDOW FRAME PAINTED LOUVERS-50% OPEN CEMENTITIOUS BASE LEVEL 01 100' - 0" ROOF 240' - 0" LEVEL 05 139' - 0" 145' 0" T.O. PARAPET 160' 0" T.O. ELEVATOR (10) FLOORS OF APARTMENTS 101' 0" (4) FLOORS OF PARKING 39'0" 1" = 20'-0" PA2.1 1 EAST ELEVATION 245'-0" T.O. PARAPET 260'-0" T.O. ELEVATOR GARAGE ACCESS

WAREHOUSE

JKSN Square _ Exterior Renderings

JKSN Square _ Exterior Renderings

UNI

HOU SING

Type: Proposal

Program: Student Housing

485,320 SF | 300 Units

Spring 2023

DESCRIPTION

A 300-unit student housing proposal that boasts design features such as a community deck above retail and multiple terraces to connect the residences to the surrounding neighborhood. Additionally, a framed portal connects streetscape with the outdoor amenity space while stepping

on the massing allow daylight and visual connections to community spaces. Placing the student experience at the center of the design and creating a connection with the surrounding community results in a vibrant and dynamic student housing center.

Uni Housing _ Concept & Project Development

Concept Diagram

Rendering _ Entry & Portal

Rendering _ Public Plaza & Retail LEVEL 01 0’ 0" LEVEL 02 20' 0" LEVEL 03 36' 0" LOWER LEVEL 01 -14' - 0" LEVEL 04 49' 0" LEVEL 05 59' 6" LEVEL 06 70' 0" LEVEL 07 80' 6" LEVEL 08 91’- 0" LEVEL 09 101' 6" LEVEL 10 112' 6" LEVEL 11 122' 6" ROOF 135' 6" ~ 145' 0" ~ 168' 0" 13' 0" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 13'0" 16' 0" 20' 0" 14' 0" 59' 6" 70' 0" 80' 6" 91’- 0" 101' 6" 112' 6" 122' 6" 135' 6" 13' 0" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 10' 6" 13' 0" 16' 0" 20' 0" 14' 0" LEVEL 01 0’ 0" LEVEL 02 20' 0" LEVEL 03 36' 0" LOWER LEVEL 01 -14' - 0" LEVEL 04 49' 0" LEVEL 05 LEVEL 06 LEVEL 07 LEVEL 08 LEVEL 09 LEVEL 10 LEVEL 11 ROOF

Initial

Exterior

TRIA

NGLE PLAZA

Type: Proposal

Program: Office

175,000 SF

Winter 2022

DESCRIPTION

This project sought to rethink the modern work environment in a post-pandemic world where flexibility is an ever-increasing need. With a strong focus on the connection between the interior and the exterior, the project seeks to take advantage of connections with the outdoors and break apart the

the traditional rigid office building. The building is comprised of two forms which have been positioned and terraced to create an open public plaza. This communal space serves as a shared amenity for both building occupants and the local community, offering a versatile area that can be programmed and house local art installations.

Ground Floor & Second Floor Triangle Plaza _ Concept & Project Development Floor Plans

Concept Diagrams _

DF MEP LEGEND HUDDLE LIBRARY OPEN COLLAB 426 IDF MEP LEGEND HUDDLE OPEN COLLAB MATERIAL LIBRARY DF MEP HUDDLE RECEPTION LEGEND HUDDLE OPEN COLLAB SUPPORT TOWNHALL OPEN COLLAB TOWNHALL OPEN COLLAB OPEN COLLAB M W DF MEP SMALL CONF PHONE PHONE PHONE LEGEND COMMON AREA CONFERENCE HOTELING HUDDLE PANTRY PHONE SUPPORT TERRACE WORK LOUNGE COLLABORATION HUDDLE

Concept Diagrams _ Site Framework

Traingle Plaza _ Elevations ROOF L04 L03 L02 L01 LL1 LL2 10' 14' 17' 13' 13' 13' 13' SOLAR SHADE

10' ROOF L04 L03 L02 L01 17' 13' 13' 13' 13' SOLAR SHADE WOOD TRELLIS SOLAR SHADES WOOD GUARDRAIL INSULATED WOOD SOFFIT @ BALCONIES + PLANTER BOXES OPERABLE PANELS @ BALCONIES + PLANTER BOXES ALUM. + GLASS "SERRATED" STOREFRONT SYSTEM OVERSIZE STOREFRONT GLAZING (7'-6"x10'-0") AT GRADE WOOD ENTRY CANOPY STREET TREES

LL3 (ALT.)

Triangle Plaza _ Terraced Balconies

DIVER GING CONVE NTIONS

Studio II

Fall 2020

Instructed by Kutan Ayata

DESCRIPTION

Diverging Conventions organizes around the development of three distinct representational conventions (plan, elevation, and section) to thread together an episodic story of the not-so-quitissential family narrative. Through the index of discursive precedent homes, methods of aggregation and

resequencing engage digital modes of collage to produce new organizational narratives for two domestic scenarios. Built on a generic Los Angeles subdivision plot, this home speculates on the possibility of two separate households under one(ish) roof.

Diverging Conventions _ Precedents & Project Development

Precedents Plan Development

Casa Alvarez, Agustin Hernandez, 1974-76 Project E-2, Hiromi Fujii, 1968-71 House of the Future, Alison Smithson, 1956 Perspectival Section

TOPI ARIC FINDS ARIC

Studio III: Common(s) Ground

Fall 2021

Instructed by Mariana Ibanez

With Charley Andrews, Lisa Sumiko

DESCRIPTION

Architecture exists as an ambiguous relationship between the part and the whole where reality obscures preconceived expectations. Instead of perceiving the whole, we only see fragments, raising questions about scale, perspective, and program. Part and whole become separate objects; what you see is not what you get.

Topiaric Finds looks at different scales of programming that reinforces the enormity, so that it’s true magnitude is left ambiguous when viewed through human perspective. It explores the integration of architecture and nature, and charts the human experience from urban landscapes to the “natural” world.

Topiaric Finds _ Conceptualization

Precedent Project

Marine City Megastructure, Kiyonori Kikutake, 1958-1963; Flotation Mechanics

Manifesto and Site Development

Translation in Scale:

Comparison of Structural Axonometrics on Two Scales

Topiaric Finds Thesis Diagram Aerial View Site Plan

Recreational Space

Dining Area

Topiaric Finds _ Programming

Transitional Housing Apartment Unit

Level] Level 1 Level 2 Level 3

Zoning Diagrams

Site Plan [2nd

Topiaric Finds _ Visualization

HOUSING THE AIR STREAM

Technology II: Building Materials and Methods

Winter 2021

Instructed by Jason Payne

With Eunice Han, Alden Kramer, Julie Wong

DESCRIPTION

Taking precedent in the formal/spatial design found in early twentieth century airship hangars and their relationship to the objects they housed, this project imagines nearly the same thing with just one difference: instead of the airship we consider the Airstream, in our case, the 1964 Airstream Bambi.

Multiple interpretations on the contruction of the Bambi become the foundational basis for mapping the development of the building form. Mismatched lines, “awkward” corners, and moments of tension lend itself to producing its outershell, or rather draping.

Housing The Airstream _ Project Development

Precedents Plan Development _ Mapping the Initial Stages

Housing

Housing

Airstream

“Housing the Airship”, Christopher Dean, 1989 Airstream

Julie Wong, Yelena Tamrazyan, Alden Kramer, Eunice Han

Julie Wong, Yelena Tamrazyan, Alden Kramer, Eunice Han Airstream - Airship

Julie Wong, Yelena Tamrazyan, Alden Kramer, Eunice Han

Bambi II

[16 ft.]

Plan for the Airstream Bambi II Extrapolated Tangent Lines

1964

Stacked

Airship

Housing the

[p.25]

Airship

Housing the

[p.12]

Meusnier Airship Hangar c.1784, [p.53]

the Airship Reference

Image

Arthur Muller Tent Shed Half-Clad at Tripoli, 1912 [p.22]

Housing the Airship [p.56]

Airship Reference Image (or other reference

Airship Reference Image

other reference image)

Housing the

image) Housing the

(or

the Airship

[p.25] Housing

[p.12] 1912 [p.22]

the Airship [p.56]

the Airship Reference Image

Airship

Housing the

[p.25]

Housing the Airship [p.12] [p.22]

the Airship [p.56]

the Airship Reference Image Housing the Airship Reference Image (or other reference image)

Bambi II 1964 [16 -17ft]

Reference Image

Julie Wong, Yelena Tamrazyan, Alden Kramer, Eunice Han Airstream

Airstream Bambi II 1964 [16 -17ft] Julie Wong, Yelena Tamrazyan, Alden Kramer, Eunice Han Airstream

Housing The Airstream _ Skin and Structural Development

X-Ray Views

Julie Wong, Yelena Tamrazyan, Alden Kramer, Eunice Han

Housing The Airstream _ Final Visualization

Longitudinal Section_Transverse Section_Plan

Transverse Section

Longitudinal Section

Rendered Interior

Transverse Section

White-on-White Rendering

Longitudinal Section Plan

Longitudinal Section Plan

Alternate ETFE Skin Material

Airstream Hangar X-Ray

Julie

Julie Wong, Yelena Wong, Yelena Tamrazyan, Alden Kramer,

Views

Technology I: Projections

Fall 2019

Instructed by David Jimenez

Iniesta

With Charley Andrews, Andrew Frastaci, Eunice Han, Lisa Sumiko

DESCRIPTION

Five notable Los Angeles homes: The Gehry Residence, The Norton House, Venice III, The 2468 House, and The Petal House provide the preliminary pieces for the creation of an equisite corpse, or “frankenstein architecture.” Each home is broken apart then put back together to create a set of complex, overlapping plans.

These areas of overlap become new forms of space, either open or completely unoccupiable. Through these recombinations, the exploration of the interpretations between interior and exterior, positive and negative space, and form are instigated.

AXON MODEL: ENDO AXON MODEL: INTRA AXON MODEL: SUB

E X O E N D O I N T R A S U B

AXON MODEL: EXO

INT

int ex _ Case Study & Catalogue of Fragments L.A. Case Study Homes Catalogue of Fragments

CATALOGUE OF FRAGMENTS

PLANS

THESIS DIAGRAM

Thesis Diagram & Accumulate Iterations

ENDO EXO INTRA

CHOSEN ITERATIONS: IN COLOR

Chosen Iterations & The Development of SUB _

EXO + ENDO EXO + ENDO + INTRA

ENDO EXO INTRA

EXO + ENDO + INTRA + SUB

ENDO EXO INTRA

THE OVERLAP OF ENDO_EXO_INTRA_

RESULTS IN THE NEW LAYER SUB_

int ex _ Thesis

Development

Iterative Design

int ex _ Final Visualization & Physical Model

Axonometric Plans By Level AXON

Section

IMAG INA RIUM

Technology II: Digital Tech

Spring 2020

Instructed by Georgina Huljich

With Charley Andrews, Owen Bradbury Aranda, Lisa Sumiko

DESCRIPTION

Beginning mid-quarantine, Imaginarium is a short story film that surveys the place which we now spend the most time: home; abstracting and blurring the line between truth and fiction. Imposed confinement offers, in a way, a critical view of familiarity and the constraints of our reality. Hindered is the ability to experience what is

most desired in a daily routine, thus those experiences can only be recounted through memory. These memories are proliferated through imagination, which transfigure and exaggerate each room into enhanced versions of what they elicit. The home becomes a receptacle for the memory and hope of its inhabitants.

Imaginarium _ Room Study & Story Boarding Material & Digital Elevational Study Digital Spacial & Lighting Study_Living Room Story Boarding & Set Development

Imaginarium _ Transformation

Sunroom Visual Development_From Sketch To Render