schematic design review

schematic design review

 

 

Yesterday was our first schematic design review within the studios. Each of us stayed up for countless hours to produce work that was intended to thrill our critics. Overall yesterday was quite a success, I received good feedback from our professors and I’m excited for the work being produced this semester by myself as well as the other students in my studio. The next few weeks till midterms will be rough but I think that they will be a lot of fun and we all have a lot of possibility within our work.

 

 

site organization diagram

 

The intent of the project is to use the aggregation studies that we used earlier to create mixed use housing on the site of Santa Monica and Vermont in LA. The goal of the project is to create a development that integrates with the different user groups of the site and engenders interaction between the housing development and the larger urban fabric.
 
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acbhm competition entry

acbhm competition entry

a competition entry by my friend and mentor Kevin Kemner and myself (Aaron Malmedal)

The Holocaust consists of countless tragedies and moral insults, large and small, communal and individual. Memorializing genocide, remembering the Holocaust, is an architectural endeavor fraught with missteps, inadvertent references, the unintended trivialization of the victims, and in this instance, the Atlantic City Boardwalk, a site that challenges traditional notions of places of memorial and of remembrance.

 

Additionally, the immensity of genocide, the Holocaust, the magnitude of It, often leads to a dehumanization of the victims through the recitation of statistics rather than an understanding of the details of individual lives.

 

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aggregating…

aggregating…

student work

It has been an exciting and busy week in studio. We have been creating models like crazy that look at the emergence of pattern and spatial complexity by utilizing aggregation. For these exercises we have been asked to create a cluster that propagates itself by attaching and connecting to one another in several different ways. As you can see from the image above the studio is becoming full of models that offer exciting potential. We are investigating these issues to engender ideas for our studio project which is to design multiuse housing. These clusters are being looked at as ideas of creating something that is spatially more complex than the typical single loaded and double loaded corridors associated within most housing projects. So far the investigation has opened up a lot of opportunity for further investigation and has been a new way for me to think about design. It is interesting to see what these bottoms up approaches will yield.

 

 

 

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