nearing the end…

nearing the end…

Perspective of public dining / entry corridor

 

 

Finals review is coming up soon and we were instructed to begin to think of the drawings that we would like to compose to represent our projects. I think instead of ‘photo-realistic’ renderings I am going to create renderings that are more like line drawings like the image above. This was my sample to show my professor tomorrow and gain some feedback.

 

 

 

Zoomed in view

progress…

progress…

 

 

Yesterday the studios held a progress critique that was intended to explore the building systems and structural ideas within our mixed use designs. Yet the critique turned into a much more in-depth investigation into our overarching conceptual and urban ideas. Here are some of the drawings and renderings I produced for the review.  I left the review with many new ideas to incorporate including making the Santa Monica elevation more porous in the housing clusters.

 

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Detailed Section of varying types of circulation / social space

 

Midterm Presentation

Midterm Presentation

 

Two weeks ago was midterm presentation. This consisted of my peers and myself staying up for endless hours to produce work demonstrating our goals for the project. We were required to present ideas about how our project operates urbanistically demonstrating this through models, drawings, and renderings.  My presentation was received well and the focus of my design for the next few weeks will deal with the connection between my private housing and the more public ground plane (how can these two merge or create a third condition?)  I am excited for the development of my project because I think it has a lot of potential but still needs a lot of resolution and problem solving. Progress to come soon.

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Section illustrating the seamless transition from the street to the interior of the project. The section is cut through the public social void of the housing clusters.

iterations…

iterations…

Iterations

Gearing up for midterms on Wednesday but first I need to do some experiments in folding to help me design the podium for the public functions of my building. Here is a quick update as to where I am at. This post will be updated in the near future.

 

current scheme

 

The idea is to generate a new ground plane for my housing clusters that is has more order and logic then my current scheme.  I think that I now have a further understanding of how to bend and fold the ground plane in order to create space and experience. While none of these forms seem to be the "perfect" form for the site, I believe the exercise has led me to think about this in a better light. For my ground plane on Monday / Wednesday I am going to take the ideas I learned from this exploration and execute them to simplify my current scheme. These study models have also engendered new ideas into my head for site organizational strategies along the ground plane.

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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