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Our design approach to this projects is to understand the legacy of California modern architecture with its history of connection to outdoor living and dynamic flexible floor plans. This architectural vernacular now exists as a lifestyle choice for a new generation of contemporary homeowners.' Our work seeks to be an active part of housing revitalization and contributes to the long term longevity and sustainability of NELA neighborhoods and its architectural stock. ALLTHATISSOLID has retooled this 106 year old craftsman to accommodate contemporary Southern California living. This renovation included 1/3 of the property which was rebuilt from the ground up to replace a sub-standard addition that was completed in the 1960’s.This rebuild includes a complete sewer line replacement, new energy star-rated roof, exterior wall framing, concrete foundation, electrical and plumbing throughout. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22157376-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); http://www.allthatissolid.net/Sunset-Junction-Plaza http://www.allthatissolid.net/following/allthatissolid.net/Sunset-Junction-Plaza Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:41:23 +0000 ALLTHATISSOLID 1543058 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/postcard_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/postcard_o.jpg" data-mid="7919562" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/IDEATION_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/IDEATION_o.png" data-mid="7919561" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/SM RENDER_annotated 2_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/SM RENDER_annotated 2_o.png" data-mid="7919568" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/SITE PLAN_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/SITE PLAN_o.png" data-mid="7919564" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/SECTION_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/SECTION_o.png" data-mid="7919563" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/SUNSET RENDER_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/SUNSET RENDER_o.jpg" data-mid="7919571" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/AXO_anno big_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/AXO_anno big_o.png" data-mid="7919560" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/STEEL PROFILES_675.png" width="675" height="535" width_o="757" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/STEEL PROFILES_o.png" data-mid="7919570" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/VE PLAN_anno bigger_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1543058/VE PLAN_anno bigger_o.png" data-mid="7919572" border="0" align="left"/>Vision Bloomrs envisions a Los Angeles geography that no longer prioritizes the automobile and its constriction of people friendly spaces. Instead, we attempt to leverage territories of residual sites into public spaces of leisure, interaction, and cultural visibility. Our proposal expands the small site footprint by lifting the ground plane at two ends, resulting in a dynamic hyperboloid of double-layered green space. This gesture maximizes surface area so that garden, neighbors, and bicycles can co-mingle in a thickened environment that enriches the sidewalk culture of Silverlake’s bustling walking community. In our proposal, the ‘pavilion’ and ‘plaza’ are not separate entities. They are materially woven into a new social gathering space for Silver Lake residents and visitors alike. In this way, Bloomrs is neither sculpture nor garden, but an active ecology populated by the diverse neighborhood always in flux. The variety of native plants grafted into the woven COR-TEN steel structure foregrounds concepts of growth and change, founding values for Silverlake’s identity. Likewise, the new plaza takes a simple yet heterogeneous form which provides an enticing space for social interaction. It is in these incremental steps of creating green social space that Los Angeles will stitch together a pedestrian-friendly city. Our proposal for the Sunset Junction Plaza is both a living part of this process as well as an iconic Silverlake gateway heralding a new brand of urbanism. Form The pavilion takes the generic shape of a hyperboloid which has native structural integrity and spatial dynamics. At the spear’s tip towards Sunset Blvd, the lifted wing provides a shady plaza which serves as a social basin, gathering bus riders, visitors, and neighbors. This charismatic icon provides a welcome sense of community and leisure as a foil to the relentless flow of car traffic. Back towards Santa Monica, the lifted wing rises just enough for tufts of planting and the tucking in of bicycle racks. Across the top surface, the steel cage rises as the earth mounds, forming terraced and textured park space. As the hyperboloid sweeps upward the terraces become a geometric lattice, buffering casual loungers from the rush and spasms of Sunset Blvd’s vehicular traffic. Strands of native plants, grasses, and gravel offer seating for café goers, lunching, or sampling of food trucks parked nearby. Materials Bloomrs is a well considered ecology whose sensitivity to local conditions offers urban and material vitality. Its low-maintenance is merely a natural consequence of the careful design emerging from the study of adjacent contexts. The COR-TEN steel structure achieves a natural patina of rust requiring no maintenance whatsoever. The woven geometry of the lifted wings provides supple ornamentation, garden trellis, and self-stabilizing cantilever. The patina’s texture, rough hew, and minimal surface area will deter and minimize graffiti tagging. Seating will be terraces of earth, plant and minimal steel materials. The landscape and planting design thrives on deft gradients of color, wafts of fragrance, and absolute drought-tolerance. The grading and paving of the site extends the elegant curves and geometries of the woven steel, offering oscillating strands of gravel, plants, and bike racks. All surfaces are permeable offering a rich and sustained material experience of Sunset Junction Plaza. http://www.allthatissolid.net/This-Old-House-Abbott-Pl http://www.allthatissolid.net/following/allthatissolid.net/This-Old-House-Abbott-Pl Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:39:23 +0000 ALLTHATISSOLID 1112674 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC02611_675.jpg" width="675" height="505" width_o="801" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC02611_o.jpg" data-mid="5347542" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_ext 1_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_ext 1_o.jpg" data-mid="5347546" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC02618_675.jpg" width="675" height="505" width_o="801" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC02618_o.jpg" data-mid="5347565" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC03264_675.jpg" width="675" height="505" width_o="801" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC03264_o.jpg" data-mid="5347567" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC03067_675.jpg" width="675" height="505" width_o="801" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC03067_o.jpg" data-mid="5347566" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_bathrm_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_bathrm_o.jpg" data-mid="5347560" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_bathrm 1_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_bathrm 1_o.jpg" data-mid="5347561" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_bedrm_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_bedrm_o.jpg" data-mid="5347563" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_livingrm 1_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/abbott_livingrm 1_o.jpg" data-mid="5347564" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC03605_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/DSC03605_o.jpg" data-mid="5347568" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010117_675.jpg" width="675" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="534" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010117_o.jpg" data-mid="5347570" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010086_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010086_o.jpg" data-mid="5347579" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010075.jpg" width="338" height="600" width_o="338" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010075_o.jpg" data-mid="5347575" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010080_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010080_o.jpg" data-mid="5347576" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010081.jpg" width="338" height="600" width_o="338" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010081_o.jpg" data-mid="5347577" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010083.jpg" width="338" height="600" width_o="338" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1112674/P1010083_o.jpg" data-mid="5347578" border="0" align="left"/>This is a collection of projects that while merely quasi-architectural, fall under the renovation, development, and project management services of ALLTHATISSOLID. These residential renovations update existing Los Angeles housing stock in order to meet the lifestyle needs that the original builders' vernacular did not include: connection to outdoors, water/energy efficiency, flexible floor plans, etc. The legacy of California modern architecture now exists as a lifestyle choice for a new generation of contemporary homeowners'. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22157376-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); http://www.allthatissolid.net/Gastropolis http://www.allthatissolid.net/following/allthatissolid.net/Gastropolis Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:43:10 +0000 ALLTHATISSOLID 1105984 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/OVERALL_800x600_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/OVERALL_800x600_o.jpg" data-mid="5431553" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/STATS 1_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="802" height_o="602" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/STATS 1_o.jpg" data-mid="5531264" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/STATS 2_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="802" height_o="602" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/STATS 2_o.jpg" data-mid="5531266" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/VOID_800x600_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/VOID_800x600_o.png" data-mid="5531268" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/BDG SYSTEMS DIAGRAM_2_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/BDG SYSTEMS DIAGRAM_2_o.jpg" data-mid="5431550" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/PROGRAM DIAGRAM_COMPILED_2_675.jpg" width="675" height="461" width_o="1801" height_o="1231" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/PROGRAM DIAGRAM_COMPILED_2_o.jpg" data-mid="8573026" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/AEROPONICS_800x600_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/AEROPONICS_800x600_o.jpg" data-mid="5431549" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/COW PALACE_800x600_675.jpg" width="675" height="489" width_o="800" height_o="580" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1105984/COW PALACE_800x600_o.jpg" data-mid="5431552" border="0" align="left"/>As global citizens, we are quickly becoming aware of the invisible networks that constitute our complex lives. No longer can we complacently live in a manufactured vacuum where consumer goods magically appear before us. We must begin situating ourselves within a context of ecological production and consumption. We are slipping into an era of maximalism where multiple networks and their critical tipping points seem to be around every corner whether environmental, financial, educational, or agricultural. Food production and consumption has become a flashpoint in a discussion that seems to encompass the most essential and humbling aspects of who we are, how we survive, and what our relationship is to our planet. With Gastro-polis, we have chosen to challenge the eco-politics of Los Angeles, and more specifically the site of Mac Arthur Park. We believe that this site is emblematic of many seemingly intractable problems both regional and international where politics of water, people migration, and food production all seem to intertwine. Mac Arthur Park is an urban fault line serving as a mass transit node and home to Salvadorean immigrants and historical Angelino architecture. Resting in the green spaces of the park and along the lake’s edge, the topography thickens to contain (3 stories) of retail and services programming, a plateau that allows the visitors to travel and meander along the coiled massing. Bridging across Wilshire Blvd., the Project erupts out of the ground becoming a vertical farm as it stands upright in voluptuous form converting solar energy into crop yields. The viscous enclosure of the farm embodies an intensive integrated machine with many parts. In response to the water shortages in California in large part due to the watering of suburban lawns, a vertical network of aeroponic farming will serve to produce a large amount of quick yielding crops. The vertically stacked floor plates of the farm and the tiered armatures will allow maximum solar gain and oxygenation of the root systems. The Cow Palace is a series of cellular bubbles that metastasize up into the building connected by corkscrew ramps. The Cow Palace provides a translucent architectural chamber for the rotated pasturing of cows. Its methane capture will be directed to diversified farming practices distributed throughout the farming tower. At every threshold in the production cycle, opportunities for reuse of byproduct will be captured. Housing of supplemental program will be provided to farmers, workshops, educational symposia, restaurants, et al. This is a new typology of urbanism where the skyscraper serves as greenhouse armature, and the internalized garden/farm serves as a backdrop to urban activities and program. This is a radical departure from the traditional images of the farm, those that have long ceased to become the norm. In fact it is the agro-industry that still perpetuates deceitful marketing, imaging the pastoral farm set against rolling hills and sunsets. The industrial farm has already become a solipsistic machine. Gastro-polis is a contemporary version that harnesses the ecological feedback systems where food production maximizes its benefits of inputs and outputs with each cycle of harvest or production. And as a matter of cultural and public policy, we must begin to integrate farming, artisanal traditions, commerce, and community outreach under one systematized ‘roof’, even if this roof has become a vertical permeable skin. Gastro-polis provides a deeply rooted urban network, building alliances between communities, local government, and private enterprise. With on-site farming as an anchor, this invaluable urban resource will serve as more than a food silo. By offering a highly symbiotic and integrated architecture, Gastro-polis is a flagship megaplex that self-consciously capitalizes on its manifold abilities to entertain, feed, serve, educate, and profit. Project Assistant justin Williams var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22157376-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); http://www.allthatissolid.net/Swamp-Thing http://www.allthatissolid.net/following/allthatissolid.net/Swamp-Thing Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:00:18 +0000 ALLTHATISSOLID 1084008 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_1_2_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_1_2_o.png" data-mid="7982375" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_2_3_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_2_3_o.png" data-mid="7982377" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_5_5_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_5_5_o.png" data-mid="7982381" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_4_4_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_4_4_o.jpg" data-mid="7982380" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_7_6_675.jpg" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_7_6_o.jpg" data-mid="7982386" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_6_1_675.jpg" width="675" height="505" width_o="800" height_o="599" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1084008/SWAMP THING_6_1_o.jpg" data-mid="7982383" border="0" align="left"/>Due to global warming water levels are predicted to rise 16 inches by 2050 and 55 inches by 2100, an unprecedented natural phenomenon that threatens the livelihood of every waterfront city worldwide. Despite increasing awareness and desire to solve these problems, we must accept that a first generation of disasters will and may already have crashed down upon us. We have been witness to tidal waves in the South China Seas and levee failure in New Orleans. Our proposal, Swamp Thing, accepts Disaster as founding principles, where only through initial shock and transformation will policies and political will conjure the creative forces of human action and design. Instead of proposing a panacea for rising tides, conjuring images of post-war mega structural projects, this proposal seeks a soft peristructural system, where sensitivity to existing maritime and land-based systems works around and along with existing infrastructure. We envision a time-released cellular floating network of islands that will grow over decades so that the ‘Swamp Thing’ project can leech into our consciousness and watershed ecologies. The peri-structure is defined as a passive infrastructure that enhances the emergence of natural systems along the edges where many ecologies sit on the verge of collapse. This system is simultaneously universal as maritime deployment and site-specific, intervening only in the proper urban and bionomic conditions. For this investigation, floating donut shaped islands and buoys will be released into the San Francisco Bay. Units will be programmed and designed in a myriad of ways. Along urban coasts, floating farms and fish hatchery islands ca serve consumers and shorten the chain of food distribution. Elsewhere, the gradual accumulation of marsh islands will piggy-back off of existing dredging channels so that infill is put to good use and increases biodiversity while subduding storm surges. This multi-programmed network will work as passive levees or flood tanks to store, capture, and reuse water. The islands will also be equipped with sustainable and passive technologies that include hydro-electric power and self-irrigation. Rather than shoring up coastal cities against rising tides, this responsive system will restore the watershed so that the net result is a hybrid peri-structure that protects against storm surges, erratic weather patterns, and urban mismanagement. The ultimate goal of this hybrid system is to reduce hard infrastructure and its dependence on the mechanized control of water levels. Our belief is that emergent micro-ecologies embedded in natural systems provide far more diverse and responsive systems than any artificial mega-structure could ever possibly rationalize. Swamp thing will maximize the wetland biotope so that is capacity to absorb and release flood waters will effectively dampen the destructive impacts on the shore line. The integration of natural habitat, both land based through the introduction of flood zones and marine based through the proliferation of islands, creates a thickened and diffuse urban edge that dramatically changes the coastal landscape. Over time as the water’s edge becomes repurposed and pixilated the traditional notions of property value and coastal archi-type will be radically altered. The future promises a fundamentally altered vision of the city so that a heterogeneous mixture of built and natural environs will produce a new sensation of the picturesque. Swamp Thing, like the original sci-fi comic book character, is an aberrant effect of man and nature’s interaction, a transformative bifurcation of the megalopolis at waters’ edge fusing into a never before seen organism. The original SWAMP THING begins as a cautionary tale where scientific ambition results in a transformative disaster. Unreflective and unhinged human research is taken over by natural reactive forces. As Alex Olsen, the scientist, becomes consumed by swamp forces, he can no longer return home or reclaim his sweetheart and is forced to return to the swamp. In various incarnations, SWAMP THING’s identity is constantly reworked in many ways by subsequent authors. In some versions he retains his human identity yet is disfigured by the swamp’s recombinant material. In others, SWAMP THING is just that, an animated swamp force thinking itself to be Alex. Whatever the final version may be, we will have arrived at a Man-Thing scenario, where human development and survival is contingent upon its ability to reconcile itself to natural forces. We must design and engineer complexity into our urbanism so that we may coexist in the multiplication of our ecologies. Project Assistant Heather McGinn var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22157376-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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The somewhat disorienting collision between the mundane and otherworldly, the design of this terminal must incorporate the daily pragmatic operations of a space terminal along with the cultural, media, and touristic implications of such an endeavor. With daily flights into orbit where passenger will experience 3 minutes of zero gravity, this routine un-tethering of weight, mass, and atmosphere will fundamentally alter our relationship with media of our empirical space. This design proposal was conducted over the period of a year through research, charrette, and design under the guidance of Greg Lynn. The massing is both an iconic yet alien shape floating in this site-less desert terrain. Suspended from three massive footings or nodes, the bulk of the terminal circulates upwards and folds in on itself producing involuting sectional qualities. The circulation strands organize the internal space and program but also provides opportunities for visual access between floors and contiguous program. The smooth aluminum skin produces shapely mirage-like effects against the harsh and vacant desert ground plane, while the inner courtyard-facing surfaces have serrated apertures add texture, color and depth to the centripetal qualities of the spaceport. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22157376-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); http://www.allthatissolid.net/Plume http://www.allthatissolid.net/following/allthatissolid.net/Plume Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:07:06 +0000 ALLTHATISSOLID 1080019 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1080019/1.png" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1080019/1_o.png" data-mid="5186662" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1080019/2.png" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1080019/2_o.png" data-mid="5186663" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1080019/3.png" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1080019/3_o.png" data-mid="5186664" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1080019/DIAGRAM AXO_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1080019/DIAGRAM AXO_o.png" data-mid="7982270" border="0" align="left"/>The 210 freeway is an artery along which our cohabitation within this valley landscape flows, stitching many different ethnic and cultural communities together, all unified by the geography of the San Gabriel Valley. What we find fascinating about a potential landmark gateway that would serve as an infrastructural and aesthetic usher into the SGV is the inability to clearly define what is so vital and magnetic about cities such as Pasadena, Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte. Beyond the blue green mise-en-scene, there is not one clear ‘image’ that brings these many happy communities into higher resolution. Plume’s aim is to produce a subtle and atmospheric shift into the psycho geography of San Gabriel Valley. Upon approach, Plume is not so much iconic, as it is a shimmer, or bending of the abundant sunlight which douses the entire area. There is no gateway, or signage broadcasting the boundaries of San Gabriel Valley. Instead, there is a sudden flutter and quickening of the green landscape and blue hazy mountains, where transit infrastructure suddenly becomes a hyper-blend of both built and natural environment and a marriage of blurring and refractive colors. Plume is an augmentation of the landscape, a moment where the Gold Line thickens producing a shimmering, seductive nebula that sheaths the freeway bridge. Instead of an ornamental signpost, Plume is an exaggerated atmosphere that announces the greater region through sustained movement and sensation, a blurring and colorful smear along the 210 freeway, an instance where sensation and terrain find themselves allies in the production of place. A structural cage will weave along the spine of the bridge as an armature upon which a growth of filament extends and reaches out of the thickened cage. The filaments will be comprised of both photo-voltaic cells and piezoelectric generators laminated in ETFE plastics. This cladding will be responsible for harnessing both solar and wind energies and deliver them either back to the grid or supply infrastructural utility needs to the Gold Line. Specific to its distribution along the surface of the cage, the filaments will either accord more surface area to the PV cells or reach extensively beyond, fluttering in the wind. As these filaments dangle and blow, the kinetic movements will be converted into an electrical supply. Two and a half generations ago, public works projects renewed our commitment and civic faith in this country. The sculptural legacies of our freeways are no more apparent than in the southern California area. However, moving into the twenty-first century, new needs, crisis, and directives are emerging. This extension project is an example of our growing empathy towards ecological thinking where new sustainable strategies can be married to the aesthetic and cultural legacies that we leave behind to subsequent generations. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22157376-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); http://www.allthatissolid.net/Lions-Den http://www.allthatissolid.net/following/allthatissolid.net/Lions-Den Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:54:02 +0000 ALLTHATISSOLID 1079992 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/ICON_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/ICON_o.png" data-mid="7919703" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/10.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/10_o.jpg" data-mid="5186487" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/construction time lapse 2_675.jpg" width="675" height="505" width_o="800" height_o="599" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/construction time lapse 2_o.jpg" data-mid="7919699" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/FLOORPLAN_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/FLOORPLAN_o.png" data-mid="7919702" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/1.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/1_o.jpg" data-mid="5186477" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/2.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/2_o.jpg" data-mid="5186478" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/3_o.jpg" data-mid="5186479" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/4.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/4_o.jpg" data-mid="5186480" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/AXO_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/AXO_o.png" data-mid="7919697" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/ELEVATION DIAGRAM_675.png" width="675" height="506" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/ELEVATION DIAGRAM_o.png" data-mid="7919700" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/5.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/5_o.jpg" data-mid="5186481" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/6.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/6_o.jpg" data-mid="5186482" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/7.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/7_o.jpg" data-mid="5186484" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/8.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/8_o.jpg" data-mid="5186485" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/9.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/85594/1079992/9_o.jpg" data-mid="5186486" border="0" align="left"/>Lions Den LA is the design-build of a street wear sneaker boutique in downtown Los Angeles. The 850 SF store-front is a corner unit located in the Central Plaza of Chinatown where a vibrant mix of international tourists, local Asian residents, and Angelino hipsters congregate. Most footwear retail environments employ an architectural component, the shoe wall, as a means of organizing and displaying footwear. While highly efficient, a typical shoe wall display only registers as product on a pedestal. Here, we aim to privilege the sneaker as a vital building material, cultural attractant, and graphic element. By infusing this sneaker-centric perspective with the necessary ingredients of a successful building skin such as material, geometry, atmosphere, and technology, the shoe wall was re-deployed as a topographic field utilizing texture, light, shadow, and filament to produce a dynamic graphic. The shoe wall becomes a giant laminar package integrating functionality, architectural effects, and urban movement. Wrapping one side of the long narrow space and spanning floor to ceiling, the shoe wall flows as a continuously curved surface, tracking the movement of passerby’s. The shoe wall curves along north and west interior walls of the store with a vertical span of 13 ft, floor-to-ceiling. Sectionally, the wall is concave along the bottom 2 ft for lower display shelves, and concave towards back of house as roughly 11 vertical ft. of egg-crate storage. The lower two-foot datum line swerves out into a cash-wrap as if peeling off the shoe wall in a grand parti which resonates at the micro-level of the shoe platform/tongue. At the west end of the shoe wall an entry way provides access to the back of house office and storage space. The eastern end of the wall curves in to reveal a small dressing room tucked neatly behind the display wall with no facets or edges. Across from the shoe wall, along the south store front, lays a twenty-four foot custom hanging rack. The center of the space remains open, punctuated by free floating benches, allowing customers to easily maneuver and examine merchandise along the interior skin from any area of the store. The wall is composed of CNC milled plywood panels, supported by an egg-crate substructure which doubles as the stores back of house storage. A series of 6 prototypical shoe displays, or tongues, are aggregated across the surface creating variation as they rotate in the x, y, and z directions. The display system’s range of motion is heightened as sneakers flow across the surface in numerous and changing orientations. The tongues protrude from slits which perforate the wall’s surface in varying lengths, angles, and colors to generate a pattern that performs as retail, architectural, and urban registers. LED’s sit behind these slits augmenting the rotational intensities of the field as well as giving the shoe wall a nocturnal life. The integrated LED system generates four different lighting levels across the wall, producing a dynamic gradient of impressions ranging from magnetizing hot spots to faint and delicate glows. The project pairs digital software with computer aided manufacturing techniques to generate an immersive retail environment while exploring the implications of custom fabrication within an architectural practice. Through the use of software packages like Rhino and CNC milling tools a completely custom kit of parts was generated off site and assembled on location. This level of customization results in a sophisticated store design that creates a unique retail experience on a shoe-string budget. Project Adviser Jason Payne Project Assistant Trisha Mcnamara Construction Assistants Mitsuhiro Komatsu Justin Eric Williams var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22157376-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();