2019, Fall Quarter, 10 weeks, UCLA
Group project with: Lisa Sumiko, Yelena Tamrazyan, Andrew Frastaci, Eunice Han
int_ex was born through the fragmentation and recombination of five precedent houses: the Gehry Residence, Norton House, Venice III, Petal House, and 2 4 6 8 House. Each group member was responsible for creating plan and elevation drawings for their assigned house. Collectively, we then combined elements of each house by following the rules of the thesis diagram we created, shown right. Using the pentagon as our unifying standard (to represent the five houses) we devised three rules. The first follows the rule of expansion from the center outwards, the second, expansion from the border outwards, and the third is confined to the interior of the pentagon. int_ex was not designed to be a residence, per se, but instead a monument, an experience of ideas.
Programs: Rhino, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
Materials: bristol, museum board, cardboard, cast concrete, acrylic, glue
Pictured top left: thesis diagram. Bottom left: plan drawings of all five houses, with individual elements highlighted. Pictured right: iteration poster.
By using selected elements from the five houses and the order of our thesis diagram, 12 iterations of spaces were created. Each set is shown vertically. The first set we named Endo (left), the second, Exo, (center) and the third, Intra (right).
The ultimate shape of int-ex was created by the overlapping of Exo, Endo, and Intra. Additionally, we were able to derive a fourth condition from the interaction between Endo and Intra, which we named Sub. Sub is a negative space carved out of cast concrete, as illustrated in the transverse section. The division of the four conditions is kept in the 2’ x 2’ x 2’ physical model through the use of different materials: bristol, museum board, cardboard, cast concrete, and clear acrylic.
