2022, Fall Quarter, 10 weeks, UCLA
Group project with: Sam Sherman
Through a collection of solar panels, generators, and storage tanks, our site serves as a demonstrative landscape that makes visible typically hidden elements of LA's grid infrastructure. Not solely representational, this is a functional landscape employing solar powered green hydrogen production and storage as a part of a new grid typology, while simultaneously allowing the public to approach and engage with this integral facet of their everyday lives in a way that is never experienced.
Circulation paths and nodes are coarsely aligned to the grid but are superimposed on the site and combine to create a circuit board language that is reflective of the site's primary energetic function. These nodes provides program variation from cafes to small gardens that multiples the terms of engagement for the urban public with a programmatic density that reorients from the scale of the automobile, to the scale of the person.
The building operates in much the same way as the landscape. Different program areas within the building are connected by circuits of corridors to define veins of movement and points of stasis. The faceted design of our facade pulls logic from some of the organizing geometry of the diagram and acts as a skin wrapped around the majority of the building, allowing for semi-interior, unconditioned spaces in addition to our interior programs.
Programs: Rhino, Grasshopper, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
Materials: chipboard, bristol paper, glue, wood dowels, clay, PLA print, powder print
