The project is collaboration between film and architecture in order to design a film extension for REDCAT theaters, on the corner of 2nd St. and Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. Initially, an analysis was done on a scene from the Wings of Desire, a German film made in 1987, in order to extract the concept of a void separating two masses. After studying the sunlight conditions of the site and Broadway’s revitalization plan an arrangement of programs was chosen accordingly. The space in the void, separating two masses, is then used for a ceremonial staircase taking off from the ground floor on Broadway and landing on the 6th floor’s main exhibition space, after a journey through the building. Besides the void being used for circulation, it is also placed in order to carry the sunlight from the E, SE, and SW through the cavity and act as a large skylight as well as the role it plays to help cross-ventilate the building.
Project Location : Downtown Los Angeles
Project Year : 2014
A bird's eye view image of this project on the corner of 2nd & Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, CA.
View from 2nd & Broadway intersection
View from Broadway
Entry
Library interior view
Project development diagram
Floor plans
Floor plans
Floor Plans
A fly-through animation of this project
The project started with studying the qualities of a courtyard building typology in order to maximize its characteristics, considering growth, urban, and environmental conditions. After the site was assigned a series of analysis and mapping was done in order to develop a series of trajectories and rules which the project is based on. The single unit module of a courtyard building typology developed in the studies then started reacting to the existing, mapped site conditions and began to grow and alternate by taking over the empty lots and voids in the Alameda district. By doing that the module started creating building masses throughout the district and landscape in reaction to what the site needed.
Project Location : Downtown Los Angeles
Project Year : 2015
A bird's eye view of a proposal for the Historic Union Station, Los Angeles, CA.
Series of Diagrams explaining the design process of union station development in Los Angeles, CA.
Eye level view of the Union Station development, Los Angeles, CA.
Site Plan
Circulation Diagrams
Exploded axonometric cutaway section diagram
The project started with the analysis of Berlin’s urban fabric and later on focused on the PostdamerPlatz and eventually on the project site. The project site is located in between Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe’s New National Gallery, and Hans Scharoun’s Berlin Philharmonic, Two of Berlin’s iconic architecture Pieces, thus the project is designed to fit in Berlin’s urban fabric in order not to outshine the adjacent icons. Temporary musician housing was chosen to be the program occupying the site. Since the successful urban setting of the city is achieved from the calibrated relation and ratio of the building masses and the voids in the city, the program was divided into smaller pieces of mass as well as elevated from the ground floor to be able to give back to the city. By doing that, the project provides 100% open ground floor to be used by the residents of Berlin in the center of culture-forum.
Project Location : Berlin
Project Year : 2013
An eye level view of Infra-City
Analysis diagram of the urban fabric
Arial view of the project site in PostdamerPlatz, Berlin
Axonometric sectional diagram of the city's layers
Eye level view
Open space manipulation Diagram
Eye level view
