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LA 203L 2016Building ComplexitySilver Corpse / Exquisite Lake
Andrew O. Wilcox / James BecerraAlvin Alvarez
LA 203L 2016Building Complexity
+Silver Corpse / Exquisite Lake
Andrew O. Wilcox / James BecerraAlvin Alvarez
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Contents
Pieces + PartsMapping and ReconTaxonomy of Emergent Spacial TypesSilver Linkages + Exquisite Structures
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4 Pie
ces
+ P
arts
“As individuals, studio participants will develop a very quick but highly crafted set of landscape pieces made of typical landscape program parts. This project will document the nascent design influences as short-lived design responses of individual students.”
Project Description
Pieces + Parts / 5
Project 1Alvin Alvarez
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+Uniform Slope / Path / Forest
Uniform Trench / Lifted Platform / .5 Forest / .5 FIeld
-Concave Slope / Elevated Path / Field
Pieces + Parts / 7
+Convex Slope / Folded Shelter / Forest
Unconditioned Ground / Obvervation Tower / Field
-Uniform Slope / 3 Walls / .5 Forest / .5 Fields
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Map
ping
and
Rec
on /
/ Ori
gin
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ies
Mapping Recon / 9
“Students will investigate, map and analyze the critical systems, associations and alignments of the studio project location and its context. In teams of two, students will map their assigned transect of the Silver Lake Reservoir. Students must look at alignments that are above, within and below their image sites to identify opportunities, partners, beneficiaries and histories of the project alignment.“
Project Description
Project 2Section 15
Alvin AlvarezPhilip Chao
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Mapping Recon / 11
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Taxo
nom
y of
Em
erge
nt S
pati
al T
ypes
Taxonomy / 13
“In this third project, students will explore the fundamental site condition of the edge- the threshold between water and land; the condition where unlike bodies meet with maximum interaction. This ubiquitous site condition will be interrogated through the testing of typical fixed/structural program typologies adjusted by typical performative actions/operations as controlled by the specific lessons/rules/relationships of the site as revealed in the mapping project.
This project is intended to leverage previous studio experiences of physical making of space now determined by site response and condition. Students will be making dozens of typological responses in both 3D digital and analog forms in rapid iteration in response to the information gathered in the mapping project.
This project also requires student teams to develop four drawings of programmatic positioning.”
Project Description
Project 3Section 15
Alvin AlvarezPhilip ChaoSection 16
Patricio YrizarGerardo Rosales
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RuleRule
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Taxonomy Matrix
Critical Combined
Taxonomy / 15
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Card
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Taxonomy / 17
Critica
l Co
mbined
Mod
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Stru
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Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / 19
“This fourth and final phase and final of the project will require students to individually choreograph a set of assigned and derived programmatic pieces and performance criteria into the overall conditions of portion/bank of the transect they own- they must assemble their own monster. This phase will include notions of broader planting/capturing or opportunistic strategies and patterning in response to assigned program performance. This phase will utilize programs that are simultaneously cultural and ecological, formal and informal, understood and misunderstood, indexed and poised.
This final project phase will require participants to link the narrative exploration and concept development of other studios. Emphasis will be placed on the structure and organization of project components as a complete narrative of verbal and visual expression. This phase will required combined and complex drawings and 3D modeling.”
Project Description
Final ProjectSection 15
Alvin AlvarezPhilip Chao
Adjacent PartnersSection 14
Xiomy YamauchiSection 16
Patricio Yrizar
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Water circulates in and out aided by
south-western prevailing winds
Cyperus papyrus usedas percolating zones as well
as additional shelter for frogs
shelter spaces for California Tree Frog
lIttoral edge extended outward
Proc
ess
Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / Drawings / 21
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455’
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Cyperus papyrus(proposed grass planting)
Existing Trees
Plan
ting
Plan
Topo
grap
hic Plan
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450’
455’
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Wheelch
air Acc
ess
Ramps
Circulation IntensityMajor Circulation Node
0 8’ 16’ 32’
Shower Rooms
/ Lock
er Rooms
Elevated Path
ways
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450’
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455’
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Sunken Path
0 8’ 16’ 32’
Circulat
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ents
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445’
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0 8’ 16’ 32’
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Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / Drawings / 25
Touc
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Child
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Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / Drawings / 27
Papy
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Eye
Frog
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ye
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Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / Models / 29
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SIlver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / Details / 31
Thank you.