Reading Response: Tests and Failures
Kwinter’s Soft Systems talks about the blending and stitching of objects from all scales into one fabric environment. The problem with this argument is that there are currently no examples … Continue reading
Deterritorialization Abstract
Aureli’s architectural archipelago is defined by the limits and separation of its parts against the sites on which they sit. These archipelagos, even in absolute separation, are moved by an … Continue reading
Reading Response: Landscape as Urbanism vs. the Object
Waldheim’s assertion that diversification and decentralization of cities have put a premium on the horizontal focus on landscape design over architecture makes me think about the argument of the object … Continue reading
Programming Fragmentation: Manufactured Ecologies of the Los Angeles Aqueduct
Amid the politics and corruption that surround the inception and continuing impact of the 223 mile Los Angeles Aqueduct lies the destitution of Owens Valley and the mega-metropolis of Los … Continue reading
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Designing Dynamics: the architecture of movement in a city of congestion and waste.
SYNTHESIS4: Programmable Hydro Utopia
Programmable Hydro Utopia Various LA River revitalization projects are trying to turn this corridor into what we conventionally think a river is supposed to be, with plenty of green and … Continue reading
SYNTHESIS3: Sprawl Fabric Syncopation
Sprawl Fabric Syncopation Los Angeles is littered with dead space, or spaces that are unused or not used to their full potential. Parking lots Los Angeles take up 36% of the space … Continue reading
SYNTHESIS2: Interactive Swarm Core
Interactive Swarm Core The concept of interactive infrastructure yearns for a redefinition of public space, program, and accessibility.
SYNTHESIS1: Kinematic Infrastructure Fantasy
Kinematic Infrastructure Fantasy Incorporating the concept of the kinematic chain and applying it to mega-infrastructure gives us a system that uses joints and bands. The bands act as the body … Continue reading
TECHNIQUE4: Kinematic Chain
A kinematic chain is a group of rigid body segments that are connected together by joints that operate as a system. They utilize broader concepts of movement and modularity to create … Continue reading
TECHNIQUE3: Rhythm, Syncopation, Atrophy
Rhythm – a movement, fluctuation, or variation marked by the regular recurrence or natural flow of related elements Syncopation – a temporary, unexpected disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of … Continue reading
TECHNIQUE2: Programmable Matter
Building off the idea of swarm biology, we can start developing down the path of digital biology. Within this umbrella, there are different robotic-based technologies that can facilitate simple but … Continue reading
TECHNIQUE1: Swarm Biology
The examination of Los Angeles in previous articles brings to the surface issues regarding movement of various entities in various scales. So far, we’ve examined the movement of dense sprawl, … Continue reading
Reading Response: Alex Wall, Programming the Urban Surface
Wall’s perception of the modern built environment is eerily similar to my analysis of Los Angeles. Wall argues that the contemporary metropolis isn’t an urban core with periphery zones but … Continue reading
Reading Response: David Ruy, Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy
Lessons from Molecular Gastronomy compares the injection of science in cuisine with the injection of digital technology in architecture.
SCENARIO4 Los Angeles: Utopian Fantasy
We have already covered Los Angeles and the condition of potential and failure. But let’s explore deeper into some of these unfulfilled utopia projects, focusing on their programs and what … Continue reading
SCENARIO3 Los Angeles: Interaction Infrastructure
Currently, the Mega-Infrastructure of Los Angeles is relentless, unyielding, inflexible, and static. The cars that take up the super highways crawl from exit to exit and, in a sense, do … Continue reading
SCENARIO2 Los Angeles: What We’ve Lost
Unlike most dense, urban cities, Los Angeles’ elevated skyline developed late, around the late 1950s and early 1960s. A height limit was set in the early 1900s. The primary reason … Continue reading
SCENARIO1 Los Angeles: The Water Crisis
A world water supply crisis is emerging with water use growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. Freshwater withdrawals have tripled in the … Continue reading
Reading Response: Banham’s Los Angeles
As I’m reading Banham’s Los Angeles and examining some of the comments from his peers, it is clear that Banham’s methodology in surveying the city was unprecedented for its time. … Continue reading
CONDITION4 Los Angeles: The Diversity of Cultures
Los Angeles is a melting pot of diverse cultures and subcultures, scattered throughout a fractured city. The breakdown of race goes like this: 30% White (Red) 48% Hispanic (Orange) 11% … Continue reading
CONDITION3 Los Angeles: Dead Space
Los Angeles is simultaneously a city of density and sprawl. Because of its heavy reliance on car transit, LA is thought of only as an area of sprawl. However, according … Continue reading
CONDITION2 Los Angeles: Mega-Infrastructure
The closest thing to an identity Los Angeles has, aside from the shallow and misappropriated stereotype of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, is the mega-infrastructure of its freeways that runs through … Continue reading
CONDITION1 Los Angeles: The Perceived Failures of Desire and Identity
Los Angeles is a breeding ground for grand, exploratory, and fantastical urban design concepts. This is partly because of the ever-expanding, horizontal reach of Los Angeles, partly caused by the … Continue reading
JASON BK AN, cca m.arch thesis 2013-2014 