student center at woodbury university
FIRST YEAR
Los Angeles
woodbury university, burbank
05 / 2021
This project focused on program and parti. By taking an already existing building at Woodbury University and adding new design and mass, I came up with new space to place the given programs of a student center.
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Goals are to: 1. Develop a revised massing strategy based on feedback received from the previous reviews. 2. Study your massing in plan and section(s) to propose an interior structural ordering system, detailed program distribution, and approach to the site topography. 3. Develop your building’s exterior form in a plan oblique drawing that emphasizes mass, materials, and infrastructural connections to its context. 4. Develop the interior systems of the student center by studying their constituent parts and the ways in which those parts can be aggregated, ending with a set of plans and a plan oblique drawing that show a coherent system within the activated spatial logic of your building
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
My chosen building was the North Hall dormitories at Woodbury University where the plans remain the same. The added programs are the classrooms, offices, study space and rooftop areas I have created. By looking at the plans, one can see how I added the programs as kind of webbing the "fingers" of the building together which creates a shared space. I added a new circulation of stairs that is encompassed in a steel structure.
sections
floor plans
floor plans
*click to expand plans & sections
The section cuts shows the interior of the classrooms, staircase, bathroom and study spaces.
OBLIQUE DRAWINGS & RENDERS
exterior
The exterior axonometric drawing shows the circulation that happens a top of the building/programs and how every part in inhabitable. I added little pop up greenery on the rooftop where some are accessible whereas others are taller and therefore is uninhabitable.
Supports the idea of greenery and rooftop gardens/terrain.
*See illustrations below.
INTERIOR
The interior axonometric drawing shows the circulation that happens a inside the added programs. By taking away the roof of my own added mass, one can see the space within and how it can be accessed.
Supports the idea of greenery and rooftop gardens/terrain.
*See illustrations below.
PERSPECTIVE RENDERING OF ROOFTOP
QUICK CONCEPT COLLAGE
* rooftop with pop-up concepts
* rooftop with pop-up and garden terrains
*interior of massing