Jeffrey Sipprell

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April 5, 2006

UCLA Spring Schedule

Not a huge courseload this quarter as I'm only taking the bare minimum of studio and one elective - which is the buildout of the auditorium space reported on last quarter. Greg Lynn has released the details of our final project which will be sited in Los Angeles across from the Disney Concert Hall. Here is what the brief had to say:

Based on the design vocabulary you have developed the last two quarters including facades, interior volume, structural design, fenestration and promenade among others, quickly develop a massing proposal and a cross section due next Monday. A complete pitch should be made regarding the approach to structure, circulation, urban massing, functional relationships and adjacencies and building exterior and interior imagery. In addition to this, a massing model and diagrammatic plan and section of the buildings should be completed.

Based on the massing proposals and their revision the next two weeks will be devoted to designing a rigorous mathematical and geometric approach to the architectural design project. Just as a reminder, the initial ambitions for the research studio was: in the first quarter assimilate and simulate baroque effects through digital techniques; in the second quarter control and combine these techniques to formulate a palette of materials, lighting, structure, form, mass and texture as well as a discourse of beauty; and finally in the third quarter apply these principles to an architectural project.

The design proposals will be a new Los Angeles Music Center on the site directly adjacent to Disney Concert Hall. The program is vast and the functional and technical issues of designing these spaces is complex. As a starting point, you should select plan and section typologies that are given and locate them in the project to gain a sense of orientation, scale and spatial proportion. The programmatic areas are given as guidelines and rather than start with specific areas it is best to begin with existing opera, theater, dance, drama and experimental theater typologies.

The site includes the complete area between Grand Avenue & Hope Street and Temple Street & 1st Street.

Posted by jsipprell at April 5, 2006 9:10 AM

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