UCLA Chiller Plant / Cogeneration Facility | HHPJ architecture

 That the natural penetrates even to our densest urban cores is obvious in the immense efforts expended to mitigate her effects there: vast power plants are erected to turn back the night, chiller plants are built to alleviate the heat of the day and steam generators to transform the cool of the night. Yet we are generally embarrassed by these efforts—the often beautiful artifacts engineered to provide this light, cold and heat are hidden away, where they are not able to remind us of the effort and energy required to enjoy life in unnaturally dense environments of our cities. To reveal these measures is, in a way, to celebrate the power of the natural conditions they mitigate—and to hope that in mitigating their effects we do not forget we are never actually free from them.

Commissioned through a limited design/construct competition, UCLA’s new South Campus Chiller Plant celebrates the machinery of infrastructure. While sensitive to its surroundings, the use of familiar materials and architectural treatments is critical in application, rather than imitative. The building is not a mute box. It does not insist on hiding plant machinery, but proudly displays the inherently engaging qualities of technology as an integrated and carefully considered part of the composition. Architectural honesty is projected through the sophisticated interplay of its rich contextual palette and carefully expressed mechanical and electrical systems.

Wes Jones’ own company are currently looking to #Kickstart a new run for their impossible to find book (because it’s great) Instrumental Form: Words, Buildings: Machines. Find out about it (and pledge your support) here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1275281214/instrumental-form-words-buildings-machines

(Source: uclacogen.info)

@1 month ago with 4 notes
#Wes Jones #Kickstarter #Architecture 
VENETIAN PIGMENT CHROMATOGRAPHY LABORATORY
Constructing a celebratory space through exploration of Venetian colours and the connections and influences of Venice (the West) and Istanbul (the East) on architecture. This project articulates the colours of Venice through digital design methodology that is driven by the poetic history of Venice and constructing pigment scientific investigation laboratory and sculpting the process of making ink inside the existing Campanile of Venice. St Marks Square is full of exuberance, opulence, sculpture, and colour; the landmark of Venice also required these astonishing architectural elements. The architectural design is elaborated through exploration in Venetian patterns, ornamentations and the influences of domes that links both Venice and the East while also creating functional spaces that also provide a sublime spatiality in contemporary context.

VENETIAN PIGMENT CHROMATOGRAPHY LABORATORY

Constructing a celebratory space through exploration of Venetian colours and the connections and influences of Venice (the West) and Istanbul (the East) on architecture. This project articulates the colours of Venice through digital design methodology that is driven by the poetic history of Venice and constructing pigment scientific investigation laboratory and sculpting the process of making ink inside the existing Campanile of Venice. St Marks Square is full of exuberance, opulence, sculpture, and colour; the landmark of Venice also required these astonishing architectural elements. The architectural design is elaborated through exploration in Venetian patterns, ornamentations and the influences of domes that links both Venice and the East while also creating functional spaces that also provide a sublime spatiality in contemporary context.

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@11 months ago with 41 notes
#horhizon #architecture #proposal 
The Frame House, by Omar Ghazal : socks-studio

“The Frame House is a reimagining of the Scouts’ contribution to the Festival of Britain. In celebrating of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, The Frame House proposes the reconstruction of a temporary park to demonstrate the ideals and benefits of Scouting to the nation. The Frame House thus sets out to provide a contemporary demonstration of the central principles of scouting in structures that allegorically engage with this historical event at the same time as presenting a vision of how architecture for children can realise the Scouts’ ideals.”

- Omar Ghazal

The Frame House, by Omar Ghazal : socks-studio

“The Frame House is a reimagining of the Scouts’ contribution to the Festival of Britain. In celebrating of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, The Frame House proposes the reconstruction of a temporary park to demonstrate the ideals and benefits of Scouting to the nation. The Frame House thus sets out to provide a contemporary demonstration of the central principles of scouting in structures that allegorically engage with this historical event at the same time as presenting a vision of how architecture for children can realise the Scouts’ ideals.”

- Omar Ghazal

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@1 year ago with 6 notes
#Omar Ghazal #socks-studio #drawing #architecture 
Perspective section of ‘The Filter House’ featured in the latest issue of P.E.A.R magazine by Matthew Butcher and Tom Noonan
http://www.pearmagazine.eu/P.E.A.R/Issue4.html

Perspective section of ‘The Filter House’ featured in the latest issue of P.E.A.R magazine by Matthew Butcher and Tom Noonan

http://www.pearmagazine.eu/P.E.A.R/Issue4.html

(via catrinastewart)

@1 year ago with 34 notes
#Matthew Butcher and Tom Noonan #section #drawing #architecture 

Pascal Bronner - New Opera House, Malta - The Symphonic Cannon

(Source: pascalbronner.com, via catrinastewart)

@1 year ago with 34 notes
#Pascal Bronner #architecture #drawing 
SOUTHWARK FARMHOUSE MASTERPLAN

New public toilets will be installed all around the borough to generate energy from the biodigesters. The most popular toilets will then cause new farmhouses to grow as communities begin to grow around the biodigesters. 

A new congestion zone will be implemented around the Southwark borough where no petrol producing cars will be allowed through the gates, The congestion zone will be managed by green policemen who will be housed in small elevated police stations dotted around the borough. 

London boroughs now have the duty, under section 40 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act, to have regard for biodiversity. Currently parks and open spaces account for 12% of Southwark’s overall land use with 32 parks, this project will seek to increase this to at least 90% leaving only the transport roads free. New planning laws will be implemented in the borough where all new roofs, balconies and walls will need to be used to grow a certain quantity of vegetables or provide  garden space.

SOUTHWARK FARMHOUSE MASTERPLAN

New public toilets will be installed all around the borough to generate energy from the biodigesters. The most popular toilets will then cause new farmhouses to grow as communities begin to grow around the biodigesters. 

A new congestion zone will be implemented around the Southwark borough where no petrol producing cars will be allowed through the gates, The congestion zone will be managed by green policemen who will be housed in small elevated police stations dotted around the borough. 

London boroughs now have the duty, under section 40 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act, to have regard for biodiversity. Currently parks and open spaces account for 12% of Southwark’s overall land use with 32 parks, this project will seek to increase this to at least 90% leaving only the transport roads free. New planning laws will be implemented in the borough where all new roofs, balconies and walls will need to be used to grow a certain quantity of vegetables or provide  garden space.

(Source: catrinastewart, via archidose)

@1 year ago with 73 notes
#catrina stewart #architecture 
The California Cooperative by Justin Randle via The Funambulist

The California Cooperative by Justin Randle via The Funambulist

(Source: ryanpanos)

@1 year ago with 13 notes
#Justin Randle #scale model #architecture #funambulist 
REM KOOLHAAS’ STUDENTS

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION UNIT 6 STUDENT PROJECTS, 1970s

REM KOOLHAAS’ STUDENTS

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION UNIT 6 STUDENT PROJECTS, 1970s

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@1 year ago with 100 notes
#REM KOOLHAAS’ STUDENTS #architecture 

Fun House - Eric Owen Moss

An existing house sits in the midst of a 27 acre site in an affluent section of the San Fernando Valley, 60 miles north-west of Los Angeles, this 6,000 square foot house, servants quarters, and pool could be described as a Southern California developer rendition of French Regency/French Provincial.

The owner, a somewhat eccentric Los Angeles plastic surgeon, had several specific requirements for a second “house” on the site. 

He wanted to build a “fun House” (his term), an “object” as he put it, for his two teenage children, a boy of 16 and a girl of 14.  The site is to be the “sawed-off” top of a nearby hill with access from an existing dirt road.

The program for the fun house was both precise and amorphous.  The doctor wanted a “thing,” he wanted humor, he wanted a space where his daughter could paint and hang her paintings, places for the children (and adults on occasion) to gather informally and formally, places for the children and a few friends to sleep, a small kitchen, small banquet and assembly facilities (music recitals, poetry readings in which the doctor would also participate).  The doctor wanted to exploit the views from the hill to the surrounding hills, grasslands, and horse ranches.  He also wanted some imageable reference in the building to the fact that he is the collector of approximately 80 (that’s right) dogs that walk the site with him each day.

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@11 months ago with 10 notes
#eric owen moss #architecture #drawings 
Nicolas Schöeffer - La tour de Lumière

Nicolas Schöeffer - La tour de Lumière

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@1 year ago with 59 notes
#Nicolas Schöeffer #drawing #architecture 
Highlines of New York; Chelsea School of Aerial Arts by Adam Shapland via The Funambulist

The project seeks to explore an architecture that is responsive to the analytical exploration of narratives formulated through extractions of dynamic characteristics in an individual. The tightrope engages with a conventionally hidden or unseen landscape of the City, temporarily removing the user and viewer from spectacles of the ‘everyday’ and entering them into territories of fragile existence. The scheme exists as an academy for tightrope walkers and aerial artists with the intension to address the notion that architecture should be activated and defined by the events that happen within, around and on it.

Highlines of New York; Chelsea School of Aerial Arts by Adam Shapland via The Funambulist

The project seeks to explore an architecture that is responsive to the analytical exploration of narratives formulated through extractions of dynamic characteristics in an individual. The tightrope engages with a conventionally hidden or unseen landscape of the City, temporarily removing the user and viewer from spectacles of the ‘everyday’ and entering them into territories of fragile existence. The scheme exists as an academy for tightrope walkers and aerial artists with the intension to address the notion that architecture should be activated and defined by the events that happen within, around and on it.

(Source: ryanpanos)

@1 year ago with 18 notes
#Adam Shapland #The Funambulist #drawing #architecture 

Feix & Merlin’s proposal for the Gasholder No. 8 in Kings Cross

(Source: feixandmerlin.com, via co-zine)

@1 year ago with 6 notes
#Feix & Merlin #king's cross #proposal #architecture #london 
Massimo Morozzi, Cultural Center within the Emperor’s Castle, Prato, Italy 

Massimo Morozzi, Cultural Center within the Emperor’s Castle, Prato, Italy 

(Source: archiveofaffinities, via ethel-baraona)

@1 year ago with 35 notes
#Massimo Morozzi #architecture #drawing 
About Filipa Valente

Architect, Experience & Environmental Interaction DesignerI am currently based in Los Angeles, California, after having completed a Masters in Design Research on Media Art and Architecture (MediaSCAPES) at SciArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture).I am a practicing Architect and graduated from the Graduate Diploma and BSc in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London UK. Through work experience and since my graduation in 2008 I have had the opportunity to work for different architectural practices around the world and also have been able to pursue some of my own personal work and frequent collaborations. During the past years I have held positions at Zaha Hadid Architects, Amanda Levete Architects and Wilkinson Eyre Architects in London.As an Architect, my work is strongly rooted in the field of architecture, but I am extremely interested in combining this field with a strong passion for experience design, environmental interaction and media art. My current research explores relationships between generative and virtual space design, our bodies and the creation of interactive environments to enrich the experience of space.

About Filipa Valente

Architect, Experience & Environmental Interaction Designer

I am currently based in Los Angeles, California, after having completed a Masters in Design Research on Media Art and Architecture (MediaSCAPES) at SciArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture).

I am a practicing Architect and graduated from the Graduate Diploma and BSc in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London UK. Through work experience and since my graduation in 2008 I have had the opportunity to work for different architectural practices around the world and also have been able to pursue some of my own personal work and frequent collaborations. During the past years I have held positions at Zaha Hadid Architects, Amanda Levete Architects and Wilkinson Eyre Architects in London.

As an Architect, my work is strongly rooted in the field of architecture, but I am extremely interested in combining this field with a strong passion for experience design, environmental interaction and media art. My current research explores relationships between generative and virtual space design, our bodies and the creation of interactive environments to enrich the experience of space.

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@1 year ago with 8 notes
#Filipa Valente #architecture #drawing 
EMILIO AMBASZ 

COOPERATIVE OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN GRAPE GROWERS IN CALIFORNIA, 1979

EMILIO AMBASZ

COOPERATIVE OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN GRAPE GROWERS IN CALIFORNIA, 1979

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#EMILIO AMBASZ #drawing #architecture 
1 month ago
#Wes Jones #Kickstarter #Architecture 
11 months ago
#eric owen moss #architecture #drawings 
VENETIAN PIGMENT CHROMATOGRAPHY LABORATORY
Constructing a celebratory space through exploration of Venetian colours and the connections and influences of Venice (the West) and Istanbul (the East) on architecture. This project articulates the colours of Venice through digital design methodology that is driven by the poetic history of Venice and constructing pigment scientific investigation laboratory and sculpting the process of making ink inside the existing Campanile of Venice. St Marks Square is full of exuberance, opulence, sculpture, and colour; the landmark of Venice also required these astonishing architectural elements. The architectural design is elaborated through exploration in Venetian patterns, ornamentations and the influences of domes that links both Venice and the East while also creating functional spaces that also provide a sublime spatiality in contemporary context.
11 months ago
#horhizon #architecture #proposal 
Nicolas Schöeffer - La tour de Lumière
1 year ago
#Nicolas Schöeffer #drawing #architecture 
The Frame House, by Omar Ghazal : socks-studio

“The Frame House is a reimagining of the Scouts’ contribution to the Festival of Britain. In celebrating of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, The Frame House proposes the reconstruction of a temporary park to demonstrate the ideals and benefits of Scouting to the nation. The Frame House thus sets out to provide a contemporary demonstration of the central principles of scouting in structures that allegorically engage with this historical event at the same time as presenting a vision of how architecture for children can realise the Scouts’ ideals.”

- Omar Ghazal
1 year ago
#Omar Ghazal #socks-studio #drawing #architecture 
Highlines of New York; Chelsea School of Aerial Arts by Adam Shapland via The Funambulist

The project seeks to explore an architecture that is responsive to the analytical exploration of narratives formulated through extractions of dynamic characteristics in an individual. The tightrope engages with a conventionally hidden or unseen landscape of the City, temporarily removing the user and viewer from spectacles of the ‘everyday’ and entering them into territories of fragile existence. The scheme exists as an academy for tightrope walkers and aerial artists with the intension to address the notion that architecture should be activated and defined by the events that happen within, around and on it.
1 year ago
#Adam Shapland #The Funambulist #drawing #architecture 
Perspective section of ‘The Filter House’ featured in the latest issue of P.E.A.R magazine by Matthew Butcher and Tom Noonan
http://www.pearmagazine.eu/P.E.A.R/Issue4.html
1 year ago
#Matthew Butcher and Tom Noonan #section #drawing #architecture 
1 year ago
#Feix & Merlin #king's cross #proposal #architecture #london 
1 year ago
#Pascal Bronner #architecture #drawing 
Massimo Morozzi, Cultural Center within the Emperor’s Castle, Prato, Italy 
1 year ago
#Massimo Morozzi #architecture #drawing 
SOUTHWARK FARMHOUSE MASTERPLAN

New public toilets will be installed all around the borough to generate energy from the biodigesters. The most popular toilets will then cause new farmhouses to grow as communities begin to grow around the biodigesters. 

A new congestion zone will be implemented around the Southwark borough where no petrol producing cars will be allowed through the gates, The congestion zone will be managed by green policemen who will be housed in small elevated police stations dotted around the borough. 

London boroughs now have the duty, under section 40 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act, to have regard for biodiversity. Currently parks and open spaces account for 12% of Southwark’s overall land use with 32 parks, this project will seek to increase this to at least 90% leaving only the transport roads free. New planning laws will be implemented in the borough where all new roofs, balconies and walls will need to be used to grow a certain quantity of vegetables or provide  garden space.
1 year ago
#catrina stewart #architecture 
About Filipa Valente

Architect, Experience & Environmental Interaction DesignerI am currently based in Los Angeles, California, after having completed a Masters in Design Research on Media Art and Architecture (MediaSCAPES) at SciArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture).I am a practicing Architect and graduated from the Graduate Diploma and BSc in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London UK. Through work experience and since my graduation in 2008 I have had the opportunity to work for different architectural practices around the world and also have been able to pursue some of my own personal work and frequent collaborations. During the past years I have held positions at Zaha Hadid Architects, Amanda Levete Architects and Wilkinson Eyre Architects in London.As an Architect, my work is strongly rooted in the field of architecture, but I am extremely interested in combining this field with a strong passion for experience design, environmental interaction and media art. My current research explores relationships between generative and virtual space design, our bodies and the creation of interactive environments to enrich the experience of space.
1 year ago
#Filipa Valente #architecture #drawing 
The California Cooperative by Justin Randle via The Funambulist
1 year ago
#Justin Randle #scale model #architecture #funambulist 
EMILIO AMBASZ 

COOPERATIVE OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN GRAPE GROWERS IN CALIFORNIA, 1979
1 year ago
#EMILIO AMBASZ #drawing #architecture 
REM KOOLHAAS’ STUDENTS

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION UNIT 6 STUDENT PROJECTS, 1970s
1 year ago
#REM KOOLHAAS’ STUDENTS #architecture