From Plane to Pillow_LA

::Summer Studio 2007 – Green Medium: From Plane to Pillow. Re-envisioning the Schindler Landscape::

In recent years this neighborhood has undergone dramatic vertical growth in response to the rise of Los Angeles as a major world city. Anymore, Los Angeles grows upward rather than outward, a trend predicted to continue into the forseeable future. As a result, the site of the Schindler House has gone from a plane to a box, now surrounded on all four sides by multi-story residential buildings. This fundamental change in site dynamics has dramatically reshaped the perception of scale and proportion of the house, shifting it from an elegant arrangement of low-lying planes on an open field to an apparently mis-scaled, even squashed miniature dwarfed in a crowded huddle of swollen masses. To modify the house itself in response to the surrounding weight-gain would destroy the very virtues that make it valuable. The only recourse, then, involves reconsidering its landscape, especially as it approaches the four site boundaries.

Design Strategy
[screen of flows] flow motions are essential for the project in terms of offering a new perception of the vertical boundaries, the landscape and Schindler’s House.
The cold water vapor is used as a liquid screen to change the current condition of verticality in collaboration with the bamboo sticks. The foggers attached to the bamboos are gaining enough height to provide the fluid screen and a natural randomness in distribution. Heavy bunches of fog fusing the edges of verticality and horizontality as flowing along the bamboo sticks and the pipes on the ground.  And fog paths on the ground surface are distorted to define the edges and the height differentiation of the original landscape scheme by Schindler.
The fog flow is also providing various scenes for the events (fashion shows, concerts…) arranged by MAK Museum.

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Year:  August 2007
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Course:  M.ArchII Summer Studio, UCLA – Advanced Topic Studio -
Green Medium: From Plane to Pillow
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Location: MAK Museum – Los Angeles (CA)
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Description: design of the landscape that surrounds the
MAK Center and the site boundaries.
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Instructor:  Prof. Jason Payne; TA: Max Kuo
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Students:  Laura Pedata; Nick Mantis; Alper Derinbogaz
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Activities:  design; drawings; site inspection
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