STUDIO 2B

Instructor: Stephen Marshall / spring 2018 / woodbury university

Through rigorous analysis and manipulation, students will explore the tectonics and qualities of as found generic building types. These common objects – warehouses, sheds and other industrial buildings of Los Angeles - will be photographed, measured and drawn. Their spatial, structural and material logic will be understood, controlled, and exploited to speculate on programmatic and aesthetic relationships that are both familiar and foreign.

The Row DTLA Gallery

This proposal is made up of these slot like rooms that would enlarge in every direction offering higher ceilings and bigger rooms that enable windows and openings to become larger, bringing in natural light from every single direction. The structure was brought out to create a large exo-skeleton that is divided into 3 parts two of which are used for structural support and the other to create slits in the building that enable the building to catch more light in both the ceilings and walls.

Warehouse Case study

This phase will require students to conduct a formal analysis of a generic architecture.

Warehouse Manipulation

This phase will require students to produce transformations of their initial case study by altering structural systems and spatial qualities.