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B U C K L E R C H R I S T O P H E R
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FASHION RUNWAY
RESIDENTIAL ADDITION
BATH HOUSE
THE PROMPT OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO DEVELOP A SERIES OF MODELS THAT CON-TAINED DISCERNABLE SPATIAL, STRUCTURAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LOG-ICS BASED UPON CONTINUOUS AND MOD-ULATED SURFACE DEVELOPMENT. THESE MODELS WERE THE POINT OF DEPARTURE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A “POP-UP” FASH-ION RUNWAY FOR USE WITHIN AN EXISTING STOREFRONT DURING LOS ANGELES FASH-ION WEEK. WHEN THINKING OF A SURFACE THAT COULD BE EASILY MANIPULATED, FAB-RIC IMMEDIATELY CAME TO MIND, ESPECIAL-LY GIVEN THE PROGRAMMATIC CONTEXT. I CREATED SPACES BY PULLING TWO PIECES OF FABRIC THROUGH ADJACENT OPENINGS AND CONNECTING THEM AT A SINGLE POINT. THIS ALLOWED FOR A VARIETY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES THAT OFFERED ALL THE NECESSARY FUNCTIONS OF A RUNWAY: CIRCULATION, SEATING, CHANGING ROOMS, AN EXCLUSIVE VIEWING AREA, AND MOST IM-PORTANTLY THE CATWALK.
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FASHION RUNWAY
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STUDY MODEL
1 TWO ADJACENT PLANES 2 CREATE TRIANGULAR OPENINGS
3 CREATE SURFACE ON EXTERIOR OF PLANES
4 PULL THROUGH OPENING AND CON-NECT AT A SINGLE POINT
RECIPE DIAGRAM
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PUBLIC RUNWAY/SEATINGSEMI-PRIVATE GREEN ROOMPRIVATE BACKSTAGE
SPATIAL VARIATION DIAGRAM
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PLAN @ 4’
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0 24 8
SECTION AA
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SECTION BB 0 24 8
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SECTION CC 0 24 8
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THE PROJECT BEGAN WITH EACH STUDENT IDENTIFYING A BUILDING OR OBJECT IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES THAT WASN’T TYPICAL-LY CONSIDERED TO BE ARCHITECTURAL. RAN-DY’S DONUT SHOP IN INGLEWOOD STOOD OUT TO ME BECAUSE OF ITS EXAGGERRATED AND OBVIOUS USE OF A MASSIVE DONUT IN ORDER TO ADVERTISE THE BUILDING’S PURPOSE. I FO-CUSED ON THE UNIQUE GEOMETRY OF THE TO-RUS, AND CREATED AN ABSTRACT SHAPE USING THE INHERENT FORMS OF THE DONUT SHOP. FROM THERE EACH STUDENT WAS ASSIGNED AN EXISTING HOUSE WITHIN THE HISTORIC MAR VISTA TRACT OF WEST LA, AND ASKED TO BUILD AN ADDITION ON THAT HOUSE USING THEIR PREVIOUSLY DESIGNED SHAPES. THE EXISTING HOUSE WAS CHRACTERIZED BY ITS RIGHT AN-GLES AND CLEARLY DEFINED SPACES, WHILE THE FORM I HAD DESIGNED WAS ALMOST EN-TIRELY MADE UP OF CURVES. THIS OBSERVA-TION LED TO A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TWO OBJECTS’ ABILITY TO FUNCTION AS LIVING SPACES RATHER THAN A SIMPLE ADDITION.
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RESIDENTIAL ADDITION
UNROLLED ELEVATION
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ANALYTICAL AXONOMETRIC
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
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SITE PLAN
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CUT PLAN
PATH SECTION
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A B
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SECTIONS AA, BB AND CC
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THIS PROJECT REQUIRED THE CRIT-ICAL ADDRESS OF A SET OF HABIT-UATION/QUALITATIVE CONCERNS INCLUDING: SCALE, ERGONOMICS, DEGREE OF ENCLOSURE/EXPO-SURE, POCHE AND LIGHT/POROSI-TY. WE WERE GIVEN A 12’ X 12’ X 12’ SPACE TO WORK WITH, IN WHICH WE HAD TO CREATE A PRIVATE BATH HOUSE. THE PROJECT START-ED OUT AS A CUBE THAT FILLED THE LIMITS OF THE SITE, AND FROM THE CUBE, SPHERES OF VARYING SCALES WERE BOOLEANED. IN OR-DER FOR THESE SLOPES TO BE OC-CUPIABLE, STAIRS THAT FOLLOWED THE EXISTING CURVATURE WERE CUT INTO THE FORM. THE RESULT WAS A DYNAMIC, MULTI FACETED RELAXATION SPACE THAT INCLUD-ED MULTIPLE SOAKING POOLS, A CHANGING ROOM, A SUN BATHING DECK, AND STORAGE.
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BATH HOUSE
OPERATIONS DIAGRAM
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SHADOW SITE PLAN
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CUT PLAN @ 4’
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