Studio 2A

In The Round
WOODBURY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
FALL 2017
INSTRUCTOR: Anali Gharakani

The studio used curvature to introduce the architectural discourse of geometry expressing form, and interiority. Issues of circulation, building mass, frame, enclosure, and ground was studied through the development of architectural proposals that used the description of curvature as a primary means of formal development.

Aquatic center
Model//Plan//Oblique//Floor Plans

Students engaged in creating curvilinear forms that expressed space, differences between interiority and exteriority. The design was produced from the variations created before its final phase. This form expresses a range of asymmetry through the differences of diameters integrating the form.
Pink line weights illustrate interiority of the aquatic center on Plan Oblique drawing. Pink line weights on plan indicate the exteriority of the mass.
Plan oblique drawings would illustrate the overall massing created by the plan through the process of rotating and scaling upwards.
The aquatic center is located in Downtown Los Angeles on Spring and 3rd Street.
Forms were produced on grasshopper software, later expressed on illustrator through line weights. Model is egg crated out of museum board.

Precedent Study

Saint John Of Nepomuk

Plan//Oblique//Section

First phase of studio, students were given a precedent to study and analyze how circular diagramming through plan can bring three dimensional form of the building through leveling and scaling the plan.

The Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk by Jan Santini Aichel consists of geometric figures intersecting and creating a variety of circular shapes.