Bruin Cluster — student housing for the unhoused
AUD291: Programming in Theory and Practice
Instructor: Dana Cuff
Collaborators: Maha Benhachmi, Bernard Kazmierski
Duration: 5 weeks
This
adaptive re-use proposal for the Wooden recreation center on UCLA’s campus strives
to foster collaboration across stakeholders at UCLA, including students and non-profits, in order to provide accommodations for unhoused students with
short-term and long-term housing. We challenged the building’s capacity
to act and the traditional understanding of the Wooden Center as a permanent
and timeless recreation center without being destructive to the existing scope
of the building or its context. Deep consideration was given to the
preconditions of the project and the existing and potential uses of these
spaces, positioning and orienting furniture and rooms within clusters to
choreograph a flexible composition in the space.
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
Winter 2020
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
Winter 2020
The process involved the development of hypotheses, collection of data, and an overall focus on collaborative design. To this point, we strived to collaborate our ideas with conversations from representatives from BruinShelter and the Economic Crisis Response Team at UCLA. By deliberating on the spatio-temporal flexibility of solutions through the architectural program, along with keeping a nonpartison mindset, a project is devised that utilizes the architectural program as a defining agent of design for present and future needs.
Johan Buttum
(Crib Sheets: Notes of the Contemporary Architectural Conversation: Program, p. 5)
(Crib Sheets: Notes of the Contemporary Architectural Conversation: Program, p. 5)
“No building has ever presented a finite agenda
for human occupation.”
- Artin Sahakian -