https://artin-sahakian.com Artin Sahakian Tue, 05 Oct 2021 02:06:50 +0000 https://artin-sahakian.com en https://artin-sahakian.com/Home-Page Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:45:11 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Home-Page &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Featured Work <img width="5701" height="5701" width_o="5701" height_o="5701" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0683dc97fa44c4db7f833954480c315849e4f6b8b19bc67024598e3dda5cd6aa/401-studio-Plan-Perspective-Unit.jpg" data-mid="92965999" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0683dc97fa44c4db7f833954480c315849e4f6b8b19bc67024598e3dda5cd6aa/401-studio-Plan-Perspective-Unit.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f61e931990d46b48761c6d21b4be3a939147ffdaaf96c80d4c51dd3c5914a07c/412-model-elevation.jpg" data-mid="92966000" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f61e931990d46b48761c6d21b4be3a939147ffdaaf96c80d4c51dd3c5914a07c/412-model-elevation.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecc787c52ffec5724a7fd68cf24c30cc9763e799a71824e023de81b4a543608d/uhi-map-saturated.jpg" data-mid="93640111" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecc787c52ffec5724a7fd68cf24c30cc9763e799a71824e023de81b4a543608d/uhi-map-saturated.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02ec9c3443f53442719f2bfb5e28040be3f2962e27510203d1b177c4195b5538/414-plan-icon.jpg" data-mid="92966002" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02ec9c3443f53442719f2bfb5e28040be3f2962e27510203d1b177c4195b5538/414-plan-icon.jpg" /> <img width="2550" height="2551" width_o="2550" height_o="2551" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16374c192b2b90c6b0f42500f1cf2ed6c1549fd3cd653c91a044444da641e754/local-site-plan-zoomed-in-01.jpg" data-mid="103480121" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16374c192b2b90c6b0f42500f1cf2ed6c1549fd3cd653c91a044444da641e754/local-site-plan-zoomed-in-01.jpg" /> <img width="1711" height="1712" width_o="1711" height_o="1712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14ad1e976b80f2b315db1606efbf301ee7399789a62ddd118eff472db16e662a/lowrise-icon-01.png" data-mid="133368351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14ad1e976b80f2b315db1606efbf301ee7399789a62ddd118eff472db16e662a/lowrise-icon-01.png" /> https://artin-sahakian.com/Footer Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:45:14 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Footer https://artin-sahakian.com/About Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:45:14 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/About artin.sahakian@gmail.com +1.818.334.0384 <img width="621" height="936" width_o="621" height_o="936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e7d173277d46516ef71db8ffcce227af14cbcec274beb96e3225aed60a267c4/headshot-Jan-2021.jpeg" data-mid="95128527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/621/i/8e7d173277d46516ef71db8ffcce227af14cbcec274beb96e3225aed60a267c4/headshot-Jan-2021.jpeg" /> ︎&nbsp;︎ Artin Sahakian is an Armenian-American-Canadian designer that received a Master of Architecture with distinction from the University of California, Los Angeles. Upon graduation, he was the recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal. While at UCLA, he obtained a graduate certificate in Urban Humanities, working on situated, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research projects of various scales. Prior to attending UCLA, he received an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies with high distinction from the University of Toronto, where he studied architectural design, history, theory, and criticism, alongside philosophy. Artin perceives the built environment as creations that reflect their times and the contexts in which they are situated. He places importance on cross-disciplinary exchange and believes that architecture benefits greatly from exposure to larger theoretical spheres that reflect on the social, economic, and political stakes within the city. A pervading theme across his work is an interest in contextual and spatial adjacencies and their consequential affordances to a project.Artin desires to explore the complexities and possibilities inherent within architecture, designing projects that deliberate aesthetics, engage with the public realm, and reflect on socio-political values. He is currently a Designer at WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism in New York City. https://artin-sahakian.com/Selected-Design-Works Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:45:12 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Selected-Design-Works Selected Design Works 2018-2021 The work represented below comprises design ambitions completed during graduate studies at the University of California Los Angeles. https://artin-sahakian.com/Post-Climate-Re-regulations-A-NAFTA-for-People Tue, 05 Oct 2021 02:06:50 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Post-Climate-Re-regulations-A-NAFTA-for-People Post-climate Re-regulations: a NAFTA for people Climate Caravan: Mobility is Resilience Research Studio Instructor: Heather Roberge Collaborator: Jourdon Miller Duration: 24 weeks <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/356c19c26ac7e0997f98c2619c4d8ae9206fdc0f86a1f9f2085f0ca65e3e695a/01_Map---Temp-Change-01.jpg" data-mid="120714306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/356c19c26ac7e0997f98c2619c4d8ae9206fdc0f86a1f9f2085f0ca65e3e695a/01_Map---Temp-Change-01.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d72413d38a543fbf7921b86a551452f0d93be04fd99ed58f4ab36bbd697597e/02_Map---Northward-Migration-01.jpg" data-mid="120714309" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d72413d38a543fbf7921b86a551452f0d93be04fd99ed58f4ab36bbd697597e/02_Map---Northward-Migration-01.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5760964b7c7c92d03b7021a1c2d60721ed87a2f7a95c3709289dee3578368189/03_NAFTA-Pacific-Corridor-01.jpg" data-mid="120714313" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5760964b7c7c92d03b7021a1c2d60721ed87a2f7a95c3709289dee3578368189/03_NAFTA-Pacific-Corridor-01.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbb040b5944eaaf13c9bb143f08393cec805d8e7566aaaa8f862ad20a8aa4f8f/18_Map---Test-Beds-01.jpg" data-mid="120714476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbb040b5944eaaf13c9bb143f08393cec805d8e7566aaaa8f862ad20a8aa4f8f/18_Map---Test-Beds-01.jpg" /> Anticipating the effects of a debilitating increase in temperature to or current ill-prepared housing system, this project seeks to aid in the expected northward migration in North America through the design, production, and deployment of a prefabricated module system that can establish community resettlements through its mobile aggregates. These spaces of domesticity are understood to be deployed within a revised NAFTA model that empowers a post-urban nomadism. The project’s urban effects are supported by visual connections across modules and their breezeways, while visual bisections at the scale of a unit produce private domain and public benefit concurrently.&nbsp; As a whole, the system acknowledges the need for mobility as a form of climate resilience and functions as an asset to migrants to alleviate the need for land ownership. UCLA Architecture and Urban DesignFall 2020 - Spring 2021 The project’s thesis begins with the presupposition of two important beliefs. First, climate mitigation will not do enough to counteract the effects of climate change. Carbon emissions will not be sufficiently limited and global warming will increase temperatures across North and Central America. Second, individuals will need to migrate to higher latitudes, traveling north from Central America to the US and also from the US to Canada. Community re-settlements are located within a revised version of NAFTA that re-regulates existing economic models and subsequently triggers an expansion of mobility that extends beyond goods and services to include individuals. <img width="1200" height="774" width_o="1200" height_o="774" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eaa996ef69801337982d828864278aa1f9c9b36c710105e3dc23616939d361a0/05_Breezeway-Treatment-Axons.gif" data-mid="120714379" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eaa996ef69801337982d828864278aa1f9c9b36c710105e3dc23616939d361a0/05_Breezeway-Treatment-Axons.gif" /> Thus, mobile aggregates function as a post-urban nomadism within this new economic model, allowing for residents to migrate, upsize and downsize as needed. Housing assets are no longer tied to land, but rather are invested in a system of post-climate urban living.&nbsp;Site-specific breezeway enclosures allow for varying degrees of public-private thresholds to be produced, recalling the American vernacular dogtrot typology. Roof envelopes give residents the agency to customize their unit’s breezeway. <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c8819bc87efd0be12c84cc192defec4c354dd0749d6b6140315402374dada6a/06_BREEZEWAY-GIF.gif" data-mid="120716356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c8819bc87efd0be12c84cc192defec4c354dd0749d6b6140315402374dada6a/06_BREEZEWAY-GIF.gif" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ead7f8da9bfe33ca14eab9b765640600fc4d58efc53556774b3cf02fba1fad09/07_Construction-Process.gif" data-mid="120714415" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ead7f8da9bfe33ca14eab9b765640600fc4d58efc53556774b3cf02fba1fad09/07_Construction-Process.gif" /> <img width="3686" height="2385" width_o="3686" height_o="2385" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16c59a5d807b691d18ec5e332c691e28882767b43a445bdfd97ae4891c2de952/08_Truck---Parts-Loading.jpg" data-mid="120714422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16c59a5d807b691d18ec5e332c691e28882767b43a445bdfd97ae4891c2de952/08_Truck---Parts-Loading.jpg" /> The module embraces mass production’s capacity to lower housing costs by designing single-story units that take advantage of accessible construction methods. It builds itself off a chassis that becomes the infrastructural and spatial spine of the unit, housing MEP, HVAC, and a water cistern. <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a14d418aefbe0a07310165de3696c0c8f6f68425beaee391b8177c2d9ca0de9/04_Unit-Axons-01.jpg" data-mid="120714390" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a14d418aefbe0a07310165de3696c0c8f6f68425beaee391b8177c2d9ca0de9/04_Unit-Axons-01.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23b2fd24ad83b8aced0c431c459218270787ed9b22858783524ddcdf5dd3626a/09_Unit-Plans.jpg" data-mid="120714398" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23b2fd24ad83b8aced0c431c459218270787ed9b22858783524ddcdf5dd3626a/09_Unit-Plans.jpg" /> Through base and add-on modules, the system functions as one that can expand with its residents, allowing for upsizing and downsizing of the formal organization and scalar logics of the single family assemblage along a 25 degree rotated wall.&nbsp;The module is constructed with a focus on the positioning of figurally assertive alcoves. The chassis becomes the anchor from which expansion may occur. <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4c8993f3c80648e9abebce50221a82e77b1a05f15955948f025061e58bc95f6/12_Constr-Site---Panel-Tilt-Up.jpg" data-mid="120714450" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4c8993f3c80648e9abebce50221a82e77b1a05f15955948f025061e58bc95f6/12_Constr-Site---Panel-Tilt-Up.jpg" /> The ease of construction needed to deploy the modules allows for the gaps of urbanism to become the staging area for construction, with those same areas later remaining open as the communal zones across sites. <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca4fbad37d22e18bde3e444f2606d68ef7db75e4ed0969a6bc260393ed2d7662/11_INT-2-RENDER.png" data-mid="120714423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca4fbad37d22e18bde3e444f2606d68ef7db75e4ed0969a6bc260393ed2d7662/11_INT-2-RENDER.png" /> Private moments of exteriority bleed inside through the intersection of the breezeway and spine of the module, expanding the traditional delineation between the domestic unit and its yard. <img width="1200" height="776" width_o="1200" height_o="776" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48944fdf316c14fda4fbdaf652667b630a9fbe9d0823c8a9314195560c2985f3/14_US-SET-A.gif" data-mid="120714568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48944fdf316c14fda4fbdaf652667b630a9fbe9d0823c8a9314195560c2985f3/14_US-SET-A.gif" /> <img width="1200" height="776" width_o="1200" height_o="776" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad5a916a6f8b5fff07d1495d165edf89d5a8eccfde6ee9481696fdf92482a113/15_US-SET-B.gif" data-mid="120714580" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad5a916a6f8b5fff07d1495d165edf89d5a8eccfde6ee9481696fdf92482a113/15_US-SET-B.gif" /> <img width="1200" height="776" width_o="1200" height_o="776" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28f26c61a8dd7f2b78313ce1093c948b4b0c3489d099e78b08a8b443d91f1816/16_US-SET-C.gif" data-mid="120714591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28f26c61a8dd7f2b78313ce1093c948b4b0c3489d099e78b08a8b443d91f1816/16_US-SET-C.gif" /> <img width="1200" height="776" width_o="1200" height_o="776" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28c28da9a493656bd51e2a122842ca9d36b2c64edf5c552eaef9582a0230ad90/17_CANADA-SET.gif" data-mid="120714595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28c28da9a493656bd51e2a122842ca9d36b2c64edf5c552eaef9582a0230ad90/17_CANADA-SET.gif" /> At the scale of the urban, the module’s geometries afford the potential for superimposition, infill, and centripetal logics of aggregation that can produce substantially varied spatial and social configurations. Test bed sites are selected across North America, including Mexico, the US, and Canada, to evaluate the housing module’s affordances at the macro scale. <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b3809f7eacf7467e5be59f041e12ffa9818891e3bd9bc6d2d27fc07ee233a7b/20_Site-Strategies---Diagrams-01.jpg" data-mid="120714609" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b3809f7eacf7467e5be59f041e12ffa9818891e3bd9bc6d2d27fc07ee233a7b/20_Site-Strategies---Diagrams-01.jpg" /> UMAN, MEXICO - SUPERPOSITION <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fcbd3b3f3f74491537bd7b31970ebcfa2567639c25039f4cc55714d0e98b862/21_Uman_Aerial.jpg" data-mid="120714927" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fcbd3b3f3f74491537bd7b31970ebcfa2567639c25039f4cc55714d0e98b862/21_Uman_Aerial.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1ef3560008ca397d6f3eb0705eb4fb13912284848363f65d5da83313fff188a/22_Uman_Aerial.jpg" data-mid="120714929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1ef3560008ca397d6f3eb0705eb4fb13912284848363f65d5da83313fff188a/22_Uman_Aerial.jpg" /> In Uman, an exurb outside of Merida, Mexico, blocks are built up at its periphery, with a central zone remaining underutilized and often inaccessible to the broader community. Here, modules can be circumscribed in repeatable blocks as smaller community settlements of 8-12 units. <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40688a44a43f2ffb06cbe7e3820dc0303d8f347c65fcfde435b824141268426c/23_UMAN-SITE_nolli_1.jpg" data-mid="120714970" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40688a44a43f2ffb06cbe7e3820dc0303d8f347c65fcfde435b824141268426c/23_UMAN-SITE_nolli_1.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2329c6d837546bba4ffcd57a235798f749cf93b4b2463736869a7bea06ef994f/23_UMAN-SITE_site-plan_6.jpg" data-mid="120715068" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2329c6d837546bba4ffcd57a235798f749cf93b4b2463736869a7bea06ef994f/23_UMAN-SITE_site-plan_6.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/511b3a80e1ce283009484989a524074062fb3e67d310b6e8486c2927a3698166/23_UMAN-SITE_access_2.jpg" data-mid="120714977" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/511b3a80e1ce283009484989a524074062fb3e67d310b6e8486c2927a3698166/23_UMAN-SITE_access_2.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d3078c8f2e5896ef131ac93ba14cdee21c93310b732346e139339124f010960/23_UMAN-SITE_visibility_3.jpg" data-mid="120714978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d3078c8f2e5896ef131ac93ba14cdee21c93310b732346e139339124f010960/23_UMAN-SITE_visibility_3.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/933ee371ecbe87873657487dc594c680a033bfdc43095852c7b2d75d4cfceba0/23_UMAN-SITE_community_4.jpg" data-mid="120714990" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/933ee371ecbe87873657487dc594c680a033bfdc43095852c7b2d75d4cfceba0/23_UMAN-SITE_community_4.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa41018ca9853bdccb22b6de80e82379d8646482980607cf70b5f5b9347808e4/23_UMAN-SITE_community_5.jpg" data-mid="120715014" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa41018ca9853bdccb22b6de80e82379d8646482980607cf70b5f5b9347808e4/23_UMAN-SITE_community_5.jpg" /> The multi-axial nature of the module allows for positioning to adjust to the existing context, aligning itself with adjacent urban thresholds, within a superimposed block. The project’s urban effects are supported by visual connections across modules and their breezeways. In order to sponsor economic opportunity for these NAFTA migrants, the deployment of these modules coincides with a speculation on the conditioning of open zones magnified by the modules to become an asset to the communities. <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e07292e7ca57808271a11a95f6c3dd1d6b096018e38e05f71c87f42b12c10791/24_UMAN-ZOOM-IN-01.jpg" data-mid="120715148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e07292e7ca57808271a11a95f6c3dd1d6b096018e38e05f71c87f42b12c10791/24_UMAN-ZOOM-IN-01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1adc45a4e4d3e5892f0a115a43b03d05359f937a8126fbc2c32d83afc5608e96/35_EXT-1-RENDER.jpg" data-mid="120716457" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1adc45a4e4d3e5892f0a115a43b03d05359f937a8126fbc2c32d83afc5608e96/35_EXT-1-RENDER.jpg" /> CA CITY, UNITED STATES - INFILL <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/772f11c91f255ce5019b160636e4aa562e2e758be4544b5b51a682ad9d1bc13a/25_CA-City_Aerial-05.jpg" data-mid="120715199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/772f11c91f255ce5019b160636e4aa562e2e758be4544b5b51a682ad9d1bc13a/25_CA-City_Aerial-05.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e04b2b6495ef4564b9737c3a0c7244c7b72a0843d2bfc0d98b20435e33928ec9/26_CA-City_Aerial-06.jpg" data-mid="120715204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e04b2b6495ef4564b9737c3a0c7244c7b72a0843d2bfc0d98b20435e33928ec9/26_CA-City_Aerial-06.jpg" /> In California City, an exurb outside of Los Angeles County, USA, superblocks are composed with a relentless urban grid of residential and commercial clusters. Here, module aggregations depend on line of sight to break down blocks, allowing for porosity and perforation through an otherwise dense urban condition. <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d0627e45c6839333d5a5b72e21f46865f0378ae212f2c92d7490b068cb2fb9e/27_CA-CITY-SITE_nolli_1.jpg" data-mid="120715241" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d0627e45c6839333d5a5b72e21f46865f0378ae212f2c92d7490b068cb2fb9e/27_CA-CITY-SITE_nolli_1.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/001c77332216a3ef96b333794261dcec0172338c9614faaa905ca343067c7833/27_CA-CITY-SITE_site-plan_5.jpg" data-mid="120715247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/001c77332216a3ef96b333794261dcec0172338c9614faaa905ca343067c7833/27_CA-CITY-SITE_site-plan_5.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0490faa1465488588078632687a7ca2289214450b88b09bb194be08efd66b870/27_CA-CITY-SITE_access_2.jpg" data-mid="120715253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0490faa1465488588078632687a7ca2289214450b88b09bb194be08efd66b870/27_CA-CITY-SITE_access_2.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3865a553a9d1bb97f310678d06f0decf7340f02067e8b834755fdd4bc4e90aa/27_CA-CITY-SITE_communal_4.jpg" data-mid="120715256" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3865a553a9d1bb97f310678d06f0decf7340f02067e8b834755fdd4bc4e90aa/27_CA-CITY-SITE_communal_4.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3300" width_o="5101" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2676beee0c03f13ce2c76a64169a8bc3a0a2a56d9d1c850663a0431e87f37e2/27_CA-CITY-SITE_visibility_3.jpg" data-mid="120715258" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2676beee0c03f13ce2c76a64169a8bc3a0a2a56d9d1c850663a0431e87f37e2/27_CA-CITY-SITE_visibility_3.jpg" /> Urban and community planning strategies are used to produce axial ties between industry and housing that remain separate urbanistically. Different scales of community zones are produced, including large community parks, parkettes, and shared courts amongst units. In contrast to the orthogonally aligned existing residential homes, the module set’s diagonality allows for visual as well as physical slips into and through neighborhood blocks, producing a sense of parallax.<img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df82c7079589e245921635113978c6498744c4e05c4e874f233511383574b989/28_CA-CITY-ZOOM-01.jpg" data-mid="120715324" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df82c7079589e245921635113978c6498744c4e05c4e874f233511383574b989/28_CA-CITY-ZOOM-01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7af9f13ad06315ab7047df7381e66456e3daac73622029026a0241a8592537b/36_EXT-2-RENDER.jpg" data-mid="120716465" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7af9f13ad06315ab7047df7381e66456e3daac73622029026a0241a8592537b/36_EXT-2-RENDER.jpg" /> NORTH BEND, CANADA - CENTRIPETAL <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43a68a3e0a2792e381d6c6c6f914f14e393b90fafa55c7b55a33f781f0f0cab9/29_North-Bend_Aerial-01.jpg" data-mid="120715456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43a68a3e0a2792e381d6c6c6f914f14e393b90fafa55c7b55a33f781f0f0cab9/29_North-Bend_Aerial-01.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/827ffbef53236983d87ee83849c09112d1225cec32861a44b691106adf2745e9/30_North-Bend_Aerial-02.jpg" data-mid="120715459" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/827ffbef53236983d87ee83849c09112d1225cec32861a44b691106adf2745e9/30_North-Bend_Aerial-02.jpg" /> In North Bend, one of many smaller towns founded along the Fraser River and Trans-Canada highway northeast of Vancouver, Canada, communities tie themselves back to flows of mobility - the train line and river itself.&nbsp; The deployment of module aggregates here boast the most flexibility, potentiating a series of repeated clusters of low-density communities that respects its surrounding context. <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0df63a4a8d3214d61b324143549b65da05086814307c4f044337eccc0dd1f832/31_NORTH-BEND_NOLLI_1.jpg" data-mid="120715613" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0df63a4a8d3214d61b324143549b65da05086814307c4f044337eccc0dd1f832/31_NORTH-BEND_NOLLI_1.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f75c885b14a25be7f15e3e2f782aeb357e6cd57ca0862ca5c6c67dd0439cb00/31_NORTH-BEND_SITE_4.jpg" data-mid="120715615" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f75c885b14a25be7f15e3e2f782aeb357e6cd57ca0862ca5c6c67dd0439cb00/31_NORTH-BEND_SITE_4.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/345d7c6f916ed0246f4a247b4fda7cab4dca3569e69c48cbb053910d54251cc9/31_NORTH-BEND_VIS_2.jpg" data-mid="120715618" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/345d7c6f916ed0246f4a247b4fda7cab4dca3569e69c48cbb053910d54251cc9/31_NORTH-BEND_VIS_2.jpg" /> <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2233926b49471ae8712c98c909f48d74ca77fa774d8e350faa4d0b825a11d2f/31_NORTH-BEND_VIS-ONLY_3.jpg" data-mid="120715650" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2233926b49471ae8712c98c909f48d74ca77fa774d8e350faa4d0b825a11d2f/31_NORTH-BEND_VIS-ONLY_3.jpg" /> The centripetal organization strategy here sponsors a figure-ground relationship of the site that places emphasis on access to community zones. Lights of sight, originating off the main axes, permeate deep through layers of units and pocket commual zones embedded within the assembled grid. An axial tie is established from a community node that hinges to the river across housing arrays to the existing train station and its related economies. Here, the module’s formal and scalar logics gives an opportunity to create a more expansive and interconnected system with pocket communities that retain equal access to public, semi-public, and private zones. <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da6112684df39856f9b073ad81e4c11a85bbfbcdd892546d1c1327a5be910850/32_NORTH-BEND-SITE-ZOOM-01.jpg" data-mid="120715653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da6112684df39856f9b073ad81e4c11a85bbfbcdd892546d1c1327a5be910850/32_NORTH-BEND-SITE-ZOOM-01.jpg" /> Structured and visible lines of sight become the spatial organization strategy that modules are deployed with across all three sites. Visibility through the spine is coalesced with the figural zones between units, thus operating as a mode of fractal expansion. Through the use of exterior pattern and color application, a more contingent relationship is made between the units and the ground plane. <img width="7651" height="2927" width_o="7651" height_o="2927" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/857deef35e2f5771023fb39dc3e3e393a4306e40c8a3cd1e85b095b295127af0/33_Ele-Persp.jpg" data-mid="120716319" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/857deef35e2f5771023fb39dc3e3e393a4306e40c8a3cd1e85b095b295127af0/33_Ele-Persp.jpg" /> The angled orientation of the units places emphasis on the interstitial zones between them, left decidedly open and receptive to spontaneous forms of public life. The axial alignment of units along the breezeway ensures permeability between the existing community and proposed units. The units qualitatively encode visual continuity across spatial collectives, extending beyond norms of proto-typical housing typologies. <img width="10201" height="3901" width_o="10201" height_o="3901" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/345432d8286b9f6634251fe555d548d4cae7332bee023bf63010b00f1d8b5c81/34_ele-persp-vignettes.jpg" data-mid="120715671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/345432d8286b9f6634251fe555d548d4cae7332bee023bf63010b00f1d8b5c81/34_ele-persp-vignettes.jpg" /> - Artin Sahakian - https://artin-sahakian.com/Obscuring-Modularity Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:28:06 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Obscuring-Modularity Obscuring Modularity&nbsp;—&nbsp; prefabricated cohousing community AUD401: Advanced Topics Studio Instructor: Kayeon Lee Collaborator: Xavier Ramirez Duration: 8 weeks <img width="3000" height="3001" width_o="3000" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2a3bd20a78bc3901f3898ef452ff5167e2307c71cecc5f1b3094ac8fb986ea6/1_plan-diagrams.jpg" data-mid="92961483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2a3bd20a78bc3901f3898ef452ff5167e2307c71cecc5f1b3094ac8fb986ea6/1_plan-diagrams.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1d801bfc562105385d8ae08adb37972e51ccaf489a86f8d49dd6e9068eed4d1/2_other-diagrams.jpg" data-mid="92961470" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1d801bfc562105385d8ae08adb37972e51ccaf489a86f8d49dd6e9068eed4d1/2_other-diagrams.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec15b27cbb0d7c311e1a1a33dcdf24745b9309d620b9cc0a0da532547c2c908e/3_circ.jpg" data-mid="92961471" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec15b27cbb0d7c311e1a1a33dcdf24745b9309d620b9cc0a0da532547c2c908e/3_circ.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05b80afb796c1dac2dc319fc8088c64b79002fa3d791f524da2a7d498fcc2b31/4_program-full-iso.jpg" data-mid="92961473" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05b80afb796c1dac2dc319fc8088c64b79002fa3d791f524da2a7d498fcc2b31/4_program-full-iso.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9edff89d742fa366a86822117993c3e13e93f1c27fed84207f06bd9c6eff2f2a/5_program-ground.jpg" data-mid="92961474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9edff89d742fa366a86822117993c3e13e93f1c27fed84207f06bd9c6eff2f2a/5_program-ground.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7bbd122010137e98f5d0d9223fbb0105af86aba58aa11ca367c5f50880f99c2c/6_program-circ.jpg" data-mid="92961475" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7bbd122010137e98f5d0d9223fbb0105af86aba58aa11ca367c5f50880f99c2c/6_program-circ.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de973800969787dd5cda04947944c138200b175364070344abe5c73270ffb44f/7_program-housing-a.jpg" data-mid="92961477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de973800969787dd5cda04947944c138200b175364070344abe5c73270ffb44f/7_program-housing-a.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59ea1118ba6b221a807cd8558262ccafd2a48c9d962e912bb8ef9165b52e6714/8_program-housing-b.jpg" data-mid="92961478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59ea1118ba6b221a807cd8558262ccafd2a48c9d962e912bb8ef9165b52e6714/8_program-housing-b.jpg" /> <img width="3001" height="3001" width_o="3001" height_o="3001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2aa670ace0d60d5c886c10c4f3823c318b555da10e1ec7ec2588d8f64b437d61/9_program-housing-c.jpg" data-mid="92961481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2aa670ace0d60d5c886c10c4f3823c318b555da10e1ec7ec2588d8f64b437d61/9_program-housing-c.jpg" /> Prefabricated modular housing is typically associated with an efficiency of material, time, and space, resulting in an increasingly fleeting notion of community promising a better whole when it usually only cares about the parts. This project strives to contextualize part-to-whole relationships of idiosyncratically organized interior-centric units into a cohousing system.&nbsp;Drawing from prefab housing studies, the wall panel serves as the technique to tune the varied forms of sociality within the site. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Fall 2020 <img width="3600" height="3000" width_o="3600" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2fc47f5c46682f0b746013bf1018465987dbbf63a015419243316fc0a7216d1/Short-Shear-Section-01.jpg" data-mid="92961737" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2fc47f5c46682f0b746013bf1018465987dbbf63a015419243316fc0a7216d1/Short-Shear-Section-01.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8c74bfd6ab3c9443f5e7d58cb986bd931a0017e413a8bbb627b02b238b83d23/assembly-gif.gif" data-mid="92965024" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8c74bfd6ab3c9443f5e7d58cb986bd931a0017e413a8bbb627b02b238b83d23/assembly-gif.gif" /> When organized in plan, the straight, diagonal, and curved wall panel types produce distinct unit characters with specified forms that impose a closed or open relationship to adjacent communal and private spaces. The diagonal registered in plan is projected vertically to both physically structure and visually posit further spatial multiplicity and diversity within the site. Through the positioning of opaque and transparent diagonally segmented wall panels, views out from, between, and across units either narrow or widen. Through raised seams on the elevation, we blur distinctions between part and whole, whereby at some points lines continue across several units and at others seams describe a single unit. Variations of seam offsets also distinguish more social or extroverted unit characters from private or introverted ones. <img width="5130" height="3300" width_o="5130" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/376ef5e1baa351acd134540766c4c8dd2e7f3efea84a411ea0d50b14928a2e48/Front-Elevation-01.jpg" data-mid="92961531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/376ef5e1baa351acd134540766c4c8dd2e7f3efea84a411ea0d50b14928a2e48/Front-Elevation-01.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c361898f0329c59c312b4a8caaef72af6d6b0bd2492f260771998046fc8af283/Int_out-from-unit.png" data-mid="92961746" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c361898f0329c59c312b4a8caaef72af6d6b0bd2492f260771998046fc8af283/Int_out-from-unit.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee130db619664b83646026235b945a4c9ca25ae10913dc7c274bd96bbdd14b54/Ext_courtyard-entry.png" data-mid="92961739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee130db619664b83646026235b945a4c9ca25ae10913dc7c274bd96bbdd14b54/Ext_courtyard-entry.png" /> The building lands on the site to produce a connected series of shared social programming on the ground to serve the residents. The ground is organized based on the modular units directly above and uses triangular walls to indirectly frame the activity within and allow for visual connectivity between communal zones and the public street. <img width="3301" height="5100" width_o="3301" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c27d56b686317643f3f4c5d88a12a9bdc3524dcb1a4c31a6efbae512df1ddf77/plans-01.jpg" data-mid="92961728" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c27d56b686317643f3f4c5d88a12a9bdc3524dcb1a4c31a6efbae512df1ddf77/plans-01.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb232b3c35fe5173976a8432216cfd039b7df3bc1ffe548f8e0b14755b168ab1/plans-02.jpg" data-mid="92961729" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb232b3c35fe5173976a8432216cfd039b7df3bc1ffe548f8e0b14755b168ab1/plans-02.jpg" /> <img width="3301" height="5100" width_o="3301" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/063fd43d34a04f796474fc399bfc6dc9655792cf30671cf0951602c46c98c1a5/plans-03.jpg" data-mid="92961730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/063fd43d34a04f796474fc399bfc6dc9655792cf30671cf0951602c46c98c1a5/plans-03.jpg" /> <img width="3301" height="5100" width_o="3301" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e75f989ebcecb71e6d1abbbea4d0adb7ea2e7ba938d895df943dafa9a7de9720/plans-04.jpg" data-mid="92961731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e75f989ebcecb71e6d1abbbea4d0adb7ea2e7ba938d895df943dafa9a7de9720/plans-04.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/978e7a25c1951880e97a667961f59bed1b19fe0d3e51ff99361d2c0da81cf0a2/plans-05.jpg" data-mid="92961732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/978e7a25c1951880e97a667961f59bed1b19fe0d3e51ff99361d2c0da81cf0a2/plans-05.jpg" /> The project’s axis shifts to form a taper at the front of the site that allows for an expansion of social space on the ground plane adjacent to the neighboring building. The forms of entry for units off the social framework seeks to accommodate for both an introverted and extroverted resident type, whereby some open directly onto communal zones while others tuck away between units. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2722016ac63d3935f71e3922e0330caa0128ea91b284a25891f61727b075f41d/Ext_on-pathway.png" data-mid="92961740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2722016ac63d3935f71e3922e0330caa0128ea91b284a25891f61727b075f41d/Ext_on-pathway.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46efc6698c628957b7e0b87728dde8d3e2fe0258c7ab03c403292c881dd61d52/Ext_top-floor-on-spine.png" data-mid="92961742" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46efc6698c628957b7e0b87728dde8d3e2fe0258c7ab03c403292c881dd61d52/Ext_top-floor-on-spine.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcadb440c05761d9eb451570975ff8c4c7669dced354112a13a2a6b2e149b4fc/Int_bedroom.png" data-mid="92961743" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcadb440c05761d9eb451570975ff8c4c7669dced354112a13a2a6b2e149b4fc/Int_bedroom.png" /> The solid-void relationship exhibited across the project deviates from normative organizational strategies used in multi-family housing, typically achieved through double-loaded corridors, in that it aims to produce more porosity within the site by placing prominence on the spaces between built form and inhabitant’s need for privacy or sociality. <img width="6900" height="3000" width_o="6900" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb19158f82b6fa4b84bf4fbddc763d9753e1563d0f0af0f7d817b013d10ede74/Long-Section-Perspective-01.jpg" data-mid="92961735" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb19158f82b6fa4b84bf4fbddc763d9753e1563d0f0af0f7d817b013d10ede74/Long-Section-Perspective-01.jpg" /> <img width="5701" height="5701" width_o="5701" height_o="5701" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90393d84bd0955c713c195dbc507d244d32b12e41551feec4f14f8465311bd77/Plan-Perspective-Unit-Set-01.jpg" data-mid="92961748" border="0" data-scale="78" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90393d84bd0955c713c195dbc507d244d32b12e41551feec4f14f8465311bd77/Plan-Perspective-Unit-Set-01.jpg" /> - Artin Sahakian - https://artin-sahakian.com/Palimpsestic-Preservation Sat, 27 Mar 2021 22:20:19 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Palimpsestic-Preservation Palimpsestic Preservation&nbsp;—&nbsp; technology-driven archaeological site intervention AUD401: Advanced Topics Studio Instructor: Jason Payne Duration: 6 weeks <img width="5101" height="3301" width_o="5101" height_o="3301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1836c37504275e3d0686d28458497243d937f3f2a2cfa2b1b67b8fc61261f5a9/09_Site-Plan.jpg" data-mid="103477079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1836c37504275e3d0686d28458497243d937f3f2a2cfa2b1b67b8fc61261f5a9/09_Site-Plan.jpg" /> While Obama’s National Monument designation of the politically and culturally contested lands of Bears Ears sought to respect the wishes of various Indigenous tribes, it did not effectively prevent or deter vandalism at archaeological sites. This project proposes a means of preservation that utilizes holographic projection technologies both on and off site to produce a more expanded and temporally conscious understanding of Indigenous archaeology for the public. It is comprised of an infrastructural assemblage at the antiquity and a building complex at the edge of the monument’s boundary. UCLA Architecture and Urban DesignWinter 2021 <img width="5700" height="3900" width_o="5700" height_o="3900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29c489b1f2091cd8dc2b6dc87738197b3c81dfce1d50e94ae4c3d370e7072833/01_Bears-Ears-National-Monuments-Map-Studio-Map.jpg" data-mid="103477373" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29c489b1f2091cd8dc2b6dc87738197b3c81dfce1d50e94ae4c3d370e7072833/01_Bears-Ears-National-Monuments-Map-Studio-Map.jpg" /><img width="3900" height="2700" width_o="3900" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c68740b728a784d6afdca6a3bb7ed29ec94359f8c15f1d19e0614ffeab4cc6c8/02_Beef-Basin-Overall-Site-Plan.jpg" data-mid="103477374" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c68740b728a784d6afdca6a3bb7ed29ec94359f8c15f1d19e0614ffeab4cc6c8/02_Beef-Basin-Overall-Site-Plan.jpg" /> The deliberate vandalism that occurs on these federal and Indigenous lands is made most evident by looking at more remote regions of Bears Ears, such as the Beef Basin. This area is a fragile one that holds high research value to archaeologists as there is a general need to document and protect a broad landscape of Indigenous structures. The region is prone to heavy looting and disturbances caused by visitors who freely roam the terrain with their 4x4 off road vehicles.&nbsp;The network of structures across the Basin are each positioned in seemingly important ways, either on flat, low elevations and fully visible or perched atop canyons and rock formations, blending into the surrounding landscape. <img width="5700" height="3900" width_o="5700" height_o="3900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/524b8d60904c816f555a6c1f35a0a54e5d6ef22d0e2f5bcd0b7417491f2c3b6e/05_Local-Indigenous-Site-Plan.jpg" data-mid="103477375" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/524b8d60904c816f555a6c1f35a0a54e5d6ef22d0e2f5bcd0b7417491f2c3b6e/05_Local-Indigenous-Site-Plan.jpg" /> <img width="1248" height="864" width_o="1248" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6e342bbe11de055810a9d9214d51bc0e28136553d070e5634b947e04f5a8817/03_High-House-Aerial-Image.jpg" data-mid="103476993" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6e342bbe11de055810a9d9214d51bc0e28136553d070e5634b947e04f5a8817/03_High-House-Aerial-Image.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1731" width_o="2500" height_o="1731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2d2bff96cfcdb451d1cd3052f71ab514f6b847debea13e6cd724d3c5f928cef/04_High-House-Chunk-Render.jpg" data-mid="103476994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2d2bff96cfcdb451d1cd3052f71ab514f6b847debea13e6cd724d3c5f928cef/04_High-House-Chunk-Render.jpg" /> Atop a hill in Ruin Canyon, one can find the largest documented archaeological site in the Beef Basin, known as the High House, a 3 story Indigenous dwelling complex with 12 to possibly 25 rooms around a central court. Focusing on this dwelling in particular, this project proposes an infrastructural system of armatures meant to support the use of projection technologies, such as holography, onto the dwelling, alongside physically outlining the dwelling’s original form through the arm’s positions. Each arm’s position snaps to the center points of the 12 rooms visible in the remains, hoisting a holographic projection device that could project directly below and around it to a given radius. The assumed commitment to preservation through building is understood to be unnecessary here, functioning first and foremost as a piece of infrastructure and secondly as architecture. <img width="2500" height="1731" width_o="2500" height_o="1731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47526c8bd614ce15275d012b5fe7a8feaefcd53e867ea50370b17db06ab86893/06_High-House-Preservation-Isometric.jpg" data-mid="103476995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47526c8bd614ce15275d012b5fe7a8feaefcd53e867ea50370b17db06ab86893/06_High-House-Preservation-Isometric.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1731" width_o="2500" height_o="1731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45f25c90bf17bd2861ff9e27b17c74120e0feccb68cae822bad0a9b2e3895e51/07_High-House-Preservation-Isometric-With-Hologram.jpg" data-mid="103476998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45f25c90bf17bd2861ff9e27b17c74120e0feccb68cae822bad0a9b2e3895e51/07_High-House-Preservation-Isometric-With-Hologram.jpg" /> Continuous to the agenda of protecting Bears Ears and in particular, the Beef Basin’s Indigenous archaeological record, the proposed Center for Indigenous Archaeology of the Beef Basin is sited directly along where the national monument’s arbitrary western bounds crosses Utah State 95, accessed by an existing dirt road that breaks off the highway. Its form and posture on the site produces sidedness in the project, with three public galleries connected by an open-air path facing the highway and an archaeologist-in-residency workshop and temporary residences for archaeologists working in the area tucked to the south. <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2642527246b0a49bec67620a6469eae6031c31c774b777b78b308c2a365cd0c/10_Public-elevation.jpg" data-mid="103476999" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2642527246b0a49bec67620a6469eae6031c31c774b777b78b308c2a365cd0c/10_Public-elevation.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/679c2f12fddd63381bb3494de26abafc9d703d781f120129f5f4b2170bb173dd/11_Private-elevation.jpg" data-mid="103477003" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/679c2f12fddd63381bb3494de26abafc9d703d781f120129f5f4b2170bb173dd/11_Private-elevation.jpg" /> This project is represented in a vain that is reflective of the poster advertisements created by the WPA in the 1940s (Works Progress Administration) that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the National Park Services. In this case, Bears Ears National Monument is effectively maintained by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and the Inter-tribal Coalition of tribes that hold historical ties to the land. <img width="3200" height="4000" width_o="3200" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc96442d81e26a320be3ca4bef407c27959f3f386ee8507d74b2b86951d4df88/Poster-Comparisons.jpg" data-mid="103477379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc96442d81e26a320be3ca4bef407c27959f3f386ee8507d74b2b86951d4df88/Poster-Comparisons.jpg" /> <img width="3200" height="4000" width_o="3200" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58c120b835aad1cb15f2a027976708896fe08f6061077c0ae695618b20e39a10/Project-Entry-Poster.jpg" data-mid="103477541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58c120b835aad1cb15f2a027976708896fe08f6061077c0ae695618b20e39a10/Project-Entry-Poster.jpg" /> The primary experiential space of the building is based on and seeks to maintain a connection to the High House dwelling. Through the collection of signal data from the infrastructural arms above the antiquity, a rerepresentation of the artifact is maintained at 1:1 scale for view by visitors within a space that is referential to the theater in the round typology. By way of a focus on remote-sensing technologies within the space, a reinvented and enclosed function for a historically open-air theater type becomes the heart of the project. <img width="7650" height="4950" width_o="7650" height_o="4950" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec6af5b2690c324fc6a97fcaf0b4fa1910e68baf5c0c537420a3579d3a0f462d/16_Ground-Floor-Plan.jpg" data-mid="103477376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec6af5b2690c324fc6a97fcaf0b4fa1910e68baf5c0c537420a3579d3a0f462d/16_Ground-Floor-Plan.jpg" /> <img width="7650" height="4950" width_o="7650" height_o="4950" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17cd8c3298278b4f63f96335841ddc5522ca14b0e17700890e5245667b20a1e8/Lower-Level-Plan.jpg" data-mid="103477378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17cd8c3298278b4f63f96335841ddc5522ca14b0e17700890e5245667b20a1e8/Lower-Level-Plan.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d66e566ffe9c4adbadbf042e9081786148291cb47d179a7cf14b913cb84049b/15_Holographic-Projection-Theater-Render.jpg" data-mid="103477007" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d66e566ffe9c4adbadbf042e9081786148291cb47d179a7cf14b913cb84049b/15_Holographic-Projection-Theater-Render.jpg" /> Connected to the theater is an open exhibit that would display current efforts undertaken by the archaeologist in residence, along with an open view to below of the archaeologist’s workshop. Expanding out from the theater is a series of three galleries, focused specifically on archaeology and excavation, Indigenous knowledge and sensing, and remote-sensing and environmental technologies. The spaces enclose along a curved wall for panorama projection and remain otherwise open to the surrounding landscape. Below each of these volumes is where spaces programmatically specific to archaeology are sited, including antiquity material storage, wet and dry labs, offices, and image processing rooms. <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5982632802798e0c390353aebc91498f01b307075b622211f25dc834b7c17ff6/17_Outside-Galleries-Render.jpg" data-mid="103477008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5982632802798e0c390353aebc91498f01b307075b622211f25dc834b7c17ff6/17_Outside-Galleries-Render.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8a966d97a5d4118e9101e19aca5b9062bd1ae647f8fd2afb9f1469777606735/18_Inside-the-Archaeology-Gallery-Render.jpg" data-mid="103477009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8a966d97a5d4118e9101e19aca5b9062bd1ae647f8fd2afb9f1469777606735/18_Inside-the-Archaeology-Gallery-Render.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="1235" width_o="5100" height_o="1235" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cc97bb009b124e99b2286ece5fce797389254ccbec367c943642aa3007abd30/19_Section.jpg" data-mid="103477377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cc97bb009b124e99b2286ece5fce797389254ccbec367c943642aa3007abd30/19_Section.jpg" /> Within the galleries above, visitors not only view static objects and photographs selected to be on display, but also gain glimpses into the living and moving work of archaeologists below by way of super ellipse-shaped punctures in the gallery’s ground plane. Through doing so, archaeology is put on display to visitors in the galleries in a manner that extends beyond selective, static curation to produce transformative narratives through the display of ongoing work. Alongside this, the utilization of projection technologies in the theater allows for the Indigenous dwelling’s past to become a part of its present state and thus reproduces the history of the dwelling itself. In its entirety, the building complex strives to produce a more expanded and temporally-conscious understanding of Indigenous archaeology for the public. - Artin Sahakian - https://artin-sahakian.com/Superimposed-Topologies Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:33:12 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Superimposed-Topologies Superimposed Topologies&nbsp;—&nbsp; ferry terminal AUD414: Major Building Design Instructor: Jimenez Lai Collaborator: Xavier Ramirez Duration: 5 week <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9a3e8bbd43e5bdaf9462caf618e1908a855574a3fc1579d105c58d22ebd0e6e/section-diagram.jpg" data-mid="88547370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9a3e8bbd43e5bdaf9462caf618e1908a855574a3fc1579d105c58d22ebd0e6e/section-diagram.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/027ed819798695f9a31938b077a8ffbf4b691249e978877980d96d6cdece3c60/industry-isometrics.jpg" data-mid="88547371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/027ed819798695f9a31938b077a8ffbf4b691249e978877980d96d6cdece3c60/industry-isometrics.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/991ed58ffbba89be7641c36715f450eb342ec393a4d9ef9bd5a6700c069404a0/leisure-objects-gif.gif" data-mid="88547373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/991ed58ffbba89be7641c36715f450eb342ec393a4d9ef9bd5a6700c069404a0/leisure-objects-gif.gif" /> Industrial architecture within Oxnard Harbor, as in most sites focused on import or exchange, separate itself from spaces of leisure, in turn placing their importance on logistics, goods, and capital, rather than culture, individuals, or any sense of belongingness. The project presupposes a response to the following question: could the codependency of labor and leisure allow for an alternative model whereby the two are consolidated and influence one another, both spatially and aesthetically? UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Spring 2020 The machine aesthetics of industrial architecture are thus understood as not simply a place of labor, but also a backdrop for leisure. It allows for an oscillation between what constitutes a place of work or a place of leisure to be constructed into an amalgam, one that re-examines the harbor and waterfront as a site condition to form a third landscape. <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2a6d88f16558f1defbfaf304824585b539adf16f261298bbcf82c8c3dc95919/plan-diagram-gif.gif" data-mid="88547465" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2a6d88f16558f1defbfaf304824585b539adf16f261298bbcf82c8c3dc95919/plan-diagram-gif.gif" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5231765bb725be38779cdadf0c95ddf90b0a42a9f5304a935e7960057f3f47ef/land-isometric.png" data-mid="88547372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5231765bb725be38779cdadf0c95ddf90b0a42a9f5304a935e7960057f3f47ef/land-isometric.png" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6616cd55de9290e953b14edbce8392d7c0d3ff40b8d9f147b880c3e41ffac14c/project-isometric.png" data-mid="88547374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6616cd55de9290e953b14edbce8392d7c0d3ff40b8d9f147b880c3e41ffac14c/project-isometric.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1125" width_o="2000" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8371cc42363b38358649a9ebfffa4e075ec0b35aa06b3689f14ddf5e613e378d/5_land_entry.jpg" data-mid="88547770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8371cc42363b38358649a9ebfffa4e075ec0b35aa06b3689f14ddf5e613e378d/5_land_entry.jpg" />Land entry from Oxnard Harbor peninsula. <img width="2000" height="1125" width_o="2000" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f71a63d8e6d44da175d583e6d40a24d048d1cd4950f25e0c06e444a6bddc93a/13_industry.jpg" data-mid="88547771" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f71a63d8e6d44da175d583e6d40a24d048d1cd4950f25e0c06e444a6bddc93a/13_industry.jpg" />View from labor landscape to spaces of leisure below. <img width="12290" height="5669" width_o="12290" height_o="5669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0839af8ed769c19f93f5f755cc1ac175a8b4fb02886ed106b7d5424361827e00/Land-plan-01.png" data-mid="88547745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0839af8ed769c19f93f5f755cc1ac175a8b4fb02886ed106b7d5424361827e00/Land-plan-01.png" /> <img width="3751" height="2100" width_o="3751" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/409134a9a67f9357767f490002bcbbdd7f02808861949cba5a08686a8fc98d30/plan-and-rcp-close-up.png" data-mid="88836117" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/409134a9a67f9357767f490002bcbbdd7f02808861949cba5a08686a8fc98d30/plan-and-rcp-close-up.png" /> <img width="6953" height="4500" width_o="6953" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/283f2a0ff0c21272c6c6ea4c8c81478055631cb100628722c770b55332e37270/greenhouse-object-plan-zoom.png" data-mid="88547761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/283f2a0ff0c21272c6c6ea4c8c81478055631cb100628722c770b55332e37270/greenhouse-object-plan-zoom.png" /> <img width="2080" height="1170" width_o="2080" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/adab8ad04d5702bffd78dd9e43b2b026d179fb7de1681ba475134becace7e8ca/from-boat.jpg" data-mid="88548022" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/adab8ad04d5702bffd78dd9e43b2b026d179fb7de1681ba475134becace7e8ca/from-boat.jpg" /> <img width="2080" height="1170" width_o="2080" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5b395ecc893fc18e61c397fe43378a804b8ed2bdafff97d173260af4e0d1b04/18_park.jpg" data-mid="88548026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5b395ecc893fc18e61c397fe43378a804b8ed2bdafff97d173260af4e0d1b04/18_park.jpg" /> <img width="6953" height="4500" width_o="6953" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/810fcde00ed61264e882eb31b95eb304d1de75cf2e47f3611fb5bcc504a508be/park-object-plan-zoom.png" data-mid="88547762" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/810fcde00ed61264e882eb31b95eb304d1de75cf2e47f3611fb5bcc504a508be/park-object-plan-zoom.png" /> The traditionally mundane terminal program is thus reinterpreted within the guise of industrial architecture to comprise a series of connected spaces that each take on a character, both programmatically and formally. Viewing the ferry terminal as a place of import or exchange, both of individuals and goods, each structure within this landscape functions as a ferry terminal of sorts, taking on roles of logistics and leisure concurrently. <img width="2052" height="594" width_o="2052" height_o="594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8545a8c845738cbd91c2dc3ee416b2e8d23b5b07050093ac33c2e777d6837b7/Artboard-20.75x-100.jpg" data-mid="88548385" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8545a8c845738cbd91c2dc3ee416b2e8d23b5b07050093ac33c2e777d6837b7/Artboard-20.75x-100.jpg" /> <img width="2080" height="1170" width_o="2080" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4004338b175e5cf16e456e66fbc3b8262b2859de0e90f78646e5eb767ed49289/16_docks.jpg" data-mid="88548025" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4004338b175e5cf16e456e66fbc3b8262b2859de0e90f78646e5eb767ed49289/16_docks.jpg" /> <img width="2080" height="1170" width_o="2080" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b447aad135238abc5831876f4b93e357a5319931db4e5663702e4a869d3a71bb/15_ferry.jpg" data-mid="88548024" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b447aad135238abc5831876f4b93e357a5319931db4e5663702e4a869d3a71bb/15_ferry.jpg" /> This proposal is not to be understood as an isolated monument, but as one that re-forms its own context, an open cultural and industrial form that combines imperatives required of industry and port entry with spaces of leisure, in turn maximizing on the interface between water and land through various forms and positions of entry. - Artin Sahakian - https://artin-sahakian.com/Floating-Fortress-of-Industry Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:29:22 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Floating-Fortress-of-Industry Floating Fortress of Industry&nbsp;— an over-salinated utopia AUD414: Major Building Design Instructor: Jimenez LaiCollaborators: Jenn Peterson Ruiz, Xavier Ramirez, Markus Russell Duration: 4 weeks Through an exploration of the typology of a ferry terminal, this project arrives at the intersection between low-lying coastal communities and the near-future threat of rising tides. Using the Royal Saltworks by Ledoux as precedent, this ferry terminal produces a utopian critique of the typology by challenging it to produce a phalanstery through its micro-economy. Taking industries from neighboring areas of Oxnard, this condensed economic community brings agriculture, cultural / recreational facilities, housing, and a desalination plant onto a rig that responds to rising sea levels, ensuring the longevity of Oxnard's relevance along the fragile California coast. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Spring 2020 <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ab67db64d89e2128ba1dd643d9fb082932ec1c9150d3fac7a75df01def4a384/01_dual-moniters.jpg" data-mid="88542209" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ab67db64d89e2128ba1dd643d9fb082932ec1c9150d3fac7a75df01def4a384/01_dual-moniters.jpg" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83f5b8cb9228acd8fb53a26c7fc9b59b824bd6fdc82400818151369a44af5192/02_board-and-moniters.jpg" data-mid="88542210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83f5b8cb9228acd8fb53a26c7fc9b59b824bd6fdc82400818151369a44af5192/02_board-and-moniters.jpg" /> Aerial view of rig in Oxnard Harbor (left moniter), Google Earth animation highlighting the reallocation of industry from surrounding regions (right moniter), and programmatic and construction technique (corkboard). <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6f932605310a670ce15787b25eb8435f505e2ff981871e107676f41f338f163/03-4_construction-office.jpg" data-mid="88542211" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6f932605310a670ce15787b25eb8435f505e2ff981871e107676f41f338f163/03-4_construction-office.jpg" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5487420a8aa78f939642d36788b176a396faadcfe99cce6c38400d36d1b864c/05_view-from-office.jpg" data-mid="88542213" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5487420a8aa78f939642d36788b176a396faadcfe99cce6c38400d36d1b864c/05_view-from-office.jpg" /> The project mediates between the leisure and labor landscapes that surround Oxnard’s coastal urban environment in order to raise forward a social consciousness to the industries of labor that allow for worlds of leisure to exist. <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62893bce93d0203a0de4f913e94d0afb78229dcc2e5e92da1b1df6f222930d96/06_Docks.jpg" data-mid="88542215" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62893bce93d0203a0de4f913e94d0afb78229dcc2e5e92da1b1df6f222930d96/06_Docks.jpg" /><img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1cfd8123553e630348766b8dd3121637bb783470bbd5879f16d5c08e98d2bf47/07_market.jpg" data-mid="88542217" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1cfd8123553e630348766b8dd3121637bb783470bbd5879f16d5c08e98d2bf47/07_market.jpg" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83191426c3259b82080e11dfad9c5b9b66c183b4efa30d6dbb0439ac469deac2/10_apartment.jpg" data-mid="88542220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83191426c3259b82080e11dfad9c5b9b66c183b4efa30d6dbb0439ac469deac2/10_apartment.jpg" /> <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1dc63fe3434c5d1af6bb7a63098892fdf5ac435973fe4ba49a9e0c31b8a3d658/11_soccer.jpg" data-mid="88542221" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1dc63fe3434c5d1af6bb7a63098892fdf5ac435973fe4ba49a9e0c31b8a3d658/11_soccer.jpg" /> It seeks to negotiate and subsequently absorb surrounding industries in order to allow for a return of the public realm to Oxnard Harbor. <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/330ab71b208031a6309add3e6cf2d3b8db4c6b785f24e728828e9203e8d4c309/09_desalination.jpg" data-mid="88542219" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/330ab71b208031a6309add3e6cf2d3b8db4c6b785f24e728828e9203e8d4c309/09_desalination.jpg" /><img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50cd6c620806d27fc1c36801cd2d78b91b32d95f9fb2c4605f88922fdbafbe82/13_overall-view.jpg" data-mid="88542223" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50cd6c620806d27fc1c36801cd2d78b91b32d95f9fb2c4605f88922fdbafbe82/13_overall-view.jpg" /> - Artin Sahakian - https://artin-sahakian.com/Urban-Humanities Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:19:05 +0000 Artin Sahakian https://artin-sahakian.com/Urban-Humanities Urban Humanities&nbsp; —&nbsp; cross-disciplinary engaged projects Urban Humanities Initiative 2020 Graduate Certificate Program Instructors: Maite Zubiaurre, Gustavo Leclerc, Dana Cuff The Urban Humanities Initiative program asks its scholars to develop situated, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and multi-modal research projects of various scales. It offers an opportunity to explore the lived spaces of borders and commons to construct multi-dimensional and layered socio-spatial forms of justice. Personal exposure to the humanities has served as an essential tool for envisioning the future we will live in. The following projects form various intellectual and practical alliances between urban humanists to tackle hyperspecific socio-political issues. Across all of the projects is a deep-seated interest in amalgamating the interpretative approaches of the humanities with the material and projective capabilities of design in order to form more nuanced understandings of specific communities. UCLA Architecture and Urban DesignWinter 2020 - Fall 2021 Project One: The Macrofrontera Ecology - Bajalta Super City Instructor: Gustavo Leclerc &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Collaborators:&nbsp; Cynthia Orozco, Andres F. Ramírez, Nataly Rios Socio-spatial thick mapping and ethnographic sonic archiving are utilized as mediums&nbsp;that can begin to suggest an alternative understanding to the region. The Macrofrontera ecology is generally understood to be a megaregion of multiple spatial, natural and human ecosystems. It is a place of exclusion and appropriation, but also one of resistance and autonomy. The multi-faceted nature of its physical and psychological borders and commons are elucidated within the thick map and podcast.<img width="3245" height="3244" width_o="3245" height_o="3244" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4e7521b13131c5cb3a8ee4b3095d297813f8171e188a117f7971359ac129ca7/Macrofrontera_Thick-Map.jpg" data-mid="93636087" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4e7521b13131c5cb3a8ee4b3095d297813f8171e188a117f7971359ac129ca7/Macrofrontera_Thick-Map.jpg" /> The thick map presents a post-border, hyper-real ecology that looks back upon the Southern California / Tijuana border from the future. It seeks to reconcile antagonism at the border by reimagining a unified territory where diversity and contradiction exists without exclusion, exploitation or physical segregation. A typology of border/commons divisions are represented within the map to become reflective of the elusive, adaptable, and juxtaposed forms of socio-spatial collectives. The overall conception of the Macrofrontera expands from its fragmented centers and fixed sites of passage to become a holistic backdrop for change and advocacy in its own right, one that contains various forms of hard and soft borders/commons. Through this matrix, the map produces conceptions of flexible, mobile frontiers that sustain invisible lines and shifting configurations of material and immaterial territories. The site of the US/Mexico border becomes an artifact, one surrounded by representations of the histories of the border that once was. [Listen to the Crossroads Podcast Here] The Crossroads Podcast broadcasts the voices of individuals’ whose lives are shaped by the border. Drawing from existing content narrated in the first person, the piece weaves together a curated account of real people’s experience of the border. Their biographies transcend and transgress static conventions of US-Mexican division. Crossroads protagonists share stories that respond uniquely to the border ecology and illustrate a transborder experience. These voices bring inherent border difficulties and conflicts to life, but they also reveal a borderless state of mind situated in a place of productive tension. Unlike a traditional story, Crossroads has no beginning, middle or end. It is a timeless piece that does not assign any particular hierarchy to the narrative. Each voice and story exists simultaneously and independent of each other but unified by an invisible border condition that directly or indirectly shapes their circumstance. The objective is for listeners to get a glimpse of the range of circumstances that shaped lives at the border and to showcase an ecology that is home to all of them simultaneously. Project Two: Reading the Writing on the Wall - a palimpsestic reading of urban cultural representation Instructor: Gustavo Leclerc&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Collaborators:&nbsp; Clayton McKee, Cristina Vázquez Similar to a novel, graffiti has stood testimony to humanity’s desire to communicate thoughts in engaged creative practice. By way of this artistic form, a semblance of order is produced in regions that are otherwise a confused urban landscape. Graffiti portrays an identity cemented in contemporary social circumstances at the time of its painting. The piece persists through space and time, being altered, amended, or appended upon by other artists eager to leave their own mark. While never fully permanent, the writing on the wall becomes an outlet and a platform for the voiceless to actively participate in the urban environment and politics; it also becomes a window through which others become a witness and are implicated in a social dialogue. <img width="1920" height="1499" width_o="1920" height_o="1499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db7c39abb3a955ab25aedb625aeea3226ba5d2bd2d66213098b16a919ea3768c/belmont-before-after-shots.jpg" data-mid="93638098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db7c39abb3a955ab25aedb625aeea3226ba5d2bd2d66213098b16a919ea3768c/belmont-before-after-shots.jpg" /> <img width="5700" height="4500" width_o="5700" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97ff36eff066253bdcf08bf07cb773fc1806f72a424d581cb7a64c97602e4867/MP-Tunnels.jpg" data-mid="93638099" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97ff36eff066253bdcf08bf07cb773fc1806f72a424d581cb7a64c97602e4867/MP-Tunnels.jpg" /> <img width="1651" height="1415" width_o="1651" height_o="1415" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6387583255f27259e66dbb5e5068ef1b86b99175a493729c92ebac2f0910c315/Graffiti-intro-diagram.jpg" data-mid="93637736" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6387583255f27259e66dbb5e5068ef1b86b99175a493729c92ebac2f0910c315/Graffiti-intro-diagram.jpg" /> Through the research and analysis of graffiti within the Westlake-Macarthur Park region in Los Angeles, we formulate an investigation into a hidden and often misunderstood form of community and identity formation. Published as a contemporary digital manuscript, i.e. eCodex, the collective digital archive is created from and for the community. [See Published ECodex Here] Project Three: La Casa Para un Futuro Incierto Instructor: Gustavo Leclerc&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Collaborators:&nbsp; Clayton McKee, Cristina Vázquez &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Other Collaborators:&nbsp; Marcos Ramirez (ERRE) La Casa para un futuro incierto serves as a translation of our eCodex expertise from Los Angeles to the context of Tijuana, focusing on the active engagement of the public in an exploration of the art form and the self. Tijuana artist ERRE’s childhood home is reimagined from a space of private domesticity into one that functions doubly as an exhibition space and education center for the community. Various hands-on components form dialogues between identity and expression, time and place, and ultimately Los Angeles and Tijuana. The interior organization of the home for the future mirrors the trajectory of our eCodex where we explore graffiti in relation to identity, space, and time.&nbsp; <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/635fc4e7f1ec8e1cc6bfc6aba69b0c1ddf3831f2ea0baade400bf90182badd1c/ERRE-House-Site-Plan-final.jpg" data-mid="93638748" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/635fc4e7f1ec8e1cc6bfc6aba69b0c1ddf3831f2ea0baade400bf90182badd1c/ERRE-House-Site-Plan-final.jpg" /> <img width="2551" height="3300" width_o="2551" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/925a6459f8b0a2d505c42ff4cc9fab05edc435faef672c5b162024d593b390e2/ERRE-House-Plans-final.jpg" data-mid="93638750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/925a6459f8b0a2d505c42ff4cc9fab05edc435faef672c5b162024d593b390e2/ERRE-House-Plans-final.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b09832a2a8ebdb586bd6b881ee605dc9c0f05baecc6a5609caa91cd31d79452/ERRE-House-Graffiti-Walls.jpg" data-mid="93638956" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b09832a2a8ebdb586bd6b881ee605dc9c0f05baecc6a5609caa91cd31d79452/ERRE-House-Graffiti-Walls.jpg" /> The graffiti terrace becomes a space for the community and any visitors to the space to personally engage with the material on display in lower levels. It, like the tunnel entry, becomes an extension to the education center, permitting artists to give live demonstrations. Two replicated walls exist on the terrace; one of the border wall directly north of the home and one of a standard cement wall visible across the city. Project Four: Socio-spatial Agency Collaborator: Jenn Peterson-Ruiz Produced as a independant summer research project, socio-spatial agency speculates on the capacity for the field of architecture to engage with cross-disciplinary work as a method of advocacy/activism across Los Angeles, made possible by the Urban Humanities Initiative Mellon Foundation grant. Our fundamental argument suggests the following: 1. The buildings we create are nothing without the individuals that occupy them.2. We cannot assume we understand all the needs of these individuals.3. Thus, we must holistically emulate flexibility and adaptability with how we design projects, recognizing that our expertise is not enough.4. We need cross-disciplinary knowledge. <img width="2000" height="1625" width_o="2000" height_o="1625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbc872d5e1203525c94b52b466af1690327567f35fdc95d8de06acecc9cfdd3d/engagement-diagram-SUMMER-PROJECT.jpg" data-mid="93639687" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbc872d5e1203525c94b52b466af1690327567f35fdc95d8de06acecc9cfdd3d/engagement-diagram-SUMMER-PROJECT.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/678a536a6155b9acbb59185703728c3a3b624a2c95706c035e8dc15e2ac9fdae/rite-of-passage-SUMMER-PROJECT.jpg" data-mid="93639688" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/678a536a6155b9acbb59185703728c3a3b624a2c95706c035e8dc15e2ac9fdae/rite-of-passage-SUMMER-PROJECT.jpg" /> Through an analysis of academic literature and professional firms, the project bridges between theory and practice to form a digital resource that can be utilized by architecture students and emerging professionals interested in becoming cross-disciplinary agents of progress. We investigated a curated selection of firms to understand what and how they promote activism, in order to delve deeper into conversations regarding the agency of the architect in a cross-disciplinary lens. Published under UHI, the website contains case studies of built projects and course syllabi, along with various resources related to academia and the profession. [See Published Website Here] - Artin Sahakian -