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sofia BORGES / danika VOORHEES: Ghostly Illumination enhances the sensory potentials of the Orthodox church through the strategic alignment of spatial boundaries. Through a series of pulls and pinches, spaces that once maintained rigid edge conditions begin to erode. This spatial erosion provides for a more dynamic and engaged experience for the user as sight lines collapse and extend and programmatic hierarchy dissolves, allowing for wider range of opportunities to intermingle between the priests and their patrons.

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francesco VALENTE-GORJUP: “Sometimes the structure of a building is designed to reinforce another idea. In these cases the structure is not the element that generates the building’s form. The structure assumes a secondary, supporting role. For aesthetic or formal reasons it may even assume so much of a minor role that it may be for all intents and purposes invisible, inessential to the architectural experience, i.e., pure background. Alternatively, an idea about the structure may be what generates the design, where the building’s structure and form are one in the same. The structure may even function as a didactic tool that is omnipresent at all levels, conditioning multiple scales of the architectural experience. In this case, structure is all foreground” (Jeffrey Inaba).

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aleris RODGERS+francesco VALENTE-GORJUP: The Culver City Innovation Center caters to budding designers and inventors, providing them with work and display space, as well as the services necessary for them to conceive, design, fabricate, and market their inventions on site. In order to make the workshops as accessible as possible to the studios, we stacked the shops vertically in a central core and wrapped the studios around them. The glazed shops are interconnected both internally via private circulation and externally by a more public atrium, meant to increase awareness of activities taking place in other levels of the shop core.

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sofia BORGES/fallon JAMES/jei jeeyea KIM: Literally Twisted Library applies a single continuous surface logic interspersed with moments of articulated disruption, creating varied experiences for the user based on programmatic function.

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roland SNOOKS
April 21 7.00pm / Perloff Hall
UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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gabriel HUERTA: The Innovative Technology Center is a proposal for creating a hub for rapid prototyping, research and development, while simultaneously infusing the site in Koreatown with a new cultural attractor. An overarching urban problem in Koreatown is the scarcity of open public space of which the design attempts to address by reducing land use through a smaller building footprint.

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UCLA critics: Ben Ball, Gaston Nogues, Peter Ebner 

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wael SAMI BATAL/daniel HESKETH/marco LI/adrian YIM/vince YAN/mike SMITH/brendan SHEA: For years, molded paper pulp has been used to make strong and intricate shapes in the packaging industry and has received little attention in architecture until now.  In association with Ball-Nogues Studio, students at UCLA developed a process for the sprayed application of paper pulp (rough material) onto an articulated form work (smooth surface) to create a new aesthetic in tactile wall systems.

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blake BETHARDS: The Los Angeles basin rests above the third largest oil deposit in the United States. During the late 1800’s and into the 1950’s, oil derricks and wells were visible throughout much of LA County (Venice beach, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Long Beach, & Pasadena). Today, much of this infrastructure has been taken down as drilling technologies have improved and in order to accommodate the high demand for property in the region. What most Angeleno’s don’t know is that there are still several dormant derricks hidden within the city, concealed behind false walls or within nondescript buildings.

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adrian YIM: Cumulative Coherence: Plastic Lines is a two part exercise.

1. It begins with the interest in moving from the “generative” digital environment to a renewed interest in  craft and tectonics – privileging dexterity in a physical system of assembly; and through understanding a primitive’s material behavior (in this case, strips of mylar), begin to explore its expressionistic implications as an immersive field.

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Table Cloth is a collaboration between the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, The Herb Alpert School of Music, and UCLA Design Media Arts. It is made possible by generous support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the UCLA Arts Initiative.

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ball nogues studio: The installation in the courtyard at Schoenberg Hall serves as an integrated set piece and backdrop for performance and everyday social interaction. We understand the work as a tablecloth to adorn and activate the architecture of the campus. Tables are places where people interact socially. Dining tables, specifically, facilitate organization and communication within the typical American home.

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