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civic / Spring 2023

3 Buildings in One + a Courtyard

Location
Los Angeles
Status
Academic
Role
Individual Work
Year
Spring 2023

Introduction

A civic center developed as three buildings in one, organized around a courtyard.

3 Buildings in One + a Courtyard.Open image

Concept Study

Courtyard and Massing

The civic center is assembled as three distinct volumes whose overlaps frame a shared courtyard and organize movement through the site.

Massing and courtyard study.
Program and circulation study.

Concept Study

Plans

The plans show how the three-building organization changes floor by floor while maintaining the courtyard as the project's shared center.

Ground and second floor plans.
Third and fourth floor plans.
Perspective section through the courtyard.Open image
Building section.Open image

Concept Study

Physical Model

Model views test the relationship between the courtyard, the stepped volumes, and the building envelope at different scales.

Physical model 01.
Facade and window study.
Physical model 02.Open image