Filtered Interests
In collaboration with Alex DeCicco, this was a team project that was located at the heart of the Oakland Art Murmur.
The Oakland art murmur creates a sensation wherein people flow from point to point, attraction to attraction, creating a sense of order amidst their otherwise unpredictable routes in the night. People are influenced primarily through a fixed system of sidewalks and buildings, and secondly by a network of attractions. These secondary events generate densities of spectators that act as filters within the greater flow. The primary filter of crowd flow is the initial ring of spectators, and a secondary filter is generated by the gathering crowd of those passing by.
The new CCA south campus utilizes this phenomenon by translating the “attractive point” in this scenario into a piece of program, such as a gallery or a lecture event. The building influences flow through a primary system of fixed walls, and a secondary system of operable walls. The enclosure encourages outsiders to be drawn inside just by viewing others who are interested in an event inside. This is intended to create a chain effect, where the gallery captures the interest of the nearest spectator, and the image of an interested person incites curiosity in others. The operable walls can enclose an intimate space, or open up to be a big expanse, as well as rotate to accommodate lighting and sound needs of the program. The building’s walls are made up of cascading “leaves” that allow for large spaces to morph into smaller ones, and for spaces to conceal and reveal at different instances. Two voids in the building sit as canyons to make two central axes in the building. Here, visual connections also occur between the interior spaces. The “leaves” utilize straight segments, but cascade in a hyperbolic fashion producing a directionality of air circulation and people circulation to create internal atmospheric qualities that blur public and private access.
This project was part of a studio project taught by Margaret Ikeda and Andrew Sparks.
This project received Jury Prize Nominee.
The Oakland art murmur creates a sensation wherein people flow from point to point, attraction to attraction, creating a sense of order amidst their otherwise unpredictable routes in the night. People are influenced primarily through a fixed system of sidewalks and buildings, and secondly by a network of attractions. These secondary events generate densities of spectators that act as filters within the greater flow. The primary filter of crowd flow is the initial ring of spectators, and a secondary filter is generated by the gathering crowd of those passing by.
The new CCA south campus utilizes this phenomenon by translating the “attractive point” in this scenario into a piece of program, such as a gallery or a lecture event. The building influences flow through a primary system of fixed walls, and a secondary system of operable walls. The enclosure encourages outsiders to be drawn inside just by viewing others who are interested in an event inside. This is intended to create a chain effect, where the gallery captures the interest of the nearest spectator, and the image of an interested person incites curiosity in others. The operable walls can enclose an intimate space, or open up to be a big expanse, as well as rotate to accommodate lighting and sound needs of the program. The building’s walls are made up of cascading “leaves” that allow for large spaces to morph into smaller ones, and for spaces to conceal and reveal at different instances. Two voids in the building sit as canyons to make two central axes in the building. Here, visual connections also occur between the interior spaces. The “leaves” utilize straight segments, but cascade in a hyperbolic fashion producing a directionality of air circulation and people circulation to create internal atmospheric qualities that blur public and private access.
This project was part of a studio project taught by Margaret Ikeda and Andrew Sparks.
This project received Jury Prize Nominee.