2015 Degree Project / Senior Project / and Graduate Thesis Woodbury School of Architecture 2015 Faculty Bachelor of Architecture Woodbury School of Architecture Los Angeles Ewan Branda, Coordinator Berenika Boberska Degree Project, Senior Project Frank Clementi and Graduate Thesis 201 Peter Culley Matthew Daines April Greiman Scrap Marshall Norman Millar Micah Rutenberg Architecture Marc J. Neveu, Chair 5 Dean Maxi Spina Los Angeles Mark Stankard Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter Mark Stanley Associate Dean BArch faculty Berenika Boberska / Scrap Marshall 7 Master of Architecture Marc J. Neveu Ewan Branda / Maxi Spina 21 Architecture Chair, Los Angeles Anthony Fontenot, Coordinator Frank Clementi / Matthew Daines 41 Peter Culley Micah Rutenberg / Peter Culley 55 Christoph Korner Mark Ericson Mark Stankard / Mark Stanley 71 Interior Architecture Chair, Los Angeles Joshua Stein MArch faculty Peter Culley 86 Catherine Herbst Master of Science in Architecture Mark Ericson 92 Architecture Chair, San Diego Hadley Arnold Anthony Fontenot 98 Peter Arnold Joshua Stein 104 Bachelor of Fine Arts, MSArch faculty Hadley Arnold / Peter Arnold 111 Interior Architecture Annie Chu, Coordinator Heather Peterson Interior Architecture Christoph Korner, Chair 116 Faculty Bachelor of Architecture Los Angeles San Diego Marcel Sanchez-Prieto, Coordinator Philipp Bosshart Eric Johnson BFA Interior Architecture Annie Chu 118 faculty Heather Peterson Master of Architecture Hector Perez, Coordinator Stan Bertheaud Philipp Bosshart Architecture Catherine Herbst, Chair 136 Eric Johnson San Diego Marcel Sanchez-Prieto Master of Science in Architecture BArch faculty Philipp Bosshart / Eric Johnson / 138 Real Estate Development Marcel Sanchez-Prieto Ted Smith, Coordinator Mike Burnett MArch faculty Stan Bertheaud / Philipp Bosshart / 166 Brett Farrow Eric Johnson / Hector Perez / Tyler Hanson Marcel Sanchez-Prieto Lloyd Russell David Saborio MSArch RED faculty Mike Burnett / Brett Farrow / 170 Jonathan Segal Tyler Hanson / Lloyd Russell / Corrigendum David Saborio / Jonathan Segal / Ted Smith The following students graduating with a Master of Science in Architecture were instructed by the following faculty: Student Gregory Andrade: Instructors Anthony Fontenot and Mark Stanley Student Cyrus Dorbayan: Instructors Bill Roschen and Christi van Cleve Woodbury School of Architecture Burbank California Woodbury School of Architecture San Diego California open / closed ? “One door closes and another opens” so a wise professor told me upon graduation. It made sense. I was leaving the warm confines of an un- dergraduate academic womb and entering into a new life of professional practice. It was, I was told, going to be a shock. Design would be replaced by redlines; theory with practice; thought with action. Sure, I could make a bit of money, but at what cost? Then, I found Duchamp’s door at 11 rue Larray. It is at once both open and closed. And, sometimes, neither. Los Angeles I offer you this other door as a model of the situation you now face. Perhaps it may allow you to reconsider your de- gree project and your approach to professional practice. You may very soon come to realize that the questions sur- rounding your project do not simply end upon graduation, Marc J.Neveu nor does your professional life need to necessarily disregard your academic interests. ArchitectureChair I raise this as a possibility but not a mandate. How will you frame the door between academia and practice? It’s your 5 door, and your hinge. Is it open, or closed? Los Angeles 7 Berenika Boberska and Scrap Marshall, Instructors Constructive Mythologies Students Daniela Angelo Collectively, as a studio, we will argue that vision- ary architecture and the Mythological City is indeed Adrinee Bodakian constructible, and unlike the utopias of the past, can become material, tactile and experiential through Marilyn Chavarria carefully orchestrated collisions with the everyday fabric of Los Angeles. Amanda Clay Gregory Dulgeryan Every city has its Constructive Myth– something which explains how it has come to be in both its Elizabeth Fernandez physical and its perceived form. In some cities, this Myth is more obvious spatially; in others, it exists Chadi Hakim only as a fiction. For Los Angeles, this could be the Endless City, the City of Sprawl, the American Dream, Jose Iglesias Arcadia, or the City of Cinematic Fictions. But per- haps these Myths have run their course... Joseph Miller What would happen if a foreign Myth, in all its inten- George Rivera sity, collided with Los Angeles? This necessarily would Kelly Ta result in deformations and transformations on both sides. The grafting of the “other” into the context of Vedi Vartani Los Angeles would also provide a kind of de-familiar- ization of what we think of as ordinary or banal– and begin a blossoming of sites into their unexpected po- tential– in both poetic and pragmatic (useful) terms. The key aspect will be the examination of distinct local situations and archetypal L.A. forms which are often overlooked, local economies and cultures in need of reinvention. We will explore the spatial and programmatic opportunities in the frictions and alli- ances between the “mythic” and the local. LA 9 Potential Difference : Porcelain Landscapes : Photovoltaic Flooding of Los Angeles The Blossoming of LA’s Hidden Water Infrastructure Los Angeles dwells in the space between an The water infrastructure of Los Angeles remains imaginary attic and fictitious cellar; a place that hidden to the general public. In effect, we have is dreamed to be hopeful and bright. However, little knowledge of where the water comes from, the city is deprived of the experiential aspect how it is treated, how it gets to our faucets, and of the dark basement and the mysterious attic. where it goes after our use. The project proposes By conceptually flooding a neighborhood in Los not only to uncover water infrastructure in or- Angeles with a photovoltaic plane, a common der to make it visible, but also to orchestrate its ceiling in-between houses is created, allowing spatial, experiential and functional blossoming into for a dual atmospheric experience to exist above a series of ceramic vessels and landscapes in an and below the plane. The plane is then explored attempt to inspire better stewardship of water. The through shared structures capturing a spatial stair- Daniela Angelo case– a vessel connecting the cellar to the attic. Adrinee project merges the very industrial functions of a An archipelago of structures begins to traverse the Bodakian water treatment plant with a more poetic reading polarized spaces alongside the existing ordinary and potential public uses including a playground, structures poking up above the datum. The idea an amphitheater, as well as the everyday functions of property lines is washed away beneath the that utilize water, such as a laundromat. Inspired datum plane as towers that serve as generators, by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, where pipe work staircases, lanterns and batteries cross boundaries, blossoms into vessels that hold water, this project interfering with traditional ways of inhabiting a is a spatial transformation of water infrastructure neighborhood, generating new social interactions. into a white porcelain landscape. LA Immured Projections: 11 Folkloric Farmscapes : The Potential of Walled Cities Re-drawing the American Landscape as an Urban Strategy for Future Los Angeles It has been several years since I’ve seen my family, immure absorbed as I’ve been, enthralled by city life and 1 (archaic or literary) to enclose within or as if within walls; my circle of friends. I can recall, as a young girl, imprison 2 to shut (oneself) away from society living my whole life in the countryside, where my parents and grandparents grew up nurturing the projection fields. As I arrived at the far-reaching fields of the 1 a jutting out; a part that juts out 2 land I left behind, I noticed its appearance was an estimate of future possibilities based on a current trend different. An intervention had taken place. It was Today’s gated communities of today continue unfamiliar. I suddenly discovered a walkway as to offer protection and separation between the I stepped onto the freshly ploughed ground and people who choose to live in them, and those who Marilyn fields of fruit. Gliding through this endless path- Amanda Clay live outside of them. Strict regulations preserve Chavarria way, a beautiful tune reached my ear. As I contin- the specific atmosphere and spatial structure of ued, the melody of the music reached closer and each community. The project seeks to amplify the closer. As I progressed, the pathway transformed historical trajectory of gated communities of Los its long extended arm into a cavernous perfor- Angeles in order to uncover their hidden poten- mance space in the middle of the field, lines of tial– and perhaps desirability– in spatial, architec- thread spinning above my head… tural, and social terms. The extreme thickening of the wall and other operations would lead to the emergence of an archipelago of Walled Cities. The So begins an exploration into the future of Califor- over-regulated walled cities would act as nodes nia’s Folkloric Farmscapes. within the autonomous regions beyond, providing centers of regulation, industry, and retail. LA 13 Public Industries - Hidden pockets American Gothic - Inverting the “American Dream” Along with Los Angeles’s commercial and transit American Gothic explores the future potential development, boulevards