A Joint Venture ︎ Degree Project Studio
ARCH
492
Spring 2020 ︎
Los Angeles
Spring 2020 ︎
Los Angeles
Instructors
Teddy Slowik
Yasushi Ishida
Teddy Slowik
Yasushi Ishida


Work by B.Arch student Christian Boling
To contribute to the Housing+ initiative at Woodbury, this studio challenges a typical ‘mixed-use’ stacking typology and aims at proposing new formal/programmatic amalgams between housing and various other programs.






The “American Dream” of a single-family home is quickly becoming just that… a dream. As cities continue to grow and densify we are left with less open space. SRO’s (single resident occupancy) and micro-units are quickly populating Los Angeles’s residential landscape. In these new typologies, amenities and other utilitarian spaces are removed from the individual housing units and become shared.





Work by B.Arch studetn Isabel Rodriguez
Students took a closer look at these shared programmatic spaces and questioned their validity. With society becoming more isolated with technological advances, do communal/shared spaces still function as such?

Work by B.Arch studetn Selena Xiao
Students proposed a second (the “+”) program to occupy the site located in Little Tokyo and interlock with the housing program. The “+” program is required to be a near equal split with housing in regards to overall spatial volume (not square footage). Interlocking formal relationships were closely studied via research of Japanese joinery techniques.






How can two radically different programs interlock and occupy the same urban site?
How can shared spaces/amenities work across diverse programmatic spaces to trigger new architectural typologies?
Catalog Description
Through a rigorous level of clearly resolved work, students must demonstrate the application of theoretical research and positioning, plus the ability to integrate site, program, and other design issues in a self-initiated architectural design project incorporating a high degree of critical thinking, skill, and craft.
Through a rigorous level of clearly resolved work, students must demonstrate the application of theoretical research and positioning, plus the ability to integrate site, program, and other design issues in a self-initiated architectural design project incorporating a high degree of critical thinking, skill, and craft.