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WSOA In-Flux

WSOA In-Flux

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WSOA In-Flux is a publishing platform for student work launched by Woodbury School of Architecture in 2020.




Woodbury School of Architecture is distinguished by its multiple locations at the heart of the Southern California creative industries: Los Angeles, Hollywood and San Diego. Together, these sites form a critical infrastructure for architectural investigations.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs prepare students to effect positive change in the built environment, to tackle theoretical debates, and to take on architecture and interior design as critical practices. We educate our students as entrepreneurs, citizen architects, and cultural builders equally committed to professional practice, theoretical discourse, social equity and to formal and technological inquiry.

Our faculty are architects, designers, academics and policy makers practicing in Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana. This internationally recognized and award-winning group works closely with students to teach the skills required to push the limits of practice.



Mission

Good design is a human right. Woodbury School of Architecture produces graduates who affirm the power of design to improve the built environment and the lives of others by addressing the pressing issues of our time. We transform our students into ethical, articulate and innovative design professionals prepared to lead in a world of accelerating technological change.


Vision

The future belongs to Woodbury. Woodbury School of Architecture creates an environment that empowers our students to impact the future of the profession through meaningful built work. We imagine a world in which there are no disciplinary rights or wrongs, where diverse and sometimes contradictory values collide to generate new ideas, design innovation, unexpected practices, and the means to expand the influence of our discipline.


Woodbury School of Architecture offers a welcoming environment for students to develop their own unique design voice.  We approach the design disciplines multi-dimensionally, teaching a range of pedagogies and design methodologies. Our students leave Woodbury with the confidence to engage in local and global discourse.

Through engaged faculty-student interaction, we transform our students into innovative professionals with a commitment to the power of good design. Our students and faculty share a commitment to sustainable practices, community outreach and civic engagement.

Our School of Architecture is among the first 14 accredited architectural programs to be accepted for participation in the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) initiative. Successful students will have the opportunity to have an architectural license upon graduation.

We believe that our school is a role model for the direction in which the profession is heading – improving gender parity and ethnic diversity among its members, and reaffirming the importance of ethical conduct and social responsibility. Ours is a welcoming community for every race and orientation, and we resist acts of intolerance in favor of thoughtfulness, generosity and kindness. The economic, ethnic, and academic backgrounds of our students reflect Southern California itself. We are determined to provide a place for open debate, the respectful airing of differences, and for rich forms of expression and imagination.


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La Bodega 2 del Barrio
︎ Studio Six


ARCH 384
Spring 2020 ︎
San Diego

Instructor
 Hector M Perez



Work by B.Arch student Arturo Vilchis


Scientist project that by 2030 the full adoption and massive deployment of electric self-driving vehicles will significantly decrease vehicular traffic on our highways and streets. Some of the most significant impacts foreseen include; 1- a substantial reduction of individual car ownership, 2- a proliferation of rideshare membership apps and 3- an increase of ridership of existing public transportation systems.

Foreseeing these positive environmental impacts of this new transportation paradigm shift, this project also assumes that Caltrans will reallocate two southbound lanes of the 5 Freeway for a linear urban forest and sporadic urban parks for communities (like Barrio Logan) that flank the freeway.




Work by B.Arch student Jane Dinh


Project Description
The purpose of this Project Assignment is primarily to Design a Mixed-use Neighborhood Cultural Hub for Barrio Logan that replaces the recently displaced La Bodega Art Gallery. The new ‘La Bodega 2 del Barrio’ will include a large enclosure to serve as Art Gallery / Event Space, a mixture of medium scale flexible spaces for weekly pop-up Flea Market, 10 to 20 Micro Live-Work artist studios and open-air spaces for Community Leisure and Children Playground in the Heart of Barrio Logan.

This Neighborhood Hub is meant to compliment and augment the vibrant cultural spirit that defines Barrio Logan (a California Cultural District) and is most evident by the recent re-ignition of Logan Avenue.

Complimenting the Cultural and Environmental content of this project, the students will focus their architectural investigations on Building Tectonics: the structure, material assemblages of skin, as well as passive and mechanical systems that are crucial to architecture. The resulting projects will ultimately explore the intersection of building tectonics and their relationship to social, cultural, environmental, urbanistic and artistic contexts.








Work by B.Arch student David Shamshoian


Catalog Description

Structure, technology, building systems, and codes are explored as design-determinants, space makers, and form-givers in this synthesis studio. Building typologies, long span structural systems, environmental systems, and electronic media are analyzed as they relate to design development.