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003 // Pilcrow Zine, Woodbury University

2013-02-19T14:41:00-05:00

Pilcrow (¶) is an independent publication emanated from Woodbury School of Architecture in 2012. While Pilcrow is not an official school publication, it is a benefactor of Woodbury School of Architecture’s generous support. Pilcrow serves as a platform for activating a larger discussion among architecture students, architects, educators, critics and other design professionals. We strive to create a more transparent threshold among designers by stimulating unconventional discourses in a comfortable and non-formal environment.

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Current issues :

001 // Transition // Celena Lim + Lee Santos, Kemi Esho, John Epperly

002 // Adaptability // Andre Gharakhanian, Jesse Cabildo, Charlie Ghiotto

003 // Layer // Lisa Little, Emily White, Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter

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002 // Machinic Veils + The Problem of Poche

2011-12-17T21:47:55-05:00

I had the pleasure to take the A.I.R. Studio (Civic Conduits + Contested Terrain) co-taught by Jennifer Bonner + John Southern this semester. It was probably one of the best studios I have taken while I am here at Woodbury University. The studio took place in Owens Lake, California and we took a day trip up to the barren lake this semester as well. Here is my culminating project from the A.I.R. Studio.

site images from Owens Lake

"Machinic Veils is a machinic laboratory that assimilates into the “naturally-artificial” landscape of Owens Lake through the anticipation of the physical forces of its geographical location, toxic emissivity of dust, and the salt inundated landscape. These physical forces are simultaneously amplified, controlled, and directed through a series of six veils – ranging in function, porosity, and translucency.

Six Veils // 3d-prints

The laboratory gradually hovers above the eroded burmscape of the soda ash com...

001 // The Threshold:Hive

2010-12-27T04:14:41-05:00

The Threshold:Hive was the final project of the Spaces within Spaces M.Arch 1 Design Studio led by Linda Taalman and Rebecca Rudolph, and Visualization: Techniques in Marking Seminar led by Kelly Bair. The final design assignment of the semester took the form of a collaborative student installation for a temporary display space in the Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery WUHo, in an exhibition titled Super! and is currently on view until mid-January.

We were split into teams of three to four students and given one week to develop a cohesive proposal for the Threshold installation. The final project prompted investigation of the threshold through the development and detailing of architectural skins, questioning and challenging notions of interiority and exteriority and the programming of space through the articulation of the surface. The mediation of space, movement, and light through the articulation of the skin, specifically using cutting and folding techniques. This in turn e...