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Stephen Stewart

Stephen Stewart

Albany, CA, US

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Los Angeles Cultural Center

This cultural center is a part of a series of proposed developments to take place in downtown Los Angeles. The site sits across the street from the Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry. Rather than focus on its immediate context, the building focuses on its full surroundings in Downtown LA. With a permanent population just under 40,000 and a “daytime population” of 500,000, this building gives an opportunity for the smaller section of residents from the various local neighborhoods to display their culture to the large amounts of daily visitors. The space allotment will be rotated periodically between the different districts, to be used as they see necessary. An open and uniquely flexible design allows the different groups complete freedom in displaying their culture. Rotating floor plates create unique spaces for any activity; galleries, concerts, films or public gathering spaces. The plates act as a miniature Pangaea, drifting apart and overlapping each other, growing and shrinking. With each unique modification to the alignment, new relationships are formed with the other floor plates and surrounding skin, creating a new model of spatial flexibility.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US