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Javier Benavides

Javier Benavides

Seattle, WA, US

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Campus Site Plan
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Silicone Beach Office Campus

The office tech campus transforms the typical high rise office building into a frame, nestled between a major highway and a surrounding neighborhood in the bleak context of Los Angeles’ urban sprawl. The campus challenges the generic office type by organizing itself in a continuos line that defines a perimeter. The perimeter frame sinuosly carves the terrain, fraying at irregular intervals to correspond to the varying scales surrounding the site. The frame sequesters the sloping topography, acting as a threshold between interior and exterior that protects the panoramic interior from the highway axis. While it severs itself from urban sprawl on one side, it creates a theatrical dialogue with the neighborhood above, carving the hill to provide access below. Silicone Beach sets up an architectural performance that uses its infrastructure as a supporting stage.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
My Role: Design, Visualization and Technical Drawings
Additional Credits: Studio Partner: Erik Valle
Studio Advisor: Eric Owen Moss

 
Interior Unfolded Axon
Interior Unfolded Axon
Hillside View
Hillside View
Campus Render
Campus Render
Interior Campus Section
Interior Campus Section
Exterior Campus Elevation
Exterior Campus Elevation
Level -1 _ Basement Plan
Level -1 _ Basement Plan
Level 1 _ Ground Plan
Level 1 _ Ground Plan
Level 2 _ Floor Plan
Level 2 _ Floor Plan
Level 3 _ Floor Plan
Level 3 _ Floor Plan
Campus Chunk Wormseye
Campus Chunk Wormseye
Program
Program
Structure
Structure