SCI-Arc 2.0
PROJECT INFO
Project Type: Cultural
Year: 2016
Site: Southern California Institute of Architecture
Dimensions:
CREDITS
Instructors: Herwig Baumgartner
T.A: Garrett Santo
SCI-Arc 2.0
Current SCI-Arc has a linear circulation that works in plan, and is occupied as exhibition and sometimes working spaces. Studios are located along the corridor and each studio creates a neighborhood. In designing a new architecture school our concept was to flip the circulation and have sectional corridors which branch out into various program spaces. Voids and gaps we designed turn into circulation nodes (and intersection between certain programs, such as studios), and the larger voids turn into atriums which occupy multiple purposes, and create neighborhood/ interfering studios and classes and provide more intimacy between students and professors.
In adding the fenestration, we designed a cluster of three apertures in three different sizes. Although all the openings on the mass bring some natural light in, as both programmatic and aesthetic criteria of distribution, we introduced a discrete aperture system which lays on the overall massing. N Scale: 1/16” = 1’-0” 10 A A The building is oriented on the site tha two entrances are facing 3rd street, the other one is accessible from the residential building (current sci-arc) and also leads to a public outdoor space on the west side. The main entrance of the building is though the large semi-courtyard which directs to the more public accessible part (auditorium + gallery) and the academic part. Also to provide more sunlight throughout the day for the studios and more outside public space and landscape.