2004Sp Fa

2005Sp Fa

2006Sp Fa

2007Sp Fa

2008 2009Sp Fa Sp

2010Fa Sp Fa p grad.

2011

parametric design -

theaterSanta Monica Lightrail Project

Ballona Creek Renovation Projectprocessing

parametric design - grasshoppersketch

other works

undergrad. graduate

Table of Contents

project 4

project 3project 2 MoCA/Redesign, Frank Gehry Studio

Design Corps Summer Studio 09, Bryan Bell

project 1 Thesis Research: Territorial Appropriation

Lakefront Development, Chinaproject 5

Cinema: Choose Your Own Movie Adventure

ProjectsMoCA/Redesign, Frank Gehry Studio

Design Corps Summer Studio 09

Thesis Research

Cinema: Choose

Your Own Movie

Adventure

Lakefront Development China

Graduate Thesis Research: Territorial AppropriationProject 1

Everyday Urbanism, p.26

“In contrast to the �uidity of its urban fabric, the social fabric of Los Angeles is fragmented; it is not a single city but a collection of micro-cities de�ned by visible and invisible boundaries of class, race, ethnicity, and religion”

south park district

toy district

industrial district

historic core districtgallery row �nancial core district

jewelry district

bunker hill

civil district

little tokyo

fashion district

research site district boundaries �nancial/ business core residential & retails established after 2000 existing retails - close after 6 p.m.

empty spaces often serve as bu�er zones between two di�erent “micro-cities” and Spring Street and Broadway in Los Angeles downtown are where such condition manifested most intensely.

Research Background:

This research explores how to appropriate the vacant space on the boundary between ‘micro-cities’; using designs, �rst, to address social issues situated in the urban-scape and, second, to encourage larger social interactions and change existing social patterns.

vacant space

BROADWAY ST.

SPRING

BROADWAY ST.

SPRING

BROADWAY ST.

SPRING

BROADWAY ST.

SPRING

6am 12pm 6pm 12am

6pm 12am

DINING

6am 12pm

LIVING

RETAIL

6am 12pm 6pm 12am

ENT.

6am 12pm 6pm 12am

6pm 12am

Broadway

Spring St.

LA downtown’s recent redevelopments on Broadway and Spring have created series of vacant space. Created by real estate incentives, property values have increased to become una�ordable to the existing residents, thus they are been pushed out. These vacant space became opportunities for

revitalization (price unknown)rent: over $3000 USDrent: $2000 - $3000 USDrent: $1000 - $2000 USDrent: less then $1000 USDretails estb. after revitalizationretails estb. before revitalizationvacant units

PED. type :color code: price/unit

higher income gp.

lower income gp.

homeless existing residents’ space/ activity usershipnew residents’ space/ activity usership

usership analysis

When empty spaces are juxtaposed with color-coded “value space”, the problem becomes very visible.

1.2

owner/ manager

manager

rotisseur

sue chef

fish chef pastry chefsaucier

serverssommelier

shift leader

exec. chef

front of the house

3 - 1/16”

1 - 3

/4”

2 - 3/4”

1 - 1

/4”

ground beef

7 - 15/16”

2 - 1/2” of nothing

1 - 1

/4”

sour cream

mixed salad

guac.

chunks of beef8 - 1/4”

1 - 1

/4”

2.1

2.2

3.1

3.2

2.3

1.3

1.1

$10$5.0

$25$30$35

$35+

$20$15

BASIC

DECORATED

INFORMAL

FAST FOOD QUALITY

SEMI-FORMAL

FORMAL

RESTT. QUALITY

WHAT IF...dining experience could be, �rst, broken down into several factors, then, reconstructed into experiments to encourage more mixed usership?

service structure table setting food quality analysis

BROADWAY ST.

SPRING

6am 12pm 6pm 12am

DINING

BASIC

DECORATED

DESIGNED

4.3

4.2

4.1

8 - 1/4”

3 - 1

/16”

7 - 15/16”

2 - 3

/4”

side elev.

section

back elev.

side elev.

section

back elev.

result: existing dining exp.

below: mapping of existing restaurant structures

We, �rst, need to understand the needs from each social group in order to encourage social interactions. ‘Restaurant’ is one strand of the studies.

Spring St.

Broadway St.

sommelier

this is a the result of the expt. when combining all existing restaurant types altogether, in an axonometric view restaurant customization analysis

existing residentsnew residents typ. 2new residents typ. 1

Would such combinations create archetypal design? The research continues

What would a restaurant look like if we were mixing di�erent factors together, from the previous page? for exe: 3.11.1 2.2 4.1

front of the house

exec. chefsue chef

pastry chef

rotisseur�sh chef

type 1type 2

type 3

4.33.21.2 2.3

4.13.11.1 2.1

4.23.21.2 2.2CUSTOMIZING DINING EXPERIENCE

:

:

:

TYPE 1TYPE 2TYPE 3

type 1

type 2

type 3

DESIGN CONCEPT:

Upper G

rand Ave.

MoCA/Redesign’s design intention is to use museum, by breaking it into several pavilions, to revitalize a dying urban space on Bunker Hill, LA. The stretagy is to use pavilions as attractions, and place them on those open but unused public spaces. Thus, to encourage outdoor-space usage.

Project 2 MoCA/ReDesign, Gehry Partner LLP, post-professional degree

dead public space diagram design strategy / proposal

from Lower Grand

from Olive Street

from Music Center

from public library

pssoible nodes for public gatheringporous path for easy access

from Angel’s Knoll

1. Public Programs are placed around MoCA site.2. Green spaces rotate from the public programs, creating semi-private gathering spaces.3. They start to de�ne and create porous paths and public gathering nodes.

Hill

Stre

et

Oliv

e St

reet

Gra

nd A

ve

Gen. Kosciuszko Way

2nd Street

3rd Street

4th Street

1st Street

The Capital Gp. Co.

Flower st.

Grand Ave.

an uninviting slope with narrow path leading to the building entrance

?

levels higher than Upper Grand

levels lower than Upper Grand

Upper Grand Level

slope (transition areas without sudden change of elevations, uninviting to public usage)

Bank of America the open space is for public usage, although it is not very appealing for pedestrians (its service is mainly provided for employees

Disney Concert Hallthe entrance is open to the public taking people to Disney Concert Hall’s garden(open to the publics)

Dorothy Chandler how to read this diagram:cafe and restaurants on the street level that would encourage public usage and gathering at the courtyard above

MoCAvisual disconnection between MoCA (Up.

Grand) and Lw. Grand

the lack of signage leaving people confused of where they are going

Omni Hotel

step 1 step 2

step 3open space/barrier diagram

CHALLENGESOLUTION

Olive St.

Cal Plaza

Upper Grand

Lower GrandAngel’s Knoll

Temporary Exhibition SpaceGallery C

Temporary Exhibition Space: “connecting tissue” that stiches all the pavillions together

Galleries

Public Programs

Lobby/ Admin.

Gallery B

Courtyard - to temp. exhibitions

Gallery C

circulationprogram

program development

gallery spacepublic programadministrationeducational space

step 1: cluster

step 2: expansion step 3: scatter step 4: morph

site section:shows the relationship between pavillions as “activators” and temporary exhibition space as “connecting tissue” section reference

container

Project 3 Cinema: Choose Your Own Movie Advanture , Geo� Manaugh, editor of BLDGBLOG, post-professional degree

concept for choose-your-own-adventure movie structure

DESIGN CONCEPT: inside a buildingDESIGN CONCEPT: on urban scale

CHALLENGEeach contianer has piece of the whole story, based on people’s choice, they’ll have di�erent story developments.

container

desigh

container desing study

exhibitiona space

ciname space

balcony

patio

exhibition platform

This mini design exercise focuses on re-utilizing containers and using it to create an instant event space. It is a more indepth research on container designs for the �nal project (previous page)

Design Exercise: Container Design Exploreation

Design Corps Summer Studio 09, Bryan BellProject 4

Hollygrove used be a community full of fellowship; “Bus Shelters” had played an important role in this function. It has never been the same since Hurricane Katrina, we want to revitalize the community by recalling that memory of fellowship with our bus shelter design. We chose hurricane salvaged wood as the symbolic main material.

construction document

plan at steel base plate

construction process

fabrication details (bench)

maximum capacity: 12 people (to encourage fellowship)maximum dead load: 3000 lbsmaximum wind resistance: 160 mph

Bench (Unerneath) Detail3”4 Dado Cut

3”49

3”49

1’6

5

4 102°

3”43’-7

1”43’-9

1”43’-11

WATER PROOFING

SYST

3”42’-1

7”81’-8

1”82’-4

1”41’-5”

7”8

39°

158°987

1”811

7”847”837”83

Aa

1”82’-10

7”82’-

1110 22°68°

5”835”83

Unerneath Bench Detail

3”4 Dado Cut

3”44’-2

7”83’-10

141312112° 51°

7”84’-

5”7”84

7”84

1

2

34

321 112°146°

5”855”85

7”

7”85’-1

1”47’-1

7”86’-

Water Proo�ng Syst. Section Aa

2

5

7

7

2 3

2 38

6

3

2

3

9

11

12

10

7 8 616

15

14 14 12

713

2

1

4

4

111.80

123.30

123.30

123.30

121.30

121.30

Project 5

a residential designs located in China’s Lake-front role: design assistant

Lake Front Development, China

Project 1

The challenge for this project is on �nding the balance between its concept ambition, which was the client’s vision, while maintaining its privacy as a single residential home.

Project 1: section cut

sunken garden

3

21

21

Project 1: section cut B

B.

Other Works

Ballona Creek renovation project

theater projectSanta Monica lightrail project

sketch

parametric design - processingparametric design - grosshopper

concept

an undergraduate year 3 project that used theatre to explore structural design Theatre, Wilshire Blvd. + Normandie Ave. Los Angeles

This design concept focuses on people’s “arrival experience”; to subtly transfer audiences from reality (the cityscape) into an imaginary space (theatre) without the awareness of stepping through a threshold - the entrance.This concept is achieved by two methods: 1) the building form radiates out to the busy intersection to welcome audiences’ arriving and 2) the glass facade reduces the threshold to minimum; it also unfolds to create a semi-public/ private space.

detail drawing & 3D model

city map

3D sectional structural model

PCH

3rd st. promenade

I-10

Santa Monica Light Rail Project

This project is located on 4th and Colorado Blvd, where multiple zones converge all-together; thus pedestrian and vehicular circulations are always dense. The �uidity of the design (both form and function) is reponding to the busy urban movement at the intersection, at the same time aiming to alleviate the congestion.

Ballona Creek Renovation Project, Marina del Rey redered: photoshop

A

CB

Sketches

Processing

Agent MovementsDistance Calculation

Agent Behavior Framework

Creating Strands Between Agents void render(){ stroke(55); for(int i = 0; i < agents.size() - 1; i++){ agent a1 = (agent) agents.get(i); agent a2 = (agent) agents.get(i+1); line(a1.pos.x, a1.pos.y, a1.pos.z, a2.pos.x, a2.pos.y, a2.pos.z); }

Creating Agents’ Trailsclass trail{ trail(Vec3D p, Vec3D v){ pos = p.copy(); vel = v.copy(); mag = 255; } void render(){ mag = mag - 0.2; stroke(mag); strokeWeight(1); point(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z); if(mag < 0){ trailPopulation.remove(this); } }}

Controling Movement (Velocity) if(closestDist < rangeOfVis){ vec = closestAgent.pos.sub(pos); vec.limit(maxForce); }

Calculating the Closest Distance Between AgentsVec3D closestPt(){ Vec3D vec = new Vec3D();

agent closestAgent = new agent(new Vec3D(), new Vec3D(), 1,1,1,myStrand,0); for(int i = 0; i < strandPopulation.size(); i++){ strand s = (strand) strandPopulation.get(i); for(int j = 0; j < s.agents.size(); j++){ agent a = (agent) s.agents.get(j);

if( (d < closestDist) && (d > 0) ){ closestDist = d; closestAgent = a; } } }

Reset New Agent’s Behavior to Defaultvoid update(){ if(frameCount % 1 == 0){ trailPopulation.add(new trail(pos, vel)); } Vec3D acc = new Vec3D(); Vec3D clp = closestPt(); Vec3D spr = spring(); acc.addSelf(clp); acc.addSelf(spr); vel.addSelf(acc); vel.limit(maxVel); pos.addSelf(vel); }

&

an agent-based abstract pattern coding

This project uses algorithm desing to rede�ne an existing form, mouse, or wall surface that was built in Rhino space, then uses Grasshopper to manipulate its shape and pattern and �nish rendered in Maxwell.