Alvin Alvarez Spring Portfolio

LA 203L 2016Building ComplexitySilver Corpse / Exquisite Lake

Andrew O. Wilcox / James BecerraAlvin Alvarez

LA 203L 2016Building Complexity

+Silver Corpse / Exquisite Lake

Andrew O. Wilcox / James BecerraAlvin Alvarez

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Pieces + PartsMapping and ReconTaxonomy of Emergent Spacial TypesSilver Linkages + Exquisite Structures

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“As individuals, studio participants will develop a very quick but highly crafted set of landscape pieces made of typical landscape program parts. This project will document the nascent design influences as short-lived design responses of individual students.”

Project Description

Pieces + Parts / 5

Project 1Alvin Alvarez

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+Uniform Slope / Path / Forest

Uniform Trench / Lifted Platform / .5 Forest / .5 FIeld

-Concave Slope / Elevated Path / Field

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+Convex Slope / Folded Shelter / Forest

Unconditioned Ground / Obvervation Tower / Field

-Uniform Slope / 3 Walls / .5 Forest / .5 Fields

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Mapping Recon / 9

“Students will investigate, map and analyze the critical systems, associations and alignments of the studio project location and its context. In teams of two, students will map their assigned transect of the Silver Lake Reservoir. Students must look at alignments that are above, within and below their image sites to identify opportunities, partners, beneficiaries and histories of the project alignment.“

Project Description

Project 2Section 15

Alvin AlvarezPhilip Chao

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Mapping Recon / 11

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Taxonomy / 13

“In this third project, students will explore the fundamental site condition of the edge- the threshold between water and land; the condition where unlike bodies meet with maximum interaction. This ubiquitous site condition will be interrogated through the testing of typical fixed/structural program typologies adjusted by typical performative actions/operations as controlled by the specific lessons/rules/relationships of the site as revealed in the mapping project.

This project is intended to leverage previous studio experiences of physical making of space now determined by site response and condition. Students will be making dozens of typological responses in both 3D digital and analog forms in rapid iteration in response to the information gathered in the mapping project.

This project also requires student teams to develop four drawings of programmatic positioning.”

Project Description

Project 3Section 15

Alvin AlvarezPhilip ChaoSection 16

Patricio YrizarGerardo Rosales

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Taxonomy Matrix

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Silver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / 19

“This fourth and final phase and final of the project will require students to individually choreograph a set of assigned and derived programmatic pieces and performance criteria into the overall conditions of portion/bank of the transect they own- they must assemble their own monster. This phase will include notions of broader planting/capturing or opportunistic strategies and patterning in response to assigned program performance. This phase will utilize programs that are simultaneously cultural and ecological, formal and informal, understood and misunderstood, indexed and poised.

This final project phase will require participants to link the narrative exploration and concept development of other studios. Emphasis will be placed on the structure and organization of project components as a complete narrative of verbal and visual expression. This phase will required combined and complex drawings and 3D modeling.”

Project Description

Final ProjectSection 15

Alvin AlvarezPhilip Chao

Adjacent PartnersSection 14

Xiomy YamauchiSection 16

Patricio Yrizar

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Water circulates in and out aided by

south-western prevailing winds

Cyperus papyrus usedas percolating zones as well

as additional shelter for frogs

shelter spaces for California Tree Frog

lIttoral edge extended outward

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SIlver Linkages + Exquisite Structures / Details / 31

Thank you.