Current AutoCAD Drafting Competence
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Design development drawings, "Leaning Tower Bath"
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Set of 'Leaning Tower' Engineering drawings (PDF)
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Student Work, Years 1 - 2
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First weekend of architecture graduate school first year
On a given steep lot, design a 4000 to 6000 sq ft “dream house.” At least 3000 sq t of the site must be landscaped for use. Solution: To conserve the useable flat portion of the site the house is backed over the edge, creating a sheltered and private sunken terrace. Warmup studio project for Julie Eizenberg. | |||||
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Student Work, Years 1 - 2
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First design project.
Within a 16 foot cubic volume, design accommodations to house 3 students. Include three places to sleep, three places to study and shared bathing facilities. Solution: Sleeping and dressing areas are arranged in a pinwheel configuration above. The bed trays and second level floor form a partial stepped ceiling for the lower level. Introductory studio project for Patricia Patkau. | |||||
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Student Work, Years 1 - 2
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Famous Houses: Analysis of Architects Shape Language
Application of a consistent thought-language makes it possible to distinguish one architect’s work from another. After analyzing three houses fy a seminal architect, design a house in his style. The site is a flat, treeless lot in Los Angele. Minimum requirements are living area, kitchen, three bedrooms and appropriate service areas. Solution: The analysis was performed upon three L-shaped Usonian houses of Frank Lloyd Wright. The design applies the Usoninan language derived from the analysis to a linear plan. Sudio project for Christine Cincirupini. | |||||
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Student Work, Years 1 - 2
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In a run-down portion of Venice, California, design 16 units of housing. The site, measuring 50’ x 360’, is to contain 10 units at 1500 square feet and six units at 700 square feet. The larger units are to allow flexible use of ground level area as a work-at-home situation such as a store or daycare. Required are on-site parking for 30 cars and one barrier-free unit of each type.
Solution: Arranged in response to the uniquely-shaped site, the units interlock to allow ground-level street access to nearly all. Private, landscaped courtyards are arranged to the south. Studio project for Ulrich Flemming. | |||||
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Sketch showing the layers differentiated by function 191 _07Aug17-1000dwgs
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Student Work, Years 1 - 2
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Project for Structures II
Using the given non-numerical method for determining structurally viable arch shapes, design a section for an arched masonry roof. | |||||
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Some others' solutions 262 _ucla0084
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Student Work, Years 1 - 2
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Design and build a bridge to span Stone Canyon Creek on the UCLA campus. The client, a group of fifth graders at the Seeds Elementary School, selects the site and describes the desired bridge. The construction budget is $200. The bridge must be carried by the design team from the shop to the creek, one half mile. The bridge remains in place for only one day.
Solution: The bridge was designed by myself in concert with four other students. Our fifth graders requested: 1) a wide bridge across which two students could run abreast, 2) a way to get close to the water of the creek, 3) a castle, 4) a slide, 5) a tunnel. They expected ALL of these goals to be realized in one bridge. Our solution featured two decks and counter-weighted trapdoors. Construction project for Dick Schoen and Sam Tolkin. | |||||
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"Shop" drawing 190 _07Aug17-0959dwgs
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Student Work, Years 1 - 2
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On a site of the existing North Beach Playground, in a densely-populated residential area of San Francisco, design a mixed use center including spaces for recreation, relaxation and social services. Project to be financed and run by the city of San Francisco. Required are two softball diamonds / one soccer field, two basketball courts, three tennis courts, gym, swimming pool, bocci alleys, two racquetball courts,
multi-purpose/childcare room, senior activity room, offices and service space.
Solution: The community's interest is served by maintaining maximum outdoor open space. Hence the building is placed beneath elevated tennis courts. Community center functions are arranged around the grand walkway through the center and marked by the inverted roof. The existing library building is retained. Studio project for Mui Ho. | |||||
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Student Work, Years 1 - 2
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Instructor: Sandy Hirshen
Design a prototype facility where patients with Alzheimers may be cared for in a humane way. The program included a long roster of required spaces of categories Administrative, Clinic, Education and research, Phamacy, Day Care, Nursing Unit, Food Services, Maintenance, Lobby, Special and Outdoor. Gross sq ft 33,000. | |||||
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Student Work, Year 3
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Arch 201: Mack/AlSayyad
CROSS CULTURAL MODES OF DESIGN With an eye to the Samarkand Competition sponsored by the Aga Khn Awards for Architecture Program SITE and CLIMATE 25.5 hectares of terraced land Project will primarily serve the 390,000 residents of Samarkand and its larger district PROGRAM The Ulagh Beg Memorial Complex (preferable one large structure) should include: * Museum 8,000 - 10,000 sq m of 240,000 - 300,000 cubic feet * Library for ancient manuscripts up to 100,000 volumes * Planetarium/observatory 6,000-8,000 sq meters * Information Center / Academy of Science: Lecture facilities 10,000 sq m * School for arts and Crafts with display and sales facilities for 200 - 250 students Other required facilities: * Multi-purpose hall 600-1000 seats * Music hall 300-400 seats * Open air theater 300 sq m * Open air festival area (1 hectare) * A mosque 600-1000 worshippers * Intourist hotel (low rise) 200 to 300 rooms * Additional functions: gardens, plazas, sports areas, recreation areas, cafes, children's play areas, Shaikhonat (outdoor eating and drinking,) market shops, bank, post office, housing, a social club, conference facilities and other servers like public toilets, garbage disposal, parking, etc. * Existing structure to be preserved and integrated in solution include the Intourist hotel (500 beds) and the open theater (1000 seats) with its service block. * Other structures which may be preserved or included in solution: architectural office, wedding/reception hall, 5 apartment blocks, student hostel and the school. EVALUATION * Integrating the design with the surrounding urban fabric. * A self-explantory relationship to the Registan complex on one side and the modern office building on the other side. * A reasonable transition between the traditional Islamic city and the new city in a manner that would integrate both into one. * A solution what will encourage long term development while giving a sense of completion during each development phase. * A phasing strategy showing that sequence of construction fits priorities of implementation and reflects complete solution for every phase. | |||||
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The design in oldtown context 247 _ucb_0004
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Solution Variation 1 222 _P1010328
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Solution Variation 2 223 _P1010331
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Student Work, Year 3
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Arch 201: Mack/AlSayyad Small-Scale Urban Design Project 4 wks Within a proposed Masterplan area of Downtown Campbell, a comprehensive incremental redevelopment is proposed. Several empty lots and underused (underzoned) buildings could be used for the development of a pedestrian-friendly oriented envinronment. New commercial function, housing, parking and cultural facilities and mixed-use structure may be placed in and along the revitalized street. The object of this exercise is to identify appropriate sites and to develop them according to the Central Business District Guidelines and the City of Campbell Zoning Guidelines. The project was a response to request by the planning department of Campbell, which solicited us following the crit to accept temporary employment to pursue the project in the real world. | |||||
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Concept study model 224 _P1010335
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The entire ensemgle of group projects forming a new downtown. 250 _ucb_0022
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Student Work, Year 3
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One-week design project
Design a simple film kisok which is instantly recognizable yet welcome whereever the client chooses to locate one. | |||||
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Student Work: Daylighting
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Brief exercise: Design a live-work space by using three 9' cubes.
Solution: Two stacked cubes contain sleeping, eating and service functions; the third cube, arranged between, remains clear. The two-story column contains toilet and shower. The design resulting from this brief studio exercise was upgraded to an interior model for observing dynamic effects of daylighting. The model was located for 360 sky exposure and photographed every half hour. A selection is below. Studio project for Mui Ho, daylighting study for Cris Benton. | |||||
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The three cube design 264 _ucla0109
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The three cube design 265 _ucla0123
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Re-built as a daylight study apparatus 251 _ucb_day0027
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Student Work: New Urbanism
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Interpretation of Place - Mission Bay
Dan Solomon: 15 weeks; Two concurrent projects. Over the past 20 years a new planning model has emerged as a response to the ravages of placeless suburban sprawl. In place of segregated land use zones, the new model integrates commerce, work and dwelling. In place of total dependence upon automobiles, the new model encourages walking and public transit while still accommodating cars. In place of segregation and concentration of traffic by a hierarchy of arterials, collector and the new model disperses traffic by reviving the grid iron. In place of discrete enclaves the new model presents continuous urban fabric and multiple connections to existing communities. The architecture of the new model is an important corollary to its planning. If the new model is to succeed as a counter strategy to placelessness, the architecture of new communities must not all be the same. The two following architecture projects are essentially about the pursuit of place and the accommodation of the automobile within the new planning model. San Francisco: Mission Bay The plane for the development of the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco details the Land Use of each block. The block shown here lies opposite the grand residential crescent that is the heart of the plan. It is bounded on two sides by commercial streets, Longbridge and 3rd. The narrow park to the south forms a green connection between the crescent and the bay. This block is to have 209 dwelling units – 77 units per acre. Along Longbridge is to be light commercial with three residential stories above; along Third Street, medium commercial with four stories above. The parking requirement is 293 cars. Dwelling units are of five sizes, in quantities respecting a complex mix. Solution: Mission Bay has always been a “rear” of the city, an unrefined area. Yet it had a strong character of its own. For a hundred years it harbored maritime and industrial activity. It was a place where old industrial buildings wore their functions frankly, and exposed their structure to the street. The project pursues an architectural language containing reference to that rough-and-ready past. | |||||
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Student Work: New Urbanism
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Interpretation of Place - Communications Hill
San Jose: Communications Hill This is a high-density development on a quarry reclamation in the midst of suburban San Jose. The plan, by Solomon Associates, borrows much from that of San Francisco, a dense city upon hills. It shares the gridiron plan, the 25 foot lot divisions, the pedestrian orientation and a 40 unit per acre density. Offsetting this is the difference in the residents – suburbanites who would not choose to live in San Francisco. The parking ratio is 1.5 to one, far exceeding that of row-house San Francisco. Solution: The project seeks an architectural language different from that of San Francisco. By choosing as a module an 8-blex, the massing of the units could be arranged more like suburban housing than like 25 foot row houses. A maximum-density covered parking arrangement, the 4-way loaded cruciform, allows the interior of the block to remain free of cars and drives. The efficiency of the parking allows some of the ground story to be used for offices or workshops, a suburban amenity. The block interior yields private backyards for reach group of four units. Each of the housing units is connected to its parking, to its address on the street, and to its private backyard. | |||||
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Built Items '92-'96
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Designed and built for a new park in Berkeley, Halcyon Commons.
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The 10 year anniversary. 206 _Halcy10yr0004
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Built Items '92-'96
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Designed for a pre-school in Berkeley, Model School. Built by the young moms and dads using the output of 'Solidbuilder', software by Bruce Wicinas which 3D models all framing
and automatically prepares assembly drawings. The Solidbuilder output performed very well. One contractor parent supervised the other parents, none of whom had construction skills.
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Twelve years later, haavily worn 239 _modelSchG
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Built Items '92-'96
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The dilapidated, awkward, space-wasting stairs of an old house are replaced by an arrangement with more utility as well as panache.
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Permit Drawings 212 _P1010154
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'Before' 239 _PrinceFacePreRemodel
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Completed. 210 _misc0018
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Stage Sets and Stagecraft, '99-'05
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The stage must be completely transformed for the many scenes. The huge “barricade” must bear the whole cast, revolve and disappear most of the time though there is no off-stage place for it. All flying scenery, furniture, folding funiture, mechanisms by b.wicinas; pictorial set painting by t.wicinas.
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Study for devising mobile barricade solution 245 _setmodel
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Barricade in Use 270 _thenight
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333 _NVElmz85 Javier's final scene.
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Stage Sets and Stagecraft, '99-'05
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Modular elements are all moveable to allow maximum set-piece choreography and cast arrangement. The vertical sense of urban fire escapes are evoked on a school stage.
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Stage Sets and Stagecraft, '99-'05
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The set was the co-star of this production. This versatile solution permitted many options for choreography and cast arrangement.
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Stage Sets and Stagecraft, '99-'05
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The "visual design" was dictated by the director who closely followed the original broadway production. This ambition dictated an enormous scope of construction for a short-run student production. In the end our set exceeded in elements that of the Broadway production. Fitting all this on a middle school stage and dedicating its operation entirely to youths was the design challenge. Set choreography occupied many rehearsals and rivaled the human choreography in spectcle.
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6 _SetPaint5 Prince Street is now established as the set workshop. This compromise solution worked better than many others tried over the years.
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22 _SetPaint1 As always, the set painting is executed by the cast. with a few parents' help.
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27 _st_pieshopBarberStairs An enormous assembly consisting of building, furniture bearing-gliding platforms to either side, stairs with right turn which must be mounted as the assembly moves, all on castors and moved only by the muscle of the cast.
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6 _st_ChuteApparatus The other "star" - the death chute. Students are not strong enough to safely catch a young actor/actress falling through a trapdoor. The job had to be accomplished by a pneumatically damped sinking platform devised by the author.
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Self-built Structures, '01-present
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A small all-purpose overnighting cabin in Mendocino County. Designed and built by one person aided by Solidbuilder building logic and by air powered tools.
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Solidbuilder allows rapid framing by a one man working one day per fortnight. 204 _dwgD050820
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Self-built Structures, '01-present
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A 'Kura' is a fireproof treasure storage building. This almost windowless storage building is fire-resistent (not complete.) Built by one person on nine Saturdays with the usual aid of Solidbuilder.
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Self-built Structures, '01-present
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This spans a creek which is arduous to cross because it resides in a steep walled, vegetation choked ravine. The solution addresses the slopes and unequalness of the banks without grading. Designed, "engineered" and constructed by one person unaided by any earthmoving.
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Self-built Structures, '01-present
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A versatile residential "tower" in Mendocino County featuring a bath. Designed for incremental occasional use. The interiors are separate and
can be unlocked as their functions are needed. The stair is exterior, limiting "cocooning" from the outside worldd.
Due to the high ridge to the south, on the winter solstice the upper story receives 30-40 minutes more sunlight per day than
ground level. Passive solar elements, including "solar slab" with air circulation.
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Student Work: Freehand Drawing
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Recent Sketch-up Study '06
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Sketch-up Study. Proposed “Creek Restoration” in the right-of way of Center Street, downtown Berkeley Alternate cross sections: 5’below grade; 1’ below grade. (via “Sketch Up”) For Downtown Berkeley Association and the Downtown Area Planning Advisory Committee | |||||
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Software Authored
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Software which uses framing rules and user preferences to automatically generate a 3D model of all the framing of a building. It then generates assembly drawings, cutting drawings, a complete list of cut lumber, sheathing and of all materials. A core founding pieces were written by the programmers of the solid modeling company. Assuming the core I made it run, made it viable and wrote about four times more of it, as a programming staff of one.
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Sources
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Visual landscape of Bruce Wicinas's childhood.
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283 _07Feb25_896 Birthplace
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