Building Design Studio

The 412 Building Design Studio focuses on the development of synthetic design skills derived from a focus on architectural organization and structure, with related conceptual and formal implications. The studio introduces basic structural concepts in response to live and dead loads and volumetric hierarchy, introducing methods of comparative analysis (case studies of key precedents) as a means by which architectural precedent may be described, evaluated, and deployed as the foundation for new work, in this case a library.

This studio project focused on the relation of structure to architectural design and examines different strategies of expression and form finding through the development of a branch library in Silverlake, Los Angeles. Projects were required to foreground structural order as a driving force that organizes physical, formal, and spatial principles.