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Architecture at Cal was fun. The mix of hippy design projects, hardcore theory, and emphasis on old-school modeling/drawing techniques did make the whole architecture program pretty unique. Here’s one of those “hybrid” projects that professors just absolutely love to assign; a community center with a supermarket, artist residence, gallery, and a cooking school. The property in real life is a rundown building in a pree-tee bad neighborhood.
My focus of the project was the beautiful creek that runs on the west side. I designed the complex with acoustic engineering so that the ripple noises of the creek gets amplified and travels through the building. The artist residence has the best spot overlooking the creek with large loft windows. The sad thing is, despite all of UC Berkeley’s efforts to make cool projects in local context, none of these proposals ever gets put in action. I recently walked by this piece of land and it’s not improving. The sound of the creek was relaxing though.
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August 14, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Shadou
That must be a fun class once you can get through all the math.
I have been interested in Architecture. I may have to look into it.
The only question I have is what scale is the model at?
August 14, 2007 at 10:46 pm
momopeche
I believe it’s at 1′:1/16″
The funny thing is, architecture was so hard at me at first since I was accustomed to the metric system until I was 18…when I started architecture school. The imperial measurement system still confuses me at times.
August 15, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Shadou
Yeah, That system is like braille to me for the most part.