ACADEMIC | 03
SAGE
YEAR
Spring 2019
LOCATION
Angel Island, CA
CLASSIFICATION
Civic
Why: Immigrants from the United States, mostly from Asia, come through Angel Island, California.
Solution: Wabi-sabi/imperfection as a common ground, and the existing slope of the island
PLAN
The program calls for one large space, a few medium spaces, and several smaller spaces. I organized these space sets into tiers. I located each tier in proximity to the existing buildings/walkways based on the respective privacy level of each space. The large public space was closest to the administrative buildings while the small private spaces were placed higher on the hill near the woods.
Context: There is an opportunity to connect the existing buildings and paths to the hills and forest
Site Diagramming
EARLY INFLUENCES
I built off my preference for the simplicity of a cube as well as the honesty of raw building materials and flawed textures.
SEATING SCALES
Small spaces: Stone bench
Medium spaces: Wood table
Large space: Concrete row seating
Gardens & large space
Section diagrams
Large space layout sketches
SPACES
As the project developed through a combination of intuition, logistics, and feedback from my professor, I arrived at a large concrete amphitheater-style space connected to the medium wood rooms and small stone rooms by a series of tunnels. Closest to the small spaces I arranged large workable gardens of sage and lavender: herbs whose smells are soothing and therapeutic. Encouraging the visitors to cultivate the gardens together created an atmosphere of teamwork and friendship.
Axonometric Rendering
STONE
WOOD
WATER
EARTH
AIR
To emphasize the importance of nature in the final presentation itself I arranged the images based on which natural element appeared in that space. I then wrote the Japanese shodo characters for those elements to accompany them.
PRESENTATION BOARDS