This brief presents the problem of gathering existing program and combining it into a single structure. We looked at the city of Vernon in Los Angeles, an industrial zone with a population of 144. In addition to the combining of program, we were asked to incorporate Vernon’s first park. Our study of normalcy focused on privacy. Privacy dominates Vernon due to its use of warehouses, barred windows, and lack of public spaces. We convey the motif of privacy through verticality and porocity, the higher and more porous the building goes, the more private it gets. Accessibility is limited through knowledge of cores, and separation of buildings creates sense of individualism. In terms of representation we looked at images by Filip Dujardin-- images which conveyed eerily normal architecture.
Vernon, LA - Normalcy


Spring 2017 - Jimenez Lai
Partner: Anton Lundblad