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# 766
Images Description Credits
Completion 12 / 2018
Square Footage 30,625
Specific Use of Building Chapels (For Any Religion)
Project Location Los Angeles, CA
The artificial site was introduced to an actual site that sits at Kenneth Hahn State Park Bowl. 700 feet by 700 feet square was set inside the bowl. This 490,000 square feet site was divided into 16 quadrants. The artificial site was merged into one of these quadrants to create 175 ft x 175 ft site. The site has introduced two soft landscapes, two hard landscapes, a grove, an open field, and a water element. These elements are connected with a path that uses the two different types of hard landscapes.

The path first starts at the south eastern side of the site, at the open field. The path will lead to an ADA ramp that takes the visitors up to the grove. On the left side of the grove there is a high retaining wall that is 8 feet tall and on the right side, a 4 feet retaining wall is holding a soft landscape with tress. The path will later lead to the first chapel, which is the connecting point between the upper and the lower part of the site. Furthermore, this path will take the visitors to the water element that sits in front the first chapel and behind the second chapel. As the visitor reaches the end of the site, there are subtle folds that were developed from the original site model studies. The site’s original elevated levels, artificial extrusions, and folds were edited for an ADA path.  (Both chapels will be developed on the site.)         

Flexibilitate (the first chapel) created its own shape in relation to the sun and orientation of the site. It was developed using a parameter that was set on a sharp x-axis extrusion that extends toward the eastern side of the site. The new parameter let to the creation of a vertical extrusion of Flexibilitate, emerging from the ground. Flexibilitate has transparent parts that let natural lighting inside itself. The transparent roof faces north to avoid direct solar gain. The upper level of the chapel has a breathtaking view of the entire site. Flexibilitate is balancing between public space and a private space. Flexibilitate extends beyond a structure limit through its flexibility.  

Illumination (the second chapel) is structure, space, and light combined in one world. Its formation develops from the surrounding landscape that is folding into the ground and through the retaining walls. The structure of the project twists itself between the topography and the walkways. From the outside world, it is seen as an independent structure that sits above the ground. Nevertheless, there is a crypt with a columbarium that sits through and into the topography.  Illumination creates an interior world that is independent from the exterior structure. The curvature that is forming inside the building has apertures that run through the chapel and let light through the interior world, bouncing off  the exterior structure. This formation combines the independence of interior world shape and the glimpses that the visitors experience of the folding structure. As the visitors reach the end of the interior world and rise above to the open roof deck, the experience changes as they become open to the outside world and to the entire site. On the other hand, if the visitors sink down to the crypt, they will experience a complete dark space that has a small portion of natural lighting.

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