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| **** Honor Award Student **** |
Sisyphus's Theater
(# 197) |
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| Completion |
5 / 2022 |
| Specific Use of Building |
Recreation Center, Construction Lab |
| Project Location |
Los Angeles, CA |
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Planned as an appendage to LATTC, the project proposes a concoction of diverse programs: a precast concrete learning lab, wood shop, metal shop, miscellaneous fabrication labs, public plaza, recreation center, and future adaptable space. The precast fabrication lab and its connected fabrication labs not only serve LATTC’s demand for an intensified fabrication pedagogy, but it additionally serves the project’s more ambitious agenda: the design of a never-ending building. LATTC already houses two construction course labs that are visible to the public: the stick framing construction lab (23rd and Flower) and the mechanical training pole yard (Flower and Washington). Establishing itself as a 60,000 square foot building located on the intersection of LATTC and Southeast LA’s busiest street (Washington and Grand), the proposed project mimics these conditions from the existing construction labs with intensified scale and accessibility. The fabricated components designed and built in this lab will contribute to the perpetual construction and design of its spaces and façades. As construction techniques and technology evolve, the architectural theater will evolve with it. Consequently, the project adopts a malleable, interchangeable identity that evolves with its context, technology, and users.
Because of the immense amount of space needed for the precast concrete lab and the fabrication labs located above it, an engagement of the public is crucial in sustaining a building that promises to showcase its students and their work. This is, in part, responsible for the inclusion of the labs’ programmatic counterparts, the recreation center and the public plaza/program mixer that sustains the relationship of the two contrasting programs. The addition of a recreation center not only contributes to LATTC and Southeast Los Angeles’s need for more public open spaces and recreational amenities, but it correspondingly adds a more accessible level of engagement in a project that can potentially be dominated by such exclusive institutional programs. It is then the role of the public plaza/program mixer to permeate the activities of the labs into the public sectors of the project. The simultaneous architectural separation and mixing of programmatically different spaces at specific moments produce a project with identifiable moments of permanence and impermanence. The moments of permanence anchor the project to its contextual obligations, while its moments of impermanence utilize the projects’ reconfigurability. With the additional role of the program mixer/mixing hub, the interference of diverse programs is instead organized as a coexistence, properly setting the stage for future adjustments to unpredictable technological advancements and user demands.
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