OCMA - Glow I

OCMA - Glow II

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“The sundial might be hardware, but the way meaningful information is derived from it, is the first instance of programming.”

- Architecture and the Sun -

The activity and program of the museum is an animation of the sun. An activity is placed on each axis at every hour. Following the path of the sun, one will understand what happens through a day at the museum.

*Refer to Plan Below for location of Hr + Activity*

6 am Going to work
7 am New Collection Arrive
8 am Organizing Collection
9 am Arranging Display
10 am Kids arrive for tour
11 am Restaurant prepares to serve lunch
12 Lunch - People gather, chat and socialize.
1 pm Featured Artwork 1 @ Temporary Gallery I
2 pm Featured Artwork 2 @ Temporary Gallery II
3 pm Featured Artwork 3 @ Temporary Gallery II
4 pm Coming Home
5 pm Hit the Gym
6 pm Going Out

Simple navigation begins with pilotage which is knowing your position in familiar territory by orienting oneself to visual landmarks.

Celestial navigation systems are based on observation of the positions of the Sun, Moon and stars relative to the observer and a known location.

One can also use a map, normally used on land where they depict surface features such as roads that might be followed. At the museum one is guided by the sun, following the magical light will assist one in navigating through the museum.

Section through the interior street, and upper gallery.
The section is drawn over an elevation photograph, then I realize my sections and elevations can be transfered on to transparencies and inserted between two layers of plexiglass. Viewers will be able to walk around the layers of elevation and section drawings and view it from both sides. Similar experience when viewing a sculpture, one would walk around and view the sculpture in motion, and would stop from time to time to ponder on what they see.

The new massing for the condo, slimmer and taller. Yet, in order to fit 72 units, I would need double the footprint of the tower. The current tower has 37 units, first 16th floor with 2 units = 32 , 5 penthouses above.

Condo lying on its back, perhaps that becomes the massing for the administrative.

The great wall is a wall of mystery and discovery, cosists of artworks and sculptures in niches, artworks standing on ledges , paintings hanging on poles that penetrates through the wall. I want to further explore this idea for my presentation. A wall of fascination ~

My door will be part of this wall, and the panels that are not filled on the door can host my drawings. The pattern of the wall, will be projected or painted on the pit walls as 1:1, and where there's a niche, there will be my model and materials that are tactile.

The North façade of the condo is a great potential to be as an signage element. There’s the possibility to extend and curve the façade to become the canopy of the entrance. North and South Elevation, should have their own characteristics. Janus was represented with two faces, originally one face was bearded while the other was not (probably a symbol of the sun and the moon). The condo bottom which is exposed to the museum street has the possibility of becoming a surface for projection, displaying, hanging artworks and animate the street.

The slits and slot of the great walls can be fenestrations and niches for displaying artwork. Catwalks may begin to extend across the slits and create connections between the two wings.

East wing further explores the possibilities of creating zones, a meandering path and day and night conditions.

East Wing

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The condo tower acting as a gnomon, the condo becomes the shadow maker. Creating day and night conditions within the museum. In the Roman city layout, Cardus Maximus is the main axis street that runs from Noth-South. Named after Cardea, the Cardus Maximus was the hinge of the city.

Beneath the gnomon is the main circulation street for the museum. The two walls creating the street, host essential services within the walls. The street is the spine of the museum, also a hinge that connects the two gallery wings, a place where people group and where people orient themselves.

The street is where the act of arrival, departure and adventure begins. Platonic shapes are spread along the street, these shapes would host info desks, ticket booth, audio visuals. These platonic shapes also act as a beacon for the visitors to reference their locations.

Habitant and visitors of the gnomon will enter from the private entrance from the south of the street.
Lobby of the gnomon is hovering in mid air of the street.

Through the process of making of the massing model, the condo is beginning to resolve itself. Each floor of the condo will have 4 units; these units will stretch across the spine of the museum. From the massing model, the condo tower still seems too wide; the condo tower should be slim and translucent. Since the condos are piggy backing on the spine of the museum, the roof no longer has to be a flat plane.

Tomorrow, the east wing must be completed. Begin to resolve circulation and core issues for the condo + museum, public + private interior and exterior spaces, space underneath the museum wings.

Chrystal Cathedral in Garden Grove

The Crystal Cathedral is a Christian megachurch in the city of Garden Grove, in Orange County, California. The center was founded in 1979 by Rev. Dr. Robert H. Schuller and his wife, Arvella on the campus of what was known until that time as Garden Grove Community Church. One of the church's mission statements is, "Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it." World-famous architect Philip Johnson designed the main sanctuary building, which was constructed using over 10,000 rectangular panes of glass. The church is also known for its 280 rank, five manual pipe organ constructed by Fratelli Ruffatti. The instrument incorporates the large Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ built in 1962 for New York's Avery Fisher Hall.

The Crystal Cathedral broadcasts its church services around the world on a television show called The Hour of Power and the provides facilities for those of a similar faith to congregate. The campus services include support groups, Sunday school classes and daily Christian gatherings.

Museum of Jurassic Technology

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a museum located at 9341 Venice Boulevard, in the Palms district of Los Angeles, California, USA. The museum claims to have a "specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities." This explains the museum's name and also suggests its puzzling nature, since the Lower Jurassic ended over 150 million years before the appearance of hominoids and in particular before anything that could be called technology .

Its catalog includes a mixture of artistic, scientific exhibits that evokes the cabinets of curiosities that were the 18th century predecessors of modern natural history museums. The museum was the subject of a book by Lawrence Weschler in 1995 entitled Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, and the museum's founder David Hildebrand Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 2003. The museum claims to attract around 6,000 visitors per year. In 2004, a 35-minute documentary about the museum was produced entitled Inhaling the Spore.

The museum maintains a number of permanent exhibits including:

• An exhibit on household myths of years past (for example, if a child holds a dying creature in his or her hands, that person will develop a tremor in their hands as an adult).
• A collection devoted to trailer park culture, entitled "Garden of Eden On Wheels".
• A collection of micro-miniature sculptures and paintings, such as a sculpture of Pope John Paul II carved from a single human hair and placed within the eye of a needle.
• Microscopic collages depicting flowers and other objects, made entirely from individual butterfly wing scales.
• A collection of stereographic photographs.
• A small room dedicated to unusual letters and theories received by the Mount Wilson Observatory circa 1915–1935.

Door Testing - Lock Unit and Door Closer .

Frame fits nicely, the opening for the lock unit requires minor adjustment. The skeleton of the door is 75% complete. Tomorrow I will have to drill the holes for the door closer unit, file down the oepening, prepare the panels that will sit in the openings.