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Duality

Instructor: Katy Barkan

UCLA Fall 2017

The project studies the sidedness of the dual program within an infill building by manipulating its indoor experience: the contrasting experience of inward and outward view are organized alongside of the diagonal party walls in the forms of slabs and interlocking volumes.

In the cooking school, both culinary education and restaurant service require supervision of food preparation and division of space for good ventilation. Such characteristics inspired the inward-looking program made possible by the interlocking volumes. While the spa provides a place for relaxation - extending the indoor experience beyond the physical floor plates - which determines it as an outward-looking program.

The party wall not only provides spaces for a dense circulation that separates the inward-looking programs from the outward-looking programs, but also serves as a reference for the sidedness of each wall and floor plate. This allows the project to b…

The party wall not only provides spaces for a dense circulation that separates the inward-looking programs from the outward-looking programs, but also serves as a reference for the sidedness of each wall and floor plate. This allows the project to be read as a structure with continuous surfaces that can be unfolded to a flat surface with positive and negative sides.

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Model Opened to Reveal Circulation

 
 
 
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The plywood model demonstrates an ambiguous version of the project with single-layer material; while the image establishes the double sidedness of the project with two materials.

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Circulation Diagram

Inward-looking:

1. Cooking School Entrance

2. Restaurant

3. Demonstration Kitchen

4. Storage

5. Lab Kitchen

6. Outdoor Area

7. Cafe

8. Treatment Room

9. Library

10. Office

Outward-looking:

11. Spa Entrance

12. Communal Lounge

13. Locker Room

14. Sauna + Steam

15. Bath

Axonometric Showing SidednessThe hatched surfaces demonstrate the insidenegative side of the walls; while the unhatched surfaces indicate the outside-positive side of the walls.

Axonometric Showing Sidedness

The hatched surfaces demonstrate the insidenegative side of the walls; while the unhatched surfaces indicate the outside-positive side of the walls.

Axonometric Showing Programs The hatched area shows the outward-looking programs; while the unhatched area represents the inward-looking programs.

Axonometric Showing Programs 

The hatched area shows the outward-looking programs; while the unhatched area represents the inward-looking programs.

Section Showing Distinction Between Sides and Programs

Section Showing Distinction Between Sides and Programs

Plan Showing Distinction Between Sides

Plan Showing Distinction Between Sides

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