GHETTO FILM INSTITUTE
Project Type: Campus/Film InstituteDate: Spring 2021Organization: SCI-ArcTools: Vray, RhinocerosThe studio centers on the design of an urban arts education campus for the organization Ghetto Film School (GFS). The proposed site for the new GFS campus is a large, gently sloping open lot in a neighborhood adjacent to MacArthur Park. The studio considers the architectural potential of horizontally oriented building types that actively engage in concepts of interior/exterior, private/public, and building/ground.
01. massing diagram
02. roof and false front
04. sections
The proposal for the Ghetto Film School campus is next to MacArthur Park which is situated in Los Angeles. When looking at the film school building strategy, I focus on the specific programs that situate in a film school such as large, public spaces like soundstages, theaters, and teaching areas like classrooms and tech rooms. Looking at the programs as a group, basic geometries are developed to contain different programs, bounding them together.
A bowstring truss is a structural device commonly used in bridge-building and, less often, in industrial architecture. Used to span wide, column-free spaces, it consists of an arched beam (the bow) joined at each end by a straight beam (the string), with diagonal support beams joining the two. As for the false front development, I am looking at the sections of the truss and developing an open and closing box scheme that is tangent to the truss. The materiality of the false front is polycarbonate which aims to create a semi-translucent effect that one can see through. Aluminum columns support these polycarbonate sheets. Different layers of transparency are achieved.
