Studio 2B

Instructor: Aaron gensler | spring 2019 | Wsoa

Natural and urban site orders are explored and analyzed using writing, photography, mapping and sectional studies to develop site planning and building and design with a special emphasis given to the relationship between program and external context.

Projects focus on influences of adjacency and environment, through the development of clear systems of movement, space, structure, energy efficiency and daylight.

This project marries the fulfillment center with a boxing gym, a beloved staple of the community amongst otherwise vacant properties. Located on the high street of a residential suburb of Los Angeles at the terminus of the 710 freeway this proposal is not only sympathetic to the contextual texture but also provides a solution that can be deployed on future sites.

Inspired by the language of stacked shipping containers, by means of a kit of parts, it elegantly houses the program while celebrating the interior circulation. It asks questions of modularity, transportation, the future of technology and how we should be thinking about global consumerism.