Jessica Joan Lindenau-LeonWoodbury UniversitySenior Thesis

Digital Library, Resource Center, & Dance StudioHollywood & HighlandHollywood, California

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This project was completely program based. The types of spaces and activities were derived from the four main ways in which modern humans communicate: Spoken Language, Sign Language, Body Language, Visual Language. So naturally, everything started to interconnect, creating the network or web.

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01 02 03 04Form-Generation Models

Form-generation techniques were based upon the idea of a web of knowledge, but it must be open, not closed, so this network can grow as society continues to change.

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Site Analysis + Space Plans

Form + Spatial Models

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A datum wall system was created to run through the whole space that all knowledge stems. This datum not only houses books, as shown below, but also is the source for wi-fi, digital galleries, and computer stations that run through the space. This datum also defies the main path and circulation.

Initial Datum Renderings

Datum Wall Detail

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Final Design Floor Plans

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Final Spatial RenderingsLeft: Sign Language Classroom, Datum, Café

Below: Café, Digital Current Event Gallery, Datum View Back, Datum View Front, Computer Stations, Classroom

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Sections, Interior Elevations

Café Interior Elevation

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Furniture & Material SelectionsAbove: Café, Computer Stations, Classroom

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Furniture & Material SelectionsRight: Reading RoomsBelow: Offices, Dance/Yoga Studio

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Bye-bye!

transition page

Jessica Joan Lindenau-LeonWoodbury UniversityDesign Studio 7

Project Ainu: A Human DiasporaProvidence High SchoolBurbank, California

TOP ROW: Greed, Power, Money, Intolerance, Inequality, Hate/War

BOTTOM ROW: Personal Security, Personal Freedoms, Respect, Religion/Culture, Family

BASED ON: Humanities Past, Present, and Inevitable Future

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BOTTOM ROW: Land, Civilizations, Environments, Plants, Animals, Resources, Water

BASED ON: Humanities Past, Present, and Inevitable Future

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Study Model 1: Based on City-Scape and Layering Effect of Diagrams

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Resources, Animals, Habitat, Humans, Pollution, Water Waste becomes:

Technology Timeline Gallery, Faux-Animal Fur Shoppe, Waste-Water Treatment Plant, Café, 4 Think Tanks

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Study Model 2: Layers

Spatial Sketches: Prior to Model

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Space Planning Phase: Sketches

Space Planning Phase: Models

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Final Design: Model Photos

Main Entrance

Think Tank: Version 1Roof Top Terraces

Off Shoppe

Think Tank: Version 2Sedimentary Layers within Walls

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Main Entrance: Walls are completely louver-able with 10’ tall doorways made of solid Polar.

Curious: Could the louvers open so as to

allow endless circulation?

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Café

Think Tank: Version 1

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Think Tank: Version 2

View through Walls: Sedimentary Layers

See Ya!

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