LEGACY A D P R
PLANNING + URBAN DESIGN
Recognizing that what we develop today will affect future generations, we bring vision and expertise to planning projects that thoughtfully address programmatic, environmental and architectural issues while creating a positive, lasting effect on the communities in which they exist. Our goals is to create comprehensive designs that will revitalize our urban fabric.
SPREEG: THE URBAN PLAYGROUND KIT
The SPREEG team emerged in 2013 with the common passion of improving park/open space within impoverished communities and encouraging healthy lifestyles by reinterpreting park equipment.
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SPREEG was designed as a tool to educate, promote, and provide a safe and well-designed product to engage users of all ages and demographics in active living and social wellness.
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SPREEG transforms park equipment by shifting, folding, bending, stretching, and locking removable parts based on a platform, fixed pole, and shade structure. Thus, we aim to transform underused, uninspired park space into stimulating, engaging recreational areas. This product can be appropriated as a leisure area during the day, a jungle gym in the afternoon, a gym in the evening and farmers market produce stand in the night.
THIS IS NOT A DIALYSIS CLINIC
This project seeks to question and critique traditional medical typologies while bringing sensorial experience and education about renal disease to a community that would otherwise see medical facilities as the unaesthetic place and to which have become accustomed. Using clinical tropes and surrealist tactics the architectural conventions of medical institutions will be renegotiated according to issues of spatial envelope, privacy, organization & orientation, material associations, scale, and notions of the natural and artificial.
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Through chance operations a renegotiation of architectural elements can produce conditions of wonder, surprise, and curiosity in typologies that are conventionally predictable. These operations can also produce architectural methodologies and processes that allow one to work beyond their own limits. By applying these operations to the physical elements most strongly associated with institutional typologies, a reimagining of programmatic adjacencies is possible. This is conveyed by using a variety of skin systems that change as a response to program, thus allowing the skin to be, both a spatial and programmatic connector. These skins allow users to hang, clothe, and see themselves during the time in the facility.
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U.E.K. URBAN ENTERTAINMENT KIT
The Van Nuys Blvd. corridor runs through the heart of the San Fernando Valley. This corridor is mainly composed of
small retail stores, which in essence allows for the corridor to become a shopping corridor for the San Fernando Valley.
Although this street sees a large amount of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, the programs that the street provides remain
consistent. U.E.K. Urban Entertainment Kit is a project about reclaiming unused spaces and give the spaces new programmatic use to the reclaimed spaces. These reclaimed spaces run along the Van Nuys corridor and consist of an artistic/entertainment programs for the community of Van Nuys. The variety of entertainment spaces allow for the user to travel from one space to the next, thus serving as a connector and as a way of reimagining programmatic adjacencies. U.E.K. conveys this by using the roof tops spaces of existing buildings and adding a new programmatic use to the existing building.