It is understood that cities and buildings are largely shaped by a
dynamic flow of interrelated cultural, social, political and economic
forces – the nature of possible interfaces between architecture and its
various settings within the contemporary city. Rather, Vernon’s Vectors is a re-interpretation conceived by Daniel Cheng Lee and Jae Hwan Lee of how a building may deal with architecture on an urban scale.
Rather than relying on the surrounding context of the city to begin
addressing the project’s behavior, a singular yet versatile design
system is implemented to influence the surrounding context to create an
iconic image for the city – an inside out approach to urban systems.
From an initial urban analysis of Vernon, California, the notion of the
curve is extracted, abstracted, and injected back onto the city as a
generative component. The spline is
then exploited to create a tower and museum with intelligence gained
from the high-rise and medium building studies. Specifically, The
programmatic spaces found within the tower and museum are parametrically
generated by means of controlled rotational repulsion that are extruded
in the Z axis to create three dimensional space. The tower vertically
tackles issues of the blend between interior space vs. exterior
envelope, structural feasibility, figure-ground relationship and scale
through coalescence and dispersion. The museum, on the other hand, uses
the curve to address atmospheric effect and scale via a fiber optic
lighting system in which the shapes of the extruded profile faces are
determined by gallery spaces and circulation. These processes are
threaded together in hopes of creating an iconic figure for the city of
Vernon.
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