OCMA

Later Conceptual Sketch

The buildings formal Gestures are:

-the art coral: where the bazaar takes place
-the tower: where the condos/permanent gallery are located
-the service tentacles: supporting program are to be emphasized (loading, car drop off,
building of carts)

More Condo Development

I had to continue with condo development to find a structural system. I tried to work on the OCMA's permanent gallery located below this building...but i needed a structure to inform the service tentacles reaction to the OCMA (the junction)...

Currently its a steel framed building. The east and west walls all have wood garage doors. So each condo unit has 4 wood garage doors to vary lighting/indoor/outdoor space.

My current concerns are the building is becoming a large undertaking and im struggling between making it special...and keeping it banal. I want it to blend in and not have too much of a presence (perhaps just on the exterior) --- and let the carts create the excitement/imagination for the project. But it seems i keep second guessing myself and trying to making it a more potent building. I have a feeling...the building wont look the same for very long.

OCMA Orange Lounge Parade

The direction of project has taken a slight turn.

The building is still to remain banal (minus the condo units) and formally remains similar...but another layer has been added to the project is an attempt to achieve the sense of tying together of the site and its constituant parts. This is to be achieved by a Parade Event...this differs because the ritual is celebrated and publicized...whereas before the carts were left to roam for themselves.

Every year...at a certain time...a parade is to be held to celebrate the arts and hopefully will get participation from the other art centres on the site (sergertrom buildings and the performing arts buildings...as well as anyone in the community willing to participate).

The parade performs 2 primary functions... A) to bring together the art community/make people aware of its presence - B) Renewal of the carts that are to be dispersed along the parade route.

Note: The parade carts consist of a few of the exhibit carts from the OCMA + the new carts for the orange lounge... the orange lounge carts are the ones that are to be renewed but the exhibit carts make their way back to the art plaza.





The specific sites chosen in this diagram is:

A - the Noguchi Garden
B - South Coast Plaza
C - Community Park

The route attempts to connect the art core, commericial mall, and the residential area to the north. This is a modest beginning route...as more locations become relevant...more participatants are enlisted...the route can hope to expand and desposit more orange lounge carts in the surrounding areas.

Old Sketches of some traveling carts:

OCMA condos

This image shows only half of a particular floor. Each floor has 4 units...2 on each side mediated by a common room...the common room is to be a microcosm of the art plaza which it over looks.

Individual - programmatic carts (such as a wine bar, the kitchen island) can be wheeled out of the glass sliding doors out into the common room and shared amounts other tenants. These carts will be designed in a similar fashion --bright and different colours to emphasize 'individuality'.

connection between art gallery and condos is still be developed. not happy with outcomes.