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WORKby OREN HARRIS

CONCEPTUAL

HOUSING

INSTITUTIONAL

TRANSPORTATION

ENTERTAINMENT

CONCEPTUAL

The transformation of two dimensional skin into a three dimensions create a discussion of if there is a line between internal and external.

TRANSITIVE SAPCES

A volume of seperate but not always distinct spaces creates privacy and itamicy while still including the earlier debate on interiors and exteriors. The dynamic and muktifacited space created through manipulation of the Mobius strip curves and exchanges concave and convex shapes. A perfect volume for experimentation with levels of transprancy through materiatlity.

SHELTER

HOUSING

CASE STUDYRecrated drawings, massing model, and finally study model of Rem Kool-haas’s Villa dall’Ava in Saint Cloud, Paris.

I designed and constructed a 1”=1’ scale model of a house for a fictitious cli-ent. She is from Japan, involved in the movie industry and wanted a 600 sq ft house that she could stay in while visiting and working in the Los Angeles.The house was supposed to be a retreat of sorts, we were given a site and the rest was free region. The site is in the mountains out side of LA. I decided to design a residence that would reflect her desire to be stand out and be noticed. I felt that since she was from a big city she would feel uncomfortable and overwhelmed in the natural environment. It was important to make the house stick out and be very obviously separate from the surroundings so it would feel like it was a haven from the wilderness it was located in.

600 SQFT HOUSE

LIVING ROOM REMODELIn summer 2009 I was hired to do a living room remodel on a rather limited budget. To keep costs down I was able to keep existing interior and exterior panneling and kep most of the framing intact. The largest expenses were changing entrance location, expanding fenistration and new Swedish wood stove.The rest of the house had a much more modern feeling that the living room had to brought up to. I was in charge of all design, worked with a licensed contractor for structural design and I had one carpenter working under me.

INSTITUTIONAL

LIBRARY AND CAFÉ

For studio we were assigned to design a combination of a library for the col-lege of environmental design and a café for use by the general public. My design involved two almost separate buildings coexisting. The first strip was the social louder space of the building was designed for social interaction, it contained the café and art gallery on the bottom floor and a social lounge and study area on the second floor the second floor was attached by way of a bridge to the other second floor which contained the library space and quit-ter studying area and computer areas. The second ground floor which was directly connected to the library con-tained the circulation desk and admin-istrative offices.

ART MUSEUM

The assignment was to build a museum to showcase the works collected by a factitious woman. The collection contained ceramics found over the heads of dead Native Ameri-cans, textiles also taken from the graves of dead natives in Central America, and gouache paintings made for royalty during the Mughal area in India. I decided to display the pieces taken from the dead in a matrix of cases that resembled a cemetery and was very low lit. The gouache paintings were displayed in an area that was created us-ing classicism, much as the places that they were originated from were designed. Differ-ent display areas for the gouache paintings were lit in different colors to show the differ-entiation in the paintings displayed in those areas. The entry level floor is a large, mostly open space with high ceilings so it feels that you are outside.

TRANSPORTATION

TRAIN STATIONThis was a group exercise in designing a train station to service our college. It was partially an exercise in materiality. It was to be made affordable by being built out of as few precast concrete building blocks as possible and challenged us to think about pattern languages and repetition.

The goal of this studio is to construct a plan for the first settlement of Mars. The com-munity will be a group of 10,000 people who range in specialties from scientists to mining engineers, and even botanists. Much has to be done on this desolate planet to make it inhabitable but this project proposes a living/working space for its inhabitants.The site is a hilltop just west of Candor Chasma, within the Valles Marineris system near the Martian equator. The colony is a network of Interconnected projects that in-clude residential, social, civil, industrial, power, commercial, research, healthcare, and farming.Master planning for a brand new community takes much more consideration than try-ing to revitalize the old. Once a spaceport is established on Mars we must immediately become concerned with how to move around the windstorm ridden, highly radiated, and meteor pelted planet.A city of 10,000 must be left with much opportunity to grow and expand, but the most important aspect to any city is protecting its citizens. In the context of mars we must not only build a city on the surface to function in but also massive shelter area delving deep into Mars’s lairs for when a horrible Windstorm hits or a massive meteor shower comes flying by; the citizens must be able to go into a sanctuary before the deathly at-mosphere and horrendous temperature kill them when let in through destroyed build-ings. The jobs my partner and I had for this project were planning a mass transit system on the planet, master-planning of were others projects like housing and factories would fit in, how we could allow for growth, and lastly design for the high density mars ele-ments shelter.

LANDING PLATFORM(GATEWAY, COMMAND, COMMUNICATION)

P O W E R(GENERATION/STORAGE)

F A R M I N G(HYDROPONICS)

R E S I D E N T I A L

W AT E R / S E W A G E

A I RM I N I N G , P R O C E S S I N G

S O C I A L(RECREATION, FITNESS,SHOPPING,ENTERTAINMENT)

I N D U S T R I A L (MINING, FABRICATION)

L A B S / R E S E A R C H(WORK)

H E A LT H C A R E(HOSPITALS / CLINIC)

C I V I CI N F O , C U LT U R A L , E D U , C H U R C H , C O U R T S

R E C Y C L I N G

I N F R A S T R U C T U R E(TRANSPORTATION,STORAGE, REFUGE AREA)

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I N F R A S T R U C T U R E(TRANSPORTATION,STORAGE, REFUGE AREA)

LANDING PLATFORM(GATEWAY, COMMAND, COMMUNICATION)

P O W E R(GENERATION/STORAGE)

F A R M I N G(HYDROPONICS)

R E S I D E N T I A L

W AT E R / S E W A G E

A I RM I N I N G , P R O C E S S I N G

S O C I A L(RECREATION, FITNESS,SHOPPING,ENTERTAINMENT)

I N D U S T R I A L (MINING, FABRICATION)

L A B S / R E S E A R C H(CONFERENCE, OFFICES)

H E A LT H C A R E(HOSPITALS / CLINIC)

C I V I CC U LT U R A L , C H U R C H , C O U R T S

RECYCLING

APPROX150,000-200,000 sf

APPROX10,000 sf

APPROX4,000,000 sf

APPROX350,000,000 sf

APPROX13,000 sf

APPROX1,000,000 sf

APPROX800,000-1,000,000 sf

APPROX210,000,000 sf

APPROX500,000 sf

APPROX600,000 sf

APPROX8,000,000 sf

APPROX3,000,000 sf

APPROX4,000,000 sf

HOSPITAL

RECYCLING

WATER /

SEWAGE

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

POWER

POWER

POWER

INDUSTRIAL

SOCIAL

LABS

CIVICAIR

FARMING

FARMING

FARMING

LANDING

GATEWAY

ENTERTAINMENT

FLOCK WALLInstallation piece for Coachell 2009. Through a group effort I was in-volved in the design and construc-tion of this piece that was viewed by 90,000 people. The point of the piece was to have bots that could move in a somewhat free form pat-tern while reacting to the presence of those around. Along with design I worked heavily with the electrical team and in all phases of construc-tion

NEURAL SKYFollowing the success of our previous years Flock Wall, we were invited back to Coachella and to also present our project at another music festival and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.This year along with a role in design I was a supervisor, and in charge of the electrical for lighting and overseeing the welding, but also worked in all phases of design and construction.

NOCTEM DIEM

The design for a night club located in The City of London, London England, went through two serious design iterations. This page and the following are simply of citing, the following two pages or for the first design. This was for an interactive night club with a large emphasis on the possibilities within the queue and how moving small portions could open up and make more intimate different parts of the club.

OFFICES

From here on the projects evolves into an idea of how to best use the space occupied; the interaction was dropped in favor of a multi use space. By day it is a conference center with access to food and drink and utilizing the stage for those presenting. By night the bright lights and lasers come on and it is the latest subterranean club.