Design and Development



The Design Development phase is an important one, needed to bring an architectural dream into reality. Using the example of an Art Museum, our small team went through all pieces of the design development phase to create a 4D animated video package of the project, from structural details to mechanical systems.



The art museum as given to our team at the start of the development phase consisted of six separate towers connected by a massive ground floor. The project had little material decided in the schematic phase, instead of using custom textures. As such our team was forced to figure out several different facade and structural systems to create the form, as well as match the texture of the building as best as possible. Structurally this meant devising a concrete slab system for the towers while using a steel system on the ground floor. Our solution for how to detail the facade, while recreating the texture of the original schematic renders, was among other systems, a GFRC system of panels, with attached ceramic pixels. Structurally, we decided on using a bubble slab system, which through the use of recycled plastic spheres allows for a slab that uses less concrete.



Instructor: Herwig Baumgartner
Collaborators: Xianing Chen, Cristina Cotruta, Yuhong Gong, Yingying Hu, Yi Jin, Di Liang, Yehong Mi, Shivani Udayakumar, Runhuan Wang, Hans Steffes, and Tianjian Zhou
Location: Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California
Program: Art Museum
Date: Fall 2020