Cultivating Art and Design In The San Joaquin Valley
Judson University
Monumentality - Pure forms / shapes:
Projection of Focus/Emphasis/Standing out
Often seen as a landmark
Simplicity - rigid lines - smooth surfaces:
Simplicity in architecture helps people understand the objective of the architecture.
Building must interact with the site:
Want the building to coexist and work together with the environment. Design of building influenced by site.
CSU Fresno
Inspired by both artistic and mathematical approaches, the art center on 9111 North Maple Avenue is characterized by organic curvatures, an emphasis on light and biophilic surroundings. The main source of inspiration was the texture of paint strokes on white paper. Individual horizontality of each hair of the brushstroke provides organic appearance, and plays with natural light and shadow in the most ornate of details.
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THE MIXED-USED ARTIST MUSEUM IS DESIGNED TO BRING THE NEIBORHOOD WITHIN THE VICINITY TOGETHER AS A WHOLE. TO ACCOMPLISH THAT GOAL, THE SITE PROVIDES MULTIPLE WALKING PATHS WITH INTERESTING FEATURE TO LOOK AT AS YOU MAKE YOUR WAY THROUGH THE SITE.
THE ARTIST ROOMS ARE DESIGNED TO REFLECT A SMALL-SCALE VERSION OF THE MUSEUM TO CORRELATE THEM WITHIN ONE ANOTHER. WITH A TOTAL OF 9 ARTIST ROOMS LAYED OUT, IT LEAVES THE 10TH BUILDING AS A SHARED RESTROOM FOR THE ARTIST ONLY. THE ROOMS ITSELF ARE DESIGN TO LET IN AS MUCH DIRECT SUNLIGHT AS POSSIBLE. TO ACHIEVE THAT, WALLS THAT FACE THE WEST/EAST ARE JOINED WITH CURTAIN WALLS.
Read MoreThe discipline of architecture struggles to deviate from history and achieve real otherness, and only advances through extremely rare instances of what Mark Wigley refers to as “positive mutations”. Architecture, as a discipline, requires a productive mutation so severe that we risk completely losing what we originally had, flirting with the boundary of killing our learned ideologies in order to produce something not only alien but also superior and more valuable than what we had before.
Breaking from the confines of history requires architecture, as the existing host, to be compromised, corrupted, contaminated with disease of its own genetic coding. In order to achieve an architecture of true emergence, we need a new set of design principles. We need an architecture that is grotesque, distasteful, undesirable, strange, malformed, excessive, unnatural…
Read MoreFirst Place - AIASJ Student Design Competition
Read MoreProject Description:
Outsider Art is art done by non-classically trained artists but is still highly evocative and moving. The ability for Outsider-Artists to be extremely honest and sensitive to their perception and emotions allows them to express that through their art.
This project attempts to capture the essence of the art. It begins by combining two opposing
aesthetics, 1930’s women’s fashion and Hot Rods, into a unified composition. The composition captures the feeling-tone of each source image but abstracts the legibility of the piece purely by its relationship to the next component and the form that is created.
Once a feeling tone was established for the project, the museum was then designed to incorporate that tonality.
Read MoreFl.o……….….………a transit oriented development designed by 2 million people.
Read MoreName:Oscar Fernandez
School: Fresno City College
Project: Interior Design Studio and Residence
Read MoreA Better Downtown Bakersfield.
A group of Cal Poly Students plan and design a concept for a better downtown Bakersfield. This project explores what a new Knowledge Center and a new Maker Learner Center may look like in the city.
Read MoreWhat can Architecture do to clean Fresno's air? Cal Poly student Andrew Valles explores architecture's potential to create a healthy and sustainable environment.
Read MoreThe goal was to create a jacket that represented the mysteriousness of a crow while also reflecting their characteristic or/and behavior. The jacket's seams were left torn in some locations and red stitches were used as an accent, each move used as a metaphor relating to or denoting the bird's inclination toward preying naturally on others.
Read MoreProject Name: Emergent Neighborhood - The Next Generation Community
Home Town: Fresno, CA
School: Fresno City College, UNLV
Degree: M.Arch
Read MoreProject Name: AIASJ Student Design Competition - Interior Design Studio and Residence in Selma, CA
Home Town: Fresno, CA
School: Fresno City College
Award: 1st Place
Read MoreProject Name: Fresno Art Hop Reimagined
Home town: Kingsburg, CA
School: Southern California Institute of Architecture
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