Side view of the white Circular Momentum model: angular folded planes, a row of circular openings and a clock face.

06 / 09 · 4th Semester

Circular Momentum

Community Train Station, South Pasadena

A community rail station in South Pasadena that is both a transportation hub and a cultural space, with a cultural heritage center. The parti is velocity: the train rushing through the old town pushes against the building, and the building stops that movement as a place anchored in time. Layered vertical and horizontal paths, framed views toward the Arroyo and the San Gabriel Mountains, and courtyard atriums for daylight and fresh air shape the design, drawing on Louis Kahn's National Assembly Building and Daniel Libeskind's Royal Ontario Museum.

Course
Architectural Design 202
Term
4th Semester
Instructor
Professor D. Michael Hamner FAIA
Tools
AutoCAD, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, Hand sketching
Project board: a photo of the white physical model with folded planes and circular openings, site analysis diagrams and a site plan.

Board 1 of 2

Model and site analysis

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Process board: a program legend, parti and concept sketches, plan iterations, floor plans, east and north elevations, perspective sections and model photos.

Board 2 of 2

Program, process, plans and sections

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All boards

Project board: a photo of the white physical model with folded planes and circular openings, site analysis diagrams and a site plan.
Model and site analysis · View full size
Process board: a program legend, parti and concept sketches, plan iterations, floor plans, east and north elevations, perspective sections and model photos.
Program, process, plans and sections · View full size
Two interior renders with curving stairs, stepped amphitheater seating and circular skylights, beside an exploded axonometric of the shell and floors.
Interior renders and exploded axonometric · View full size

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Sketches

Hand drawings