AFTER IMAGES
The project is a cultural center combined with co-working spaces and retail areas, located in Chinatown, Los Angeles. The focus is to explore the relationship between an object and the image of the object, and to question how a change of scale and texture could affect people’s perception of an object.
Photogrammetry scans were taken of objects and façade details within the Chinatown area around the site. From these scans, through change of scales and intersecting volumes, this final composite form of the building was created.
The image of an object is composed of many elements, and people perceive an object as it is, not only by its shape but also by its scale and texture. When the original scale and texture becomes different, the image of this object changes accordingly, which would also affect people’s perception of this object.
For the interior spaces, the language of intersecting volumes is preserved, and different spaces are created in the process: small individual spaces for private offices, large open spaces for the public, the voids created with the spatial intersections then become the transition spaces between each individual space, to provide a sense of pause and connection.
