Thesis
Schizophrenic Information Tower, Los Angeles, CA
(2011)
Abstract
2010 - 2011 Sarah Jester developed fifth year building design thesis project working with Thomas Fowler as her independent study faculty advisor. As the advisor able to establish linkages of Sarah's building design work to a series of industry expertise connections that included SOM in San Francisco, TriPyramid, Boston along with university collaborative linkages to have design process documented via film student along with both faculty and graduate student structural engineering input. ABSTRACT: The main components of the thesis are to challenge the typology of the skyscraper in the way that it engages the public, while criticizing the corporate nature of society through unusual broadcasting program adjacencies. The project also attempts to exploit the verticality of the skyscraper – not as a desire for tallness - but as an opportunity to create new and unusual programmatic relationships and interactions. At the same time, the tower goes beyond the tradition of rational expression in high-rise facades, taking advantage of the prominent visibility of the building as a mechanism for exposing how the public feels
about the activities within the building and how they effect society as a whole.
Keywords
- Skyscraper,
- Building Structure,
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring June, 2011
Degree
B.ARCH
Field of study
Architecture
Department
Architecture
Advisor
Thomas Fowler IV, FAIA
Citation Information
Sarah Jester. "Schizophrenic Information Tower, Los Angeles, CA" (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tfowler/42/
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