THE PARKING GYM

Parking Studio
Spring 2019
Location: LA Downtown Typ. Infill
Prof. Julia Koerner

Via a study of automated parking tower typologies I came to understand the rotating arm that moves vehicles as a generative design tool with distinct parameters.

As long as a given horizontal datum includes a minimum 30’x10’ space for the mechanical arm to pass through, the rest of that datum can be occupied with other programs. This insight allows the new infill parking gym to include an ever changing and shifting floor slab-to atrium relationship that is further split into parking spots, interior gym space, and unconditioned gym space. Further investigation of drawing techniques understanding the mechanical arm as a spatial-drawing apparatus informed the graphic exterior. This leads to an understanding of the building facade as a graphic indicator of the active interior and the nature of illustration as being of the building itself, not a mere representation or graphic sensibility.

THE PARKING GYM

Morgan Jacobs