Re-arranged Contents Page

The first few site plans will be uploaded on the blog shortly which begin to configure the Forums over the site using the Los Angeles River.  I've also gone through all the work I've done to date and future work that I know I need to cover and have completely rearranged the order to make a clearer argument for the Inverted City. I'll re-organise the White Book soon, below is the new Contents Page as a starter. Each line will roughly correspond to a double page spread and includes the TS outline.
  

THE INVERTED CITY CONTENTS

 

1. Re-Brief

 

                                               i.     Re-imagining an icon

1.     Smithsons Economist Building, London

2.     Rockefeller Center

a.      Rockefeller Center, New York

b.     Rockefeller as an Icon

c.      5 Projects through Rem Koolhaas

3.     MicroCities

a.      The MicroCities of Rockefeller and Exodus

b.     Cities within the City

c.      The Mountain

                                             ii.     Rockefeller Center Ideological Rebrief

1.     Rockefeller Center 1920's Vision

2.     Rockefeller Center Rebrief

 

2.     Iconic Context

 

                                               i.     Manifesto

 

                                             ii.     Four Ecologies

1.     Los Angeles Early Growth

2.     Cinematic Influence

3.     Four Ecologies by Rayner Banham

a.      Surfurbia

b.     Foothills

c.      The Plains of Id

d.     Autopia

 

                                            iii.     Fifth Ecology

1.     Los Angeles since Rayner Banham

2.     Future Growth & The Non Stop City

3.     The Los Angeles Grid

4.     NIMBY

5.     Vision

a.      The Need for Green

b.     Civic Pride

c.      Scale Inversion

6.     The 5^th Ecology: LA Reinvention, The Forum

 

                                            iv.     The River Revitalisation Project

1.     River Industrialisation

2.     Vision

3.     Analysis

a.      Watershed

b.     Natural Habitat

c.      Access to Parks

d.     Land Use

 

                                              v.     The Site

1.     Reasoning for Site Choice

2.     San Fernando Valley

a.      Urban Infrastructure

b.     Rural Infrastructure

c.      Population Density

d.     Programme

3.     Canoga Park

a.      Grid & Infrastructure

b.     Figure Ground

c.      Programme

4.     River Project at Canoga Park

 

                                            vi.     The Knowledge Economy

1.     The Effects on a City

 

                                           vii.     Campus Designs

1.     Utopian Knowledge & Diagram

2.     Analysis

a.      Berlin Freie

b.     Berlin Freie Competition

c.      East Anglia Campus

d.     Chicago Humanities

e.      Bochum Competition

 

3.     Iconic Proposal

 

                                               i.     Manifesto

 

                                             ii.     Initial Studies

1.     The Inversion Principal

a.      On a Plane

b.     In three dimensions

2.     Massing

a.      Volume for a City within a City

b.     Public vs Private Analysis

c.      Initial Configurations

 

                                            iii.     The Forum

1.     Forum Hierarchy Diagram

2.     Site Studies

a.      Boundary Conditions

b.     Revitalising the River

c.      The Forums

                                                                                                     i.     Parkorum

                                                                                                   ii.     Squarum

                                                                                                  iii.     Halrum

                                                                                                  iv.     Semorum

                                                                                                    v.     Livorum

d.     Adjacencies

e.      In Section

3.     Cities within the City

4.     Connecting Urban to Rural

 

4.     Constructing The Inverted City

 

                                               i.     Manifesto

 

                                             ii.     Natural State of Timber

1.     The Vision of Timber

2.     Precedents

a.      Geometry

                                                                                                     i.     dRMM Timber Towers

                                                                                                   ii.     Savill Building, Glen Howells Architects

                                                                                                  iii.     Metz Centre Pompidou by Shigeru Ban

b.     Material

                                                                                                     i.     Japanese Timber Construction Techniques

                                                                                                   ii.     Scandinavian Timber Construction Techniques

c.      Conversations with

                                                                                                     i.     Karl Heinz (KLH Timber)

                                                                                                   ii.     Charles Walker (Engineering Approach)

                                                                                                  iii.     Alex de Rijke (Architectural Vision)

3.     Material Behaviour

a.      Timber Properties

                                                                                                     i.     Solid Timber

                                                                                                   ii.     Engineered Timber

b.     Flat vs Beam

 

                                            iii.     Structural Solution

1.     Hypothesis

2.     Geometry & Material Behaviour

a.      Hyperbolic Surfaces

                                                                                                     i.     Stressed Skin

                                                                                                   ii.     Multiple Stressed Skins

                                                                                                  iii.     Seam Behaviour

b.     Load Transfer

c.      Deflection

3.     Environmental Conditions

a.      Light Requirements

b.     Air Requirements

 

                                            iv.     Application to Site

1.     The Logic in Detail

a.      Plans

2.     The Logic in Whole

a.      Plans

 

                                              v.     Construction

1.     Material Waste vs Overdesign

2.     Transportation

3.     Sequence

4.     Fire-proofing

5.     Replacing Segments

 

                                            vi.     Models and Prototype