5150 Wilshire Blvd office renovation and tenant improvement
1. 5150 Wilshire Blvd | built work
Office Rendering
Design and Sales Floor Perspective Rendering Conference Room Rendering
Lobby Rendering
Perspective Floor Plan Office Rendering
Tenant Improvement
6777.33 sq. ft.
Project Scope:
•space planning
•electrical/lighting
•interior, non-structural walls
•furniture and finishes
This dynamic work space includs a
sales floor of 58 employees and a
creative marketing design team of 36,
as well as a lobby, break/conference
room and management office.
Electrical & Reflected Ceiling Plan D’anna Olsen | info@MMXplus.com
2. Ample Sample 2007 | competition, RSA
Judges choice winner, 2007
The Ample Sample Design
Contest asked for innovative
designs incorporating carpet
samples. Designs were judged
upon criteria of: aesthetics,
purpose, ease of creation,
creativity, durability, number/
volume of carpet sample used.
Finalists were promoted by
Bentley Prince Street, Floor Focus
magazine and Tricycle at NeoCon
World's Trade Fair 2007, in
Chicago's Merchandise Mart.
Cover page Patterns Assembly diagram
RUGBURM uses recycled
objects from design firms. Rolling
the carpet sample tiles to different
diameters yields different comfort
densities. Ergonometrics determines
how to locate the rolled tiles. Tying
the tiles and cardboard tubes like a
"popcorn string" provides stability
and comfort.
Instructions are available for
download from amplesample .net.
Instructions part 1 Instructions part 2 Actual model, NeoCon D’anna Olsen | info@MMXplus.com
3. Japan Studio Final | student work
Final Boards
This was the final project for SCI-Arc’s semester in Japan
in 2009. As the cummulation of a four month cultural emersion,
the task was to design a Bunraku theater to be situated along the
Dotombori River in Osaka, Japan.
This building was designed to breathe new life into the
art of Bunraku (文楽 ). When attepmting to update or reinterpret
something as long standing as Bunraku, I felt that to simply
replace the old traditions would not be the correct solution. I saw
this project as an opportunity for new and old to coexist. I sought
to create a space for the gradual evolution of bunraku to spring
up from traditional roots. I created a building that could house
sevral modern auxillary theaters in addition to one traditional
one, much like a tea house that contains multiple tea rooms.
One key feature of these new theaters would be the
reconception of the backdrop. I oriented the auxillary theaters so
that they could frame different views like the shakkei (借景) of the
chaniwa (茶庭). The experience of traveling through garden
spaces placed between the theaters would allow visitors to leave
the outside behind them and prepare to watch the performances.
The real life backdrops both take advantage of our unique site
and serve to reconnect the theatrical performance with reality
and the present.
Dotombori River Osaka, Japan D’anna Olsen | info@MMXplus.com
4. SCI-Arc Thesis| student work
The concept of sociology shaping
architecture, has always fascinated me.
Rather than basing my thesis explorations
on a series of historical case studies, I
chose to look at a more contemporary
example of how people relate to one
another and attempted to design a system
for translating this into a three-dimensional
form. I decided to take a clue from online
networking.
If sociology is the study of
how people inter-relate, then
Sociological space is the place
where these interactions occur. The
big question is: can we script
sociological space?
Courtyard rendering In an urban setting, the
relationship between neighbors is
intensified due to their close proximity.
Traditional high density housing
approaches all but ignore the potential
factors of proximity, making it a
conflictual liability instead of the
pleasurable form of human connection it
could, and should, be.
What concerns me most is that
1/8”=1’ basswood model 1/32”=1’ basswood model people, and the way they relate to each
other, can often be defined solely,
spatially. For example, “my upstairs
neighbor” or “that man down the hall.”
There often is no real community feeling
amongst them. Interestingly,
proximity-based relationships are
increasingly apparent in the organization
of online social networks. What i”m
proposing is that perhaps if you allow
established friendship circles to exist
On-site pre-cast structurally integral modules Courtyard rendering within a space first, you could create an
architecture to house it.
The architectureal strategy is
to generate a series of tools that
translate user input into drivers of a
live model. This is the benefit of the
digital media of social networking in
conjunction with the technology of
parametric design. With a construction
system that combines on-site pre-cast
structurally integral modules and
overlapping construction phases, a
digitally conceptualized building can be
constructed in a short time frame.
Site and first floor plan D’anna Olsen | info@MMXplus.com
