tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19003003602070700922024-03-13T23:17:15.999-07:00THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISMMyriam B. Mahiqueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04877775531588362818noreply@blogger.comBlogger1093125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900300360207070092.post-75097107404333518982022-12-27T16:40:00.002-08:002022-12-27T16:40:52.660-08:00Urban Fractality and "The Concise Landscape"<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjkoRvYjmFWIb3CvxsSD_KGwhSSdNVUvoMGjwVBTwxQ27ZqVhVcDENwN4b3bkGcLmD65E-xiISdJ93JbXq37VJ4SrPq54o8JVLXqESU-R1Hx6Ydrw2Zso9M8gfW9rs0LJnsjom-QCSIgBIIF_qKc5S0QDlehc660gE_fadcIsA1cxjqdR31QnCz1Bd/s1056/Buenos%20Aires%201%20binary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="823" data-original-width="1056" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjkoRvYjmFWIb3CvxsSD_KGwhSSdNVUvoMGjwVBTwxQ27ZqVhVcDENwN4b3bkGcLmD65E-xiISdJ93JbXq37VJ4SrPq54o8JVLXqESU-R1Hx6Ydrw2Zso9M8gfW9rs0LJnsjom-QCSIgBIIF_qKc5S0QDlehc660gE_fadcIsA1cxjqdR31QnCz1Bd/w400-h311/Buenos%20Aires%201%20binary.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Binary aerial picture of an area of Downton Buenos Aires</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARcOt13emjFG-fI9Zcwk8ASMH-wYmZAETgxKNHjBeftyuFKO9XrUQAfSOZXzUUyL3Y295aQFasfidaLgNTcHOAfSqjq1nV0MIQxsII-lwnpzBQ71x2Lzpim2rdFqvcc_2f-bTAG7MEj-7fwwhwQP2scRPGJaTxczk1XrGpPOoH3IU8QEbmGT2KWt0/s940/Boston%201%20binary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="940" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARcOt13emjFG-fI9Zcwk8ASMH-wYmZAETgxKNHjBeftyuFKO9XrUQAfSOZXzUUyL3Y295aQFasfidaLgNTcHOAfSqjq1nV0MIQxsII-lwnpzBQ71x2Lzpim2rdFqvcc_2f-bTAG7MEj-7fwwhwQP2scRPGJaTxczk1XrGpPOoH3IU8QEbmGT2KWt0/w400-h324/Boston%201%20binary.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Binary aerial picture of a the historical sector of Downtown Boston<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are many publications about the analysis of the Fractal Dimension of different cities in the world. Each publication leading to conclusions about the methods used, and sometimes a projection of the city growth in the future, given a certain pattern.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I took a rest from writing about the subject, I traveled instead, and took notes and lots of pictures of the (visited) cities perceptions to open my mind to several urban morphologies, which at first where focused on Buenos Aires and Los Angeles. This year, I went to waterfront cities, among them, Buenos Aires and Boston, and I immediately realized their Fractal Dimension would be pretty similar. But the perception, the experience of said cities, are radically different.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I selected two downtown areal pictures of them, and decided to run a quick analysis of their Fractal Dimension, using the ImageJ medical software. As a side note, ImageJ has newer versions: Image J2 and Fiji. But I could not upload jpgs, pdfs and pngs files with them, so I returned to the original old version.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If it were a strict analysis, I would have drawn the buildings solids and streets emptiness with Autocad, but for the purpose of this post it was not necessary, and I even left the Google references and the trees, which we may be considered or not part of the urban morphology, depending on the research objectives.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6kfK3BdpiJwYAQ3NTIgdxSTk25mZlVAUyf34O9i2nOVEuqVD5c2xvGvWZUIJm_Ow4TbcORk705Zb_pwWfwslD0OgnSaEFVlFJNnSRKA3Zpf2V9JvIJvUKVhQp5DaG_Qa-nJlqonrc5H_X7iZRT4qbcd1e2B7NEQ4VolAP43fl7b2eM0TgALkZJr1/s696/Buenos%20Aires%20%20fractal%20dimension.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="696" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6kfK3BdpiJwYAQ3NTIgdxSTk25mZlVAUyf34O9i2nOVEuqVD5c2xvGvWZUIJm_Ow4TbcORk705Zb_pwWfwslD0OgnSaEFVlFJNnSRKA3Zpf2V9JvIJvUKVhQp5DaG_Qa-nJlqonrc5H_X7iZRT4qbcd1e2B7NEQ4VolAP43fl7b2eM0TgALkZJr1/w400-h233/Buenos%20Aires%20%20fractal%20dimension.jpg" width="400" /></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6kfK3BdpiJwYAQ3NTIgdxSTk25mZlVAUyf34O9i2nOVEuqVD5c2xvGvWZUIJm_Ow4TbcORk705Zb_pwWfwslD0OgnSaEFVlFJNnSRKA3Zpf2V9JvIJvUKVhQp5DaG_Qa-nJlqonrc5H_X7iZRT4qbcd1e2B7NEQ4VolAP43fl7b2eM0TgALkZJr1/s696/Buenos%20Aires%20%20fractal%20dimension.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="696" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMHEJLkomR0-yke7jXnSS1hbBwM4AakfPpDVTdEOMcxgb3B6hJxastcBBcbtEMKmpDvsvAAiAG-230OXmqki7ln1UiQjF8BxMpdBf7xSH706DbA4nDZjCDbSLdzy6d871mQTANCwGUaCcJ05r5htnNn40s3htpjFoT1U-nB5YPeBxJ2-e1dYp98Np0/w400-h233/Boston%20fractal%20dimension.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">Buenos Aires Fractal Dimension and Boston Fractal Dimension of the first two binary images</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">The results for the first two images were, respectively, Buenos Aires 1.8462 and Boston 1.8130</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">I have also considered inverting the solid and empty areas, to test if the results are quite different or not. Here we have two binary images inverted for both cities:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDumTptLjA2LOULqz-NuQpvQ0tW54-S5B3Kn59uWNMt_RYJI3-iCPio9-oDH5b30VgKD2S1wFLrw0rdzjxgEQQ-FHEBB4tLtjCuy3R1-9Tn5Svg3vEEULHtueIXXoFWnsZBuNYYrZpKL7dzlbFcyE-AyWpBRZY4HEYP8cjLc5Rwpg9vhZ8HHvhT1vc/s1056/Buenos%20Aires%201%20binary%20inverted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="823" data-original-width="1056" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDumTptLjA2LOULqz-NuQpvQ0tW54-S5B3Kn59uWNMt_RYJI3-iCPio9-oDH5b30VgKD2S1wFLrw0rdzjxgEQQ-FHEBB4tLtjCuy3R1-9Tn5Svg3vEEULHtueIXXoFWnsZBuNYYrZpKL7dzlbFcyE-AyWpBRZY4HEYP8cjLc5Rwpg9vhZ8HHvhT1vc/w400-h311/Buenos%20Aires%201%20binary%20inverted.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Buenos Aires aerial binary image, inverted.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-eKdBBPF6Q1N7MCDkC4KBurkqemVFlWn1yJPoDGlhSP9vNHApzuMxNpwN1XeKiauSJ_u7TDLq4aCye3p3dwrbpdXW4hjUf9gV32swqLTT1g_xe-t8rwJL1DcNzT7JZcGB0-e4CfE2go1fzYyYqlQTvAC25GBTjf_HuqA7mhgm3ZNE_jo8Ex0F_QXE/s940/Boston%201%20binary%20inverted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="940" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-eKdBBPF6Q1N7MCDkC4KBurkqemVFlWn1yJPoDGlhSP9vNHApzuMxNpwN1XeKiauSJ_u7TDLq4aCye3p3dwrbpdXW4hjUf9gV32swqLTT1g_xe-t8rwJL1DcNzT7JZcGB0-e4CfE2go1fzYyYqlQTvAC25GBTjf_HuqA7mhgm3ZNE_jo8Ex0F_QXE/w400-h324/Boston%201%20binary%20inverted.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Boston, binary aerial image, inverted.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Then I took the Fractal Dimension of both inverted images:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCCGze0LA2qQqHijtyCnTGRd2QDFXpsSaSDiNtz7Pm0Q3KP8Wiae-YK7ggllhre5oIomQ8vLHbTHFF9DLZlEelcTG__c4o3EQHUHGMKDWOptaN5CTCjlDckcfYZrNja5sBXWu8QrKtPUP9wh7fylnRxnEPkN1gqJhuBe7-tKBdldjGXiMVp_rrUywU/s696/Buenos%20Aires%20%20fractal%20dimension%20inverted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="696" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCCGze0LA2qQqHijtyCnTGRd2QDFXpsSaSDiNtz7Pm0Q3KP8Wiae-YK7ggllhre5oIomQ8vLHbTHFF9DLZlEelcTG__c4o3EQHUHGMKDWOptaN5CTCjlDckcfYZrNja5sBXWu8QrKtPUP9wh7fylnRxnEPkN1gqJhuBe7-tKBdldjGXiMVp_rrUywU/w400-h233/Buenos%20Aires%20%20fractal%20dimension%20inverted.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Buenos Aires, inverted fractal Dimension= 1.8402</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifboUpEUC3iqFDCVwLJBHWMvR7ruisUMgFGYPIB7_xLDWmVEu5iEaViuR-WNQQljZIVjvvbLftOMph4eWWAkqEu-ficwvTAavhllqmaEBO1W9XrEMAgXOWD81sFsXiMbtW4Q9sOPmgTvvQziGLhmDi7BNRKIGfuzkug50vS5WAcUaD3aNCCo_2ntYk/s696/Boston%20fractal%20dimension%20inverted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="696" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifboUpEUC3iqFDCVwLJBHWMvR7ruisUMgFGYPIB7_xLDWmVEu5iEaViuR-WNQQljZIVjvvbLftOMph4eWWAkqEu-ficwvTAavhllqmaEBO1W9XrEMAgXOWD81sFsXiMbtW4Q9sOPmgTvvQziGLhmDi7BNRKIGfuzkug50vS5WAcUaD3aNCCo_2ntYk/w400-h233/Boston%20fractal%20dimension%20inverted.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Boston, inverted Fractal Dimension= 1.8654</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There is not a significant change in the results, so I'm taking an average of 1.8. Now, let us see how different the plot surfaces are:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijLyeK1vdLXnlj1vo9rvwEQhdVCdVsKUGSL-zdt7POu_KaTgk-5oZ2gg8b017QXNt7uQbv-pTETpOAETFu_c-e6bLliG2Wc8qe9I7vctmKDDRPzrPsnQ2jljCGGVIIDDoWzaDTRAvYNBBPpwusNCOIezu4Vm47L-ltDTs1b-kbInNyefoVgqoxM3wt/s610/Surface%20Plot%20Buenos%20Aires.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="610" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijLyeK1vdLXnlj1vo9rvwEQhdVCdVsKUGSL-zdt7POu_KaTgk-5oZ2gg8b017QXNt7uQbv-pTETpOAETFu_c-e6bLliG2Wc8qe9I7vctmKDDRPzrPsnQ2jljCGGVIIDDoWzaDTRAvYNBBPpwusNCOIezu4Vm47L-ltDTs1b-kbInNyefoVgqoxM3wt/w400-h383/Surface%20Plot%20Buenos%20Aires.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Surface plot of Buenos Aires, where we can read the urban orthogonal grid.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidI932nhGwKWhjS4fEmxs2rAzbXOmmLZxRlzyFsqrVegKnwLigQaWg290xi1gjrokb5W-1EQCPAcoTiIfBCJkjY5lUe_AAdhHxDB1MFn7aXVDx3Kx90HLHCzs1fqsVWZCamFHbTvqqeTwpLmbnoyWON1h9-4tTPkpDZ4fFftx39h2TT4PoeRk4dzXo/s610/Surface%20Plot%20Boston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="610" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidI932nhGwKWhjS4fEmxs2rAzbXOmmLZxRlzyFsqrVegKnwLigQaWg290xi1gjrokb5W-1EQCPAcoTiIfBCJkjY5lUe_AAdhHxDB1MFn7aXVDx3Kx90HLHCzs1fqsVWZCamFHbTvqqeTwpLmbnoyWON1h9-4tTPkpDZ4fFftx39h2TT4PoeRk4dzXo/w400-h379/Surface%20Plot%20Boston.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Surface plot of Boston, with more morphological irregularity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">When I was in Boston, one of my favorite urban books "The Concise Landscape", written by British architect and urban designer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cullen" target="_blank">Gordon Cullen</a> in 1961, came to my mind. It was the first book I have read on urbanism. Walking around Boston contained the perfect examples to illustrate the book, most probably due to its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Boston" target="_blank">British origins</a>, while Buenos Aires grid is Spanish.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For us who work on Urban Morphology based on science, (and sociology in my case), I think that somehow, Cullen has stated a visionary concept on page 8 of the 1971 edition:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">.."<i>we have to rid ourselves of the thought that the excitement and drama that we seek can be born automatically out of the scientific research and solutions arrived at by the technical man</i>"....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And he takes into account the perception of the city, in general terms, and per my brief summary below:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">. Element of surprise and serial vision.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">. The relationship between urban buildings is different with added elements (trees, water, traffic, etc...).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">. The relationship between our human body with space and scale.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">. Content: colors, texture, scale, style.... -I will add the weather-.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In other words, even if we have the same or similar Fractal Dimension between two cities, our experience of them is not the same. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">For example, Boston has tunnels of traffic circulation, while Buenos Aires streets are wide open (it does not snow in Buenos Aires) with long -French- perspectives and monuments as focal points. We are not allowed to have such a view in Boston, when you walk or drive in Downtown, there is always a building or block intersecting the perspective, giving us the feeling of "being inside" the city.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am posting some of my pictures for better explanation, they belong to my personal archives, dated 2022. Please do not share without my permission.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let us begin with Buenos Aires:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaUY8J3JCfS4JSPlBw2fhxti07fHIJSGsVnr3U17mNW4Xg0SjoSlP7DJZMTbE9geI22Xya0xXBY9lPlOkkyIUZSKjfHz3c-cV5NJ0zqM_qOE2DGIAYslC1la9oR3q-5CdcBrtfZOttetvEQ4ORO9JuJk2lFePltYM9nN5ps-hKIKXk_BQjbo2TeUT3/s5184/IMG_7091.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaUY8J3JCfS4JSPlBw2fhxti07fHIJSGsVnr3U17mNW4Xg0SjoSlP7DJZMTbE9geI22Xya0xXBY9lPlOkkyIUZSKjfHz3c-cV5NJ0zqM_qOE2DGIAYslC1la9oR3q-5CdcBrtfZOttetvEQ4ORO9JuJk2lFePltYM9nN5ps-hKIKXk_BQjbo2TeUT3/w400-h225/IMG_7091.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A typical avenue in Buenos Aires and the infinite perspective</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1yLhSs1ldXHIKr2eDXUyZ9ojzOYoOeQxK70twdifaWA__hQgha9PwNBoDkSK8tWmcK_4mS-C09TVpCuZMFk6zWLA4xBbqGVPuVnTroLw3vKUarkdgWqDe3D7V18FkFXkwzIfSW3QVKcujk6Ur2UmHyegWpi22433cVF0Nw00rf96sAQV48vq4XE47/s5184/IMG_7874.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1yLhSs1ldXHIKr2eDXUyZ9ojzOYoOeQxK70twdifaWA__hQgha9PwNBoDkSK8tWmcK_4mS-C09TVpCuZMFk6zWLA4xBbqGVPuVnTroLw3vKUarkdgWqDe3D7V18FkFXkwzIfSW3QVKcujk6Ur2UmHyegWpi22433cVF0Nw00rf96sAQV48vq4XE47/w400-h225/IMG_7874.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A street in Buenos Aires with eclectic styles (French, Spanish...)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgneAYwS4F1R5GYChNQguTNQOe-8Ye4567D_vpG5hH9CqVdlC-WEKoLLHdS4PRBB6RIfNfm8KJAn5qweutL4GNeC5gQMyxqz8BHJK9JAizmN0aSXbmfgK3uCosr4tuObmHC9efG-Q5wVoJdgSeczq02JoE9H9nR7K5qjHXxdqP5ZyesE8J9fLE3ahhk/s5025/IMG_7876.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2836" data-original-width="5025" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgneAYwS4F1R5GYChNQguTNQOe-8Ye4567D_vpG5hH9CqVdlC-WEKoLLHdS4PRBB6RIfNfm8KJAn5qweutL4GNeC5gQMyxqz8BHJK9JAizmN0aSXbmfgK3uCosr4tuObmHC9efG-Q5wVoJdgSeczq02JoE9H9nR7K5qjHXxdqP5ZyesE8J9fLE3ahhk/w400-h226/IMG_7876.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The corner is usually designed as an important element. See the trees, the mullions, the light color. The British green is incidental, just for doors here.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNe3MyFA3sZaRt1C_wpUCCG-FWZJoYQpQlYibtD6sBo7zo8HJV3lhSbirXKb4ZDoqWolSZVDaaXB3PxnruYyox0F_zkBMVP_cW_763LvuLYX09GqThc3AFVBmiEBnyB4QoAFy5WTaLHdYYK4KBKkgW6_54UTGg__jG1efNfd6CJiMGDwV5o-OkiXt/s4791/IMG_7878.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4791" data-original-width="2894" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNe3MyFA3sZaRt1C_wpUCCG-FWZJoYQpQlYibtD6sBo7zo8HJV3lhSbirXKb4ZDoqWolSZVDaaXB3PxnruYyox0F_zkBMVP_cW_763LvuLYX09GqThc3AFVBmiEBnyB4QoAFy5WTaLHdYYK4KBKkgW6_54UTGg__jG1efNfd6CJiMGDwV5o-OkiXt/w241-h400/IMG_7878.JPG" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More interesting corners of Buenos Aires. The beautiful corner cupolas everywhere.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHk_QYJyAqDHmJpZZWqZwbVnf9gpclLXGyMfn0nJrb4IQJjus3X9YC_ZiLgBKqJjXjJJeA19KQYL_3kynOPtqlEDhwDG8icLI6d0i4ofVZkXxZJDNcIDmC-sqv9SdhHbzbXn2TNoneeSegNS9MB9h1j5wVFp1D5_8sERDCWOV0HbENDHAli9wZjn5/s5020/IMG_7894.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5020" data-original-width="2875" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHk_QYJyAqDHmJpZZWqZwbVnf9gpclLXGyMfn0nJrb4IQJjus3X9YC_ZiLgBKqJjXjJJeA19KQYL_3kynOPtqlEDhwDG8icLI6d0i4ofVZkXxZJDNcIDmC-sqv9SdhHbzbXn2TNoneeSegNS9MB9h1j5wVFp1D5_8sERDCWOV0HbENDHAli9wZjn5/w229-h400/IMG_7894.JPG" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A street of Buenos Aires which is slightly winding. The gray cement "medianeras" (demising walls), the cupolas and most of all, this morphology of "decayed teeth", which is a result of different zoning regulations along the years. The balconies, for residential and offices uses as well, add architectural articulation.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSYPCVz0DuOWxn--ZWMzzPN5w1KrlXmX-GvTnXnj8BzZxRvwEu25xZe1Dd7qaY40mi554tWzdOQctc1rr1M0DzzlJRJd6htbgGAXOzlDSoMlShUM3EXdx9BaNDy7W2bpCtp2ZuZp5BoXP0jCyKho7p-hD3oKdDaRYrjVMJzi7XrDtI6umFac-_otq/s5184/IMG_7898.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSYPCVz0DuOWxn--ZWMzzPN5w1KrlXmX-GvTnXnj8BzZxRvwEu25xZe1Dd7qaY40mi554tWzdOQctc1rr1M0DzzlJRJd6htbgGAXOzlDSoMlShUM3EXdx9BaNDy7W2bpCtp2ZuZp5BoXP0jCyKho7p-hD3oKdDaRYrjVMJzi7XrDtI6umFac-_otq/w400-h225/IMG_7898.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> One of the many monuments in Buenos Aires, as seen from a car.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWim21R-R1qcYDsJiBsSO_kzsT7rD7a0uw4iZDC71MLY9RXOAyWy3YG3hkqbJQVOSqjKj2gCbB00gMtoPeKZDdfxmk8fdgBCaSaV7wvkxrBMX0XXxaGI-VkdUjdcfQKuZ4fH_yTiV8N0mFILkL2DwGvZHtOoKT9S6cji9Mzm3F7yhohggBhOzja5TM/s4032/IMG_6328.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWim21R-R1qcYDsJiBsSO_kzsT7rD7a0uw4iZDC71MLY9RXOAyWy3YG3hkqbJQVOSqjKj2gCbB00gMtoPeKZDdfxmk8fdgBCaSaV7wvkxrBMX0XXxaGI-VkdUjdcfQKuZ4fH_yTiV8N0mFILkL2DwGvZHtOoKT9S6cji9Mzm3F7yhohggBhOzja5TM/w400-h300/IMG_6328.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nocturnal view of Downtown Buenos Aires. The endless avenue with aligned trees, the "decayed tooth" morphology.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, let us continue with some pictures from Boston:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie8o0ohIweQ5lo1NdSKBCo0Wm4G1ljTIFRiLOBXfdu8UDEWNVj_3JfIMYZtta56J5C4gXeQLdsCEPCF63jLKyx5NRKECUT3zOuOXClCQfvLR7DpdtUGRjAsYTXhRt-y1xd2HrAnVia6X2H9-jo_EnHiRPYJnIRtVHQAUJ1e6slf7kxRO_PsCKtrvPa/s5184/IMG_0015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie8o0ohIweQ5lo1NdSKBCo0Wm4G1ljTIFRiLOBXfdu8UDEWNVj_3JfIMYZtta56J5C4gXeQLdsCEPCF63jLKyx5NRKECUT3zOuOXClCQfvLR7DpdtUGRjAsYTXhRt-y1xd2HrAnVia6X2H9-jo_EnHiRPYJnIRtVHQAUJ1e6slf7kxRO_PsCKtrvPa/w400-h225/IMG_0015.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Access to the underground train, a broken perspective, lots of materials together. The typical Boston brick (there are different colors), modern glass and classical gray finishes.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qOvZSiZtpiiEZ9NLUkDgX39hF7h0AyQONE8dQ7XVXGW1tdCC2oTzVQWRqtIhgsG0ilZE6QMyzB_GQwVzJIfkK6vGumIdjImlvmgFYd821QeN42iR7_3TCABbF8KwBHLwlYRAjGSL6y3mtbNvbF0fWz_ZeL-uxAYt4OD7nT8-qTrovtGJwzEAxnY0/s5184/IMG_0034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qOvZSiZtpiiEZ9NLUkDgX39hF7h0AyQONE8dQ7XVXGW1tdCC2oTzVQWRqtIhgsG0ilZE6QMyzB_GQwVzJIfkK6vGumIdjImlvmgFYd821QeN42iR7_3TCABbF8KwBHLwlYRAjGSL6y3mtbNvbF0fWz_ZeL-uxAYt4OD7nT8-qTrovtGJwzEAxnY0/w400-h225/IMG_0034.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The British colors and the broken perspective. See that the green extends beyond the doors. The red is added for commercial purposes.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFQK-W_9rVoyI_QDQlsvT1UemRtd9rpYup5JnAhjp7MPzxb6INgRqYz1rjDYRKq5Fww6jGcNw_AWddmuRntSqcQU4XgOBjXLZ_-tHLkBmy7CfFZoQr2a2AFLHQ8PC8oznLdyDerXalKNNK28RjsGuyz-OTW5RP3E4xP6sPcQ7DB93a201yn6L2-Mt/s5184/IMG_0062.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFQK-W_9rVoyI_QDQlsvT1UemRtd9rpYup5JnAhjp7MPzxb6INgRqYz1rjDYRKq5Fww6jGcNw_AWddmuRntSqcQU4XgOBjXLZ_-tHLkBmy7CfFZoQr2a2AFLHQ8PC8oznLdyDerXalKNNK28RjsGuyz-OTW5RP3E4xP6sPcQ7DB93a201yn6L2-Mt/w400-h225/IMG_0062.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An open plaza among buildings. We feel "inside". Note the lack of balconies.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZvFeZIB_LSo8fnqcs9eY_TM7Z44R8cKnRHAoKTQp51fEg-SDueSQPfMS32PCXUx1TRaTbWe0h7AR5oyP0HA1Q-SxQ5fsJOUhT3Fxr8wx5JSV_w1w0Cmi46ZEIKdXa7VCfzUfxR0kg68mFWYnHt0WiAl6mFdCyJztTJtMAK40gT4vHK1mE1qwaRmg/s5184/IMG_0101.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZvFeZIB_LSo8fnqcs9eY_TM7Z44R8cKnRHAoKTQp51fEg-SDueSQPfMS32PCXUx1TRaTbWe0h7AR5oyP0HA1Q-SxQ5fsJOUhT3Fxr8wx5JSV_w1w0Cmi46ZEIKdXa7VCfzUfxR0kg68mFWYnHt0WiAl6mFdCyJztTJtMAK40gT4vHK1mE1qwaRmg/w400-h225/IMG_0101.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A broken perspective and lack of balconies.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYNSh9kBwZfG_ANpEnUnYtdCxlVx3SokEe8xAGygUPngITsAslJsZtXR5KUOCJCOj2Ti_ucbMoyBeoBoEvk9zm6c_Lsefq9j4r-scVIATHVr1TXyc62oBE4LuB-PYf87Reo--fCHY4AQTAp0dt85BSqKiM7H3RdPh5Ccxv5J_YtoRv-BFhkZ_xQR9/s5013/IMG_0104.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5013" data-original-width="2894" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYNSh9kBwZfG_ANpEnUnYtdCxlVx3SokEe8xAGygUPngITsAslJsZtXR5KUOCJCOj2Ti_ucbMoyBeoBoEvk9zm6c_Lsefq9j4r-scVIATHVr1TXyc62oBE4LuB-PYf87Reo--fCHY4AQTAp0dt85BSqKiM7H3RdPh5Ccxv5J_YtoRv-BFhkZ_xQR9/w231-h400/IMG_0104.JPG" width="231" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is pretty interesting for me, the building at the end of the perspective is rotated.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg61hoOm4uPtLbichvJlE8Vp1zRFNS0SUCDCeKHkzVoLKYpLLK3hmNFwbeyacl1HC5esV4LYRI5wZFt_lqqrNrOx3Lww0gqW_2bc-1EYqG3UGajV_h6FP1QqAR2Z_rI0U2t3WzNlx7-gXRUo4gmM-lZNjaVn7JsV1Q56llyGCc_T3xE8ZYpES8QEiVZ/s5184/IMG_0106.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="2912" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg61hoOm4uPtLbichvJlE8Vp1zRFNS0SUCDCeKHkzVoLKYpLLK3hmNFwbeyacl1HC5esV4LYRI5wZFt_lqqrNrOx3Lww0gqW_2bc-1EYqG3UGajV_h6FP1QqAR2Z_rI0U2t3WzNlx7-gXRUo4gmM-lZNjaVn7JsV1Q56llyGCc_T3xE8ZYpES8QEiVZ/w225-h400/IMG_0106.JPG" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Broken perspective and the use of dark color.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEbIRZkGwOeq1lWMcLUOyfci9xocyyAnBK0W428_Hp3ixWSlxMGDWqVuadvIjyB8h5572PpCq81lQPnQIcmKiFKF4IOfIXnEYLOkwSqThMfXZ9KnRe0p1L0wUbbuGYvoXjLRJddCrJxFNHJT5vElVUyIMl-E_71KCDVa-Nohs9rTZK1CG0h5LFuEc/s5184/IMG_0107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="2912" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEbIRZkGwOeq1lWMcLUOyfci9xocyyAnBK0W428_Hp3ixWSlxMGDWqVuadvIjyB8h5572PpCq81lQPnQIcmKiFKF4IOfIXnEYLOkwSqThMfXZ9KnRe0p1L0wUbbuGYvoXjLRJddCrJxFNHJT5vElVUyIMl-E_71KCDVa-Nohs9rTZK1CG0h5LFuEc/w225-h400/IMG_0107.JPG" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The serial vision with columns on the front. The broken perspective while the urban lamps are perfectly aligned.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWqDDVQSZPs2loEolvoEVdDMuhLQ2UWutjm-ui_0kMktjlmbDXPvocdenKEyupr96211WjZICaSuVbaM61QoBZAxXB6szi3ZMzurLUxxrrs5E_y1jrCbVKmKDi9mEFKN0cc2PcIoOphIm1S4nnE2X3ukFux2z45f25_xfZIvRcSH9HoT7EZ2AOcKQa/s5166/IMG_0080.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2902" data-original-width="5166" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWqDDVQSZPs2loEolvoEVdDMuhLQ2UWutjm-ui_0kMktjlmbDXPvocdenKEyupr96211WjZICaSuVbaM61QoBZAxXB6szi3ZMzurLUxxrrs5E_y1jrCbVKmKDi9mEFKN0cc2PcIoOphIm1S4nnE2X3ukFux2z45f25_xfZIvRcSH9HoT7EZ2AOcKQa/w400-h225/IMG_0080.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a picture of the Beacon Hill neighborhood, with the brick buildings combined with the English deep green. But, here, more textures are added with a climber on the left. This type of climbers are unusual in Downtown Buenos Aires (the Ciudad Autonoma) but the sidewalks are wider and with lots of trees.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCYXGSvWKxhtT7wrxTqdpncXZzxUegWibPUQrOfXIg8qNXum9KGo7rk72FK2LjwC_yVpoiyDXeiqlF25EegSvVM-FIVeKpHK_YfW-cZC83Yiux7dZayge7px3QJVwqJSuL2YMDfKX0NEu2QctC49-Eofx6T90RZVC92Aw4-_W5NWdMkArhqun1Klld/s5184/IMG_0169.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="5184" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCYXGSvWKxhtT7wrxTqdpncXZzxUegWibPUQrOfXIg8qNXum9KGo7rk72FK2LjwC_yVpoiyDXeiqlF25EegSvVM-FIVeKpHK_YfW-cZC83Yiux7dZayge7px3QJVwqJSuL2YMDfKX0NEu2QctC49-Eofx6T90RZVC92Aw4-_W5NWdMkArhqun1Klld/w400-h225/IMG_0169.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To get to the Boston Tea Party building, on the waterfront, I had to walk through a park so covered in vegetation. It took me a while to find the water, but here it is, the element of surprise.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of course I could find common elements between the two cities, but they would be isolated examples.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is clear that a fractal urban analysis cannot get rid of <i>The Concise Landscape </i>basic but primary teachings. Any research should be completed with historical and social facts in order to deeply understand the urban shape, this is not only a matter of numbers. This is what makes us architects more extensive and less scientists in our points of view, compared with physicists and geographers who share our field of research.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Myriam B. Mahiqueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04877775531588362818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900300360207070092.post-68053230799319349332022-11-27T14:52:00.001-08:002022-11-27T14:54:02.735-08:00 Orange County Museum of Art. From the mass model to the building<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbYZ_TJ4Zx-Vhp5zQoOktixdPKDiVc6tDhN4Oj7DLeb-5Pw1C3EH8RGKRQBqVlud5YVCjlolvXstUmrLGWR3Dp5nZi85CtUfpZK7iDDhYCT1IxNAfRLlTYc2G80DNrwGe8QEsLQhXRFqFt8tT2JVyo551NdVjOowYJHc3Z6GS46M9vzRMYy9HJNQgH/s4032/IMG_E0959.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbYZ_TJ4Zx-Vhp5zQoOktixdPKDiVc6tDhN4Oj7DLeb-5Pw1C3EH8RGKRQBqVlud5YVCjlolvXstUmrLGWR3Dp5nZi85CtUfpZK7iDDhYCT1IxNAfRLlTYc2G80DNrwGe8QEsLQhXRFqFt8tT2JVyo551NdVjOowYJHc3Z6GS46M9vzRMYy9HJNQgH/w400-h225/IMG_E0959.JPG" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Approaching OCMA, Costa Mesa, CA.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">NOTE: All pictures belong to my personal archives, please do not reproduce-share without my permission.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have been a visitor of the Orange County Museum of Art since it was in Newport Beach, then it was moved to a provisory building in Costa Mesa, right in front of the Segerstrom Concert Hall.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Back in March 2019, I took some quick pictures of the mass model of the upcoming building, designed by Thom Mayne's studio Morphosis. I am happy to say I had the chance to talk to him in person long years ago, during an architectural exhibition in our FADU Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Buenos Aires. We briefly discussed a post graduate project designed by architect Luis Makianich and me. And he left us a very good impression, at least speaking about theory of architecture.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And once I emigrated to California, I had the opportunity to visit his building for Caltrans in Los Angeles and now the OCMA, which was inaugurated a few months ago. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">My impression of the Caltrans building is barely mentioned in my post about <a href="http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2009/11/trees-that-conform-social-space.html" target="_blank">Trees that Conform Social Space</a>. I remember very well the lack of human scale while walking around the building, the heat in the cement plaza and the emptiness of the bar in the shadows, an intermediate space of multiple height were people did not want to stay (I questioned the employees). That imprinted in my mind that maybe our beloved Thom Mayne designed his buildings as objects, the morphology prevailing over the human scale and sensorial, human perception necessities. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">My two pictures below are from 2009. The bar is in the dark left corner. People preferred stay in the plaza across the street, drinking a juice sold at the mobile stands, under the shadow of the welcoming trees.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzphW6DJRgv1UN53E_14Zj7tHsDD070jhIu3r0xX8JsjQ8LyJg_e8viykCSOcnoTuorGgjEl447nmcIqvBo-yDBjh4Vjyl22kE7tHT56LMEu9CriavgOJ7QhpgPr4JYhPxpPt7W3Bxtr5Mf9P0117W0rxEN1ppo-MIPpJcbfwm5uTZTbXb144v37l-/s400/Caltrans1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzphW6DJRgv1UN53E_14Zj7tHsDD070jhIu3r0xX8JsjQ8LyJg_e8viykCSOcnoTuorGgjEl447nmcIqvBo-yDBjh4Vjyl22kE7tHT56LMEu9CriavgOJ7QhpgPr4JYhPxpPt7W3Bxtr5Mf9P0117W0rxEN1ppo-MIPpJcbfwm5uTZTbXb144v37l-/w400-h300/Caltrans1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An empty plaza with benches like sculptures, under 100F degree or more...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHV0Zot80vkkSUNaCbwUzSgKoHeFR8Ke9uPBTOsiOyFEPlU5WFv73d1alXPbLk0vXxMX73UOdptxlOLa7XpnN3U9VLzVIurDRsRESpXdIt7NoCez4VTumSf0d-jx5eCmXTGxWPps6PH06ek_6_C6qRYhmJQdyb1aAVVDvf0tmE2o4X023_w4rjKEL/s400/Caltrans2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHV0Zot80vkkSUNaCbwUzSgKoHeFR8Ke9uPBTOsiOyFEPlU5WFv73d1alXPbLk0vXxMX73UOdptxlOLa7XpnN3U9VLzVIurDRsRESpXdIt7NoCez4VTumSf0d-jx5eCmXTGxWPps6PH06ek_6_C6qRYhmJQdyb1aAVVDvf0tmE2o4X023_w4rjKEL/w400-h300/Caltrans2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This picture shows how the side street offers a solid wall as a basement, see the scale compared to the men in the corner. Well, this is part of the main problem I see in Los Angeles, a city that has evolved for and with the cars. It is not pedestrian friendly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The next pictures are cell phone snapshots of the OCMA building mass model, from 2009. Yesterday, I was wondering what was so "off" from the mass model to the final product. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQUI6iVyzEgqimLStblfHpSBWUsApr0OdkyP_H8yDeWWlfCuNArnIa2wc54bphvp0NP-oRvcQYy6EZ3BEuTiq4rjwy1-A77n6JZetvr4UXv0K9a7HNOTeqK6FTN24yHz7UzNV_8IqWVWsiWGboh4YhmUJFKVAmTs_cPMXRvhp-BI8EdkqbVYeeGyIH/s4032/IMG_0386.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQUI6iVyzEgqimLStblfHpSBWUsApr0OdkyP_H8yDeWWlfCuNArnIa2wc54bphvp0NP-oRvcQYy6EZ3BEuTiq4rjwy1-A77n6JZetvr4UXv0K9a7HNOTeqK6FTN24yHz7UzNV_8IqWVWsiWGboh4YhmUJFKVAmTs_cPMXRvhp-BI8EdkqbVYeeGyIH/w400-h300/IMG_0386.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRv90jmxyvmRTnkN9pL-awHYKF4r2F_B5akkBspKYt-M_9CLvW8V0z3J6CksqunOsB94JdrCk7kt7J1wGD1Vox4o8rOm52e99h5FdYd-yxonfuKcpXsh_5WmfC-tMhjViKRoCtrOnS8Lpmk8uwjDLj1FLw4RnSc03E38-al6EVH6KX3V7Vz0V4g9E6/s4032/IMG_0387.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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On the right side, the <a href="http://henrysegerstrom.com/home/philanthropy/segerstrom-center-for-the-arts/renee-and-henry-segerstrom-concert-hall/" target="_blank">Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall</a>, designed by Cesar Pelli studio. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Basically, the resolution of spaces is the same, but in a closer analysis, I have seen that the intersecting planes, have become undulating surfaces on which the straight lines in the massive model are materialized with thick rigid ceramics (!!), what is worse, the ceramics are installed in diagonals, in consequence, there are a lot of unsolved triangular cuts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswocQAwnu8N9Gzfb9jKllLJgnpSi3QzOFgahcuWfi9_LoxvKp79HBpj1_3e1l9t9rCLoUBmiE0PX0k5FtzFzmIaBq63UeyOmq_2f5sK5b2IF5Gdw6L_n9sDteX11jyFKs-6N0upbpyFigrKFUjFpnnknQVzQsX-x-rKVsFLY_wdSE1NlsUAoM-oRl/s6000/IMG_2055.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="6000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswocQAwnu8N9Gzfb9jKllLJgnpSi3QzOFgahcuWfi9_LoxvKp79HBpj1_3e1l9t9rCLoUBmiE0PX0k5FtzFzmIaBq63UeyOmq_2f5sK5b2IF5Gdw6L_n9sDteX11jyFKs-6N0upbpyFigrKFUjFpnnknQVzQsX-x-rKVsFLY_wdSE1NlsUAoM-oRl/w400-h225/IMG_2055.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The upper undulating surface, I have taken this picture standing on the terrace. The red building behind is not part of OCMA.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2s46YgdSeU2AnPisg2yz1_vyMCzujdNY-f_B7tEkB89IwdxsledDFcZ8NT5YeGCWVH2BqIP-XfFffcRn9_kAQA2q4X0Rcyg0n5haMH19w2rwEhrOvET41kG9LrIGleP-u5bUZVh2Eysy9aP1kBQLGlgkoi5_iBdn24KYsiWzbYI1WDBFU0VcfRYJb/s4032/IMG_E1011.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2s46YgdSeU2AnPisg2yz1_vyMCzujdNY-f_B7tEkB89IwdxsledDFcZ8NT5YeGCWVH2BqIP-XfFffcRn9_kAQA2q4X0Rcyg0n5haMH19w2rwEhrOvET41kG9LrIGleP-u5bUZVh2Eysy9aP1kBQLGlgkoi5_iBdn24KYsiWzbYI1WDBFU0VcfRYJb/w400-h225/IMG_E1011.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>A corner view, which looks OK. See how the ceramics change direction on the left and compare the photo with the mass model above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Now, let us take a closer look at the joints. So obviously wrong and without care, to the expert eye. Besides, the joints have different thickness, due to them being forced to adapt to the shape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ_pyqYiJuWu_kBLtB-NXoDBfLD5z1GoL9kiwaGOFkyAiH_MBExFH5KjzCnPUs56niS67lsRTyEk8TgNk-BwhoW1kLvfKmQkaTTXR4fK9ejEi9486z9NwCViRAVTK6es5vDAASfluzFCYsfrj1mCwYy7caqAnWch3-QmN9R8OfPFwlITuUtQtk6d1n/s4032/IMG_1007.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ_pyqYiJuWu_kBLtB-NXoDBfLD5z1GoL9kiwaGOFkyAiH_MBExFH5KjzCnPUs56niS67lsRTyEk8TgNk-BwhoW1kLvfKmQkaTTXR4fK9ejEi9486z9NwCViRAVTK6es5vDAASfluzFCYsfrj1mCwYy7caqAnWch3-QmN9R8OfPFwlITuUtQtk6d1n/w400-h300/IMG_1007.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoea4R3Q3W0mCNQ9kYkGJ9rFFmcrkl3j6-Cr0ua2EhSZ1pt0cS8oI_FOm-gt3_FLKhmGgiBWTv7uVyMXdu7HisXEwX1vBSgp4dOhTSHZ9n9GpBq2HVaDWE042Mm-ZpjSxCOr68RtqS-cKMwV5AUyH0SjK9jUQZg6HksPJneh2r529hU-HMqU3-vU17/s4032/IMG_1008.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoea4R3Q3W0mCNQ9kYkGJ9rFFmcrkl3j6-Cr0ua2EhSZ1pt0cS8oI_FOm-gt3_FLKhmGgiBWTv7uVyMXdu7HisXEwX1vBSgp4dOhTSHZ9n9GpBq2HVaDWE042Mm-ZpjSxCOr68RtqS-cKMwV5AUyH0SjK9jUQZg6HksPJneh2r529hU-HMqU3-vU17/w400-h300/IMG_1008.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>A macro shot of the tile next to the Aluminum<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The problem of the materials intersection is seen inside as well (precisely, the curve on the left), though I truly like how the light and volumes play at the entry hall. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZClg56Lt1OlvTRTwHQ0WHm_AQk4UcaaM3Rr2yfn280-k2_F_vaOfrwIcAecuVlQ-O0SoXDXjgGMpmcI-aCDp3YZ2NgJBMGEw_oHN4vsMWYMSs6sx2yS3pk0wGgyn1TOhgxmDh91A7LLbgaYAxOpSqlacweX4kzMFY-6yPooWoIZbgleCE5jfV3BZ/s4032/IMG_0963.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZClg56Lt1OlvTRTwHQ0WHm_AQk4UcaaM3Rr2yfn280-k2_F_vaOfrwIcAecuVlQ-O0SoXDXjgGMpmcI-aCDp3YZ2NgJBMGEw_oHN4vsMWYMSs6sx2yS3pk0wGgyn1TOhgxmDh91A7LLbgaYAxOpSqlacweX4kzMFY-6yPooWoIZbgleCE5jfV3BZ/w400-h300/IMG_0963.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjea714eJbaBR84sMHdKyrr5G29syiw_GMTGsrKHKe8wC8PjufNfoboPgFQPgA8jsJPs7w9sBOcFkeNlr4vGKrDsI40nxqBNydYOpKaK1MPnHxWCKLkgwEeBfnZZrdwAxqvQ_S2b1sAolgGIz7K-18WSg189XT5nnJUVDreaGTCQyhuO3vKBi18mDW/s4032/IMG_0964.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjea714eJbaBR84sMHdKyrr5G29syiw_GMTGsrKHKe8wC8PjufNfoboPgFQPgA8jsJPs7w9sBOcFkeNlr4vGKrDsI40nxqBNydYOpKaK1MPnHxWCKLkgwEeBfnZZrdwAxqvQ_S2b1sAolgGIz7K-18WSg189XT5nnJUVDreaGTCQyhuO3vKBi18mDW/w400-h300/IMG_0964.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3BUG6dHMSTsIdyJK5FzCuX2VJbLAst7VOgxZLqypFxglI9l-NQAruyRGrlbq2FGMu_HKE3x-L047Vive9naIWwsn8Qv2DSqoBfxXwkPATuZTVsUY7Za3k7K3Fv3Zlej9Zj7UOTNoxObygjalshslm-6sJb7EDS12D7ISnrxNogwXYxBe14vtGz0T/s4032/IMG_E0972.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3BUG6dHMSTsIdyJK5FzCuX2VJbLAst7VOgxZLqypFxglI9l-NQAruyRGrlbq2FGMu_HKE3x-L047Vive9naIWwsn8Qv2DSqoBfxXwkPATuZTVsUY7Za3k7K3Fv3Zlej9Zj7UOTNoxObygjalshslm-6sJb7EDS12D7ISnrxNogwXYxBe14vtGz0T/w400-h225/IMG_E0972.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>This one is my favorite interior view, the dark ceiling extends above the longitudinal bar.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I believe the use of brick would have been better for this morphology, a prefab brick with the same or similar color. Because the continuity with the neighboring Pelli's Segerstrom building is kept without a doubt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCn_mRAuYay7QlZHjF7Y_E1hR4c0Q1F3Dr5aDyOhOQdL5zZdY7D0lQvtuMeAJF9WSDnQkRWRZGbSQpbyroBZOmcRPUHpw4oPMv8o_fsYdHl4Iww2XEeJba484xGwuKIkITDrp8O1M19ONVL7vZCHXZu5lxsUbu2YOP6L9_OV2FPh3xxl-ngWOItkc/s4032/IMG_E1010.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOCn_mRAuYay7QlZHjF7Y_E1hR4c0Q1F3Dr5aDyOhOQdL5zZdY7D0lQvtuMeAJF9WSDnQkRWRZGbSQpbyroBZOmcRPUHpw4oPMv8o_fsYdHl4Iww2XEeJba484xGwuKIkITDrp8O1M19ONVL7vZCHXZu5lxsUbu2YOP6L9_OV2FPh3xxl-ngWOItkc/w400-h225/IMG_E1010.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>OCMA on the left and the Segerstrom Concert Hall on the right. Alike colors, and an impeccable resolution for the Segerstrom curved surfaces.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbaC_3b3lAISVRAry6Ig3XOpwgAW26lA2wxawaIR71eQ8eNJkqlpwYQCgmS3M8wO-G8FwplxVK5ZEbxjZzaJ6KGzNR7YYtxSoBEg_p6Q0idyzzwn1LH9d47YfdJDeow_ajTJsiGgHfSvEsPnJIlDeKIlKHlhMEP7qB-0fM14xNHlzz9vKfhcJmVvv/s4032/IMG_1040.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbaC_3b3lAISVRAry6Ig3XOpwgAW26lA2wxawaIR71eQ8eNJkqlpwYQCgmS3M8wO-G8FwplxVK5ZEbxjZzaJ6KGzNR7YYtxSoBEg_p6Q0idyzzwn1LH9d47YfdJDeow_ajTJsiGgHfSvEsPnJIlDeKIlKHlhMEP7qB-0fM14xNHlzz9vKfhcJmVvv/w300-h400/IMG_1040.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>I took this picture for a colleague and friend at the University, so he can show it to the students, to learn that even the minor details should be solved.<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">I have had long conversations about this building with some colleagues today. Should we worry about minor details or should we enjoy the overall display of technology? Can we still praise the functional resolution, regardless the morphology, which a friend of mine calls "totally whimsical" ?.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am in favor of "whimsical" new shapes that are allowed due to the advance of technology, but most of all due to us being accustomed to new images and sensorial spaces, for exampl, all those immersive "out of this world" experiences inside buildings like warehouses. I still remember when our students played with Zaha Hadid designs, and we warned them "remember, we need to build it!", the first GA magazine with Zaha Hadid projects that had no chance to be materialized, at the time, of course. So now, I feel like the architects have a sort of victory, while, of course, these "liberties" are allowed by the City planners, who are not architects but expert on zoning codes where politics are also at play. But this is another story.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">OCMA galleries are an example of a revised Museum concept. The galleries are open to a common corridor and we can take a quick look at what is going on from afar, or turn around and be tempted to enter the gift shop, which is open as well, like at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQ9TeBvpl_lV1hofB0lKPjBg43GgisnHbnS2xE76KNH-YSED9ZpVKahWDGy034ASR1A2_d6na40zUrUWX2H-O4df2fNWzVXShF_uGQIRVq6pEwVEEBjYk_-eD7HFnxbnBLOy-mBO49yRpAF_FPNeN6LIU0oadWC-QYNSTEWzVvdS2AQNhc93Kc5Kk/s4032/IMG_0979.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQ9TeBvpl_lV1hofB0lKPjBg43GgisnHbnS2xE76KNH-YSED9ZpVKahWDGy034ASR1A2_d6na40zUrUWX2H-O4df2fNWzVXShF_uGQIRVq6pEwVEEBjYk_-eD7HFnxbnBLOy-mBO49yRpAF_FPNeN6LIU0oadWC-QYNSTEWzVvdS2AQNhc93Kc5Kk/w400-h300/IMG_0979.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg506mAe93LUM3x7nn_2FRIowJLJtJ-BwrbWUbr407U67BOJdlD9qOi7eZlU80oVqA7RsICpkS1DdRQFZEn10YyeWCKwPlnlXu-kbCZklvZMv3wFCh_OLYugIS75IpXof328HkV3yTNVVcFamWpAs8IaLgglpjko_nmLEx3BG4zyJLqrAi18kg69w-z/s4032/IMG_0983.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg506mAe93LUM3x7nn_2FRIowJLJtJ-BwrbWUbr407U67BOJdlD9qOi7eZlU80oVqA7RsICpkS1DdRQFZEn10YyeWCKwPlnlXu-kbCZklvZMv3wFCh_OLYugIS75IpXof328HkV3yTNVVcFamWpAs8IaLgglpjko_nmLEx3BG4zyJLqrAi18kg69w-z/w400-h300/IMG_0983.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We can also have a preview from the upper galleries, through narrow openings on the white walls. Of course, it depends on your height. As I'm short, then I could take the following pictures, if your height is 6' or so, the narrow opening is below your line of sight, unless the staircase down is taken. The minor details: you will also see the dust accumulated on the free standing partition walls and the horizontal part of the wall beyond the columns, as no human arm can reach there to clean. Needless to say, the white walls next to the gallery stairs are stained already. A colleague's opinion was they should have been painted another color where the dust can't be noticed. I proposed a change of material, but the Minimalist white would have been lost. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGa-ZZCjb0Q9nBViiGfYCVk0NEkOvNUdGFs6BJy_5SDKTxKTMHOhB3btO4G6otGewosUBJdlZjh9AHH1lOF4GCVwg1Hf5uOVjTJYKzWkuxDizYM4xUlu_W88tALaCZgb4IZDXHObVH1FBl1Nf4a4T1nqyoyMU7hUyjdvlSwHaYe30LajeHqIAk7WSu/s4032/IMG_0974.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGa-ZZCjb0Q9nBViiGfYCVk0NEkOvNUdGFs6BJy_5SDKTxKTMHOhB3btO4G6otGewosUBJdlZjh9AHH1lOF4GCVwg1Hf5uOVjTJYKzWkuxDizYM4xUlu_W88tALaCZgb4IZDXHObVH1FBl1Nf4a4T1nqyoyMU7hUyjdvlSwHaYe30LajeHqIAk7WSu/w400-h300/IMG_0974.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Where you see the line of the glass, on the walking side it is clean, on the other side, there is dust.<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Tfq4YWGPUifOdCH5BAbDftvkiIEaZXSZ2DdccTbS7lLSKsm6vOudq_JalWdMOMIBJWSRyocgYZYGSAox5hhl1sXv5HTPsjlRwKlSzq5F0pxGGDIFn5V5ebg9UQwLVeGFn5pgcDTgugb59oF_jAoGkyeSXuQKN8E1G3Sgm-aKmh_15STyHc8EYes-/s4032/IMG_0976.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Tfq4YWGPUifOdCH5BAbDftvkiIEaZXSZ2DdccTbS7lLSKsm6vOudq_JalWdMOMIBJWSRyocgYZYGSAox5hhl1sXv5HTPsjlRwKlSzq5F0pxGGDIFn5V5ebg9UQwLVeGFn5pgcDTgugb59oF_jAoGkyeSXuQKN8E1G3Sgm-aKmh_15STyHc8EYes-/w400-h300/IMG_0976.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNiSj9cLl3uGW1XKdwtXavtyE9_I8iMnCAxULtSlni5VYiISBhcYCNsaDbLcqIrX4FQA_ZW08kMAjrDjEDdKB9J7eXvm-qt_xvHL2Kb74fTxq-d4wOk2t-x81QAnhtY4SqAp2HwsGCVECUBsJsvgn6kk_sTleKVlaNeSER2j0DEY8m1jD3g_DEu0Ol/s4032/IMG_0977.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNiSj9cLl3uGW1XKdwtXavtyE9_I8iMnCAxULtSlni5VYiISBhcYCNsaDbLcqIrX4FQA_ZW08kMAjrDjEDdKB9J7eXvm-qt_xvHL2Kb74fTxq-d4wOk2t-x81QAnhtY4SqAp2HwsGCVECUBsJsvgn6kk_sTleKVlaNeSER2j0DEY8m1jD3g_DEu0Ol/w400-h300/IMG_0977.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If this picture is zoomed, there is a visible line of cleanliness vs dust. I extended my own arm to see how far I could reach to clean without an extended dust brush.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The sort of white Minimalism is extended to the bathroom stalls, and there it was where I had my surprise. I felt this weird sensation that I was inside a closet. The feeling of uneasiness made me choose the pull knob for handicap. I wanted to get out of this bathroom space as soon as possible. In the back of my brain, I recalled the horror movies with labs and dead frozen bodies. Too much of my imagination I suppose :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsFGpd04R7Cu9OXo95Ov46TLNnUc8TA22LtJZpLs89qPealVqY73cf9_RYsSVd-fwa2DC6koJGKbTLDDtfkV_J5SsbQrvfT_oah5lSmtsRXbtGd36k7r2-k_6-wfqgx-hRmby7cNYiUpaCG0Y_LJXXU64Yvx-eOa0uN76r5qnLKg3Dmpy1Vuj-TsI/s4032/IMG_0968.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsFGpd04R7Cu9OXo95Ov46TLNnUc8TA22LtJZpLs89qPealVqY73cf9_RYsSVd-fwa2DC6koJGKbTLDDtfkV_J5SsbQrvfT_oah5lSmtsRXbtGd36k7r2-k_6-wfqgx-hRmby7cNYiUpaCG0Y_LJXXU64Yvx-eOa0uN76r5qnLKg3Dmpy1Vuj-TsI/w300-h400/IMG_0968.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The uneasiness is repeated outside, in the (empty again) terrace, when I reached the stairs or sort of theatre wide hemicycle where one can seat and view a narrow circulation to the side entry door, or just the street beyond. I expected a space to enjoy a performance, more like in the Getty Museum style, but not. And there is lack of middle handrails (of course, it is not a formal stair), so I stayed a while observing what people would do: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">just take pictures facing the flat sculpture which is nonsense to be "walked around", sit for a few minutes on the upper stairs or close to the handrails on the sides. I had to avoid a couple in order to reach the handrail. 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The sculpture is meant to be seen from below, and the back has the just the braces painted alike. It is more a scenography than a 3D sculpture.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_WmIvG7cM29ePGmcCFPtGu0LP4N5418foEjOHuv7CW51jDbLID5-45Jr6Go614hePBSDhRMW9Q_Vv9qim2mRSDmUjl5Zxs7IhOL5ZN6PUQ8hj1yLAFxz6xeB44wQySU5mxdKDuQISp_45GuZ4UcG7_NLPpPVcLpd9QJ_2Az2NeTcZJRMtqRAZRCH/s6000/IMG_2053.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="6000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_WmIvG7cM29ePGmcCFPtGu0LP4N5418foEjOHuv7CW51jDbLID5-45Jr6Go614hePBSDhRMW9Q_Vv9qim2mRSDmUjl5Zxs7IhOL5ZN6PUQ8hj1yLAFxz6xeB44wQySU5mxdKDuQISp_45GuZ4UcG7_NLPpPVcLpd9QJ_2Az2NeTcZJRMtqRAZRCH/w400-h225/IMG_2053.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The empty terrace and the back of the flat sculpture.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuppWVjR7P60JNJkKcMJzhThpCftABjPGvyVErig3ksNbEdWYgb1ToJHp0ESrIjGI9naE_GsNAq-06huyXMzIJY2EGtWdsPUcQbk04Gl-T6WpImyIGgqutLqIxiFv9Jwu9QXknGIO9L5skzuDINyhRbjZ5joq56LpGkFJ3bbhRKZicrjEhpdGCbHzb/s6000/IMG_2057.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="6000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuppWVjR7P60JNJkKcMJzhThpCftABjPGvyVErig3ksNbEdWYgb1ToJHp0ESrIjGI9naE_GsNAq-06huyXMzIJY2EGtWdsPUcQbk04Gl-T6WpImyIGgqutLqIxiFv9Jwu9QXknGIO9L5skzuDINyhRbjZ5joq56LpGkFJ3bbhRKZicrjEhpdGCbHzb/w400-h225/IMG_2057.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The planter on the terrace. The row of trees on the side looks very good but sculptural. The planter seems to be like "we need a planter somewhere, given it's a barren terrace". Some people were sitting there, but there is no hope of future good shadow, just to see the species. A reminder of the Caltrans plaza?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_tLHgqLTm16Rgag9HYeUeRJOfsDZ3_XuFEM8uEN5geCIcjWkIb8fTBLMMdSptvYTsJzHX9sHEq_Xjk7yzH3WEvWZVVECIri9IfRDIlu_oTwPGyUJ2J8UWzYdjqeUCLhd1fXeensmNCzOSBC3O7u3sWc6kBruSdb0aCkRmCiVRbaXvtfl7cnfpSSHU/s6000/IMG_2109.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="6000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_tLHgqLTm16Rgag9HYeUeRJOfsDZ3_XuFEM8uEN5geCIcjWkIb8fTBLMMdSptvYTsJzHX9sHEq_Xjk7yzH3WEvWZVVECIri9IfRDIlu_oTwPGyUJ2J8UWzYdjqeUCLhd1fXeensmNCzOSBC3O7u3sWc6kBruSdb0aCkRmCiVRbaXvtfl7cnfpSSHU/w400-h225/IMG_2109.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looking up from the ground plaza. The building on the left does not belong to the museum. What makes me think maybe complex morphology buildings should be erected on open spaces without any other building around. One may guess at first sight which building is which or part of.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9TEtamb4VTNbxQkH9CVaj1rnLCwDhJKRqPBb87Qlsg8yNez1hYLxqKLg8BNiamDCd4d3rDB2eFNtq1lhOOOOZLdObFATO30Afx8q9NDbb7zYm1ozSlQOViYRtUtw5dogu8zpCqqdHz9y0Zbsw0gRkumSheW5d_f5xHr66yDrGjHSB0fwhL8bejAD/s6000/IMG_2099.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="6000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9TEtamb4VTNbxQkH9CVaj1rnLCwDhJKRqPBb87Qlsg8yNez1hYLxqKLg8BNiamDCd4d3rDB2eFNtq1lhOOOOZLdObFATO30Afx8q9NDbb7zYm1ozSlQOViYRtUtw5dogu8zpCqqdHz9y0Zbsw0gRkumSheW5d_f5xHr66yDrGjHSB0fwhL8bejAD/w400-h225/IMG_2099.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The gift shop has this interesting "sculpture" which reflects the building and on the back contains glass cabinets for art products. I was astonished to see, a few rubber bands for hair pony tails, hardened in free standing curly shapes, were 45$ each one (!!). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilK6c9x0N5SsDOeQXzwM0rv9QDyJ4PW-rp4UBoPstYf-vyuyIqvgCcGoyUR45o91tFBUu3XH2GCLrsPlWawBT1bIN4APhcqVGc_3umY0XSulf-svAb4H1SPlaexaSoW8UbGtXGR8iv1xMtXCvbuoGlYR6n8yglgAZXeVIUTXejaEUD8VYi0xfsCep1/s3989/IMG_0996.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2730" data-original-width="3989" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilK6c9x0N5SsDOeQXzwM0rv9QDyJ4PW-rp4UBoPstYf-vyuyIqvgCcGoyUR45o91tFBUu3XH2GCLrsPlWawBT1bIN4APhcqVGc_3umY0XSulf-svAb4H1SPlaexaSoW8UbGtXGR8iv1xMtXCvbuoGlYR6n8yglgAZXeVIUTXejaEUD8VYi0xfsCep1/w400-h274/IMG_0996.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A colleague that visited the museum with me found this tempered glass railing over the steps pretty funny and out of sense. We were doubting if this sculptural construction was finished or not. A climber would grow and cover all of it, I will have to come back to see if the climber would hide the guardrail, and then give an answer to my friend who asked, how much would you think it was the cost of the diagonal tempered glass? While I was looking at the climber trying to reach it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">A final consideration about the landscape. If the climber was meant to add some green area to the barren open space, then it is not significative. The plaza has a few trees, and the palm trees are part of the buildings across the street. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The row of trees, as seen in the massive model, are not to enjoy them from a practical and useful point of view. They are just like sculptures, one cannot step on the planters. There is also a physical barrier to the side garden, as seen from the terrace. I am against this design decision, since any architect can use the landscape as a mean of relax and healing. This decorative landscape is reinforcing the idea of the architecture as an object, pretty far form the users natural need of being in close contact with nature. Which is the consequence? People taking their beverages outside the building, looking for a plaza with canopy trees. </div><div>Regardless my personal opinion, the OCMA is worth the visit.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeI59tePBdn1vMmZO36AfhfI7cvB4SKsisJiL3631HIgMi4qusuK-1H693iaQWFq0tUXHQhhVC5xR1sf3Vwqll5GJTaA16wUCa5-WUudRqpYiqs8dluJ0v8GhkOvy953qZ8Q-xjRNdFy7yhWZmjakK471Py10FZ62WX1taR3ooG90RYzRD9i5dVNeY/s6000/IMG_2036.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="6000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeI59tePBdn1vMmZO36AfhfI7cvB4SKsisJiL3631HIgMi4qusuK-1H693iaQWFq0tUXHQhhVC5xR1sf3Vwqll5GJTaA16wUCa5-WUudRqpYiqs8dluJ0v8GhkOvy953qZ8Q-xjRNdFy7yhWZmjakK471Py10FZ62WX1taR3ooG90RYzRD9i5dVNeY/w400-h225/IMG_2036.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikIxZ0bntndd6vmi8ovepaQKWiHLzKxQIRe40A3l3bl0ZQRWgSxFhOzz0ZNxMSS0r7byMmkQ0AKuW9QtKy2vB7SHgvRk8WWTKp4Ln5JK9-0xPtNgCmPAQtpQyl9g8ZUmytiKCGFj9YLIaM9nJ5oHxAJLweePfr9L4p5hM_ann_R997WVF6TzNZ15Ya/s6000/IMG_2049.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="6000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikIxZ0bntndd6vmi8ovepaQKWiHLzKxQIRe40A3l3bl0ZQRWgSxFhOzz0ZNxMSS0r7byMmkQ0AKuW9QtKy2vB7SHgvRk8WWTKp4Ln5JK9-0xPtNgCmPAQtpQyl9g8ZUmytiKCGFj9YLIaM9nJ5oHxAJLweePfr9L4p5hM_ann_R997WVF6TzNZ15Ya/w400-h225/IMG_2049.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ18CheD1oIj1_kVsKrMqkRrinGmroxUrgcgf8PbTSZs-Wh_Dz2G1_YnNGXh6qubMwDtiJt2mzkFnQwSwf0oNV_SDZx-6uiWW6rM2vd63efwn0E1urlCD5zjeSamdhbzfSFDkeke5v-jySpgVYaKlqKUEIVTyzS8G5DEzjX27LQl4cfzAklQUTJQrF/s6000/IMG_2144.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3368" data-original-width="6000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ18CheD1oIj1_kVsKrMqkRrinGmroxUrgcgf8PbTSZs-Wh_Dz2G1_YnNGXh6qubMwDtiJt2mzkFnQwSwf0oNV_SDZx-6uiWW6rM2vd63efwn0E1urlCD5zjeSamdhbzfSFDkeke5v-jySpgVYaKlqKUEIVTyzS8G5DEzjX27LQl4cfzAklQUTJQrF/w400-h225/IMG_2144.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A row of trees dividing two buildings. No matter the effort, this space will be always empty, it is just a service corridor. The trees are planted where some space was left.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Myriam B. Mahiqueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04877775531588362818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900300360207070092.post-11878150967866157642020-05-31T15:01:00.001-07:002020-05-31T21:47:47.750-07:00Thoughts about "Hoarders"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many years ago, one of my posts was about people with compulsive behavior keeping lots of staff inside and around their homes. I'm not a psychologist and I saw this from the point of view of a morphologist, just the occupation of the architectural space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a client, back in 2012, owner of an important house, who used to fill up the rooms with vintage objects, up to the ceiling. She had some illegal constructions and upon comparison with the inspector's pictures, we discovered the owner was relocating stuff and even windows and doors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was surprised, being this my first experience with hoarders. I offered her to buy a nice vintage jar, and she reluctantly sold it to me while warning me "be careful, that's the way you begin to pick up". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She made the effort to have her legalization plans prepared soon, but she decided not to submit them. After a few meetings with the City inspector, the planner and the City attorney, and due to the inaction on her side, she was arrested and put in jail. Until her brother came back from Europe and got everything done: plans got approved, a contractor was hired to fix the house, which was deeply cleaned, and she was sent to hospital. I don't know what happened then, but I promised the brother to keep the original plans of the house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, trashing old plans I had in a closet, I couldn't get rid of this house blue prints (they are genuinely blue), out of respect for my compromise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in 2018, we had another experience, more serious this time, and the contractor taught me the word: "hoarder". He cleaned part of the house to allow us to take the overall dimensions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the time I was wondering how they could live in these conditions where all type of objects, clothes, toys, food etc etc was piled up everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lady homeowner had psychological problems, but the husband, after many years of living under the circumstances, seemed to be submissive and in full acceptance of the unhealthy environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The son, had a separate clean room and bathroom for himself, like a bubble in a sea of trash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my experience, the family accepts the situation and everyone tries to create an independent personal space in the house. This is the best thing they could do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's currently a series on Netflix called "Hoarders" which captured my full attention. Not that I like the style of "Big Brother" show, I would have preferred a documentary instead of a sort of short performed novels about the disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is stated is that 19M people in the USA suffer from hoarding disorders. And they are showing some extreme examples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It feels weird to me that a son or daughter does not know how the parent is living this way for so long years, but not all families are the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grievances and tears are abundant and worst of all -in my opinion- is the participation of a licensed psychologist who admonishes the hoarder, in the effort of making him/her realize of his/her bad doings, and what is more, she gives a public diagnostic of the psychological health of the hoarder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An interesting "legality," is that the cleaners must not take the junk away unless the owner gives them permission. Which is very difficult because what is junk for some, is precious to others. If the hoarder does not allow the removal of objects/ trash, then it could be considered a robbery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A case that has made me sad, so far, is Patricia's, a lady from Indiana, whose house is deeply full of trash accumulated along 30 years, infected by rats, dogs and human feces, the house is collapsing due to the extra vertical loads and all its component materials are biohazardous given the feces and rotten organics have been absorbed by walls, flooring, foundation. The house is unsafe and worth demolition, but at the end we learn Patricia comes back and her son in law (or so relative) is making some improvements in the house to leave it "somehow" habitable. Because that's the main point, is the hoarder able to live back in the house? Is he /she able to get his/her pets back?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coming back to Code Enforcement, they shouldn't let the hoarding reach such a critical point because setting aside the decrease of the property(ies) value, it's absolutely unsafe and contaminating. It seems to me they do not notify the family, but just the homeowner, who cannot understand what is wrong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the cases I personally know, not a single social worker was sent to the property. It was all related to the building, to the construction. I see it as a weak point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All pictures are screen shots from the "Hoarders" show on Netflix.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On episode 5, another doctor is presented: psychiatrist Melva Green, who has shown a lot of support and compassion. And she helps the hoarders (two of them) to get to the root of their problem which -apparently- is a consequence of their poverty in childhood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Un espacio vacante con cañerías y conexiones expuestas. Las banquinas de concreto deben ser demolidas. Archivos personales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este post lo escribo fundamentalmente para la gente que desea rentar su primer local comercial para comenzar un negocio en California. La mayor parte de las veces, ellos visitan el lugar, si les gusta, lo aceptan, sin investigar lo que los departamentos en las Ciudades (y eventualmente Health Department) van a requerir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El caso más rápido, es pasar desde un cierto uso al mismo uso (o similar), sin otros cambios más que pintura, decoración. Para abrir un negocio, la Ciudad le pedirá que aplique para una licencia (Business license). Digamos, como ejemplo, pasar de oficinas a otras oficinas administrativas, es un paso simple, un plano (floor plan) podría ser requerido si la Ciudad no tiene records de la propiedad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Un escenario completamente distinto sería pasar de oficinas administrativas a centro médico, para comenzar, la ocupación de personas sería mucho más alta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El primer paso para el inquilino, y antes de firmar el contrato, es ir al departamento de Planning y preguntar si el nuevo uso es permitido. Segundo, cuántos parkings serán requeridos, según tal uso, y verificar de cuántos estacionamientos se dispone, si son asignados o generales. Tenga en cuenta que aplicar para un variance sobre parkings es un proceso que lleva mucho tiempo, durante el cual, la renta debe ser pagada, y lo más probable es que el resultado sea negativo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El broker o agente inmobiliario (de haber uno), no siempre cuenta con esta información, y hasta podría ocultar las restricciones para lograr cerrar la operación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Supongamos que el uso está permitido y la cantidad de estacionamientos está bien. Luego, la accesibilidad para personas discapacitadas es muy importante. Su nuevo negocio debe ser totalmente accesible, aún para los empleados. De lo contrario, es discriminación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por supuesto existe la cláusula de ¨grandfather¨ que protege la construcción existente: las que fueron aprobadas bajo permisos antiguos y mientras que no se haga una remodelación o ampliación, tales construcciones pueden ser mantenidas como están.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El piso de concreto necesita reparaciones, la estructura de las paredes y techo están aún expuestas. Archivos personales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pero si hay una remodelación o ampliación, todo debe cumplir con los códigos corrientes. Un porcentaje de la inversión debe ser destinada a las mejoras de accesibilidad. Un presupuesto de obra (que incluye mobiliario y terminaciones) debe ser presentado si se disiente con la valuación que establece Building and Safety. Si las mejoras son muy importantes, y/o no hay una forma técnica de realizarlas, una forma de ¨hardship¨ puede ser presentada a Building and Safety para su evaluación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Cómo se muestran las nuevas mejoras de accesibilidad (ADA)? A través de planos de arquitectura necesarios para el ¨Tenant Improvement¨, como parte de un paquete que puede ser completado con planos y cálculos mecánicos, de electricidad, plomería y eventualmente estructura, dependiendo del tipo de trabajos y del negocio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nosotros comúnmente comenzamos mostrando los caminos de egreso con los signos de ¨exit¨ (salida), remodelación de baños accesibles (lo que se requiera para cumplir con el código actual) y mostradores con las alturas correspondientes. Pero si el monto de esta inversión requerido para ADA no es suficiente, continuamos con mejoras en los estacionamientos, lo que se relaciona con rampas exteriores, veredas, carteles, caminos, etc. Esto significa más dinero de obra que lo que el inquilino había imaginado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Tiene el inquilino la obligación de proveer todo esto, en el peor de los casos?. Si, pero sólo hasta el monto establecido para mejoras de ADA. Si los trabajos afectan el exterior, generalmente el inquilino tiene un arreglo con el landlord para que se ocupe de pagar las mejoras exteriores. Cuando el caso es difícil de solucionar, la Ciudad suele mandar un inspector de ADA para hallar una solución razonable. En mi experiencia, esta situación sólo la he visto en shopping malls antiguos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Volviendo a los planos para un TI, un error habitual es creer que sólo un plano se requiere. Ésto sería así si la remodelación es menor, en tal caso lo mínimo son dos planos, un site plan (plano del sitio) con los estacionamientos, más el floor plan con detalles de ADA. Para trabajos más importantes, se necesitan planos completos de arquitectura, mecánicos, eléctricos, plomería y tal vez estructurales. Si el negocio es relacionado con comida, recuerde que el departamento de salud (Health Department) toma 21 días hábiles para dar los comentarios del plan check. El inquilino debiera negociar con el landlord cuántos meses de gracia (sin pago) le serán dados para permitir que los ingenieros y arquitectos preparen los planos y cálculos. Este período de gracia suele variar entre dos y tres meses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nosotros recomendamos altamente para los nuevos inquilinos con poca experiencia en el proceso, que consulten a un arquitecto o diseñador experto antes de firmar el contrato si hay cambio de uso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Algunos cambios de uso especiales pueden llevar Planning Commission y ésto se traduce a un par de meses de demora. Podría ser un mes pero se supone pedirán alguna corrección y las fechas de reuniones son una vez por mes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Qué debiera el inquilino tener en cuenta?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Primero, si la licencia del negocio está aún activa. Luego de seis meses de ser revocada, o si el lugar ha estado cerrado, los derechos de ¨grandfather¨ expiran. En consecuencia, todo debe ajustarse a los códigos corrientes de Zoning y Building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por ejemplo, si Ud desea abrir un restaurant que ha estado cerrado por seis meses, nuevos planos deberán ser presentados para todo el local.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Habrá preparación de comida?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Habrá penetraciones entre los negocios adyacentes que requieran protección contra fuego y cuántas horas de protección?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay suficientes puertas de salida? Puertas de emergencia?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Son los Amperes de los tableros suficientes para el nuevo uso? Como un ejemplo importante, pasar de un negocio de venta de ropa a un yogurt store o restaurant obviamente requiere mucha más carga eléctrica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cómo está diseñado el estacionamiento? Hay rampas de veredas, líneas diagonales, carteles de accesibilidad?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Es la cantidad de baños adecuada para el nuevo uso y cantidad de gente?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Es el edificio histórico? De serlo, cuáles son las restricciones?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay alguna obra realizada dentro del local sin permiso? Por ejemplo, equipamiento no declarado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Penetraciones existentes desde un restaurant en segundo piso a un negocio en el primer piso. Se debe verificar si son protegidas contra fuego. Archivos personales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am writing this post mostly for people who decide to lease their first retail to begin a business in California. Most of the times, they look at the place, if they like it, they go for it, without researching about what the City departments (and eventually Health Department) will request.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fastest case, is to pass from a certain use to the same use (or similar) without any more changes than painting, decoration. In order to open the business, the City will request a business license. Let's say, from offices to offices for administration it is just a simple step, a floor plan could be needed if the City has no records of the property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A complete different scenario would be from administration offices to medical offices, beginning with, the occupancy load (people that will be inside the building) will be quite higher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first duty from the tenant, and before signing a lease, is to go to the City Hall, Planning department, and ask if the new use is allowed. Second, how many parkings will be requested. And find out if what it is offered at the job site is enough. Take into account, that applying for a variance on parkings is a process that takes a very long time (in the meantime the rent must be paid), and most probably the result is negative. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The broker (if there is any) not always has this information, or he/she could even hide the restrictions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let us suppose the use is allowed, and the parking stalls are OK. Then, the handicap accessibility is very important. Your retail must be fully accessible, even for employees. If not, this is discrimination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course there is the "grandfather" clause which protects the existing construction, those that have very old permits and while there are no remodels, the structures can be kept "as is".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But if there is a remodel, everything has to comply with the current Codes. A percentage of the investment must be destined to accessibility improvements. A budget has to be disclosed, or at least it will be based on the valuation of works. If the improvements are very important, and there is no technical way to do part of them, a hardship form must be submitted to Building and Safety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How does the tenant show the new accessibility improvements? Through the architectural plans needed for the Tenant Improvement (T.I.), as part of a package that could be completed with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, plans and calculations, depending on the scope of works and type of business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We usually begin showing on ADA and egress plans the exit signs, the Braille signs, interior improvements inside bathrooms. Then, if it's not enough for the amount of investment requested for ADA, we continue with the parkings. And this is related to ramps, sidewalks, signs, path of travel, etc. It means much more money than the tenant would imagine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Has the tenant the obligation to provide all of this? Yes, up to the established amount destined to ADA. Usually, the tenant has an arrangement with the landlord, while the tenant works inside, the landlord deals with the exterior improvements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the case is very hard to comply, the City could send an ADA inspector to find a Solomonic (reasonable) solution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coming back to the plans for a TI, one common mistake is to believe that only one plan is needed. This would be a very minor remodel, minimum two plans are needed, a site plan with the parkings and surrounding buildings, a floor plan. For more important works, full architectural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical and (maybe) structural are needed. If the business is related to food, remember Health Department takes 21 business days to release the plan check comments. The tenant should negotiate with the landlord how many months of "grace" would be granted to allow the architects and engineers to prepare plans and comply with the plan check. The grace period varies between two or three months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We highly recommend for new tenants with little experience in this process, to consult an architect or experienced designer before proceeding to sign the lease if there is a change of use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some special changes of uses may take Planning Commission, and it is translated to months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What the tenant should be aware of? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First of all, if the retail business license is still active. After 6 months of having a revoked license or the place has been closed, the grandfather rights are expired. Everything has to be under the current Zoning and Building Code.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's say, you want to lease a restaurant, and it has been closed for more than 6 months. Brand new plans must be submitted if the use is still permitted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rest is part of the typical construction documents that we should take care of. Basic questions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are the ceiling panels Ok for the kitchen (if any)?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Will there be preparation of food?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are penetrations between tenants fire proof, as many hours as needed per Code?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are there enough exit doors? Are they Code compliant?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the Amperage enough for the new use? As a rough example, from a clothes retail to a yogurt store, obviously the panel would not be enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How is the parking designed? Is there any curb ramp, are there stripes on the lot, accessibility signs?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the bathroom compliant?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are the clients able to use the restroom? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the quantity of restrooms enough for the new use and new occupancy load?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the building historical? If so, which are the restrictions?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the type of flooring allowed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There would be other questions as well, but at least I am opening the readers' minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Una legalización de obras o trabajos de construcción (ilegales) no permitidas, significa presentar planos de arquitectura, de energía (si se necesitan), y estructurales más los cálculos pertinentes, para traer todos los trabajos de acuerdo a los códigos vigentes. En otras palabras, lo que ha sido construído sin permiso ni inspecciones, se muestran como ¨nuevos¨. Dichas obras sin permiso deben ser entonces, reparadas, alteradas, reforzadas, modificadas, para estar bajo los códigos corrientes. El plan check (revisión de los planos en la Ciudad) y los permisos deben ser pagados e inspecciones son necesarias, incluso para lo que esté escondido, por ejemplo en los áticos o bajo tierra, o dentro de las paredes, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Quién es responsable por esto? El propietario actual. Es común escuchar a los propietarios decir ¨Yo no lo hice, lo compré así¨. Él puede tener la oportunidad de llevar a Corte a la empresa de Bienes Raíces (Real State) pero, finalmente, luego de la inspección (survey) y la aceptación y firma de la escritura (Grant Deed), el comprador está aceptando las condiciones de la propiedad. Mi consejo, por favor chequee los records antes de comprar o rentar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cuídese de los contratistas no licenciados. Ellos pueden tentar a los propietarios e inquilinos para construír sin permiso, para evitar los tiempos del proceso de presentación de planos. Podríamos decir que dado el caso, son culpables. Pero no son responsables. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Porqué menciono ¨no licenciado?¨. Pues porque si el contratista es licenciado, seguramente temerá que el propietario o inquilino lo denuncie al Board de Contratistas y así pueda suspenderle o revocarle la licencia por mala praxis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Podría suceder que los registros (records) en el Assessor´s Office difieran de los records en la Ciudad. ¿Porqué es ello? El Assessor´s tiene siluetas y planos que determinan el monto de taxes que Ud paga por la propiedad, además pueden determinar por fotografías aéreas si el tamaño del edificio es mayor al declarado. Pero esta información no siempre coincide con los records de la Ciudad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A los fines de la legalización, los records en la Ciudad son los válidos. Una vez que la legalización se termina, habrá un registro actualizado en la oficina del Assessor (taxes).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Es importante legalizar las estructuras sin permiso? Por supuesto. El propietario puede ser denunciado por un vecino o simplemente alguien que haya visto las irregularidades, las estructuras pueden llevar orden de demolición en consecuencia; los inquilinos pueden mandar al propietario a Corte, hay una situación de seguridad de la gente viviendo allí, y en caso de un incendio, la compañía de seguros puede no cubrir los daños. Entre otras consecuencias. Una propiedad con construcciones ilegales disminuye su valor en el mercado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Se necesita sólo un plano? No. Es un paquete de planos más cálculos. Dependiendo de la complejidad y el tipo de trabajos, los básicos son arquitectura, energía (agua caliente, calefacción, aislación térmica), estructuras. Más planos y cálculos podrían ser agregados a la lista. En proyectos comerciales, planos y cálculos mecánicos, eléctricos y de plomería son necesarios, por ejemplo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Una fisura vertical en un muro de contención (retaining wall), en ladera de montaña. De mis archivos personales</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Un problema típico de una adición ilegal es la falta de fundación. Generalmente las paredes exteriores son construídas precariamente sobre un piso de concreto, sin barrera de vapor hacia el suelo, ni aislación térmica por dentro. A veces, los patio cover se cierran, y la altura no es suficiente, entonces otro techo debe ser construído arriba para resolver el problema de agregar la aislación térmica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A veces la legalización no es total si no una parte. Veamos el ejemplo abajo. Aquí tenemos dos trabajos ilegales: los ceiling joists (maderas del cielorraso) han sido quitadas y hubo que agregar soporte extra; la aislación con espuma de Poliestireno no ha sido permitida, dado que el proveedor no tenía su número de reporte de calidad ICC en California, por lo tanto hubo que quitarla y reemplazarla.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La foto abajo muestra un cuarto construído entre la casa y el garage existente. El cuarto es muy bajo, la demolición ilegal, hubo que presentar viga, postes, paredes y fundaciones nuevas. El hogar (fireplace) no es compatible con el Green Code y se demolió.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Las legalizaciones no son exclusivas de las residencias. También los comercios tienen cantidad de alteraciones sin permiso que pueden ser muy peligrosas si están relacionadas con seguridad contra fuego. La foto debajo muestra una pileta de tres compartimientos con un drenaje incorrecto para las normas del departamento de Salud. El trabajo fue rechazado y debió rehacerse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debajo, una cocina exterior standard, bajo un techo de madera y sin protección contra fuego. Además, está muy cerca de las líneas divisorias. Es un caso insalvable, a no ser que se provean estrictas protecciones contra fuego. Sin embargo, las distancias a los vecinos (set backs) pueden ser aceptados o no por Planning Department, según las normas de la Ciudad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Los patio covers sin braces podrían ser ilegales. Los ¨braces¨ son las maderas diagonales que colaboran en las cargas laterales (terremotos). Digo ¨podrían ser¨ porque hay patio covers muy antiguos que se construían así. La ventana es nueva, y podría no ser adecuada para el cálculo de energía Título 24. De ser así, tiene que ser cambiada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La foto abajo muestra dos construcciones muy cercas entre sí, los aleros no son contra fuego. Imaginen qué peligroso es si una casa se prende fuego. La legalización podría implicar reconstruír la estructura no permitida con el set back obligatorio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debajo, una pared dividiendo un garage entre dos unidades de vivienda, una adyacente, otra detrás. Si esa pared no tiene altura total de piso a techo ni protecciones contra fuego, un incendio puede propagarse rápidamente...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debajo, vemos un cuarto en una casa de los últimos años. Esta construcción es ilegal y el espacio cerrado entre el garage y la vivienda no tiene suficiente iluminación y ventilación para un área habitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¿Qué hacer en caso que haya una visita de un inspector, o una noticia de la Ciudad, o ¨Code Enforcement¨?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Primero, hacer una cita con el inspector y ver qué es lo que se requiere. El inspector dejará una nota escrita con una fecha límite para presentar planos o demoler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Segundo, si Ud no tiene intenciones de demoler, contrate a un profesional que proceda con la legalización. Pague una extensión para permitir más tiempo para preparar planos y cálculos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pregunte al profesional acerca de las posibilidades de salvar las estructuras sin permiso. Como puede ver en los ejemplos arriba, no siempre pueden ser rescatadas en su totalidad. Y a veces es más caro reparar, modificar, que construír de cero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tercer paso, mantenga contacto con el inspector a cargo y comuníquele los avances. Podría suceder que el inspector desconozca las actualizaciones en el sistema y el estado actual del proceso de plan check.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Si hay gente viviendo bajo estructuras ilegales, negocie un período de tiempo para que se vayan, porque es considerado ¨no seguro¨ para sus vidas. Hable con el inspector para ver posibles fechas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Al final de la construcción, y teniendo todas inspecciones pasadas y aprobadas, pida un Certificate of Occupancy, comúnmente llamado ¨final de obra¨. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NOTA: las fotos pertenecen a mis archivos personales. Las estructuras mostradas han sido parcialmente demolidas y reparadas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este post tiene como objetivo ayudar a los propietarios e inquilinos que no conocen los problemas explicados. Si tiene alguna pregunta, aquí estamos para ayudar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A legalization of (illegal) non permitted structures or construction works means to submit architectural, energy plans and calculations (as needed) and structural plans and calculations to bring everything back to Code. In other words, what had been built without a permit and inspections is shown as "new". The non permitted constructions must be repaired, altered, reinforced, modified as needed to comply with the current Codes, permits must be paid and inspections are needed, even for whatever is hidden, inside attics, underground, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who is responsible for this? The current owner. It is common to hear from owners "I didn't make it, I bought it as is". The owner may have the chance to sue the Real State company, but finally, and after a survey and the acceptance of the Grant Deed, the person is at the same time accepting the conditions of the property. My advice, please check the records before buying or even leasing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beware of non-licensed contractors. They could lure the owners-tenants to build without a permit, to avoid waiting for the permits process. They could be guilty of deceiving but they are not responsible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why do I mention a "non lincensed" contractor? Because if the contractor is licensed, he will be afraid the owner-tenant can call the Board of Contractors and have his licensed suspended or revoked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It may happen that the records at the Assessor's Office differ from the records at the City. Why is this? The Assessor's have silhouettes and plans to determine the taxes you are paying for the property, and they may even find in aerial pictures if the building is bigger than declared. But whatever information is at the Assesor's office, does not need to match with the City records.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the purposes of a legalization, the City records are the valid ones. Once the legalization is ready, there will be an updated record for the Assessor's office (taxes).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is it important to legalize structures? Of course. The homeowner maybe be denounced, the structures may have notice of demolition, illegal tenants can sue the "landlord", there are issues involving the safety of people, in case of fire the insurance company may not cover the damages. Among other inconveniences. A house with illegal construction diminishes its value in the market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is it just one plan needed? No, this is a package of plans. Depending on the complexity and type of works, the basics are architectural, energy, structural. More plans and calculations could be added. In commercial works, mechanical, electrical and plumbing, as an example.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One typical problem of an illegal room addition is the lack of foundation, exterior walls are usually built precariously on an existing slab, no vapor barrier is provided, no walls and ceiling thermal insulation. Sometimes if the patio cover is enclosed, the height is not enough and another roof must be built on top of the existing to solve the problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes the legalization is not for the building but part of it. Let's see in the example below, we have two illegal works: the ceiling joists have been removed and extra support must be added; this foam insulation is no permitted in California (the provider failed to show an ICC report number approved in CA) and it has to be removed and replaced. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The picture below is showing the construction of a room between a house and an existing (permitted) garage. The room is very low, the demolition is illegal, a header and posts must be verified and provided. The fireplace is not compliant with the current Green Code. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below, the standard outdoor kitchen, without fire safety under the roof. Besides, it is too close to the property lines. This is a case that is not possible to be saved, unless strict fire protection is provided. The set backs could or could not be accepted by planning department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The picture below shows two constructions very close to each other, there is no eaves fire protection. Needless to say how dangerous it is if one structure is set on fire. The legalization would imply to rebuild the non permitted structure with the required set back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a modern house, from the last years. The construction between the garage and the house proves to be illegal, the space is enclosed and not enough illumination and ventilation for a habitable space is provided.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What to do in case of an inspector's visit, a notice from the City, a Code enforcement? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First of all, make an appointment with the inspector. Find out what he/she is requesting. The inspector will leave a written note with a due date to submit plans or demolish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Secondly, if you do not have the intention of demolishing, then hire a professional to proceed with the legalization and pay for an extension, to allow time to prepare the plans and calculations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ask the professional about the possibilities of saving the structures. As you can see in some examples above, not always they can be totally saved. And sometimes this is more expensive to repair, remodel, fix than building brand new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Third step, keep contact with the inspector in charge and communicate the updates of the process. It may happen the inspector is not aware of the current status of the plan check.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If there is people living under illegal structures, they must have a period of time to leave, because it is considered unsafe. Talk to the inspector for reasonable due dates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the construction works and having the inspections approved in full, request the Certificate of Occupancy, commonly called "the final".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NOTE: the pictures belong to my personal archives. The structures have been (partially) demolished and repaired. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This post is meant to help homeowners and tenants who are not aware of the issues explained above. If you have a question, we are here to help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Garage conversion" into ADU or Accessory Dwelling Unit means the conversion of an existing garage into a habitable dwelling. This is permitted in California due to the Bill Senate 1069. For the City of Los Angeles, the link below will help for a better clarification:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Basically, it is established that, given the housing crisis, their high costs (estimated in 2.5% on top of the national average), plus the expensive rents (50% on top of the national average), barriers against the construction of ADU would be eliminated within certain restrictions. Among those restrictions would be maximum percentages of square footage compared to the main unit, maximum square footage allowed, set backs, off street parkings, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main question is, can a garage be converted into a dwelling? Yes, even if it is detached or attached to the main house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. If the garage is not modified and its original square footage (per records) is kept, the set backs (front, rear, side distances to the property lines) stay "as is" no extra off street parking is needed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. If the homeowner decides to enlarge the garage, then all restrictions of set backs and off street parkings apply as if it were a brand new second unit. With this being said, there must be verified if the parking spaces and back up clearances fit into the lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are particular cases, like in Carson, where the ADU could be considered a living space for a bachelor, with a basic kitchen, the bathroom could be new inside the ADU or the existing bathrooms inside the main house may be used (in an attached ADU).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the main problems I've seen, is that the homeowners consider the garage conversion is just only one floor plan, showing the garage as a dwelling. This is extremely incorrect, for a new conversion or for a legalization of a change of use that was made without a permit. The legalization means to submit plans of new construction for the works that do not have a record, so no permits have been paid for them and they were not subject to inspections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To pass from an accessory structure like an inhabitable garage to a livable dwelling is object of many considerations. Mostly when the structure is from old times. Obviously, the codes employed E.G. 30 years ago, are not the same than the current ones, which have more safety measurements against fire and earthquakes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The garage must comply then with construction requisites that must be approved under the current Codes. People who is meant to live inside an ADU has to be safe!.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, basic plans and calculations needed for the (construction of a) garage conversion into an ADU are the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Architectural plans: site plan, floor plan, cross sections, electrical and plumbing layout, green code forms, elevations (facades), construction details (walls assemblies, ventilations, LID low impact development, fire rated details, etc), construction notes, roofing, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Structural plans and calculations: a garage must not have a ceiling. If originally it had collar ties, then they wont be enough to support the new drywall ceiling. Ceiling joists would be added, and it means new loads to the existing structure. There must be a new foundation below the former garage door, with epoxy connection to the existing foundation. Foundations must be revised. The existing slab concrete must be leveled and a vapor barrier provided. New shearwalls upgrades (walls against earthquakes) should be added.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Depending on the City, the structural plan check could be more or less intensive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Energy calculations and plans: This is Title 24 which applies to heating (and this is an obligation), windows coefficients and hot water.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some landscape design may be requested as well, like new trees planting, and or planters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">¨Garage conversion" en ADU o Accessory Dwelling Unit, significa la conversión de un garage existente en una unidad de vivienda. Esto se permite en California por la legislación (Bill Senate) 1069. Para la ciudad de Los Angeles, este link ayudará a una mejor comprensión:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Básicamente, se establece que, dada la crisis de vivienda y los altos costos de las mismas en California (estimado en un 2.5% por arriba del promedio nacional), sumado al costo de las rentas (50% por arriba del promedio nacional), se eliminarían (con ciertas restricciones) las barreras para la construcción de ADU. Entre estas restricciones, se encuentran los porcentajes máximos de tamaño con respecto a la vivienda principal, máxima area permitida, set backs, parkings, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Este post se refiere a la generalidad y cada propiedad estará restringida por el código de Zoning correspondiente a la ciudad en cuestión.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La pregunta principal, se puede convertir un garage en vivienda? Sí, tanto si está detached (separado de la casa) o attached (adyacente a la casa). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Si el garage no se modifica y se respeta su área original (por records), los set backs (distancias de frente, fondo, y lados a la property line o línea divisoria de propiedad) queda como están actualmente y no se necesita proveer extra estacionamiento (parking space) de autos dentro del lote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Si el dueño decide ampliar el garage, entonces todas las restricciones de set backs y provisión de espacios de estacionamiento aplican como si la unidad fuera nueva. Con lo cual, hay que verificar si entran los autos requeridos y si las maniobras de manejo dan bien.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hay casos particulares, como en Carson, que la ADU se puede considerar un espacio como estudio de un adolescente, con una cocina básica y el baño puede ser nuevo o se puede usar el de la unidad principal, en caso de una ADU adyacente. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uno de los mayores problemas que he encontrado, es que los propietarios consideran que la conversión del garage es un solo plano, simplemente mostrar que se pasa de garage a vivienda. Esto es sumamente incorrecto, ya sea para una nueva conversión o para una legalización de un cambio de uso realizado sin permiso. La legalización implica mostrar planos de obra nueva sobre aquéllos trabajos que no están en records, por lo tanto no se ha pagado permiso sobre ellos ni han estado bajo inspección.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pasar de un área accesoria como un garage, (inhabitable) a una vivienda (habitable) es objeto de muchas consideraciones, más aún cuando la estructura es de antigua data. Obviamente los códigos empleados por ejemplo, en los años 30 no son los mismos que los actuales, que tienen más medidas de seguridad contra terremotos e incendios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">El garage debe entonces cumplir con cuestiones constructivas que sean aprobadas dentro de los códigos vigentes. Las personas que vivan en la ADU tienen que estar bajo una construcción segura para sus vidas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Por lo tanto, los planos de conversión de garage a ADU comprenden el siguiente paquete de planos y cálculos de construcción:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Planos de arquitectura; site plan (sitio), floor plan (plano), cross sections (cortes constructivos), distribución eléctrica, formas de green code, elevaciones (fachadas), detalles constructivos (ej.nuevas paredes interiores y exteriores de stucco o el material que corresponda), ventilaciones de los techos, nuevo ceiling, artefactos de baños, cocinas, detalles contra fuego, barrera de vapor, LID (Low Impact Development), ventilaciones, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Planos y cálculos de estructuras; un garage no debe tener ceiling. Si originalmente tiene collar ties, seguramente no serán suficientes. Habrá que agregar ceiling joists para el cielorraso de drywall, lo que implica una nueva carga a una estructura existente. Nueva fundación donde estaba la puerta del garage, con conexión de epoxy a la fundación existente, revisión de las fundaciones, diseño de cargas laterales contra terremotos (shearwalls), etc. Según la Ciudad, el plan check de estructuras podrá ser más o menos intensivo. La inspección ocular del ingeniero en el sitio de obra para verificar las condiciones existentes es importante, si la construcción es precaria o muy antigua.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am always thinking of three dimension or upgrading 2D to 3D spatiality. This is a natural habit for an architect´s profession and I find it amusing when I pass a plain 2D to 3D thanks to the possibility of shrinking materials, like Aluminum foil, painted canvas, and some fabrics as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Paying attention to details, this standard wire mesh looks very interesting with its shadows against a warning sign. Geometric patterns are mixed together and produce this enhanced view of three dimension. My picture taken on March 2nd 2017 at the local park, in the late afternoon.</span></div>
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dull grey architectural composition. A picture has to be taken in order
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I came across a young artist, Eric, at the local park. He had extended a
wrinkled plastic film between two pine trees to paint a blueish graffiti, which
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are several trails, with different objects, including boomerangs and stones that help the teachers to explain history and indigenous life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next to one of the trails I've found two wooden tables with objects aligned on it, which I presume are old musical instruments. The shadows were hard and I was delighted to see the game of light and shadow inside the apse surrounded by trees and wilderness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And I had this feeling of asking myself if I was inside of a special "room" or outside in the open air, it was confusing, specially when I moved around and could capture the darkness while the tables were in full sun. </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"To benefit by all the lessons of modern psychology and all that has been learned about man's being through psycho-analysis, metaphysics should therefore be resolutely discursive. It should beware of the privileges of evidence that are the property of geometrical intuition. Sight says too many things a one time. Being does not see itself. Perhaps, it listens to itself. It does not stand out, it is not bordered by nothingness: one is never sure of finding it, or of finding it solid, when one approaches a center of being. (.....) Sometimes it is in being outside itself that being tests consistencies. Sometimes too, it is closed in, as it were on the outside. (...)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If we multiplied images, taking them in the domain of lights and sounds, of heat and cold, we should prepare a lower ontology, but doubtless one that is more certain than the ontology that reposes upon geometrical images". </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">REF. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space. P. 214-215. USA 1994.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The exercise, apart from having interesting artistic results, has moved me to simulate organic architectural structures -that are so well known today- which I will analyze under fractal concepts and will define which is the best way to measure them. This will be part of another post or publication.</span></div>
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Commission and City staff to implement a temporary sculpture exhibit in
Civic Center Park. The City Council approved the installation of ten
sculptures in Phase I of the project and additional ten sculptures in
Phase 2. The sculptures installed in year one are on display for two
years and will be removed and returned to the artists in 2016. Those
installed in year two, or Phase 2, will be removed in 2017.¨</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>¨ <span lang="ES">Albert Speer, el arquitecto de Hitler, avanzó sobre el tema en la década
del ´30, proponiendo la idea de valor de las ruinas, en su publicación ¨Die
Ruinenwerttheorie¨ (La Teoría del Valor de las Ruinas), donde el edificio debía
ser diseñado de tal manera que en caso de su eventual colapso, dejaría en pie
ruinas estéticamente agradables que pudieran perdurar sin mantenimiento. Speer,
no sólo construyó el modelo del Zeppelin en Nuremberg, sino que también mostró
cómo aparecería en ruinas luego de cientos de años. Su expectactiva residía en
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los grandes edificios del pasado que habían conmovido a Hitler¨. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plastic shutters unusual perspectives with the sun of 7.30 AM through them. Or how to look at banal architectural objects from an artistic point of view. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perspectivas inusuales de unas persianas de plástico con el sol de las 7.30 AM a través de ellas. O cómo mirar los objetos banales de la arquitectura desde un punto de vista artístico. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Para ilustrar con palabras acerca de encontrar el arte (la estética) en las pequeñas cosas, citaré a Benedetto Croce:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>¨....algunas expresiones harto complicadas y difíciles aciertan a manifestarse con excelencia y se las llama obras de arte. Los límites de las expresiones -intuiciones que se denominan arte, con relación a las que se califican de no arte- son empíricos y es imposible definirlos. Un epigrama pertenece al arte; ¿porqué no una palabra sencilla? Un cuento pertenece al arte; ¿porqué no una simple nota de información periodística? Un paisaje pertenece al arte; ¿por qué no un esbozo topográfico? (.....) así tampoco puede haber una ciencia de las grandes intuiciones y otra de las pequeñas, una de la intuición común y otra de la intuición artística, sino una sola estética, ciencia del conocimiento intuitivo o expresivo, que es el hecho estético o artístico. Esta estética se corresponde perfectamente con la lógica, que abraza, como cosas de la misma naturaleza, la formación del concepto más pequeño y ordinario y la construcción del más complicado sistema científico y filosófico.¨</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I´ve been enjoying this great exhibition today at the <b><a href="http://www.bowers.org/">Bowers Museum</a></b> in Santa Ana. It´s impossible to capture the beauty of the whole temple murals but at least I am sharing some details. Please do not reproduce without my permission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the <b><a href="http://www.bowers.org/index.php/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/151-sacred-realms-temple-murals-by-shashi-dhoj-tulachan-from-the-gayle-and-edward-p-roski-collection">Museum´s web page</a></b>:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">¨ The nine oversized paintings shown in this exhibition are all the
work of one extraordinary 69-year-old Buddhist monk named Shashi Dhoj
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">in Tuksche, a remote village located in Mustang, Nepal's northernmost district adjacent to Tibet.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shashi Dhoj Tulachan has devoted much of his life to the restoration
of a nearby 16th century gompa (Tibetan monastery) known as the Chhairo
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The practice of thangka painting is centuries old and is an art
carried out by highly trained monks for the purpose of teaching about
Buddha and the tenets of the Buddhist religion. The overwhelming amount
of detailed imagery in each painting includes deities, mythologies, and
the use of repeated and abstracted design. For those seeking
enlightenment, thangka paintings exist as objects of meditation.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The paintings in this collection are not thangkas in the traditional
sense. Thangkas are usually much smaller and are rolled on canvas so
that they can be easily transported and hung anywhere for teaching. The
thangkas exhibited here are similar in size to mural paintings found in
monasteries. These paintings also deviate from the rules for the
creation of a thangka where the exact use of color, shape, proportion,
characteristics and qualities of the imagery are all strictly regulated.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shashi Dhoj Tulachan has painted this set of images by combining the
traditional motifs of one of the foremost schools recognized by
high-level monks in Tibet today, the Tibetan Karma Ghadri School, with
images that are purely and cleverly of his imagination. The vibrant
colors he used are made from natural mineral pigments.¨</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Murdy Park is ill famed in the city of Huntington Beach. Being it a beautiful park with a Sports Center, sometimes gangs or addicts gather under the trees, maybe because this area of trees is somehow isolated from the sports fields. The police is aware of the problem and it seems everything has been quiet in the last years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, there are graffiti on the torn canvas and sponge that serve as protection for the huge lighting columns. And today, while I was walking around, I took some pictures that I consider artistic, setting aside the social problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in front of the engineers' office, there has been civil works of parkings and drainages. This drainage has no slope and it's blocked as well. One of the engineers is always complaining about this and the rotten water that is left. To calm him down, I promised him to take an abstract picture (I have two already) to see the problem under a different light :) I see a face of a man in the middle looking at me in desperation, he is trapped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to meet a client today and he was late. I was waiting for him at the parking lot of a warehouse, the place was empty and there was nothing interesting to see, except for a single yellow flower at the entrance. Until I got closer to this tree, apparently a common tree, no flowers, a straight trunk.... And I looked in detail, and first of all discovered some spheres adhered to the trunk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am always fascinated with barks but this time I've got more than expected. I hope you enjoy my "abstracts," I'm posting them as an homage to PI day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is well understood that architecture is not interior decor. Though, there are lots of architects who dedicate to the design of furniture, which at last are part of the architecture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I´m more positioned on Loos´ side, good architecture, in my humble opinion, doesn´t need any decoration. But how dull a kitchen would look without the table, and the clothes, and the chairs....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am trying to show here how a simple element, like a white leather chair can produce an interesting effect in a boring corner of the kitchen, a concept that makes me think twice about my Loos´ position, at least today, while having breakfast and enjoying the sunlight through the glass doors at 8 AM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somebody, and most probably my husband, has left the chair aside, and the hard shadow was drawn on it and on the free standing freezer. Besides, there´s the white shutters behind. All of a sudden, there´s an interesting effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My pictures of the interesting textures of old bricks in combination with wood and cement. Taken at the Mission of San Juan Capistrano, December 16th 2014.</span></div>
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Myriam B. Mahiqueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04877775531588362818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900300360207070092.post-30619838801563087862014-10-26T11:00:00.000-07:002014-10-26T11:00:24.636-07:00My selected screen shots from The Cabinet of Dr Caligari<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">¨The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the most influential films of the German Expressionist movement and, according to Roger Ebert, is "the first true horror film".[1]
The film used stylized sets, with abstract, jagged buildings painted on canvas backdrops and flats. To add to this strange style, the actors used an unrealistic technique that exhibited "jerky" and dance-like movements.[1] This film is cited as having introduced the twist ending in cinema.[2]
The premiere of a digitally restored version of the film took place at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014.[3] This restoration had its U.S. premiere at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival "Silent Autumn" event at the Castro Theatre on September 20, 2014.¨</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excerpt from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari</a></span></div>
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