Shrouded City
WELCOME CENTER FOR
NEW IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES
Westlake . California
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Academic / Studio
Instructor: Mohamed Sharif
01 - 03 2019 / 10 weeks
The Welcome Center was developed from an organization of programs into pavilion-like structures varying in floor-to-floor heights in relation to function. The overall form is draped by a translucent shroud in forms of an undulating roof and a meshed secondary skin. A variegated elevation is created as to exaggerate the sense of a city cluster in miniature form. Multiple scales of atria emerge from staggered floor heights. A diversity of structural expression is created while varying the transparency and translucency of the tectonic fog. Ultimately, a sense of gateway portals is created by the shroud over this city within a city.
