Peter Tolkin + Sarah Lorenzen Architecture Cultural Projects

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1 TOLO Peter Tolkin + Sarah Lorenzen Architecture Cultural Projects TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com

2 Contents Bike Transit Center Park Restroom Prototype Pasadena Christian Center Claremont Village Square Claremont, California Pasadena Museum of California Art Taking The Reins Urban Farm Los Angeles, California Harbor College Job Placement and Data Center Los Angeles, California Warsaw Museum Competition Warsaw, Poland WPA 2.0 Competition Los Angeles County, California TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 2

3 Bike Transit Center This bicycle storage system prototype, commissioned by the City of Pasadena, was designed to address the increasing number of bicycle commuters riding Metro s Gold Line. The project is made from a series of interwoven bent steel pipe tubes that integrate the bike racks and their protective enclosure. Computer-controlled bending machines can efficiently produce the repetitive curves for a sturdy, lightweight, easily transportable, and cost-effective structure. Polycarbonate and photovoltaic panels are seamlessly integrated into the form to provide shelter, security, energy, and give it visual interest. TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com

4 Park Restroom Prototype The City of Pasadena commissioned us to design a prototype for their public restrooms in neighborhood parks throughout the city. The new restrooms had to meet current accessibility and energy standards, and be cost effective to build. Reflecting on Pasadena s rich architectural history, we designed the bathroom prototype to address the context of each park and to have a recognizable city-wide identity. This was done by designing a neutral framework defined by the scale, form, and the size and shape of openings, and dress these up with variety of façades including tile, plaster, wood, and greenery. 2 TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 4

5 Pasadena Christian Center A Pentecostal congregation asked us to accommodate three different functions within the singular volume of a World War II-era movie theater. Our design preserves the visibility of the clear-span Lamella roof structure, creating two shell form structures inside the existing volume used for children s worship and education. Conceptually, the shell forms are related to the improvisational quality of Pentecostal traditions, which privilege ecstatic worship over iconographic representations. We designed the shells by digitizing our physical models and invented a notation system to produce construction documents. 2 TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 5

6 Claremont Village Square Claremont, California Having developed the conceptual design for the West Village expansion a movie theater, hotel, and five commercial buildings with retail and restaurants we were asked by the City of Claremont to design a public gathering place at the center of this mixed-use project. The square is a response to the culture and landscape of the city. Its elements seating, fountain, hardscape and plantings were conceived as a pixilation of the natural landscapes of the nearby foothills. Playful, figurative sculptures placed in the fountain by the artist Tom Otterness allude to college student life and to reptilian and amphibian wildlife. 2 TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 6

7 Pasadena Museum of California Art We were asked by the Pasadena Museum of California Art to rework the museum s visitor circulation and add-on to the existing building. The project included the redesign of a public roof deck and canopy, as well as a new ground floor entrance and gallery. For the upper roof deck we designed a retractable, tensile fabric structure that would shade the roof and also provide space for social events. On the ground floor we captured areas that had previously been given over to the automobile to create new gallery spaces and a museum bookstore. 2 4 TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 7

8 Taking The Reins Urban Farm Los Angeles, California Taking the Reins is a non-profit organization that helps adolescent at-risk girls develop self-esteem, teamwork, responsibility, and leadership skills by learning to ride and care for horses. The organization asked us to renovate an existing horse facility next to the Los Angeles River into an urban farm and educational complex. Following a series of design charrettes with the users, we developed the project to integrate horse stables, learning spaces, and a vegetable garden so that program participants would learn about animals, sustainable agriculture, environmental stewardship, and healthful eating. 2 4 TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 8

9 Harbor College Job Placement and Data Center Los Angeles, California The goal of this competition was to renovate and reconfigure a mid-century campus building to accept a series of workforce Education programs at Los Angeles Harbor College. Our design sought to clarify the relationship between old and new. We preserved most of the existing shell and inserted new glazing and light wells to mark the entrances to each Workforce Education department. We also added a new sun screen and an active photovoltaic system on the roof designed to exceed current energy requirements with the goal of obtaining a high-level LEED certification. 2 TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 9

10 Warsaw Museum Competition Warsaw, Poland Our starting premise for this contemporary museum was to uncover a pre-world-war II street that had been erased from this previouly Jewish neighborhood. The main parti was to re-insert this public street into the building and have it serve as the main public exhibition hall, and also use it to connect the museum forum, exhibition halls, auditoriums, museum store, restaurant, library, and park. Adding the street also allowed us to partition the museum into semi-autonomous parts, so that different sections of the museum could be independently opened or closed to the public. 2 4 TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com 0

11 WPA 2.0 Competition Los Angeles County, California Recalling the Depression-era Works Project Administration (95-94), the WPA 2.0 competition requested innovative, implementable proposals that place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities. Our proposal took the form of narrative satire that questioned the City s stormwater drainage system and the various regulatory requirements that govern water pollution control. Within the narrative, we proposed a series of designer catch basin screens that glorify the system while meeting the engineering standards that limit debris from entering stormwater runoff and ending up in the ocean. 2 4 TOLO Wilde Street Los Angeles California 9002 toloarchitecture.com