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Woodbury students were challenged to collaborate with the Hollywood Beautification Team, a grassroots group founded with the mission to restore beauty and integrity to the Hollywood community. Verbal and visual
exchanges took place using the computer, traditional architectural drafting and modeling techniques, and building full-scale with welding and power tools. Working at full-scale with a defined material palette (specifically that of a cargo trailer donated by Carlson Industries in Los Angeles) the final result was a structure designed and built by the students and donated to the HBT, to be used as a Mobile Eco Lab. The 8 x 35 foot trailer will travel throughout Los Angeles County to inform K-12 school-aged children about the importance of saving and protecting the environment. The measure of the portable structures success will be in its use and deployment throughout the city of Los Angeles.
The adopted studio language conveyed a fresh, pro-active design process that responds to the challenge of building for mobility. The final construct, responsive to Sant'Elia's 'Futurist manifesto' and the pioneer mobile Citta Nuova, is built as a lightweight 'temporary' structure; economic, experimental, and flexible. The collaborative spirit found in Jennifer Siegal's design/build architectural studios emphasizes economy of means, construction techniques and the adaptive re-use of materials and building components.
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