International Architectural Competition | Stockholm Library | Iwamoto Scott Architecture

The project is an entry to the competition to design an addition to Asplund’s iconic Stockholm library. Our proposal transforms the annex buildings adjacent to the main library that were proposed in Asplund’s original masterplan. The volumes defined by these intended buildings are translated into voids using the prismatic geometries already found in the iconic Asplund Library’s cylindrical rotunda and rectilinear base. These voids become conical figures that intersect the lifted volume of the library addition to bring light into the center of the new mat building. The cones’ tops are rectangular while the elliptical bottom’s distort at the base to accommodate various key programs and allow for a series of public passageways through the building and over the rooftop to the hillside park beyond.......more

Architectural Competition | History Channel City of the Future | San Francisco | Iwamoto Scott Architecture

Hydro-Net was designed for the History Channel’s competition City of the Future -- a one week design challenge posed to eight architects to design San Francisco in 100 years. This is the grand prize winner for San Francisco.
 This project speculates that cities of the future will need to be evermore interconnected yet also more self-reliant. In order to accommodate a projected doubling of population by 2108 while resisting further outward sprawl, the Bay Area and San Francisco together will require a new infrastructural network that is able to collect and distribute water, power, fuel, goods, and accommodate the transport of residents and tourists alike.....more

A House And A Recording Studio | BPQR House | Los Angeles | California | Iwamoto Scott Architecture

The client for BPQR House lives in the house next to this property, and his home-based movie soundtrack editing and recording studio business is crowding the living spaces of the house. As such his and his family’s living and working tightly intertwined. On this neighboring lot there now exists one of those 1940s fairytale genre Hollywood houses at the bottom of the large upslope – currently containing some of the overflowing recording studio program. The design brief is to replace this small and dated structure with a new house with guest quarters and underground recording studio, in a contemporary mode that reflects the owner’s love of curves and the designs of John Lautner, Vernor Panton and African art.......more