Residential tower in Los Angeles*

This 50 story residential tower with parking garage in the podium levels is located in downtown Los Angeles. The first image shows an elevation study of the skin of the tower for all four sides.
The translation of the pattern defines the open and closed areas of the tower skin and allocation of the transparent, translucent and opaque materials.

Model scale: 1:80

*Completed while at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, 2006 / San Francisco / USA