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Mengyu Yu 2018
PROLOGUE Architecture can be a respond to the building context and the history, and in some circumstance it also can be a strong impact to the existing culture. According to my undergraduate study, Courses around regional architecture, sustainable architecture, culture system and structural design makes me thinking more about practical things. Discussing about the relationship between architecture and the environment and how to satisfy the demand that comes from many aspects, how to solve the existing contradictions and problems. Architecture has been considered more like a kind of strategy or answer to the surrounding environment. For me after my five-year study in Wuhan witnessed the great change of developing city, I think architecture should be a process of giving out questions, sometimes even creating chaos that will push us forward to think about what architecture can do. As a interdisciplinary field of study, architecture has been long aligned with emerging technologies, it requires innovation and also art thinking.
Mengyu Yu Southern California Institute of Architecture M.Arch II 300 S Santa Fe Ave Apt3-668 Los Angeles, CA90013 1 + 213-257-0472 ymyz0820@gmail.com
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TABLE OF CONTENT GRADUATE WORK Vortex 01
Affordable Housing Design
SCI-Arc Lens 02 SCI-Arc Extension Design
UNDERGRADUATE WORK Negative Landscape 03 Tourist Service Center Design
Scattered Pods 04 Theater Design
Void to City 05 Hotel Design
Innovative Infrastructure 06 Urban Complex Design
Other Work
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VORTEX
Innovative Affordable Housing FALL 2017 Vertical Studio Instructor: Eric Owen Moss Team: Ruoya Li, Mengyu Yu Innovative affordable housing looking to redefine the suburban home on a new roll-up base surface. The project studies the relationship between block and surfaces. The studio project is to design an affordable housing community in Venice, California. The project performs an essential social service, and it represents to the local community the capacity of its design to transcend the long held conventional perception that, in this typological context, social service is prioritized over design content.
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CONCEPT DIAGRAM
TWO BLOCKS
WRAPPING UP
The development was intended to integrate the advantages of suburban homes—in particular gardens, outside air, privacy into a multilevelled building with the density of a modern urban apartment community. The main concept is to roll up a city site wrapped with blocks which represent the relationship between public space and private units. With various combinations, these units create 140 residences of varying sizes and configurations, each formed from one to three linked blocks joined to create larger units. Each unit is connected to at least one private terrace.
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CIRCULATION DIAGRAM PROGRAM DIAGRAM Art Center
Commercial
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STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM Cantilever Part
Core Structure
Primary Structure
The surface and blocks are two different architectural language. We use the same method segmented approach of every 24 feet to design the primary structure. Except two major cores, there is another diagonal structure above the canal support the building.
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Two Bedroom
One Bedroom
Artist Loft
Studio
NORTH SOUTH SECTION
NORTH SOUTH SECTION
Unit Iteration
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TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
EAST WEST SECTION
From the aesthetic point of view, the relationship between wrapped surface and blocks contains 3 segments—separate, semiintegration, separate. The blocks looks like insert into surface however to deal with the gradually changed intersection space is a big problem. By dividing building vertically with every 24’, we utilize a fragmented way to put units in and figure out the circulation in each segments.
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Pacific Blvd View View from South-East View from South-West Perspective View
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SCI-ARC LENS
Design Studio 2017 Spring Studio ( 2GBX ): The shape of knowledge Instructor: Elena Manferdini Team: Paul Zhang, Mengyuu Yu This studio focus on the ambiguous potentials of material finishes and their applications in the design of façades and interiors. Cunning optical effects will be at the center of the studio exploration, because of their ability to instigate multiple readings. The politics of materials will be a device to engage with the difficult task of producing something unique out of something whose appearance by definition should be universal: the image of knowledge. The approach to materials will be cosmetic, cunning, relativistic and experiential. A key feature of SCI-Arc as an architecture school is its location in a city - it is at the heart of art district within LA downtown. The existing problems and latent potentials are obvious. For the art district, there has been a lack of “Art” identication and vivacity in city experience. In terms of the school, a strong sense of entry space for visitors and outdoor activity space for students are missing from SCI-Arc. So, our general idea is to establish a reciprocal interrelationship between art district and SCI-Arc. On one hand, SCI-Arc will Specically, we lift the building mass to create the semi-open public gallery space with a strong sense of entry space where original SCI-Arc facade will be a set of backdrop. The interstitial space between two-phase buildings enables students to enjoy the skyline of downtown area. Phase 1 is mainly for edge students and senior students or other primary programs while phase 2 is mainly rental space for young architects and designers. The connection between bliberate ground of new site as gallery space for the art district
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Context
SCIArc Art District Downtown LA The art district area is in down town area. But compare to other district like financial district and fashion district. Art district is still not activated.
Lot D Lot A Art District For now, the vivacity of this area is generally from the Little Tokyo, although the art district is large, but the art ambience and activition is mainly condensed at the up light corner of this area. Shifting the “center of gravity“ for art district.
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Main entrance space missing Usable exterior space missing
SCIARC(PHASE3) Core Stair Case Phase 1 Elevator Entrance
Classrooms Auditorium Library Studio Crit Space Workshops/Lab Faculty Seminar SCIARC(PHASE3)
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Exhibition Commercials/Cafe Public/Social Studio Crit Space Workshops/Lab PHASE1
Housing Rentable Commercials/Cafe Workshops/Lab PHASE2
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STATEMENT
Paul Zhang & Mengyu Yu Instructor: Elena Manferdini
A key feature of SCI-Arc as an architecture school is its location in a city - it is at the heart of art district within LA downtown.
of entry space for visitors and outdoor activity space for students are missing from SCI-Arc. So, our general idea is to establish a recipro SCI-Arc. On one hand, SCI-Arc will liberate ground of new site as gallery space for the art district to activate the area. On the other han pants as young architects and designers and brings them communicating and working together at SCI-Arc. SCI-Arc is then not only a s experimenting and working platform for students, architects, artists and other forces in the very near future.
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space between two-phase buildings enables students to enjoy the skyline of downtown area. Phase 1 is mainly for edge students and phase 2 is mainly rental space for young architects and designers. The connection between buildings can be divided into two parts: o from the outside can share the fabrication shop and working space in the school; the other is the social and media interconnection wh can communicate and exchange ideas. In short, a school, especially an architectural school, in a city can be strength and a need for architectural education where the connec inseparable.
Core Stair Case Phase 1 Elevator Entrance
Faculty Seminar
Classrooms Auditorium Library Studio Crit Space
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STATEMENT Paul Zhang & Mengyu Yu Instructor: Elena Manferdini
A key feature of SCI-Arc as an architecture school is its location in a city - it is at the heart of art dis
of entry space for visitors and outdoor activity space for students are missing from SCI-Arc. So, ou SCI-Arc. On one hand, SCI-Arc will liberate ground of new site as gallery space for the art district to pants as young architects and designers and brings them communicating and working together a experimenting and working platform for students, architects, artists and other forces in the very n
space between two-phase buildings enables students to enjoy the skyline of downtown area. Pha phase 2 is mainly rental space for young architects and designers. The connection between buildi from the outside can share the fabrication shop and working space in the school; the other is the can communicate and exchange ideas. In short, a school, especially an architectural school, in a city can be strength and a need for archit inseparable.
Ground Floor Plan
Upper Floor Plan
Site Plan
SCIA
Core Stair Case Phase 1 Elevator Entrance
Section Plan 1
Section Plan 2
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Chunk Model
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Chunk Model -Top View
Chunk Model - Front View
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NEGATIVE LANDSCAPE
Project: Tourist Service Centre Location: Wuhan,China Date: September,2014-January,2015 Instructor: Chen Ming UA Creation Award & International Concept Design Competition Individual Work Religious architecture is a carrier of spiritual culture and religious form. The old church lying on the hill has made the place a cultural symbol. In order to minimize the influence upon environment as well as to harmonize with the ancient buildings and the landscape, the whole project, according to my design, will be integrated into the landscape with certain approaches.
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Historical conservation area Religious buildings
SITE PLAN
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Tan Hualin Old Block, located in Wuhan, Hubei, is a famous historical street. Back to last century, missionaries from western country came here and started their business in religion, education and medication. Consequently, Tan Hualin Old Block gradually becomes a center of traditional Chinese culture and western culture, where locate many primitive simple dwellings as well as a large number of religious historical buildings.
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LEVEL1
Old Church
LEVEL2
Office
Exihibition Space
LEVEL3
Multi-function Room
Exihibition Space
Transition from outer space to inner space.
How to blur the differences of the building and the enviroment? One approach is to diverse people’s attention and lead them into the building naturally. In the project, several circular ramps provide a transition between inner and outer space, and both repetition and change of the circular ramps can be perceived from the outside. The upper windows of the exhibition room can provide sufficient daylight, bring more sense of form to the church, as well as activate the Garden Hill.
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26 1. box office 2. rest room 3. janitor's room 4. office 5. conference/reception room 6. management room 7. storage room 8. men's room 9. toilet for the disabled 10. ladies' room 11. display room 12. mail/distribution room 13. reference literature room 14. lost property office
15. tour guide's office 16. infirmary 17. information desk 18. washroom 19. fire control room 20. exhibition room 21. lounge 22. multi-function room 23. control room 24. retail section 25. folk culture exhibition 26. restaurant 27. kitchen 28. Tour Merchandise Sales
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LOWER LEVEL PLAN 01
LOWER LEVEL PLAN 02
LOWER LEVEL PLAN 03
FLEXIBLE WALL ARRANGEMENT
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SCATTERED PODS
Type:Movie Theater Location:Wuhan,China Date:September,2012-January,2013 Tutor:Zhu Sun Individual Work Compared to early years, media and entertainment industries in China have become more prosporous.In order to satisfy the public's demand, many places lost their original features when being transformed to commercial places such as movie theaters. To preserve the landscape of this site, we break the cluster of traditional movie theaters into small units and reorganize them into new forms according to their functions. Besides, by creating open spaces, we manage to promote transparency of the cluster.
29 CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Breaking down the volume of the traditional movie theater
Office
Bar
Cafe Restaurant
Administrative Area
Main Hall
Recreational Area
Cinema
Dining Area
Movie Hall
Book Shop
Cafe
Circular objects have the character of active and instablity,it will create a dynamic space for the movie theater above the ground. The square space can provide a stable space for the cinema under the landscape.
Landscape Sunken plaza
The whole movie theater is like a growing pod. Each part of the project is independent but also has it own connection with the enviroment.
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shop
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reception office kitchen storage dressing room stage green room
pub
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SECTION PERSPECTIVE
Office Reception Movie Hall Out Door Activity Booking Office Restaurant Movie Hall
Bar Landscape Movie Hall Out Door Activity
Bar Cafe/Book Shop Movie Hall
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Reception Main Theater
Booking Office Restaurant
Plaza
Booking Office
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VOID TO CITY
Type:Hotel Location:Wuhan,China Date:September,2013-January,2014 Tutor:Chen Ming Individual Work One question is, how to establish the relationship between city and landscape, and intersperse the conventional and commercialized hotel space with more interesting spots? Urbanization is an inevitable trend,with the developement of city space,landscape with ordinary features has been eroded. It is like a war between city and landscape, and the nature is losing its positions. What will happen when landscape extend in to the city space? Can these two things coexist?
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The site is located at the edge of the campus ,facing the conflict between the city space and the green space inside the campus.
Urbanization has caused the loss of nature and landscape, and the growing city is turning the natural open space into enclosure space. We want to make some change. How to extract some nature elements from landscape, and use these elements to change the city space?
36 DIFFERENT TYPOLOGY OF BUILDING COMBINING WITH LANDSCAPE
Natural landscape with open space
Soil-covered
Utilizing topography
Building with terrace
Landscape enclosed by building
Landscape converted by building
CUT OUT STUDY
The curve of the landscape adjacent to the site extends to the hotel area and the podium building. In addition, the curve fluctuates at the courtyard and forms several terrace.
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main hall restaurant gym table tennis room billiard room locker room kitchen toilet shop
10. checking office 11. reception 12. manager office 13. duty room 14. fire control room 15. storage room 16. standard room 17. suite
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Hotel rooms
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INNOVATIVE INFRANSTRUCTURE
Project: Urban Complex Location: Wuhan,China Date: July,2014-September,2014 Instructor: Wang Xiao HYP Cup International Student Competition in Architectural Design Individual Work Generally, bridge can be a part of architecture, and vice versa. Why do we need bridges? Commonly known as connections between riverbanks and shortcuts across distance, bridges have functions that can be interpreted in many different ways, such as a tool to exchange things or intermediary between conradictions. We can find a number of commonalities between bridge and building, both of which are carriers of people and their various activities.
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railway driveway
The long existing phenomenon of city separation caused by existing transport line has been a perennial and intractable problem.We hope to make some change to it. The relationship between connection and separation can be variable. The first bridge of Yangzi river conneted the two side of the bank,but the extension of the bridge has caused some new separations.
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Moon Lake Park
Qintai Arts Centre
tunnel Station Community Qintai Community
43 CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT How to set up a connection?
Traditional bridge
Buildings alongside the bridge
Bottom occupied
The bridge inside the building
Bridge as the link of several buildings
Building as a part of the bridge
Building as a bridge
Possible relationship between bridge and buildings
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connections
internal volume
terrace
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SITE PLAN
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The whole area has been divided into two parts by the drive way and the railway. The south part consists of populated communities, while the north part contains the Moon Lake Park, which is famous for its historical site. As a result of such division, the historical culture of Moon Lake Park is gradually fading out of people's memories. To solve this problem, a connection is set up between the two parts, therefore a link will also be established between culture and life. According to the different mass of two communities, the project will be a combination of two main methods to connect the community and the park.
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
A-A SECTION PLAN
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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1. exhibition room 2. bar 3. retail section 4. souvenior shop 5. display room 6. food preparation room 7. processing room 8. flower shop 9. bookstore 10. grocery 11. clothing shop 12. snack bar
13. toilet 14. lounge 15. department store 16. office room 17. conference room 18. reception room 19. reading room 20. reference room 21. stack room 22. coffee room 23. terrace 24. enrtance hall
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OTHER WORK Replica Design Studio FALL 2016 DS 1200 ( 2GAX ): Complex Morphologies Instructor: Florencia Pita Team: Mengyu Yu, Langaojie Ma
This studio will interrogate the potential of the replica in architecture. Advancing recent debates regarding influence, affinity and appropriation in architecture, we will adopt an approach that exploits the potential for architectural acts of appropriation to engender new forms of authenticity and to challenge context and type within an architectural project. Quotation as a postmodern form of referencing an ‘original’ and subsequent forays into sampling including kitbashing and the mash-up are various forms through which appropriation has surfaced in architectural discourse and practice. A more contemporary notion of the replica ties it to the status of the object in architecture and its inherent potential to engender multiple and coexisting forms of legibility; raising questions of scalability ranging from the colossus to the miniature. This approach involves the selection of copies (found objects) instead of the creation of originals.
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Facade Chunk 1. Steel Structure Beam 2. Concrete Finish Floor 3. Steel Composite Decking 4. Cat Walk 5. Building Envelope 6. Ducts and Pipe System 7. Operable Window 8. Structure Pipe
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Design Developement
FALL 2017 AS Design Doc GR Herwig Baumgartner, Brian Zamora Structures: Mathew Melnyk MEP/Sustainability: Jamey Lyzun Teaching Assistant: Abagael Warnars Team: Mengyu Yu, Zheng Xu, Hongxuan Zeng, Song Qiu, Yuhui Li This course investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character. The course includes a review of basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of structural and mechanical systems, Environmental systems, Buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. The intent of this course is to develop a cohesive understanding of how architects communicate complex building systems for the built environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project and Stewardship of the Environment.
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54 BUILDING ENVELOPE SYSTEM &MATERIAL SELECTION The Low-E coating glass can provide a clear view with ordinary glass, but with a higher UV protection. It can block the harmful UV light and keep the internal building temperature. The steel panels can be used solely for appearance, its physical proformance is better than aluminium panels. Also thermal expansion is lower than aluminium, which means it can seal the building better.facade. This system provides a better seal from the water and the thermal insulation as well.
The roof of the phase 1 is constructed in stick glazing system. It is adaptive to its complex shape, Because it has various types of panel size, workers can assemble the facade according to shape. The facade of the tower is the unitised glazing system. Because the shape of the panels is same, so that we use unitised system that panels will be assembled in factory. The speed of the construction will increase a lot. Beside the transparent part on the facade, the building also includes solid surface. We use metal rainscreen system for this part of facade. This system provides a better seal from the water and the thermal insulation as well.
55 STRUCTURE DIAGRAM
VIERENDEEL TRUSS AND STEEL FRAMING VIERENDEEL TRUSS: The Vierendeel truss has the members that are not triangulated but form rectangular openings, and is a frame with xed joints that are capable of transferring and resisting bending moments. The utility of this type of structure in buildings is that a large amount of the exterior envelope remains unobstructed and can be used for windows and door openings. This is preferable to a bracedframe system, which would leave some areas obstructed by the diagonal braces. STEEL FRAME SYSTEM: Vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the oors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.
CONCRETE CORE: The main vertical structure of the building is the concrete cores the support the whole building. It serves as the stair core and the elevator core that support the vertical transportation. Some areas that there is no need to set vertical transportation uses the concrete share wall instead. MEGA TRUSS: The whole structure of phase 1 is a big truss with diagonal bracing inside. It allows that the whole building with bigger span of cantilevered space. FLAT PLATE: The at plate system provides a thinner structural layer for the apartment building. While the height limit is specic, at plate system can create a higher clarenca of each floor.
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TRANSPARENT GLASS PANEL
METAL FRAME
REFLECTIVE METAL PANEL
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
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INTERNSHIP
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WRITING,SONGDO Team: William Virgil, Mengyu Yu, Zheng Xu, Yuchen Wang, Bingyi Li, Nicolas Turchi, Borna Nassab, Jackson Lukas, Langaojie Ma, Hyoseon Park
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INTERIOR RENDERING Hernan Diaz Alonso & Rachael McCall Vertical studio work
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JEWELRY DESIGN
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WORK EXPERIENCE Design&Research Institute Co.,Ltd of Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan, China Assistant architect, conceptual design (July 2015 - October 2015)
Resume YU MENGYU First Name: Mengyu Last Name: Yu August, 20, 1993 Tel: 213-257-0472 Email: ymyz0820@gmail.com Address: 300 S Santa Fe Ave Apt3-668 Los Angeles CA90013
Skills
Xefirotarch Los Angeles, CA Architecture Design Internship (Jun 2017 September 2017) National Museum for World Writing International Design Competitions in Incheon, Korea
Eric Owen Moss Architects 8557 Higuera Street, Culver City, California (April 2018 - July 2018) Internship
Education Bachelor of Architecture Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan China WUT Scholarship for Academic Performance (Third Prize) Learning Progress Award
Software Rhinoceros Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign AutoCAD Photoshop Keyshot Maya Zbrush After Effect Vray Grasshopper 3D-printing (Proficient) Language Chinese(Native) English
Master of Architecture South California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Activities Wuhan University of Technology Excellent Architectural Works Exhibition Measurement & Investigation of Historical Buildings in “Bao Tong� temple Wuhan,Hubei,China (Surveying and mapping,computer modeling) Critical Mass Symposium (Present studio work) University of North Carolina - Charlotte School of Architecture, April 2018 Work Study (SCI-Arc supply store)