WAN-HSUAN KUNG PORTFOLIO 2019
CONTENT
DOUBLE FLUSH DOOR (COVER PAGE) PERSONAL WORK
404 UNDER GRADUATE THESIS
MAD MECH REMEDY 3A STUDIO
PERCOLATOR 5A STUIDIO
HOUSE OF ALTERNATIVE PLEASURE 4A STUDIO ACADEMIC WORK COMPETITION / PERSONAL WORK
SELF ADOPTING PANEL PERSONAL WORK
A-LINE-D ARQUINE - MEXTROPOLI PAVILION 2019
BRANCHING OUT : A TREE TAIWAN YUXIAN TREE HOUSE COMPETITION
HYBRID AND BASTARDS PERSONAL / ART WORK
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404 UG THESIS - 2018 SPRING INSTRUCTOR: FERDA KOLATAN AT: KEITH MARKS
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Box and the Problematic Categorization From Freudian psychology’s affiliation with steam engine to Le Corbusier’s pivotal line “House is a machine for living in”; from intensive specialization to increasingly contentious linear economy, much of the constituents of the modern society are still experiencing a lingering aftertaste of machine fetishism (or veneration) stem from the late nineteenth century, in which each agent/entity is concatenated in a linear order, and has its dedicated function, to achieve maximum efficiency. What vested beneath this established system is the categorization process core to cognitive psychology. We repeatedly generalize, categorize, separate, and reorganize every piece of received information. Indeed, we were immersed in this process since as infants to develop a sense of structure to a chaotic universe, under which boundary demarcated is indelible, inertia created is irreversible. Isn’t it why golden raspberries are priced much higher than red ones despite the same nutrition value? Yet categorization’s epistemic function is not to organize chaos into order, but to pursue the meaning of designated objects. If we consider categories as conceptual boxes, perceived information as objects that yet to be sorted to respective box, and categorization process as the sorting procedure, we come across to realize the finished process involves three underlying assumptions, each represents a disciplinary issue in distinct scales: I. The Box - Rigidity - Human Perception What draws attention is the box’s apperance, instead of objects within. It associates with construction of stereotype.
# 1 - HALL
II. Objects - Immutability - Architecture It’s assuming that objects’ attributes will remain the same permanently. In fact, characteristics that shapes a type of program or function appears to be extremely volatile and dynamic, which constantly mutates as to reflect status quo. In the 19th Centuries, factories in some European countries once hark back to register the facade and spatial quality of religious buildings to detach itself from the general notion of factory. Theatre’s typological transformation during mid 19th century can be seen as the epitome of democratization as it functioned as a rendezvous for mutual exhibitionism and jostling for social elites’ positions rather than venues offer performance. III. The Box - Isolation - Urban / Social The third conundrum refers to the interdependence of domain of speciality. Although acting in isolation is necessary for accumulating disciplinary knowledge, each discipline is of limited value in responding to the diversity of urban issues. This thesis is an inquiry into the validity of the categorization process and the way we demarcate the perimeter of architecture typology as well as the boundary of the discipline. By experimenting formal, functional and programmatic hybridization of two desperate programs: concert hall and waste management facility. The effort of seeking for the definition of architecture has never ceased. But what if architecture, like the page of Error Code 404, is undefinable in nature? If so, such quest becomes utterly preposterous. Everything, and Nothing is Architecture.
SECTIONAL ELEVATION
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2 | FOYER
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3 | FURNICULAR / BUNKER
4 | WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM / HALL ENTRANCE
5 | STACK / FACADE
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6 | STORAGE TANK / CLOAKROOM
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7 | DIGESTION TANK / GARDEN-RECREATIONAL SPACE
8 | HVAC / PIPE ORGAN
9 | SCREW CONVEYER / ESCALATOR
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10 | REVERBERATION CHAMBER
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MAD MECH REMEDY STUDIO WORK - 2015 FALL INSTRUCTOR: MAXI SPINA
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POTENTIAL SIDE EFFECTS
Developed during third year undergraduate studio, this project initially aimed to study the economy of skyscraper in relation to exploited mechanical void zoning resolution loophole in New York City. On May 29, 2019, the New York City Council adopted the Residential Tower Mechanical Voids Text Amendment. The original scheme was then modified subsequently to address the concern over amendment’s efficacy as well as its potential city-wise side effect. Limit the height of mechanical space will stop preposterous architectural form from emerging, but will never curb avaricious real estate developer from seeking niche to maximize profit. This project proposes an alternative amendment that works with the capital, instead of fights against it.
AVG. BUILDING HEIGHT OF NEIGHBOURHOOD
As the amendment made years after few supertall towers built. These precedents outlined the market value of luxury housing at first place. The cost of constructing a supertall tower as intend to yield an equal amount of revenue will be significantly higher. As a result, developer will likely to acquire land elsewhere, for instance, neighborhood with lowrises, to maximize profit margin.
MARKET VALUE / PROFIT IN THEORY
MARKET VALUE / PROFIT IN REALITY
Form had been, and will always following finance. MARKET VALUE / PROFIT IN REALITY
SKYSCRAPER ECONOMY ANALYSIS APPLICABLE TO R9-R10
SPRAWING OF SUPERTALL BUILDING
PROPOSED SOLUTION
STANDARD F.A.R. - 10.0
100%
The proposed amendment allows developers to continue to have high ceiling space as tower height booster that’s exempted from counting toward FAR partially or completely (4) in relation to its location. But developers are required to relinquish their ownership over specified spaces. Such spaces will need to be subsidized or sold separately at a capped value to house programs that instigate social mobility.
CONSTRUCTION COST PER FLOOR MARKET VALUE PROFIT BONUS FLOOR AREA
COST/FLR INFLECTION ZONE
90% 80% 60% 30% 30% (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
FORMAL OPERATION
[1]
[2]
[3]
HEIGHT INFLATION GUIDE
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[5]
[A]
A matrix of planar and sectional profiles are used throughout the initial massing study. Geometry of planar profiles are intended to integrate lateral structure to facade to reduce core size.
MEANS OF RAISING HEIGHT AFTER ZONING AMENDMENT
[1] Tower with typical 9 ft ceiling height. Cost per floor decreases as more stories built. [2] Ceiling height raised to 13-15 ft. market price increases in proportion to height. [3] Building height is boosted by introducing mechanical voids in between floors, which does not count toward FAR. Cost per floor passes inflection point and increases exponentially with material, structure, engineering cost become more expensive. While on the other hand, market price skyrockets at a steeper rate. [4] Excessive mechanical void (usually more than 150ft) is positioned at mid-lower waist to inflate building height and curb construction cost simultaneously. [5] Lower retail volume is exploited to increase tower height as well. AMENDMENT [A] Mechanical voids taller than 25ft and voids spaces located within 75 ft of each other will count as zoning floor area. 20
1. Tower with higher height-footprint ratio
2. Raising ceiling height of each floor
3. Adopting Inclusionary housing program: build affordable apartments on site or offsite within 1.5 mile
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
FACADE MAPPING
VOID - ARTIST STUDIO & GALLERY
VOID - VERTICAL FARM
VOID - HALF VENUE (THEATRE, AUDITORIUM)
BELOW: TECTONIC CHUNK
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880 ft. Roof Top
710 ft. 696 ft. Level 45 Refuge Floor
536 ft.
Level 30 Refuge Floor Mechanical Floor
319 ft.
Level 15 Refuge Floor 217 ft.
SECTION
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PERCOLATOR STUDIO WORK - 2017 FALL INSTRUCTOR: WILLY MULLER
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In most cases, traffic congestions are caused by temporary traffic flow disruption. It’s magnified when high volume meets a narrow time span. Facilities contain massive crowd share the same post event traffic congestion syndrome - a micro rush hour stem from the sudden rupture of on going event. Although post-game experience around sports arena has been brought up to attention, studies indicate it is nearly a pseudo proposition: nearly 95% of spectators choose to leave arena immediately after the game ends. To address this issue, a structure complex houses programs must capable of nurturing serendipity to target specific crowd and motivates them to stay by attracting, directing, and eventually reconstructing their ideal path subconsciously. This project, therefore, focuses on solving macro conundrum through micro operator through implementing a myriad of pre-existing programs along with seeds of adventitious events as filtration system to preside over extended experience beyond the standard match window to ameliorate volume-induced traffic congestion near Dodger Stadium.
CASE STUDY MAIN STREET USA, DISNEYLAND LOS ANGELES
The Main Street U.S.A. at Los Angeles’ Disneyland is exemplary in diverging crowd circulation through demographic oriented program organization. The analysis on the right shows stores along the street are meticulously arranged under the principle of sensors and age to divert circulation.
VISUAL
GUSTATORY
1. MAIN ST PHOTO SUPPLY 2. SILHOUETTE STUDIO 3. CRYSTAL ARTS 4. CHINA CLOSET 5. DISNEY CLOTHIER LTD
6. REFRESHMENT CNR 7. CANDY PALACE 7. CANDY KITCHEN 8. CARNATION CAFE
AUDITORY
OLFACTORY
10. MAIN STREET CINEMA 11. 20TH C MUSIC COMPANY 12. MAIN ST MAGIC SHOP
6. CANDY PALACE 7. CANDY KITCHEN 9. MARKET HOUSE
ABOVE: TRAFFIC CONGESTION WAVE
PRIMARY CIRCULATION CLANDESTINE CIRCULATION
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1 2 3 4
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SENSORY ZONE 2 SENSORY ZONE 3
SENSORY ZONE 4
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TACTILE
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13. FORTUOSITY SHOP 14. NEW CENTURY JEWELRY 15. EMPORIUM
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DODGER STADIUM SPECTATOR DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
SENSORY ZONE 1
TARGETING AGE 18-35
ATTRACTOR: PROGRAM KALEIDOSCOPE
TARGETING AGE 5-17
THE UNIVERSAL CONUMDRUM
FILTRATION MODEL
>50 34 %
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19 %
D College Students
16 %
E People with Disability
03 %
CROWD TYPE
DOWNTOWN LA
C Family with Kids
17 %
OTHER CHINA TOWN
28 %
27 %
30-50 <30
B Superfan Group of 5 or more
HOME
A Couple Married and Unmarried
UNIONSATION
SURVERY CONDUCTED ON SEP14, 2017
POST GAME DESTINATION
PARKING LOT TRANSPORTATION
LIFT STATION BIKE PATH THEATRE / CINEMA NIGHT CLUB
34 %
ENTERTAINMENT SOCIAL
BREWING COMPANY STREET MARKET RESTAURANTS / BAR
16 % 06 %
DINING
PARK HOTEL
N/A
-30 MIN PROJECTED DESIRED POSTGAME DEST. ON SITE
0 MIN
30 MIN
60 MIN
90 MIN
120 MIN
>150 MIN
ESTIMATED TIME TO SPEND PER DESTINATION
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SKETCH Prior to capituating to conventional architectural framework drawing producing process, a digital sketch is introduced to serve as both a receptacle of translated premature thoughts which would otherwise linger to be latent in final drawings.
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SYMBOLS
GEOMETRICAL ORGANIZATION GUIDE
TRAVEL PATH
SOUND TRANSMISSION
PROJECTED PROGRAM AREA
OCCUPATION DENSITY
LEVEL CHANGE
VIEW
PROGRAM ZONE
SENSORY TYPE
3 MIN WALKING ZONE
PROJECTED CONGREGATION ZONE
OPERATION TIME / LENGTH
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UNDERGROUND PARKING
FOOD PROCESSING
LOADING DOCK
BREWING WAREHOUSE
THEATRE
MALL
LIFT TUNNEL
BAR
BIKE PATH
HOTEL
DODGER STADIUM
WHEAT FIELD
TEMPORARY STALLS
NIGHT CLUB
BIKE PATH
AMPHITHEATRE / STAGE
RUNNING TRACK
VIEWING DECK
BAR
EXISTING DECK
RETAILS
FOOD MARKET
PLAY FIELD
PARK
ENTRANCE FIELD
HOTEL
RESTAURANT
RESTAURANT - FINE DINING
AMPHITHEATRE / STAGE
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HOUSES OF ALT PLEASURE STUDIO WORK - 2016 FALL INSTRUCTOR: DWAYNE OYLER
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ON HEDONISM Palm Springs built up its reputation as an exclusive resort for Hollywoods’ celebrities in the 1920s. Since then, the city elite became consumed with maintaining its reputation. Relying on the massive amount of underground water stored in the aquifer under the Coachella Valley, the city was able to flourish even it’s settled in a seemly uninhabitable environment. Yet what came along with this is the misconception of unlimited water resource — pools in the backyards became the norm; golf became the spirit sports; the manmade oasis in desert. This fallacy not only puts morally questionable, pleasure-principle driven wastefulness into a politically correct position, but generates an illusion of detachment to the natural environment, transforming the city of Palm Spring to a surrealistic destination. This project, instead of being protrayed as a carbon neutral or so called green sustainable building, operates as a critique on hedonistic life style by implementing a series of ironic gestures hidden among a series of interlocking mini golf courses. The uses of excessive curvatures echo hedonism in a caricature way, tend to draw people’s attention to absurd wastefulness. For instance, the piece of window hanging from this pink structure, concaving towards street, implying this surrealistic house detaches from the context.
WATER SUPPLY
WATER MANAGMENT
WATER CONSUMPTION
(METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT)
COLORADO RIVER
AQUIFER/RESERVOIR (COACHELLA VALLLEY)
PALM SPRINGS
SNOWCAP MELT
WATER RATE
GOLF COURSE VEGITATION
(DESERT WATER AGENCY)
STATE WATER PROJECT
ECONOMY CLIMATE CHANGE
PROPERTY VALUE $ TAX/INCOME
SITE PLAN - UNDERGROUND
TOURISM RESIDENTIAL RETAIL
Above: Palm Spring’s Socio-Economic-Political Flow Chart
HOUSE PLAN - UPPER LEVEL 38
HOUSE PLAN - LOWER LEVEL
SITE PLAN - GROUND FLOOR 39
MODEL PHOTOS
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SELF ADOPTING PANEL PERSONAL WORK, 2017 In architecture practice today, performance is one of the most important factors in the design and delivery of a project. The creation and use of parametrics to create intelligent digital models that integrate and respond to specific sets of performance criteria, offers a more holistic approach to design and its relationship to built form. It allows architects to anticipate and accommodate issues of collaboration, fabrication and installation in earlier phases of design.
PT
∆y=3
∆ y =3
CONDITION A1
CONDITION A2
CONDITION A3
STEEL FRAME
A | PANEL REACTS BASED ON INPUT VALUE
POLYCARBONATE PANEL STRUCTURE
∆z=6
∆z=3
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CONDITION B1
θ1
CONDITION B2
CONDITION B3
θA P2 C a P0
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INPUT CRV. A
Ey θ2 θB
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B | PANEL REACTS BASED ON SUPPORTING PLANE (PT) - CONTROLLED BY ATTRACTORS
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D X
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INPUT CRV. B
RELATIONSHIPS / FORMULAS: r = 1/4 ab HEIGHT P1 = Sinh θ2 HEIGHT P2 = Sinh θ1 HEIGHT PT = Sinh θ1 Ex : Ey = D(PT P1) : D(P1 P2) 42
JOINT DETAIL
SECTION
ELEVATIONS
90°
180°
270°
0°
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A-LINE-D COMPETITION ENTRY: ARQUINE MEXTROPOLI PAVILION 2019
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Collaboration: Audrey Haliman Year: 2019 Area: 170 Sqm Budget: $5,000
Textiles are brought back to take on its “natural” position throughout the proposed structure. Upon encounter, it may be (to some) a nostalgic image. The image of daily household laundry before the washer and dryer. Major cities around the world are known to heavily discourage households from displaying any drying of linens or clothing on apartment and home balconies as an attempt to preserve the city’s facade. This task is now mostly forced indoors. By utilizing a simple material that is string, the process of line drying has been overlooked as a way to reduce energy consumption. Although it’s connotations might include domesticity, the string throughout the pavilion is key structural element: literally tying together the wooden frame upright. The idea that the same materials that are considered an aesthetic disturbance within cities around the world are now hovering above the park grounds. They move as the wind does, light as ever; always seen floating mid-air. Venturing deep into the layers may one find a “diorama’’ of what textile waste produces. Textiles take a large surface area of landfills. Heavy duty tarp acts to preserve a large pile of donated clothing and other miscellaneous fabrics yet to be processed and cleaned. It is vacuum sealed; hard as a rock. As if a petrified piece of the landfills are introduced within the structure; it is frozen in its state as an artificial landscape. One of the major sources of textile being utilized is recyclable linens through the hotel industry. They act as a white backdrop for the droplets of variance that are donated clothing. It encloses a center for donation. Although the act of drying is not executed within the pavilion, we hope that through this type of architecture may we re-spark old and new images of the process that is line-drying, and how looking towards history is not necessarily a terrible thing to do.
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STRING ATTACHMENT
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TIMBER CORNER CONDITION
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FOUNDATION DETAIL
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VACUUM SEALED DONATED TEXTILE FROM PUBLIC TO BE PROCESSED
AXON - OVERALL 1 2
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AXON - STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
4.5 M
There is a fine line between acting as a public nuisance and a public nucleus.
13.5 M LONGITUDINAL SECTION
HOTEL BED SHEET DUVET COVER ETC.
WASHING/ CLEANING
PAVILION
PROCESS
LINE DRY
DONATE
PUBLIC CLOTHES MISC. TEXTILE
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PAVILION MATERIAL LIFE CYCLE
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BRANCHING OUT: A TREE COMPETITION: 2018 TAICHUNG YUXIAN TREE HOUSE COMPETITION (1ST PRIZE) Collaboration: Audrey Haliman Program: Artist Studios - Work + Exhibition Area: 26 sq meter per Treehouse Budget: 100,000 TWD (30,000 USD) Current Status: Design Development Est. Date of Construction: Fall 2020
If a tree house utilizes a tree such that we perceive it merely as a column: a supportive structure that elevates floor plates off the ground, the tree is thus merely a tool to produce an image of our “integration” with nature.
Working
What if a single column – a structure made from man, for man – is placed amidst nature. Would we read the forest for its trees? Both tree houses confine to a single structure: a suspended bridge hovering over a surface. A volume (a stair) and a line (a wide flange) prop up the bridge in both cases. Together they act as the primary support for the floor and roof, suspended by a set of columns. Mesh walls fill the gaps between these columns, defining a loose set of spaces that allow light and air to permeate throughout the space, but traps shadows and distinct shapes from it’s surroundings.
Exhibit
Whilst the artist may work privately on elevated grounds, spectators are directed as the artist pleases: the bridge may or may not be the only platform to view or interact with the works exhibited. Both spectator and artist may monitor their surroundings as they look upon a mirrored ceiling. Colors and shapes blend upon refraction onto the water-esque roof scape. To protect itself from rain, coated ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene) drop down along the perimeter. The corrugation of floor and roofruns in two directions, cancelling out structural deflection. The interstitial space between the corrugation and flooring panel conceals any wiring or hardware to be installed. It allows for a floor without obstacles, free to be utilized.A wooden frame is hidden in between the corrugated steel roof and the mirror-finish aluminum sheet, acting as lateral structural component. This minimizes the weight of the roof whilst being supported by the columns that run into the floor.
Public
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Although trees do not intersect the space in physical form, it’s many traits are projected outward or onto the space; revealing the different attempts to intertwine with nature.
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60x60mm Western 60x60mm Hemlock Western Hemlock 5mm Aluminium 5mmRods Aluminium Rods
Corrugated Corrugated Steel Panel Steel Panel 1
Screw-Tip Fastenings Screw-Tip Fastenings
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A-2 7mm Galvanized 7mmSteel Galvanized Hook and SteelPlate Hook and Plate
WoodenWooden Frame Frame
Mirror Finish Mirror Aluminum Finish Aluminum Sheet Sheet
ETFE Rolled ETFERain Rolled Curtain Rain Curtain 2
Wide Flange Wide Flange [ Primary[ Primary Gravitational Gravitational StructureStructure ] ]
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A-2
Detail 1 - ETFEDetail Rain Curtain 1 - ETFE Rain1 Curtain A-2
A-2
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A-2
0.25mm Coated 0.25mm ETFECoated ETFE (Ethelyne Tetraflourothylene) (Ethelyne Tetraflourothylene)
M24 Oxidized M24 Grade Oxidized 8.8 Grade 8.8 Steel Structural Steel Torque Structural Control Torque Bolt Control Bolt
Mosquito Mosquito Net Net
Powder Coated Powder Stainless Coated Steel Stainless Disk Steel Disk
WoodenWooden U Channel U Channel
Nut
Bridge Bridge [ Primary[ Primary Gravitational Gravitational StructureStructure ] ]
Nut
60x60mm Western 60x60mm Hemlock Western Hemlock
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A-2
Stainless Steel Stainless Tube Steel Tube Max PressureMax 3227 Pressure ps @ 22 3227 Celsius ps @ 22 Celsius 2
A-2
Detail 2 -2RoofDetail Column 2 - Connection Roof Column Connection A-2
Corrugated Corrugated WoodenWooden Panel Panel [ Floor Structure [ Floor Structure ] ]
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Exploded Exploded Axon Axon 1:50 1:50
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A-2
RecycledRecycled Scaffolding Scaffolding [ Secondary [ Secondary StructureStructure ] ]
A-2
Exploded Exploded Axon Axon 1:50 1:50
3mm Extruded 3mm Aluminium ExtrudedTAluminium Bar T Bar 20x25mm Steel 20x25mm SquareSteel TubeSquare Tube Stainless Steel Stainless AircraftSteel WireAircraft Rope Wire Rope 7x7 200Feet 7x7 T316 200Feet Marin Grade T316 Marin Grade ECS-Ledger ECS-Ledger Top Cup
Top Cup
Ledge BladeLedge Blade Bottom Cup Bottom Cup Stub End Stub End Stainless Steel Stainless Turnbuckle Steel Turnbuckle
Detail 3 - Bridge Detail Tension 3 - Bridge Cable Tension 3 Cable A-2
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25mm Interlocking 25mm Interlocking White Birch Planks White Birch Planks Electric FloorElectric Box Floor Box Pop-Up Cover Pop-Up w/ Cover w/ Stainless Steel Stainless Receptable Steel Cover Receptable Cover
Bathroom Bathroom Located Located Underneath Underneath Stair Stair
Axonometric Axonometric - Site B- Site 1:50B 1:50
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Axonometric Axonometric - Site A- Site 1:50A 1:50
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A B
B C D
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45° Mitered 45° BirchMitered Planks Birch Planks
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Cap Lock Cap Lock Scaffolding System Scaffolding System
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Detail 4 - 4FloorDetail Column 4 - Floor Connection Column Connection A-2
Galvanized Steel Galvanized Steel 7mm Pipe Hanger 7mm Pipe StrapHanger Strap
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Plan - Plan Site B- Site 1:50B 1:50
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Plan - Plan Site A- Site 1:50 A 1:50
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Detail 5 - 5 ETFEDetail Rain Curtain 5 - ETFEClosure Rain Curtain Closure A-2
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HYBRIDS AND BASTARDS ART WORK A series of hybrids produced from quotidian objects in a way that not only detach their forms from their meaning, but also proposing new perspectives of perceiving them. They question aesthetics, not performance; think beauty and contradiction, not efficiency.
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