CONTENTS UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE
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DESIGN 6, FALL 2012 CRITIC: MICK RICHMOND
DESIGN 5, FALL 2011 CRITIC: STEPHEN BENDER
CULINARY INSTITUTE
ECOLOGY CENTER
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
STAIROSAURUS
GRADUATE DESIGN 2, SPRING 2015 CRITIC: CARLA LEITAO
GRADUATE DIGITAL MEDIA 2, SPRING 2015 CRITIC: HART MARLOW - CHRIS KRONER
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ADVANCED DIGITAL, SPRING 2012 CRITIC: LEE-SU HUANG
DESIGN 7, FALL 2012 CRITIC: TOM SMITH
DESIGN 7, FALL 2012 CRITIC: TOM SMITH
DESIGN 8, SUMMER 2012 CRITIC: ALBERTUS WANG
ATRIUM_MASS
HOTEL TRIBECA
HELLS KITCHEN BLOCK
SHI BAN PO FERRY TERMINAL GRADUATE DESIGN 1, FALL 2014 CRITIC: PHILLIP PARKER
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-A journey that I must embrace… It pushes my boundaries to unknown limits… A state of mind that I can only accept with open arms and embrace it… Living the present and always looking forward towards the future….
CHARLESTON
DESIGN 6, FALL 2012 CRITIC: MICK RICHMOND
CULINARY INSTITUTE 24,500 sq/ft
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston Fast Growing Urban Context, Defined By Green Open Spaces, Historic Architecture And Walkable Distances Creates A Unique Architectural Scenario. Charleston Row Houses, Found All Over The City’s Urban Fabric, Create A Series Of Programmatic Breaks; Open Courtyards In Between Houses. This Socio-Cultural Moment That Promotes Interaction Between Residents Was The Driving Force Behind The Development Of The Project.
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1-Administrative Office 2-Bake Shop 3-Classrooms 4-Demonstration Lab 5-Lecture Hall 6-Library 7-Pastry Kitchen 8-Public Restrooms 9-Receiving Area 10-Restaurant 11-Student Lounge 12-Teaching Kitchen 13-Trash Area 14-Wine Room
Ground Floor
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CLASSROOM’S CORRIDOR
An open plaza that links different programmatic spaces…it neglects the idea of an enclosed corridor by taking advantage of Charleston’s climate. Hallways are open to the environment, allowing a direct connection between outside and inside. Situated in the center, a main stair acts as a meeting place for students and visitors.
BUILDING ENVELOPE
PROGRAM
SKIN SYSTEM
FLOOR PLATES
MAIN STRUCTURE
PLAZA EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC OF INTERVENTION
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Section Cut through Plaza and Main Stair.
Second Floor
Third Floor
Roof Plan
11 -An open plaza that links different programmatic spaces‌it neglects the idea of an enclosed corridor by taking advantage of Charleston’s climate. Hallways are open to the environment, allowing a direct connection between outside and inside. Situated in the center, a main stair acts as a meeting place for students and visitors.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GRADUATE DESIGN 2 - SPRING 2015 CRITIC: CARLA LEITAO
INSTITUTIONAL 73,400 sq/ft
MANHATTAN, NY
The project explores the idea of mathematical representation via visual graphics that inform a series of qualities of a line. Learning different methods of M.C Escher tessellation gradients, a conclusion was arrived by using gradients as plan generators for a continuuous, constantly changing space, that ignores the idea of typology, thus creating its own form of representation.
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ESCHER MODEL_1
ESCHER MODEL_1
ESCHER MODEL_3
ESCHER ESCHERMODEL_3 MODEL_2
ESCHER MODEL_4
HEXGONAL GRID
UNIT TESSELLATION
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GRADIENT TESSELLATION
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MEETING MEETINGAREAS AREAS PATHS PATHS INTERIOR SPACE SUBDIVISION
INTERIOR SPACE SUBDIVISION LARGE AREAS
LARGE AREAS MIXED AREAS
MIXED SMALLAREAS AREAS SMALL AREAS
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Lobby 3000 sq/ft
Trinity Place
Greenwich Street
Cafeteria 5000 sq/ft
Auditorium 4000 sq/ft
Art Gallery 1000 sq/ft
Edgar Street
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STUDY SECTIONAL MODEL, MEDIUM: 3D PRINTED, PAINTED GLOSS WHITE
The project explores the idea of mathematical representation via visual graphics that inform a series of qualities of a line. Learning different methods of M.C Escher tessellation gradients, a conclusion was arrived by using gradients as plan generators for a continuuous, constantly changing space, that ignores the idea of typology, thus creating its own form of representation.
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Gym 10000 sq/ft
Greenwich Street
Trinity Place
Bathroom 500 sq/ft
Playground 2000 sq/ft
Edgar Street
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ECOLOGY CENTER OCALA, FL
DESIGN 5 - FALL 2011 CRITIC: STEPHEN BENDER
INSTITUTIONAL 50,400 sq/ft
The Cross Florida Green Way Rural Ecology Research Center, located in Ocala, Florida, deals with a site that has been heavily damaged by the nearby, abandoned construction of the Cross Florida barge canal. The site’s unique conditions and steep slopes offers the opportunity for local researchers to study the returning ecology of the area. What was once abandoned of life, now it’s retaking its position in nature. The project deals with a series of satellites buildings that react to movement and program. These buildings are positioned around two central, communal green plazas; and connected via an elevated path.
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MASTERPLAN
SKETCH OF GREEN PLAZAS
PROGRAM PLACEMENT
Terraces were used to reduce the site’s steep slopes; reducing the surface runoff by storing the rain water and reducing the effects of erosion. The building’s masses mimics the breaking of the ground caused by erosion; The way people move around or inside them, creates a series of voids that are used to extend the program to the exterior. These carved voids are later on covered with a series of horizontal louvers.
SECTION THROUGH RESIDENCES
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BUNK HOUSE’S PLAN
VISITOR CENTER
VISITOR CENTER-RESTAURANT
BUNK HOUSE’S PLAN
STAIROSAURUS
GRADUATE DIGITAL MEDIA 2 - SPRING 2015 CRITIC: HART MARLOW - CHRIS KRONER
DIGITAL MEDIA
The Project begins with the understanding of a particular toy, how it mechanically functions, and how it is assembled. A series of steps are later taken in digital space to understand what the object is and what it can be, via the distortion of its pieces.
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Professor: Hart Marlow, Chris Kroner // Pratt Institute // Spring 2015
ATRIUM MASS
ADVANCE DIGITAL - SPRING 2012 CRITIC: LEE-SU HUANG
MIXED-USE
GAINESVILLE,
The atrium intervention deals with the introduction of an alien object into a highly active zone. The object’s mass is carved and shaped by how people move around and inside it. The process of carving creates unique spaces in its interior, allowing for exhibitions, critiques, and events to happen within its fluid spaces. On the exterior, the object is protected by a Diagrid system that surrounds the object and attaches itself to the atrium’s columns.
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HOTEL TRIBECA
DESIGN 7 - FALL 2012 CRITIC: TOM SMITH
MIXED-USE HOSPITALITY 550,800 sq/ft
MANHATTAN, NY Partner: Jose G. Marichal
Located in Tribeca, the project consists of a 25 storey tower that deals with a mixed-use podium at its base and a hotel in its upper levels. Program was positioned according to its occupancy. The podium accepts the neighborhood’s history of cinema and art, two auditoriums for special showings are located in the upper levels of the podium. The transition from the street level to the auditorium it’s made through a series of stairs in which art is displayed according to the theme of the movies being presented. The intent of the tower was to take pedestrians from the street and seamlessly guide them inside its podium.
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-MAIN STAIRS TO AUDITORIUM
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HELL’S KITCHEN BLOCK
DESIGN 7 - FALL 2012 CRITIC: TOM SMITH
MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL 1,450,800 sq/ft
MANHATTAN, NY Partner: Jose G. Marichal
Located in Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood. The Project Explores The Idea Of A City Block That Breaks The Horizontal Human Perspective That An Individual Experiences While Walking On The Street. The Experience Of The City Is Characterized By Horizontality, Whether At A Human Or Urban Scale; Unless You Look Up. The Project Mirrors An Already Existing Thirteen Feet Slope On The Site, And Together With The New York City Building Code, A Series Of Horizontal Connections Between Private And Public Program Create An Expressive Articulation Of The Building Mass.
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-SUN’S PATH DIAGRAM
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-Interior Courtyard
Residential Two Bedroom Units. Residential Three Bedroom Units. Residential Two Bedroom Units. Residential Studio Units. Residential One Bedroom Units. Elementary School. Office. Mercantile. Parking Garage.
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Studio
1 Bedroom 2 Bedroom 2 Bedroom Suites
3 Bedroom School Of Music Elementary School
Retail Restaurant/Lounge Parking
The ground level consists of retail spaces around the perimeter wall to attract pedestrians to the inside courtyards. The courtyards create an urban oasis in such a chaotic city. The music school is located between the two courtyards; together with small shops and restaurants it creates an active space that both residents and visitors can enjoy.
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FERRY TERMINAL BROOKLYN, NY
GRADUATE DESIGN 1 - FALL 2014 CRITIC: PHILLIP PARKER
MIXED-USE TERMINAL 30,400 sq/ft
South 6th street Ferry Terminal design began with the study of movement by line drawings. To draw what is changing in relation to what it was. A series of drawings were created and later on brought into 3d software to animate based on forces acting on the site. By different procedures, the resultant was an aggregation of surfaces that were carefully selected (excavated) to reveal the final product. The plan mimics the paralleled movement of water arriving at the shore.
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SENCHANGE IL LAIRETINAM NI EGNAHLINES C MATERIAL
PATCH DIAGRAM - VIA A DIGITAL EXCAVATION PROCESS, THE RESULTANT UNIT WAS REVEALED
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-SECTION CUT EXPLORING POSSIBLE SPATIAL CONDITIONS ALONG A SERIES OF SURFACES
TOP
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SECTION B-B
SIDE
FRONT
STUDY MODEL, MEDIUM: 3D PRINTED + LASER CUT GROUND , PAINTED WHITE
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South 6th street Ferry Terminal design began with the study of movement by line drawings. To draw what is changing in relation to what it was. A series of drawings were created and later on brought into 3d software to animate based on forces acting on the site. By different procedures, the resultant was an aggregation of surfaces that were carefully selected (excavated) to reveal the final product. The plan mimics the paralleled movement of water arriving at the shore.
STUDY MODEL, MEDIUM: 3D PRINTED
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SITE PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
The plan reacts to a series of parallel lines caused by the wake of boats on the water. These lines as they travel, create a series of continuities that travel to the shore. As they arrive they create ondulating movements that were taken into consideration into placing the program into the terminal.
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SHI BAN PO
DESIGN 8 - SUMMER 2012 CRITIC: ALBERTUS WANG - ZOU HOU
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
CHONGQING, CHINA Partners: Wu Haoqi, Xin Yun, Christine Phillips Chongqing, with a population of 28,846,170 is one of the fastest growing cities of china. Such high density creates a series of spaces throughout the urban fabric of Chongqing that evokes the cultural rounded lifestyle of the Chinese society. Unfortunately, high density population, lack of space, and growing economy are only a few of the factors that are making the city abandon they’re old traditions and moving into a commercialized society in which historic districts are being destroyed, as a result malls and high rise towers are taking their place. Amenities only for a higher class, while the others are slowly being pushed away from the city.
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EXISITING SITE SECTIONS
public space
corridor
interstitial space
interstitial space
social status
diverse
production unit
income based
intensity
low (100)
middle (400)
high (1600)
close
familiar
stranger
public space
corridor
interstitial space
interstitial space
social status
STUDY MODEL
PROGRAM PLACEMENT
BUILDING TYPOLOGIES
social relationship
Throughout the site, three buildings typologies are found. The familiar, small scale dwellings, the post modernism mid-rise buildings, which remains familiar but the essence of community starts to disappear; and the high rise, high density living, which is possibly the only option in which neighbors are as close as they can get, but the sense of community is almost non existing. The project studies this three options and tries to find a connection between them. diverse
production unit
income based
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SMALL SCALE DWELLINGS
GROUND LEVEL PLAN
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RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX Shi Ban Po residential complex, located in the north side of the proposed master plan, deals with the three building typologies previously discussed; the small scale residential, mid-rise and high rise buildings, to compose a unified structure. The podium consists of an underground retail center that forms a link between AERIAL VIEW the two most transited streets of the site, allowing residents and visitors to enter from one side of the street and exit from the other. The upper level are residential apartments that share a main communal space, the sky balconies. The sky balconies bridges the gap of existing high-rise buildings by providing an outdoor space in which residents can share and participate in day to day activities like taichi and mahjongg. SKY BALCONIES
At the ground level, the tower neglects the typical ground condition, it opens up to allow a seamless transition from the street to the retail spaces. A series of stairs and ramps then would guide the users to their destination. The idea of openness and equality is maintained through-out.
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