A L A N C H A N Architecture Urban Design Work
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M.ARCH + MUP University at Buffalo 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 7
ALAN CHAN 30-55 Linden Pl. Flushing NY, 11354 917-915-8328 alanchan90@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/achan5
EDUCATION 2013-2017
State University at Buffalo | Buffalo, NY Masters Candidate for Architecture Masters Candidate for Urban and Regional Planning
2013-2017
State University at Buffalo | Buffalo, NY Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design Minor in Architecture
ACTIVITIES 2010-2013
FASA Executive Board | Buffalo, NY Managed the Filipino-American Student Association which had over 100 active members Foresaw a $14,000 budget and helped fundraise $10,000 through sales and events
Summer 2013
Habitat for Humanity | Buffalo, NY Assisted with the framing phase of construction on 3 new build projects Constructed scaffolding, wall assemblies, staircases, floor assemblies, and roofing
Summer 2012
American Red Cross in Greater New York
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Intern for the Emergency Preparedness Team Devised and designed innovative outreach methods: recognized as a best practice model Designed the American Red Cross Newletter layout and American Red Cross brochures Represented the Greater New York Chapter at community meetings
2016 Shortlisted for Gates Cricle Architecture Competition (results pending) 2015 Beijing Design Week 2015 BUGAIK International Architecture Exhibition 2014 Western New York APA: Outstanding Student Project 2014 Intersight Magazine 2013 UB Celebration of Student Academic Excellence: Excellence in Research 2012 Intersight Magazine ACE Scholarship
EXPERIENCE Summer 2015
Turenscape | China: Xixinan Village, Anhui & Beijing Study Abroad at Peking University and Landscape Architecture firm, Turenscape Worked with Turenscape on conceptual proposals for Xixinan Village Design exhibited in Beijing Design Week & 2015 BUGAIK International Architecture Exhibition
Summer 2014
Adelhardt Construction Corporation | New York, NY Assistant Project Manager Intern for a General Contracting Firm Provided assistance to Project Managers on two Citibank renovation projects in Manhattan Involved in the dialogue between architect, contractor, and client Weekly on-site visits with client to make sure construction stays on schedule
Summer 2010
RTSPC Pinnacle | New York, NY Intern for an Architecture Firm Assisted in drafting construction documents for Monster Worldwide HQ in Florence, SC drafted construction documents for gastrointestinal facility renovations
Summer 2009
Apollo Builders | New York, NY Expeditor for a Construction Firm Observed several stages of construction on a mixed use apartment building in Chinatown Assisted the head architect and engineer in drafting revisions for the apartment building
SKILLS
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REFERENCES
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, Revit, ArcGIS, CityEngine, CommunityViz V-Ray, Lumion, Grasshopper Model Making, Pepakura, Hand Sketching Microsoft Office English Chinese Vietnamese
Fluent Conversational Conversational
Hiroaki Hata Nicholas Rajkovich Shannon Bassett
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Project Team: Alan Chan, Brian Ravinsky, William Pople
XYZ MUSEuM The project brief was to design a museum on an urban site in Buffalo’s Allentown District.
The design takes the philosophy that the observation of movement of people throughout each space is just as essential to the museum experience as the artworks themselves. The form Integrates a series of intersecting tubes extruded along the X, Y, and Z axis, creating spatial geometries that curate a holistic experience. The attention of the user becomes a dialogue between artwork, indoor movement, outdoor movement, and framed views. In this team collaboration, my contributions were the designs, 3D model, and all of the major graphics.
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This proposal introduces a community boathouse on an underutilized park space by Buffalo’s downtown. The design blends together a boathouse, social resiliency, and a community center into folded landscapes, while taking advantage of contextual assets.
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Urban Connect
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OPPIAN LIBRARY The library of tomrrow should embrace the dynamic form of knowledge; spaces must be flexible and easily adaptable.
The geometries of the building first extrudes the private spaces. The masses were then shifted and rotated to accomodate for light and circulation. The spaces between the masses then became open public spaces, allowing for flexible programming. Integral to the design is the circulation through the book stacks, which also double as the structure, thus resulting in a dynamic experience between open and enclosed spaces.
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Project Team: Alan Chan, Brian Ravinsky, Di Chen, Tino Goo
ECOSTREAM The Gerald D. Hines competition hosted by ULI called for proposals to transform Sulpher Dell, a neighborhood north of Nashville’s downtown. The challenge was to create a healthy and resilient community while considering river flood events.
EcoStream is a multipurpose infrastructure system disguised as an iconic public park for visitors and locals of Nashville. The design is ubiquitously composed of three elements: History, Health, and the Environment.
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Central to the design is a daylit stream that not only channels flood waters and cleans Cumberland River, it also activates and completes a pedestrian loop, connecting Sulpher Dell to Downtown. Aside from my contributions as team leader, I worked primarily on design, research, diagrams, and graphics.
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Project Team: Alan Chan, William Pople
Floodscape As a reaction to climate change, this project was a collaboration between architecture and planning students to come up with a resilient masterplan for an underutilized and overgrown park along Buffalo River.
The goal was to rebrand the site as a model for resilient park design and a safe destination for the neighborhood, emphasizing on social cohesion, education, and protection from environmental hazards. Floodscape features boardwalks and an elevated canopy-walk throughout the site. The gesture curates a dynamic and rich experience with nodes to encourage social cohesion. Constructed wetlands were utilized for bank stabilization and water retention doubling as natural park features. Lastly, the proposal features a food forest, providing equitable food access. My contributions was design, research, and renderings.
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Project Team: Alan Chan, Dan Kleeschulte, Gary Chung
XIXINAN VILLAGE Due to extreme population density in China’s major cities, there is a growing trend to move back into the villages. In collaboration with Peking University and landscape architecture firm, Turenscape, our team developed a conceptual proposal to integrate tourism into Xixinan, an ancient chinese water village, while being sensitive to local culture and traditions.
Our proposal envisions agritourism and an artist community co-living with the locals. The masterplan emphasizes a connection to the water, proposing a mix of uses to activate paths along the canals. In addition, the masterplan requires architectural interventions; thus urban acupuncture was used to rehabilitate vacancies. The concept aims to design typological conditions that can be applied throughout the sight. Using existing vacancies, the idea is to expose traditional chinese structures with flexible programs that emphsaize co-sharing of knowledge between locals and visitors.
Huangshan City
Anhui Province
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High Speed Rail 200 kph
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Anhui Province
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Artists Community
Hotel Developement
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Tourist Destination
Huangshan Mountain
Housing Development
Agriculture
Resort / Hotel
Historic Center
Agricultural Tourism
Entrance into Village
Parks Retail
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Reconnect to the Water
Incision
Educational Facilities
Proposed Land Use
Historical Landmark
Interconnectivity
Expose
Integrate Old & New
Faculty: Jin Young Song, Hiroaki Hata, Bumjoon Kang Project Team: Alan Chan, Brian Ravinsky, Vivek Thomas, Moath Rababah, Yan Duan, Xinjian Liao, Ian Liu, Tino Goo, Cody Cot
BLOOMING CITY
The Shengzhen Bay Supercity competition brief required a new 170-hectare financial district for the city, including three highrise structures, cultural buildings, and a large green space to connect the district to the surrounding city. The hope for the masterplan is to create a new iconic financial district for Shenzhen. Blooming City proposes a 160-story megastructure, broken into several programs to a create variety of spaces to to serve public, commercial, residential, and cultural programs. Sitting on an urban retail landscape, the roof becomes a green network that integrates ecological principles, transportation hubs, and public life. There were three design teams that participated in this submission: Tower, Transportation Hub, and Urban Design / Planning. I was a part of the Urban/Design Planning team and served as a liaison between the three teams.
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20 Mott Street 20 Mott Street, New York, NY, 10013 ICM Global Design John Chen JHC Consulting Engineer, P.C. 2010
20 Mott Street was an 8 story mixed use office building located in Chinatown. At Apollo Builders, I helped the architect draft revisions for the project.
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Pierce County Environmental Services Office Building Miller/Hull Partnership University Place, WA
These drawings are a graphic representation of an existing 2-story office building. They outline the different building specifications through peeled back layers in axonometric view.
Outline Specfications 1. Foundation - 8 inch cast in place concrete strip footing, 2 #5 rebar continuous in footing, 2 #5 rebar in stem wall at 16 inches o.c. #5 rebar vertical at 24 inches o.c. at center of wall 2. Ground Floor at Open Office - 4 inch crushed gravel - R-10 rigid insulation at perimeter and underslab -Vapor barrier - 4 inch cast in place concrete slab on grade - 2 inch concrete topping slab with fiber mesh reinforcement at areas with radiant heating system 3. Ground Floor at Prep/Storage - 4 inch crushed gravel - 2 inch sand - R-10 rigid insulation at perimeter - Vapor barrier - 4 inch concrete slab on grade - 14 inch raised floor system 4. Structure at Ground Floor - 18 inch cast in place architectural concrete columns, 8 #5 rebar, #5 coil at 3 inch pitch - 36 inch X 32 inch cast in place concrete beams, 12 #5 rebar 5. CMU Construction for External Wall - 8 X 8 X 16 CMU Wall - Building paper - 4 inch metal studs at 16 inches o.c. - R-11 batt insulation - 14 inch raised floor system 6. Structure at Second Floor - 18 inch cast in place architectural concrete columns, 8 #5 rebar, #5 coil at 3 inch pitch - 36 inch X 32 inch cast in place concrete beams, 12 #5 rebar 7. Second Floor at Open Office - 8 inch hollow core concrete slab - 2 1/2 inch cast in place topping slab - 14 inch raised floor system 8. Second Floor at Conference Room - 8 inch hollow core concrete slab - 14 inch raised floor system 9. Second Floor Exterior Wall Construction - 5/8 inch gypsum white board - Vapor barrier - R-19 batt insulation - 6 inch metal studs - 5/8 inch gypsum sheating - 1/2 inch cementitious boards 10. Roof - 8 inch sloping hollow core - 2 1/2 inch cast in placeconcrete topping slab - R-30 rigid insulation - Single ply vented roofing membrane 11. Glazing - Aluminum curtain wall system - Insulated glass 12. Sunscreen System - 2 inch X 24 inch horizontal aluminum grilles - 2 inch X 18 inch vertical aluminum tubes - Pre-engineered aluminum sunshade system
U R B A N SKETCHING I like to sketch anywhere and everywhere. I find a lot of value in the coordination between space and perspective, and translating those hierarchies and experiences with a pen and a piece of paper. These sketches were studies on different spaces in rural China.