ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO ALISON HUO 20 17
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my
Architecture
Portfolio.
I approach architecture with full of the passion and wonders, as I always challenge the definition of architecture that is it merely just building. This portfolio shows the thinkings and experiments of how I would definition architecture and what is the awareness besides the functionality. Enjoy.
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THESIS 2017
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[Fall 2016 - Winter 2017]
RADIANT GARDEN [Summer 2016]
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table of contents
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PEDESTRIAN HOTEL
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[Winter 2016]
BULWER RESIDENCE
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[Fall 2015]
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Thesis 2017
[Fall 2016 - Winter 2017] Liberty Village, Toronto, Ontario
WANDER-LAND wander
/ˈwändər/ v. walk or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimlessly way.
The thesis focuses on architecture in a small and intimate scale to redefining Liberty Village from a predominately commercial and vehicle environment into a park/playground. At the same time, interpreting the entity of architecture as fragments of experiences within the context of the environment as a unity rather than a building in a fixed spot. The intention is to create a detour that transforms the pedestrian view of the urban context into a civic space. The injection of small interventions spread around Liberty Village as a perception of wander-land.
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rain cover
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Table
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Sleeping space under table
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Wall
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Shelter & congregation
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Tree
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Congregation
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Building
Living Space
Diagrams of relationship between human & objects. [everything can be architecture, not merely just building.]
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WITHOUT PROGRAM Spaces for seating and lay down
INTERACTIVE SPACE [SMALL INTERVENTION]
ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION a functional object that associates with the historical aspect of Liberty Village and fragments of daily experiences, which have potential to transform into architectural spaces.
WITHOUT PROGRAM Experiential spaces: texture, lighting, vision
CHARACTERISTIC · small/intimate · playful · civic
WITH PROGRAM · vending machine · market booth
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Relationship to The Ground
on the ground
semi-in the ground
Conditions of Spaces
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in the ground
above the ground
PHOTOBOOTH
PUBLIC WASHROOM
VIDEO/SOUND BOOTH
study of booth typology
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MASTER PLAN Residential Area
! - Intervention
Retail/Office/Food Service Food Service Retail
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Path of Detour
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LIBERTY VILLAGE
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[L - 3] Pedestrian Bridge
S-1 Walk-through Canopy L-2 Walk-through Canopy
Z-1 Resting Spot
B-2 Photo Spot
R Reflecting Space Z-2 Resting Spot
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ARCHITECTURE INTERVENTION
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B - 1 RESTRING SPOT 14 B series
Hanna Ave
Entrance to Liberty Village Market
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B - 1
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Hanna Ave
16 B series
B-1 Resting Spot
Liberty Village Market
B - 1
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B - 2 PHOTO SPOT 18 B series
Office Building Toronto Carpet Factory
+ 2500 mm
DN
N
B - 2
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B - 3 PHOTO SPOT 20 B series
Globacore Inc.
+ 4000 mm DN
Toronto Carpet Factory
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Office Building
B - 3
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Liberty St
22 B series
B-2 Photo Spot
Toronto Carpet Factory
B-3 Photo Spot
King St W
B - 2 & B -
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W - WASHROOM 24 w
DN
Jefferson Ave
+ 3000 mm
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Liberty St
washroom 25
W Washroom
26 w
Liberty St
Jefferson Ave
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M1
M2
Mowat Ave
DN
+ 4000 mm
M1
M2
M3
L-3 PEDESTRI
L - 3 PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE 28 L - 3
M3
M4
Fraser Ave
M4
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IAN BRIDGE
pedestrian bridge 29
Mowat Ave
30 L - 3
L-3 Pedestrian Bridge
Fraser Ave
L-2 Walkthrough Canopy
Pardee Ave
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Radiant Garden [Summer 2016]
UIA-HYP 2016 International Student Competition Finalist Concept & Notation, given by Bernard Tschumi COLLABORATORS: Ben Chang, Shengjie Qiu
43°39’01.8”N 79°23’11.1”W TORONTO, CANADA
Beyond the conventional means of a resting ground for the dead, the Radiant Garden is a cemetery for the living. It acts both a memorial for our mortal coil and a reminder of our inevitable death. A manifestation of infinity in singularity. The spatial experience of an architectural intervention is dictated by the movement of people. Notations provide a multi-sensory guide, maneuvering the flow of people through the space. Movement can be described as a series of action through time and space, directly altering the human experience. An infinite possibility of movement is contained within space and time. In other words, limitless variations of experiences are contained within the human condition.
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The infinite possibility of movement is not created through the notations placed within a space. A single notation within itself, contains the infinite possibility. The Radiant Garden is the threshold between life and death, materializing the idea of infinity as a singularity. The essence of the space is empty, while the spatial experience is revealed through the ethereal quality of light.
lack of notation
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linear notation
cross notation
directed notation
limited notation
infinite notation
Park:
Cultural Building:
Business Building:
The Radiant Garden is an extension of Queen’s Park, driving Toronto’s urban greenery into the cluster of mid and high-rise buildings in downtown Toronto.
The northern end of the site is surrounded by heritage buildings, reminiscent of the past.
High-rise buildings are located on the southern side of the site. The cemetery is in the threshold between the Cultural Center and the Financial District of Toronto.
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The Radiant Garden is an extension of the Radiant Garden, is a space of tranquility amidst the turbulence a major intersection in Toronto. Automobiles and streetcars surround the entrance, a display of modernity’s fast paced movement.
The busy and chaotic pedestrian movement of downtown Toronto circles the environment. Despite the hustle, the site is isolated in the middle of the traffic island. The experience of human movement is evident, yet secluded in the periphery.
While the northern end of the site is brightly lit, the southern financial skyscrapers cast a large shadow onto the environment. The site contains the vividness of sunlight and the atmospheric heaviness of darkness.
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A bamboo forest is a modular wonder of nature.
Density reveals the spatial quality of a space, guiding people through notations.
Round up the sharp edge to broaden and enhance the spacial quality.
While taking away the differing density, the guiding notation is reduced.
The modularity maintains an even spatial experience without a direct emphasis on notation.
Materiality limits the spatial experience within the confines of physical notations.
The intangible quality of light removes the boundaries of material notations, revealing an infinite possibility of movement within space and time.
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The Radiant Garden is the resting ground for the dead. While each individual light column symbolizes a deceased, a central light beam projects from deep beneath the earth to the heavens above. The massive light column is the unification of the infinite consciousness into a singularity. 38 summer 2017
Moment 1
Moment 2
The Radiant Garden is an island of light floating in the vastness of the infinite universe. The surrounding walls and ceilings are coated with Vantablack, the darkest substance known to man, absorbing 99.965% of visible radiation. The floors are covered with polished black marble, faintly reflecting the image of the visitors. Each light beam is a burial ground for a deceased. A mirrored system collects the light beam between the floors then magnifies the light upwards to the level above. A singular light beam is projected into the sky from the grounds below.
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From a distance, one can be reminded of the memories of the loved ones who have passed. The infinite memories of the dead are unified in a solitary light beam to represent the collective consciousness of eternal rest.
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Pedestrian Hotel Queen St W, Toronto, ON [Winter 2016]
Retail & Hospitality COLLABORATOR: Shengjie Qiu
The idea starts by asking what is a hotel, only a temporarily solution of accommodation for visitors? The site of Retail & Hotel is located on Queen St West, between Abell Street and Lisgar Street. On the site, where has an existing postal office and park that recently under renovation.
The key intention of Pedestrian Hotel is the public space (exterior/interior) within the hotel as a walking experience. Hotels typically segregate their private rooms from the green or public area, which makes it inaccessible to the overall public. The idea of making the shared spaces of the hotel are truly open for the public to visit, engage and merge the boundary between hotel residents and general public visitors.
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Existing Postal Office Lisgar Park
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King St. W
Sudbury St
Condo Development Area
Queen St. W
Lisgar Park
Postal Office
Business Improvement Area
Queen St Stores
Lisgar Street Elevation View
Little Portugal Residential Area
Pedestrian
Residential Area Street Car
Auto Site of Retail & Hotel
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Lis gar St Ab ell St
What is a hotel, is it just merely a living space? How does the living space / living lifestyle of hotel merge into Queen Street Culture?
Each block represents a type of hotel room as a void that stacks up to each other. It forms a four-storied high hotel with an open courtyard that connects to adjacent streets.
Reduce the height of hotel to match up the local building height of Queen Street. At the same time, it forms a border view of the courtyard.
Exterior corridors are added to the hotel, connects to all hotel rooms and lobby that located at the building of postal office.
Exterior facade acts as a translucent filter creates a layer of privacy between the private hotel room and the streets. Two proposal building were discarded and turn into a public park.
Program Layout
Retail Space
Hotel Lobby
Hotel Room Type A
Restaurant & Bar
Hotel Room Type B
Exterior Corridors
Hotel Room Type C pedestrian hotel 45
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Room Type C
Room Type C
Room Type C
UP
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Room Type A
Room Type B
UP
Room Type A
Room Type A
Room Type B UP
Room Type A
EXTERIOR CORRIDOR Room Type A Room Type A
Room Type A
Room Type A
Room Type A
RESTAURANT & BAR UP
Room Type A
Room Type A
UP
HOTEL LOBBY
UP
PUBLIC SPACE Park
ENTRANCE
Abell Street
Lisgar Street
UP
PUBLIC SPACE Park
HOTEL LOBBY
RETAIL SPACE Furniture Store
ENTRANCE
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B
Queen Street W
Ground Floor Plan
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Room Type C
Room Type C DN
Room Type A
DN
Room Type A
DN
Room Type B
Room Type A
DN
Room Type A
Room Type C
Room Type B
EXTERIOR CORRIDOR
Room Type C
open to below
Room Type A
Room Type A
RESTAURANT & BAR
Room Type A
Room Type C
open to below
DN
DN
HOTEL LOBBY
DN
open to below
PUBLIC SPACE Park
DN
PUBLIC SPACE Park
Hotel Bar HOTEL LOBBY
open to below
RETAIL SPACE Furniture Store
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B
Second Floor Plan
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Reception
UP
HOTEL LOBBY
OPEN TO BELOW
To Hotel
Hotel Bar
DN
FURNITURE STORE Display area
OPEN TO BELOW
RETAIL Ground Floor Plan
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RETAIL Second Floor Plan
HOTEL Room Type A
HOTEL Room Type B
HOTEL Room Type C
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Hotel
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Lisgar Street Retail + Hotel Lobby
Queen Street ELEVATION
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SECTION A - A
SECTION B - B
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Bulwer Residence 37 Bulwer St, Toronto, ON [Fall 2015]
Bulwer Residence is located close to the intersection of Spadina Ave & Queen St. W. The intention of this residence is design for a client who is visually impaired. At the same time, the design should understand the behaviour patterns of disability. The program of residence stays very simply as the ground floor is public space, and the upper floor is a private area. The residence has two layers of transition, the outer transition is the windows that between interior and exterior as the temperature differences. The circular corridor forms the inner transition, which is sliding doors, divided between the centre kitchen and public space (living room). The intention behind this is to use subtle elements such as temperature and lighting as a sense for people who is visually impaired locates themselves.
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Sky Light Highlights the staircase and living room
Second Floor: Private Space
Ground Floor: Public Space The sliding door with vertical timber stripes in the centre as the inner transitional space between corridor and the core space of kitchen.
Outer Transitional Layers
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SECOND FLOOR ASSEMBLY: 7 mm TIMBER FINISHING 19 mm IN FLOOR HEATING 25 mm PLYWOOD 200 mm STEEL BEAM
BEDRO
120 X 120 mm WOODEN COLUMN
KNIFE CONNECTION
200 x 200 mm STEEL BEAM
120 X 120 mm WOODEN COLUMN
D1
WASHROOM
12.7 mm GYPSUM BOARD VAPOUR BARRIER 89 mm ROXUL INSULATION 400 mm O.C. HOUSE WRAP 25.4 mm DRAIN CAVITY DOUBLE MASONRY WALL
METAL CAP
1. ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM
FLASHING
GROUND LINE
WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE
FIRST FLOOR: 7 mm TIMBER BOARD FINISH 19 mm IN FLOOR HEATING 25 mm PLYWOOD 200 x 200 mm STEEL BEAM
FIRST FLOOR DETAIL Bulwer Residential Project 37 Bulwer St. Toronto
Alison Huo
D511
D2
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OOM
BATHROOM
KITCHEN
LIVING ROOM
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2 PLY ROOF MEMBRANE TORCHED DOWN
65 X 215 mm WOOD BLOCK
MOD BIT ROOF SYSTEM: ROOFING GRAVEL 2-PLY ROOF MEMBRANE TORCH DOWN ASPHALT LAYER 12.7 mm FIBER BOARD ASPHALT LAYER 50.8 mm EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE RIGID INSULATION 25.4 mm PLYWOOD 254 mm ROXUAL INSULATION 25.4 mm PLYWOOD 7 mm GYPSUM BOARD
1. ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM
METAL EDGING SPLICE PLATE
GRAVEL STOP
GASKET FLASHING ROOF DETAIL Bulwer Residential Project 37 Bulwer St. Toronto
12.7 mm GYPSUM BOARD VAPOUR BARRIER 89 mm ROXUL INSULATION 400 mm O.C. HOUSE WRAP 25.4 mm DRAIN CAVITY DOUBLE MASONRY WALL
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D510
25.4 mm DRAIN CAVITY EXISTED DOUBLE MASONRY
HOUSE WRAP
89 mm ROXUL INSULATION FILLING WITH CAULKING WITH WEEP HOLES 200 mm O.C.
1. ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM
VAPOUR BARRIER 12.7 mm GYPSUM BOARD
BRICK VENEER TIES BACK TO C CHANNEL
38 X 89 mm WOOD SLOPE PLATE 25.4 mm STEEL PLATE
BRICK WIRE WELD-ON ANCHOR
12.7 mm Z STEEL PLATE
200 x 200 mm STEEL BEAM WELD CONNECTION
12.7 mm GYPSUM BOARD 310 X 100 mm C CHANNEL BOLTED BACK TO BACK
WALL DETAIL Bulwer Residential Project 37 Bulwer St. Toronto
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D513
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BULWER ST
MAIN ENTRANCE
WASHROOM
KITCHEN
LIVING ROOM
REAR ENTRANCE
Ground Floor Plan
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BEDROOM
BATHROOM
Second Floor Plan
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Other Art Work Ceramic
Hand Craft & Slip Casting
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66 other art works
ceramic 67
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