AMANDA CHAN ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN
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PIER REGENERATION
FLUID CONVERGENCE
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PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
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INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN
ARBY RESIDENCE
LIST OF PROJECTS 01
ST. CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW Coral Reefs in the Caribbean, important for many ecological, economical, and cultural uses, have been affected by a number of natural and anthropogenic events, all of which have led to the decline in species diversity and abundance in the area. In 2005, coral reefs throughout the US Virgin Islands were severely compromised by a mass coral bleaching event triggered by prolonged exposure to above normal water temperatures. Researchers are cultivating underwater nurseries to revive bleached and dying reefs. Small fragments of wild staghorn coral are grown atop concrete blocks and later transplanted to damaged reefs. The resulting pockets of genetic diversity can help jump-start regeneration of reefs.
SPRING 2012 ACADEMIC, INDIVIDUAL
PIER REGENERATION
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
images of coral reef farm variations and program breakdown for project proposal
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MAINTENANCE
3,000 SF
BOAT DOCK
2,500 SF
COLLECTIONS
6,000 SF
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
5,000 SF
LECTURE + TEACHING
3,500 SF
BUILDING ADMINISTRATION
15,000 SF
LABORATORY
20,000 SF
HOUSING
PROCESS WORK sectional and plan diagrams study how to distribute program elements along an extended pier
+50 FT BELOW SEA LEVEL 25-50 FT BELOW SEA LEVEL 5-20 FT BELOW SEA LEVEL 0-5 FT BELOW SEA LEVEL SEA LEVEL
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STUDENT HOUSING HOTEL/PUBLIC HOUSING [UNDERWATER] RESEARCH LABS
LECTURE
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
ADMINISTRATION + COLLECTIONS [QUARTER MILE] PUBLIC PIER
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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT The proposed designed begins with the typology of a public pier. The program is weaved under and over a public path that extends a quarter mile towards the coral reefs. Classrooms, laboratories, and student housing are accessed along the pier. The linearity of the pier allows for minimal obstruction to the underwater ecosystem and maximum sunlight to reach the regenerative coral laboratories. The design emphasizes movement and fluidity with elegant spaces, circulation paths, and facade systems.
FLOOR PLAN: SEA LEVEL SCALE: 1:25
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SECTION: A SCALE: 1:25
LONGITUDINAL SECTION SCALE: 1:25
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SECTION: B SCALE: 1:25
SECTION: C SCALE: 1:25
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PROGRAM TEACHING + LECTURE
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STUDENT
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HOTEL
CIRCULATION
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RESEARCH LABS
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PROGRAM LAYERS
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PIER REGENERATION 07
FLOOR PLAN: SEA LEVEL SCALE: 1:25
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FLOOR PLAN: BELOW SEA LEVEL SCALE: 1:25
PIER REGENERATION 09
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SEA LEVEL
DETAIL DEVELOPMENT final design and close up of floor plan detailing housing units and laboratories
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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW The RAND Corporation, currently located in Santa Monica, is an independent, nonprofit research institution. RAND has continued to grow, as the value of “ideas� has increased in world culture and the world market. The location for the new RAND headquarters is a vacant site in San Jose, California, predominately zoned for industrial purposes. The site is comprised of two parcels totaling 40 acres which will be used for the one million s.f. RAND Headquarters Campus. The program of the campus consists of research towers, required parking, retail and commerical space, a hotel and a conference center. The challange of the project was masterplan development and designing a model for future educational campuses.
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The proposed design serves as a large network for all employees and visitors by using innovative strategies. The surrounding context consists of industrial or corporate offices that lack open green space. This project proposes an urban park extension that will eventually lead to other surrounding sites. With the required program, the proposal consists of two main towers which hold the research spaces for employees. In addition, there is a running track elevated above the site that connects several buildings to one another. The purpose of this track is to provide employees a creative mode of walking transportation throughout the site and promote physical well-being.
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SITE PLAN opposite page: view from the park looking toward the main tower
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DETAIL DEVELOPMENT laser-cut model, PLAN floor plans of main research tower, FLOOR GROUND site and program diagrams
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SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW Nestled between the RAND corporation headquarters, Santa Monica City Hall, the termination of the 10 freeway and the Pacific Ocean, lies a stretch of land that is proposed as an urban park.
FLUID CONVERGENCE
The intent of the project maintains the proposed open space while infusing the site with a building program and necessary circulation routes. The design integrates landscape and structure while composing parametric programming to elevate textural surface articulation in support or their design criteria. The program is a mid-size, 20,000-s.f. institutional building partially submerged or subterranean which aims to weave itself into the parks open space.
FALL 2010 ACADEMIC, INDIVIDUAL
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Elements of nature are constantly forced through paths of linearity. However, these elements instintively move in spiraling or curved motions. This project aims to apply this conclusion to people and their relationship to movement and space. Fluid convergence proposes a design that supports curved paths to enhance the experience through a space using the fluidity and opportunities formed by spiraled paths.
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SITE DIAGRAMS city hall datum, points of access, cental plaza, topography study
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DETAIL DEVELOPMENT
1ST FLOOR PLAN [BELOW GROUND]
1/32" = 1'-0"
floor plans detailing lecture hall, classrooms, open space and circulation
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2ND FLOOR PLAN [BELOW GROUND] 1/32" = 1'-0"
3RD FLOOR PLAN [GROUND] 1/32" = 1'-0"
4TH FLOOR PLAN [ABOVE GROUND]
1/32" = 1'-0"
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VENICE BEACH, CALIFORNIA, U.S.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW The design for the purposed community civic center integrates the required public spaces with a designated hybrid program. The site is located in Venice, California in the middle of a dense, low-rise residential area. The hybrid program is an interactive children’s museum which will programmatically link to the adjacent public library and provide a community-oriented center. The development of the project includes an analysis of schematic designs, organizational concepts, interior spaces, structural systems and circulation strategies. Additionally, there was an exploration of the tectonic nature of the primary structure, skin sub-structure, enclosure, facade strategies, and material studies through large-scale models.
SPRING 2010 ACADEMIC, INDIVIDUAL
PROGRAMMATIC LINK
DESIGN CONCEPT In the final design, Programmatic Link proposes an innovative bridge that will be used to provide direct access for museum visitors to and from the library. As a community civic center, the design of the hybrid programs serves to close the gap civic employees and community members.
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CONNECTIVE LINK
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INTEGRATION OF HYBRID PROGRAM
CIRCULATION CORE
OFFICE + ADMINISTRATION
COUNCIL CHAMBER
SOCIAL HALL
HYBRID PROGRAM
PROGRAMMATIC ALLOCATION
STRUCTURAL FRAMING
SKIN SYSTEM
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PROJECT DRAWINGS floor plans and sections detailing program spaces and circulation development
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PROGRAMMATIC LINK 37
DETAIL DEVELOPMENT 1/4-inch scale sectional model and drawings
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW Located in the Hollywood Hills, these two challenging hillside parcels were conventionally unbuildable as a city storm sewer easement traverses the canyon section of the property. With a nod to several dramatic precedents, this proposal literally joins the two properties by bridging them from side to side with an 85 foot Pratt truss. A lap pool with canyon vistas as well as a garden roof terrace take full advantage of the recreational landscape in which the project is sited.
Truss Haus was a collaboration between four designers at Space International. The renderings and concept plans were individually created.
WINTER 2013 PROFESSIONAL, DESIGN TEAM
TRUSS HAUS
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CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
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diagrams show the combining of two parcels and the existing easement
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CONCEPT PLANS
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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, U.S.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW This comprehensive addition & renovation in Beverly Hills to an existing residential property enhances the existing utilitarian floor plan with a clerestory roof accentuating the spacious views to the canyon beyond. Tactical design alterations to the main house are bracketed by the addition of new guest wing and extended wood terrace creating a “courtyard� residence made up of multiple functions. The landscape design completes the attention to detail at every scale of the property. This project was a collaboration between three designers at Space International. The renderings and construction documents were created on a team and used for an approved design review submittal.
SPRING 2013 PROFESSIONAL, DESIGN TEAM
ARBY RESIDENCE
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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT construction documents and project visualization
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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT construction documents and project visualization
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ALEXANDERPLATZ, BERLIN, GERMANY
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PROJECT OVERVIEW “It all starts with an Absolut blank page.� This is the name of the Absolut Vodka campaign. The campaign is an art collaboration with MADE and is based on the idea of producing a large-scale art installation in public space. The scheme combines an urban largescale advertisement poster with physical art located in Alexanderplatz, the heart of the city of Berlin. Using the Absolut bottle silhouette, over 190 4.5 liter bottles are arranged to emphasize the form. The bottle array has the ability to depict various designs through LED-illuminated bottles of various colors. Once completed, the installation will illuminate for two-weeks then travel to various locations to be displayed including Art Basel Miami.
WINTER 2012 PROFESSIONAL, DESIGN TEAM
ABSOLUT CAMPAIGN
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PROCESS WORK 0.50 m
0.70 m
2.50 m 2.50 m
7.00 m
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1.15 m
concept development and initial bottle-light testing
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1.01m
0.70 m
7.0 m
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192 BOTTLES
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FINAL DISPLAY view from the street and within Alexanderplatz
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CHINA
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TEA
PROJECT OVERVIEW
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As a graphic artist for the USC US-China Institute, the sample illustration represents a series of infographics relating to current topics and events in China. They are used on the institutes’s website and published works. With the research team, statistical and factual data is refined to create engaging and fascinating graphics.
US-China Today
INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN PER CAPITA 2010 WORLD TEA CONSUMPTION uschina.usc.edu
Adobe Illustrator is the main software used to create the infographics in order to maintain vector-based capabilities. All of the infographics created for the USC US-China Institute can be found in the multimedia section of the institute’s website:
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CHINA, THE AVERAGE PERSON CONSUMES 400 CUPS OF TEA A YEAR
TEA
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after water, tea is the
most popular drink in the world.
US-China Today
the total consumption of tea
uschina.usc.edu
equals more than coffee, soft drinks, and alcohol combined.
2010 WORLD TEA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
TOP 5 TYPES OF TEA IN CHINA #1
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CHINA, THE AVERAGE PERSON CONSUMES 400 CUPS OF TEA A YEAR]
EXAMPLE 01
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there are over different types of Chinese tea
green teas are the
GREEN TEA
least processed of all teas
BLACK TEA
most tea in China is consumed hot, while 85% of tea in the U.S. is consumed cold or iced
OOLONG TEA BRICK TEA SCENTED TEA
the most common type of tea in the U.S. is
black tea
WATER CONSUMPTION FOR TEA
it takes 18.4 liters of water to produce enough leaves for 1 cup of tea
it takes 0.3 liters of water to brew 1 cup of tea
4.7 cups of water to make 1 cup of tea
= [in one year, every person consumes 1880 cups of water for tea]
For the consumption of China’s annual 550 billion cups of tea, China uses 236,588 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water
If you lined all the pools in a row, it would stretch from Los Angeles to
Hong Kong
It would take Michael Phelps
2.5 months to swim the distance
In 2010,
CHINA consumed
tea leaves equal in weight to
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COAL MINING IN
CHINA ACCOUNTS FOR
40%
CHINA
DEATH TOLL IN 2010, 2,433 PEOPLE DIED IN COAL MINING ACCIDENTS
OF GLOBAL
CHINA’S TOP 5 COAL PRODUCING PROVINCES IN 2009
COAL OUTPUT
BUT 1. INNER MONGOLIA 601 MILLION TONS
2. SHANXI 594 MILLION TONS
3. SHAANXI 296 MILLION TONS
4. HENAN 230 MILLION TONS
5. SHANDONG
80%
OF MINING DEATHS AROUND THE WORLD
144 MILLION TONS
COAL MINING INDUSTRY IN CHINA
CHINESE MINER
PRODUCTION IN METRIC TONS
ACCORDING TO THE BBC,
3.0 BILLION
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2.0 BILLION
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TO DIE IN AN ACCIDENT 2000
2003
EXAMPLE 02
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2006
2009
THAN A U.S. MINER
U.S. MINING DEATHS IN 2010 DEADLIEST YEAR FOR U.S. MINERS SINCE 1992
TOP 10 HARD COAL PRODUCERS IN 2010 6. RUSSIA 248 MILLION TONS
8. KAZAKHSTAN 105 MILLION TONS
2. USA
1. CHINA
932 MILLION TONS
3,162 MILLION TONS
9. POLAND 77 MILLION TONS
7. INDONESIA 173 MILLION TONS
3. INDIA 538 MILLION TONS
10. COLOMBIA 74 MILLION TONS
4. AUSTRALIA
5. SOUTH AFRICA
353 MILLION TONS
255 MILLION TONS
CHINA’S SHARE OF GLOBAL COAL CONSUMPTION
80% OF CHINA’S ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION IN 2008 COMES FROM COAL 28%
2000
33%
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40%
2006
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CURRICULUM VITAE 1PROFILE Architecture graduate with a strong interest in urban design, mixed-use projects and social housing. Looking to pursue a career that encourages innovative thinking, creativity, and a wide range of design skills.
1EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA School of Architecture: Bachelor of Architecture Minor: Urban Policy and Planning Graduated: May 2012
1SOFTWARE + SKILLS Proficient on PC and Mac Platforms Adobe CS6 [Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere] 3D [Rhino, 3ds Max, Revit, Sketch-up Pro] 2D [Vectorworks, AutoCAD] Rendering [Maxwell, V-Ray) Graphic design Laser Cutting and 3D Printing Model-making Conversational Vietnamese
1TRAVEL ASIA | CHINA, HONG KONG, VIETNAM, CAMBODIA, THAILAND, INDONESIA [JULY 2014 - SEPT 2014] Highlights: Rapid urbanization, indigenous architecture, urban density EUROPE | GERMANY, UK, SPAIN, FRANCE, ITALY [DEC 2012 - JAN 2013] Highlights: Historical architecture, modern design, public transportation ASIA | VIETNAM, THAILAND, MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE [JULY 2010 - AUG 2010] Highlights: Indigenous architecture, urban density, public transportation
1WORK EXPERIENCE STUDIO 19 ARCHITECTS | SEATTLE, WA DESIGNER [OCT 2014 - PRESENT] Assisting on multiple projects varying in scale from residential remodels to mixed-used developments. Working on small teams to deliver conceptual designs, presentation packets and construction documents. SPACE INTERNATIONAL INC. | LOS ANGELES, CA DESIGNER [MARCH 2013 - JUNE 2014] Working on various residential and commercial projects throughout Southern California. Closely involved with all phases of design from conceptual visualization to construction documents. Special attention to details including interior finishes and landscape elements. [M] AD - MANUFACTURED BY ALEXIS DORNIER | JUNIOR DESIGNER [JULY 2012 - JAN 2013] Working in Berlin, Germany for a multidisciplinary design studio; Assisting with the design and visualization phases for multiple projects which include product design, furniture design, corporate re-branding, small-scale architectural projects and a hotel masterplan proposal USC US-CHINA INSTITUTE | GRAPHIC ARTIST [SEPT 2011 - MAY 2012] Design and create infographics relating to current topics and events in China to be used on the institute’s website and published works STUDIO PEI ZHU | ARCHITECTURAL INTERN [MAY 2011 - AUG 2011] Worked in Beijing, China for a summer architecture internship; Involved with the conceptual phase, design development, and schematic design on several projects located throughout Western China
1RECOGNITIONS USC ARCHITECTURE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM [AUG 2010 - MAY 2012] Provide guidance and share experiences in the School of Architecture to first and second year students USC UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE STUDENT COUNCIL [JAN 2009 - MAY 2012] Assist with organizing and running school events and projects AIA SWW SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT [JULY 2007] Scholarship for a student pursuing a career in architecture and has been accepted into a university with an accredited architectural degree program
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CONTACT INFORMATION AMANDACHAN09@GMAIL.COM 360.790.6197
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