6086 Honduras Apartments
Manufacturing Facility
Architecture Center Houston: Annex
NASA Space Center: Spacecraft Museum
Community Design
P. 1 Mix-use Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summer 2011
P. 13 + D.I.Y Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam
Spring 2010
Downtown Houston, Texas
Spring 2011
Clear Lake, Texas
Spring 2012
Houston, Texas
Spring 2012
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P. 29
P. 37
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6086 HONDURAS MIX USE APARTMENTS
BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires, a city of rich historic culture, is currently under the avalanche of rapid urbanization. Located near the city’s center, Palermo is one of the city’s densest and most historic neighborhoods. Current expansive construction, to accommodate the area’s growing population, disregards the city’s history by removing existing single-story ground floor structures making way for single use high-rise apartment buildings. Having this type of structure in the site ignites the opportunity to embrace the city’s existing fabric into the design while providing the additional living space above, needed for a growing area.
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HOUSTON BUENOS AIRES PALERMO
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Inner/Outer Block Carving
Idea Adding retail to the ground floor, the building uses the first two levels as public space by carving an outer block void as an amenity to the existing neighborhood activity. Due to Palermo’s high living costs, the building divides into two masses in response to affordability. On one side, seven stacked studio apartments offer lower living costs, and four two-story lofts, adjacent, provide double story units for luxury living. While shifting the balconies in the corner brings passive shading to the living spaces below, it also generates a dynamic ambiance for the inhabitants and pedestrians by responding to the horizontal lines of extension of both sides of the street.
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Balconies Utilizing the balconies as elements to interweave with the building also serves to break the partition wall that separate the units. The program allows the flexibility of an open floor plan for the living spaces to bring uninterrupted views from within.
Corrugated Metal 3050 Sq/ft.
Light-well
Party Wall Partition Wall
Party Wall
Ventilation Ventilate
Ventilation
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Kitchen and Dining 3050 Sq/ft.
Light-well
View Space
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Studio Balcony 632 SF.
783 SF.
632 SF.
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West Elevation
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MANUFACTURING FACILITY FOOTWARE CO.
HO CHI MIHN CITY VIETNAM
This project establishes the forgotten relationship between shopping and making. The building combines a traditional manufacturing facility with a storefront, design center, living units, and external distribution center. Through the design center customers are able to design their own shoes through circulating the perimeter of the building, while viewing the manufacturing process, an often clandestine operation.
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TU TIEM
HO CHI MIHN CITY
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Site The Saigon River was once the portal for industry for Ho Chi Mihn City. Traditionally, due to the availability of cheap land and labor, manufacturing has been relocated to rural areas to fit the high demand of export. Reintroducing a shoe manufacturing facility, Vietnam’s second greatest export, into District 1, a thriving city center, provides the opportunity to rethink the city’s interaction with the mass production of shoes.
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Program and Circulation Pick-up Stamp Design
Main Street Entrance
Store Living Units
Public Manufacturing
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Idea On the ground floor the building footprint spills towards the private courtyard as an oasis for gathering activity of the tourist area. The Do It Yourself design center where customers are able to design their own shoes provides the opportunity to take part in the experience of making. Living units adhere above the shoe store suited for the facility’s staff.
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Interior Perspective
Manufacturing
Design Cutting Cutting Embroidering Stitching
Attaching Distribution
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Site Plan Attaching Lobby Conference Room Of多ces Break Room Pick-up Living Units Design Studio
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ARCHITECTURE CENTER HOUSTON: ANNEX
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Tranquility Park, located in the heart of Downtown Houston’s theatre district, consists of two blocks connected by an underpass on Rusk Street. The proposed architecture archive and exhibition center will occupy the smaller block serving as annex to the Architecture Center Houston at Bayou Place. Building the site on an existing park provided an opportunity to enhance and expand public interaction in the space.
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Idea Elevating and creating a circular exhibition space around the site, with an open atrium, encourages exploration by the downtown activity and park visitors. A cafe and bookstore used as anchors, on the ground level, serve as public nodes to bring views to pedestrians of the exhibition activity above. These views create a dialogue between architectural and public exhibitions and the activities of urban life. Site
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Primary Structure Gutter/ Secondary Structure Interior Exhibition Public Atrium
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NASA SPACECRAFT MUSEUM
CLEAR LAKE
The NASA Spacecraft Museum pays homage to the rich relationship between the city of Houston and the U.S. space program. Retired rockets, artifacts, and a shuttle are displayed in chronological order telling the story of U.S.’s endeavors into space. The opportunity to create an iconic symbol to bring pride to the Houston community is the inspiration for the project.
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Background Image: Sean McNaughton/ National Geographic
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A tram tour of the Johnson Space Center campus is provided for the high volume of visitors. The site currently houses the Saturn V rocket however although it is situated a comfortable walking distance from the visitors center, there is no path to allow the opportunity to approach the site by foot.
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2 Exhibition
Idea The heart of the museum lies in creating a sublime spatial quality evoking a feeling of the beyond and space exploration throughout the exhibition spaces. Programing the tram to intersect the building and placing a grand staircase creates a sense of arrival and departure for visitors. Framing the courtyard to stage the sky and interpreting the openings as portals enhance the viewing of the giant ships and artifacts.
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metal rain screen panel 2x8 high performance glass structural truss
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North Elevation
Portals The design embraces the idea of portals to frame the views of the rockets from the outside and to stage them against the sky from within. A parametric tool was used to construct skylights as small portals of light showering with light patterns throughout the largest exhibition space where the Saturn V rocket and capsule float. This creates an otherworldly ambiance filling the space with playful rays of light.
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Visitors Deck Gemini Program Exhibit Saturn V Rocket Artifact Exhibit Shuttle Exhibit
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Macys
Cinema
Greenspoint Mall
24-Hour Fitness
YMCA
Workers orke e
Dillards
Proposed P d Light Rail Station
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Greenspoint Vision “The strategies focus on both re-using existing resources, such as the mall through creative programming, and introducing new amenities and programs as a means to enhance the overall quality of life for the diverse constituencies that live or work in the area.� -Susan Rogers, CDRC Director
Shift multi-family housing
Develop new parks along Greens Bayou
Community Residents
Community Residents
City Vi Cit View Park Imperial Valley
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thank you.