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Table of Contents | M.ARCH Projects AC
CV | 01
Lost River | 03
Dover Island Sauna | 09
Info Pads | 13
Curriculum Vitae PERSONAL INFORMATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
availbility | from May 2016 address | 86 Lowther Ave, Toronto ON. M5R 1E1 email | annac.516@gmail.com contact| +1 647-761-1780 web | issuu.com/annachen516
Architecture Intern | June - August 2015 Nunavut Housing Corporation (NHC), Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, NU
LANGUAGES
Digital Media Work-study | 2014 - 2015 University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Toronto, ON
English | native Mandarin | professional working proficiency
Creative Remix Coordinator | June - August 2014 Moberly Arts and Culture Centre, Vancouver, BC
EDUCATION
Arts Director | Sept. 2013 - April 2014 West Point Grey Community Center, Vancouver, BC
Master of Architecture | 2014 – present University of Toronto, Toronto, ON expected graduation: 2018 Honours Bachelor of Environmental Design | 2009 – 2014 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Visual Arts Mini School Program | 2004 – 2009 Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver, BC
INTERESTS Graphics & Visualization, Drawing, Photography, Travelling, Yoga, Running and Badminton
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Graphic Designer & Yearbook Co-editor | 2008 - 2009 Yearbook Committee, Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver, BC
B.ENDS Projects Anti-void | 19
West End at Play | 27
Laneway House 63.5 | 23
AWARD + ACHIEVEMENTS
SOFTWARE
T-Holder’s Academic Excellence Award | 2015 Univesity of Toronto, Toronto, On
AutoCAD Vectorworks Rhinocerous Grasshopper Sketchup
[ACADEMIC]
Dean’s Honour List | 2014 Environmental Design Program, UBC, Vancouver, BC President’s Entrance Scholarship | 2009 Arts Faculty, UBC, Vancouver, BC Yearbook Award | 2009 Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver, BC Senior Art Award | 2008 Byng Arts, Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver, BC [EXTRACURRICULAR] Varsity Badminton / Women’s Team Representative / Women’s Assistant Coach | 2015 - present University of Toronto, Toronto, ON National Badminton Championships Competitor | 2013 - 2014. 4-time competitor, Yonex Junior and U23 National Badminton Championship Canada, Various Canadian provinces WPGCC Excellence in Volunteering and Community Involvement Award | 2009 West Point Grey Community Center, Vancouver, BC
Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Lightroom
3D Studio Max Vray KeyShot Finalcut Pro Microsoft Office Word PowerPoint Excel
INSPIRATIONAL TRAVELS Germany + Switzerland + France | 2015 Mexico | Puerto Vallarta, 2015 Japan | Osaka, Kyoto, Okinawa, Hokkaido, 2015 Australia | Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Cairns, Port Douglas, Townsville, Magnetic Island, 2013 Alaska | Juneau, Keichikan, Skagway, 2013 Taiwan | Taipei, Tai-zhong, Tao-Yuan, Kao-hsiung, 2013 All Canadian Provinces | excluding North West Territories, pre-2012 New York + California + Oregon | Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, pre-2012 Dominican Republic | Santo Domingo, Punta Cana, Puerto Plata, La Romana, pre-2012 02
Lost Rivers
Typology: Urban Design Location: Allen Expressway, Toronto, Ontario M.Arch Project
Allen Expressway is a highly automobile driven truncated segment that divides the East and West neighborhoods. The design proposes the resurfacing of the Allen Road’s hidden landscape to generate a new urban water management sytem that puts its visitors in touch with Toronto’s lost rivers. Increasing the neighborhoods density by more than double, the project proposes new mixed use buildings with an abundance of public, semi-private, and private open spaces encouraging outdoor activity. At the same time, the design encourages sustainable practices to improve the neighborhoods qualiy of life.
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context site
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1947 Toronto’s historic ravines
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2015 Remove Allen. City’s new civic infrastruture
2025 Stormwater management pipe lines
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2025+ Water purification by natural process
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Dover Island Sauna
Typology: Small Construction Location: Dover Island, Lake Nippissing, Ontario Size: 10m2 M.Arch Project
Located on the northern edge of Doover Island, the design is built for Shannon Hiltchie and Dave Bowick. It is a compact wood construction with an outdoor deck, a sauna, rooftop seating, and wood strorage. Using timber beams for framing and cedar shingles as cladding, the design takes advantage of the smooth sloping rock allowing for a quick plunge in the water while cement slats provide seating to dip one’s toes in the lake. Internally, the Northern view is framed within the sauna while access to the rooftop patio provides an elevated panorama view of island and a cozy evening atop. 09
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Info Pads
Typology: Water Education Center Location: RC Harris Water Filtration Plant, Toronto, Ontario M.Arch Project
Info Pads is a series of pavilions situated on the RC Harris Water Filtration Plant that would educate the general public about the water cycle and its filtration processes. The design focuses on an explorative learning model, where visitors can interact, ask questions, and synthesize information from one pavilion to the next. Each pavilion hosts its own program of varying depths, while they are dispersed to activate the central space. Curved-glass walls provide 360 degree views and sightlines through the central lawn. A public exhibition provides the opportunity to descend underground for viewings of the water settling tanks showcasing its spatial monumentality and infrastructural complex. In addition to educating the public about water cycles, three public swimming pools, a water bar, and a spa on the lakeshore provide the Beaches neighborhood a new destination for leisure, transforming the existing RC Harris Water Filtration Plant to a new and easily accessible hot spot for the community to enjoy. 13
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neighborhood a new destination for leisure, water sports, and views. This transforms the exisitng R.C. Harris waterfront into a more desirable public space with greater water accessibility.
public info center water catchment
Outward view
Inward focus
water catchment
Below ground
View of settling tanks
exhibition spaces
communal library
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Roof water run-off flows into granular bioswales that then flows into the settling tanks
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private offices + board rooms
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most private programming towards RC Harris
Cross circulation between pads
programming
water flow
public info center water catchment
Outward view
Inward focus
water catchment
Below ground
View of settling tanks
exhibition spaces
communal library
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Roof water run-off flows into granular bioswales that then flows into the settling tanks
private offices + board rooms
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Anti Void
Typology: Small construction Location: Federick Lasserre Building, UBC Campus, Vancouver, BC Size: 5m2 B.ENDS Project
The inspiration for this project is the Klein Bottle. The Klein Bottle is a non-orientable surface. Informally, it is a surface (a two-dimensional manifold) in which notions of left and right cannot be consistently defined. It has no boundary and therefore does not distinguish between inside and outside. The difficulty of a klein bottle is that it is a surface condition, so when one intends to make it three dimensional, one faces the issue of it folding in on itself. In order for it to be fabricated, this interior-exterior condition must be resolved. We have done so through the creation of a structural, triangulated grid of pipes that is then wrapped in vinyl cord. This allows for a skin that can be on the interior at one moment and exterior at the next. This structure then rests in the tree, inviting people into its ambiguous space. 19
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Federick Laserre Building
Laneway House 63.5 Typology: Residential Location: Downtown Vancouver, BC B.ENDS Project
Situated in the West of Denman area in Vancouver, this single-person laneway house sits on the dimensions of a single parking lot. Based on the PL1400 structure, the building perceives challenges of comfort, sightlines, sun condition, circulation, privacy and publicity, all of which are explored through the idea of a periscope.
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West End at Play - Eyes on the Streets Typology: Apartment style single family homes Location: Downtown Vancouver, BC B.ENDS Project
This project is designed for families with 2-3 children in mind though an analysis of both the lack of children in the neighborhoods population, and lack of existing housing stock for families. Due to its predominant economic focus: one bedroom and studio units for individuals, the project aims to gain higher revenue. The site is located in a unique location – the laneway – we wanted our housing design to not only allow families to live comfortably, but also to allow for reclamation of that laneway for residents, and specifically the reclaiming of outdoor space for play. Outdoor play is essential in cognitive and physical development of children, yet we exist today in a world of paranoia in which parents hesitate to allow their children beyond their doorsteps without supervision. We turned to the concept of “eyes on the street” as a way to shift this paradigm: our units center around a shared courtyard, with program pushed to the front of each unit to allow for supervision from interior spaces. Each of the eight units possess a balcony facing onto this courtyard, as well as a front stoop shared with one other unit one which one may sit, socialize, and supervise. In this specific housing development we propose the simple play structure of a sandbox, set into the paved courtyard, but as the housing propagates throughout the West End the play structure itself could shift. 27
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