DESIGN PORTFOLIO
ANNA AC CHEN
4629 W. 9th Ave Vancouver BC, V6R 2E3
annac.516@gmail.com
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Table of Contents | M.ARCH Projects Lost River
Dover Island Sauna
B.ENDS Projects Info Pads
Laneway House 63.5
Anti-void
Curriculum Vitae PERSONAL INFORMATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
AWARD + ACHIEVEMENTS
SOFTWARE
availbility | from May 2016 address | 4629 W.9th Ave, Vancouver BC, V6R 2E3 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
T-Holder’s Academic Excellence Award | 2015 Univesity of Toronto, Toronto, On
AutoCAD Vectorworks Rhinocerous Grasshopper Sketchup
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
Graphic Designer & Yearbook Co-editor | 2008 - 2009 Yearbook Committee, Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver, BC
[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
Info Pads Info Pads is a series of pavilions situated on the RC Harris Water Filtration Plant in Toronto, Ontario that would educate the general public about the city’s 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 panorama 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.
form diagrams
wwater education center plan
large exhibition of water settling tanks
pool deck view looking back at RC Harris
leisure pool plan
spa view towards pool
large exhibition + office + library section
education center activities
pool activities
Lost Rivers 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.
1947 Toronto’s historic ravines
2025
2015 Remove Allen. City’s new civic infrastruture
2025 Stormwater management pipe lines
2050
2025+ Water purification by natural process
2075
urban density strategies + typology studies
Dover Island Sauna Located on the northern edge of Doover Island, the design 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.
Laneway House 63.5 Situated in the West of Denman area in Vancouver, this singleperson 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.
structure
core utilities
building skin
first floor plan
second floor plan
third floor plan
Anti Void 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.
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Federick Laserre Building
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