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Hey there! My name is Pam Yue Pan, and I grew up in Hangzhou, China, currently a fifth-year architecture student in the five-year B.Arch. program in Carnegie Mellon University. Growing up in Hangzhou, a city designed around its natural landscapes, I developed a strong interest from an early age in the relationship between human, nature and architecture. Thorough projects that I have done in school and during internships, I also became enthusiastic about how to use architecture as an device to impact the everyday life of people and to transform the social interaction between people within communities. Other than architecture, I love trekking in the woods and writing fictions in my spare time.
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2017 FALL
2017 SPRING
2016 FALL
SHARED PLACE
LIVING GRID Student Dormitory & Football Feild Facilities
THE ACTIVE “VOID”
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2016 SUMMER
2016 SPRING
2015 FALL
THE NARROW PLAYGROUND
STAGE
ECO-HOUSING
Affordable Housing By The High Line
Baitasi Competition 2016
Project-Based Learning Charter School
Theater & Waterfront Steps With Building Analysis of One New Change & Liverpool One
Enviroment, Form & Feedback
exterior rendering of shated open space
SHARED PLACE
AFFORDABLE HOUSING BY THE HIGH LINE co-housing |high line | New York | fifth-year fall studio |15 weeks studio professor: Jonathan Kline individual project
This project is about creating a multi-family housing with limited equity housing cooperation by the High Line in west Chelsea in New York CIty in order to deal with the deficiency of affordable housing in the city. Housing today is oftentimes regarded as a commodity, and by doing this, its function as basic social needs of human being is usually neglected. Moreover, the site of this project is a government-owned land at 10th Avenue and W 19th Street , right by the High Line park, one of the currently most expensive location in New York City. Therefore, this a proposed affordable housing project on a fictional site, aiming to explore how low-income group find their living space in highly dense urban space. The affordable tactics used in this project are reducing unit size by externalizing interior programs into the shared facilities, and sharing the costs in communal programs. In this way, the unit itself would only keep three essential programs including bedroom, kitchen and bathroom, while dining, living, study space would be integrated into the communal programs. Other shared facilities included to reduce costs are shared library, child care, gym, laundry, and work space. Also, driven by multiple site forces including sun exposure and surrounding building height, the overall massing of the project is chamfered on its southwestern corner and gradually rise up to its northeastern corner. This allows the creation of sloped roof geometry to happen, which also thanks to the zoning requirement of building setback. In this way, the massing is sculptured to allow maximum sunlight coming into the shared communal courtyard that is embraced by the two L-shape housing buildings. This courtyard space also connects the High Line to the 10th Avenue diagonally, to trigger more social gatherings and activities.
housing essentials
diagram of shared facilities
winter shadow diagram
winter shadow diagram with massing
site building height analysis
plan level 1
plan level 2
site plan
plan level 1
east elevation
interior rendering of housing unit The sequence of program is arranged as residential unit to circulation space to communal space. In this way, single-loaded corridor is used to create a proximity between the living space and the shared space. Also, to reduce the floor ratio of circulation space of single-loaded corridor, the unit is designed as loft unit, which also helps creating interesting interior space. For building facades, this building has an outer facade facing the public streets from its south, east and north side, and a inner facade facing the High Line.
Materials used for the outer facade are brick veneer to follow the material fabric on the 10th Ave and windows in a randomized form to emphasize the sculptural space of the building. For the inner facade, a much lighter material is used including metal decks and perforated metal decks, to create a more open manner to the middle open space. Double facade with glass curtain wall and operable perforated metal decks enclosed the single-loaded corridor to enhance the residents’ experience in the public space.
west elevation
physical model image-1
physical model image-2
n-s section
e-w section
s-n sectional perspective
lower level
upper level
lower level
upper level
lower level
1-bed unit
2-bed unit
3-bed unit
upper level
exterior rendering on the street
LIVING GRID
STUDENT DORMITORY & FOOTBALL FIELD FACILITIES housing |sports |pre-fabrication | forth-year spring studio |15 weeks studio professor: Gerard Damiani individual project
This project is to design a new dormitory and redesign the football field and its related facilities in Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. This campus contains one architectural piece, Richard King Mellon Hall, designed by the architect, Mies Van der Rohe, who had consistent design strategies in a great number architectural pieces in his career, which is his “obsession“ with grids. In this project, the goal is to reinterpret the grid and integrated with the design of student housing and sports facilities after a half century later of Mies’ piece constructed on this campus. The design strategy is to have the housing unit flow the grid while the communal programs including the football field facilities to “break“ the grid. The intention of making the housing unit and communal space have two different formal languages is about expressing how independent students are in their living space and how their lives converge in the communal space. The regularness enable the construction efficiency of the housing units, which are prefabricated with hollow steel structure and could be stacked on top of the communal space on the ground and first floor. Therefore, the sequence of the space is designed from the most private program to the most post program, from the unit to small shared space on each floor, to the larger communal space on the ground and first floor, to the elevated seating area for the football field, and finally to the football field. Also the formal language used in the communal programs are a series of diagonal entrances and exits on different levels to achieve this idea of breaking the grid. They are also emphasized by the color orange to indicate the level of activity in these communal and circulation space.
Plan Level 1
site plan (noli plan) Another strategy this project emphasize is the idea of “street“, the chosen location for the housing towers are on the side the most important pedestrian boulevard on campus, while the football field and its facilities are on the other side of this boulevard. The design of elevated enclosed bridges on both sides intends to bring the street space more dynamic planwise and section-wise.
The facade of the residential towers are made of brick veneer, and special diagonal patterns are used for the middle communal space on each floor, while the ground and first floor communal space has more transparent facade including glass curtain walls.
exterior rendering on the bridge
THE ACTIVE “VOID“
THEATRE AND WATERFRONT STEPS WITH BUILDING ANALYSIS OF ONE NEW CHANGE & LIVERPOOL ONE theatre |public space |solid & void | forth-year fall studio |AA visiting semester program | 15 weeks studio professor: Niara Vegara & Marie-Isabel de Monseignat-Lavrov individual project
This is a 15-week building study and design project in my study abroad program in Architectural Association in London. The building studies focused on the solid and void space of two large-scale mixed-used commercial buildings, One New Change in London, and Liverpool One in Liverpool. I took a special interest in categorizing and visualizing the activity level within the void space, and I brought this concept into my design project, by designing a theater/ public steps on the ruins of Princes Landing Stage to revitalize public gathering space in the waterfront of River Mersey, Liverpool.
design project: exploded axonomentric drawing & void analysis of public space
building analysis: void space of One New Change, functional (upper) and experiential (lower)
model images: combined void space of One New Change
building analysis: human visual connections in the void space of Liverpool One
design project: site analysis of the pedestrian accessible space and amenities in the waterfront area
design project: plan drawings
From the site visit and analysis, it is noticeable that walking experience along River Mersey is linear and lacking stopping points. Also, the amenities for cultural activities including cinemas, theaters and plazas are lacking. Therefore, Princes Landing Stage was chosen as the site to revitalizing the waterfront area. The site is currently
ruins of heavy timer structure which was used about a century ago. The site’s industrial feature and its relationship with the water become important elements of the design process.
design project: conceptual renderings
design project: elevation and section drawings and program diagrams
exterior rendering of the playground
NARROW PLAYGROUND BAITASI COMPETITION 2016
modular housing| community facility | Beijing hutong | Internship |2 weeks project instructors: Chien-Ho Hsu, Xing Liang (in:Flux Architecture) design team: Pam Pan, Yilin Ma, Yanhang Ren, Liangliang Wang
axonometric drawing of programs and activities
This is a two-week competition submission to the international design competition, Baitasi 2016: Reinventing the Beijing Courtyards. The competition proposal was done during my internship in in: Flux Architecture at Beijing in 2016. The design idea is to create public space for local residents in Baitasi hutong area and a hostel for visitors to the hutong culture in Beijing. The design team considers the existing building scale of Beijing hutong should be maintained. The plan of the design proposal is about reversing the existing figure ground in Baitasi Neighborhood, which is congested by dwelling units and unable to provide space for social living.
replaceable cells
n-s section drawing
e-w section drawing
The extra-long treadmill towards the direction of Baitasi Temple and the reflective materials on its side, create a dynamic visual connection and illusion with the cultural and spiritual icon in the neighborhood. The 4.2-meter-by-4.2meter building unit with replaceable cells could be used for living, barbecue hub, teahouse, offices and etc. The pre-fabricated modules with permanent facilities including bathrooms and enclosures, gives the hutong courtyard unlimited possibilities of social events in the small space.
tea house cell
barbecue hub cell
site plan
house plan
exterior rendering
elevation drawings
STAGE
PROJECT-BASED LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOL
education | advanced structure | third-year spring studio | 15 weeks studio professor:Stephen Lee instructor: Jeffrey Davis individual project This is a semester-long project to design a project-based charter school for students from 12 to 14 years old in Hazelwood, Pittsburgh, USA. The building consists of nine studio spaces for all three grades, the common area for meeting and exhibition, and other supporting programs. The design idea is to define the common space as the “stage”, and the studio space as “seating areas“ facing towards the “stage”, to create a multi-level visual connection within the space in order to trigger creativity among students. The project also focused on advanced structural systems. Industrial building elements including big trusses, metal deck ceiling, steel beams and columns are exposed to students, which enables them to have a better understanding of building tectonics. The metal-screen facade is designed with the intention to enhance visual connections from the outside to the inside and vice versa. The size of the punched holes on the screen varies depends on the level of publicness of the programs inside. In addition, the metal screen also allows the yellow-colored trusses being exposed to the pedestrians outside.
site plan drawing
interior rendering
plan drawings
wall sections
unfolded envelope diagram
structure diagram
living machine diagram
ECO-HOUSING
ENVIRONMENT, FORM & FEEDBACK
housing & public park | living machine | third-year fall studio | 15 weeks studio professor:Dana Kupcova instructor: Mat Huber, Mat Plecity design team: Nadia Islam, Pam Pan, Annabelle Swain
experiential rendering: inside the indoor wetland park
This is a semester-long project of incorporating eco-machines and housing design to create a riverfront housing plus park in Strip District, Pittsburgh, the US. The project started with a closely study of the ecological systems of the site, including wind, sun, water, traffic, history and etc. Also, we did a close reading and analysis of precedent housing project. For this project, we focused on living machine as a core element that structured the whole design. The living machine would transform waste water into clean water through eight steps including anaerobic reactor, closed aerobic reactor, open aerobic reactor, clarifier, constructed wetland, water re-use holding tank, ultraviolet disinfection and storage tank. The aim of the design is to use open aerobic reactor (vegetation tanks) and constructed wetland as architectural elements in housing units to create interesting interaction between nature and people. The design process is about finding the form that would achieve this goal by using various parametric design tools.
We firstly quantified the relationship between the total volume of apartments, open aerobic reactors and the constructed wetland. Based on this, we mapped the apartment buildings, wetland, open aerobic reactors and trees on the site to test the shadow condition and human experience of the design. (images below) Then we continued our form finding by focusing on one module. We proposed a green roof system to place open aerobic reactors on strips
shadow analysis
experiential & conceptial rendering
that forms the roof of the module. The position of reactors are determined by solar analysis and parametric tools. In this way, the aerobic reactors as vegetation tanks are introduced inside the building. We also studied the different human interaction on the rooftop strips based on the different slopes of strips. (images on the right side)
buildings
trees
wetland
reactors
living machine diagram
surface planting diagram
social diagram
We tried stacking the modules to create 12-story apartment buildings, using space in-between the modules as public green space. Therefore, residents in the building would approach and interact with nature easily.
Then, when we looked back at our site and reconsidered the social aspect of our design goal, we decided to have lower buildings that are more related to the landscape. We create buildings “growing from the ground“, and having landscape weaving with the buildings.
housing module analysis diagram
apartment building: section
experiential rendering: public green space
apartment building: elevation
site plan
When we came to the urban design phase, we determined that our proposal for this eco-housing project is to create a housing plus park place for residents of the apartments and for people in Strip District by making living machine as the attraction and the focus of this project. According to the site study, there are two major entrance for residents and people in the neighborhood to enter the site separately. In the middle is the indoor wetland park. Two main streets going through the site with open aerobic tanks placed on them.
site design process diagrams
experiential rendering: housing
site study: shadow & wind
As the wetland and the reactors need to be kept indoor, there are a dome and a canopy above them. The structure and shading system of the dome and the canopy is designed by parametric tools and based on the solar analysis of the surface area.
Eco-machines are used in this project as visual attractions on site, including green roofs on the housing, living machine (including constructed wetland & open aerobic reactors) in the public space, in order to help visitors and residents to be engaged in the eco-system around them.
sectional perspective drawing:eco-machines diagram
physical model photo-1
physical model photo-2
Thank you for your time and consideration!