SELECTED WORKS Arianna Mao
B. Environmental Design UBC 2014
e: arimao@alumni.ubc.ca t: [1] 604.346.8286 a: 2957 West 41st Avenue VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
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All images, unless otherwise noted, are the my work or portions of a group project for which I was responsible.
ARCHITECTURE &
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Live/Work/Walk DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER Spring 2014
Filament MAPLE & 12TH STREET, VANCOUVER Spring 2013
Composting Toilets TZIMOL, CHIAPAS, MEXICO Summer 2014
Design & visualization
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Hedgehog Studiolo Spring 2014
social change
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ARCHITECTURE &
Gopher Shed CAMBIE GARDENS, VANCOUVER Summer 2013
Residential Home Designs HNPA ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING VANCOUVER Winter 2014 Sketchbook Drawings DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER and MEXICO 2014
The Burger Bar STUDENT UNION BUILDING, UBC Winter 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GOPHER SHED
SUMMER 2013 in collaboration with RACHEL CHAN, VINCENT XI and CHRISTINE CHEUNG 3D MODELING: RHINOCEROS 4.0 SITE PLAN + ANALYSIS: AUTOCAD + ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CONSTRUCTION: PLYWOOD, OSB, CEDAR SHINGLES, SPF
GOPHER SHED
SUMMER 2013 in collaboration with RACHEL CHAN, VINCENT XI and CHRISTINE CHEUNG 3D MODELING: RHINOCEROS 4.0 SITE PLAN + ANALYSIS: AUTOCAD + ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CONSTRUCTION: PLYWOOD, OSB, CEDAR SHINGLES, SPF
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SITE CAMBIE PARK
On the corner of Cambie Street and 54th Avenue is a small community park. Once a fantastic location for children of the neighborhood to play in, it had become a waterlogged urban wetland with drainage issues that was only used as a shortcut for people with waterproof boots. As the neighborhood grows in density because of new condominium developments, this public space needed to become more functional. Working in conjunction with CityStudio Vancouver, municipal officials, the Parks Board and a dedicated group of urban farmers, our project planned to implement a community garden to revitalize the park and to foster great connectivity through the neighborhood.
New condominium developments. Network of green spaces.
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GOPHER SHED
The introduction of more community gardens aligned with the City of Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 Action Plan (http://vancouver. ca/files/cov/Greenest-city-action-plan.pdf) goals of bringing food production closer to home. Community gardens are able to bring the citizens of Vancouver fresher, more nutritious food. The community gardeners at the Gopher Shed were people living in the area who had wanted to get more involved with the community and had met each other working in a community garden that no longer can accommodate them. Their goal was to bring people down into the park so that neighbors can be neighbors and talk to each other and live in a vibrant community.
However, there were still significant problems plaguing the project. The site ultimately chosen for the project was also home to a family of gophers. Moreover, an adjacent property owner stonewalled the project because he was afraid that the community garden would change the aesthetic character of the park and reduce property values despite evidence to the contrary. Our participation in the project was to facilitate the interaction between city representatives and the community garden and create a design that enhances the character of the community and the space.
PROJECT PROPOSAL RENDERS
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GOPHER SHED
Thus, we designed an iconic feature to the community garden — the shed — to act as a centerpiece to the park. We thought that this playful element added character to the neighborhood and captured a sense of fun that relate it to the nearby playground. The difficulty in implementing the design also forced us to reach out to the neighborhood and request help from within the community. We were able to get into better contact with the neighborhood and foster more connections. As for the gophers, they remained in name only for the shed that had been vilified by its neighbors. The family of gophers were relocated to a nearby woodland, reduced the number of unwanted critters in the region and were part of the agreement with the neighbor, after his concerns were acknowledged and resolved, came around and supported the community garden development.
COMPLETED GARDEN SHED
CONSTRUCTION: DAY 2
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GOPHER SHED
HEDGEHOG STUDIOLO
WINTER 2013 in collaboration with JESSICA MANN and RACHEL CHAN RENDERING: VRAY + PHOTOSHOP SITE PLAN & DIAGRAMS: AUTOCAD + ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR Hedgehog Studiolo is a project inspired by its parameters and a desire to explore the relationship between functionality and playfulness. My group was assigned to create a piece of furniture that can function as an enclosable workspace (like the Italian Renaissance studiolos) out of bamboo skewers.
Perhaps inspired by the sharpness of the material we were given, our group was drawn to the idea of the famous pin-art model toy. The pin-art toy is a box with an array of pins that can be pushed, leaving an indentation where the pins have been pushed. On the other side, there is a relief in the shape of the object that had been pushed towards the pins. We took this interactive box, adapted it to a system using skewers and expanded the concept so that the skewer pins are arrayed across an entire wall.
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FRONT ELEVATION
LEFT ELEVATION
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The wall then functions as a screen, a storage unit for small baubles, pens, and envelopes, and as a palimpsest of objects stored, used and removed.
HEDGEHOG STUDIOLO
SITE FLOOR PLAN CIRCULATION AND SUN ANALYSIS
Hedgehog Studiolo was designed for a small, downtown, one bedroom apartment. This space is limited, so the goal of the project was not only to make a space more private, but also more functional. During our design phase, we examined the existing layout of the apartment, complete with the daily clutter of existence, and the sunlight and circulation patterns at the site, Our group thought that the most flexible usage of the space could be gained from a double sliding door, which can direct circulation towards the kitchen, towards the living room or towards the studiolo itself.
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The spaces curl up in upon itself, defending the need for quiet solitude spaces and spaces for contemplation. The pointed rigidness of the skewer wall faces outwards and away from the soft incubator of ideas, protecting itself with a hardened shell.
HEDGEHOG STUDIOLO
LIVE WORK WALK
SPRING 2014 in collaboration with TEGAN GRESLEY-JONES AND LOUISE LEUNG 3D MODELING: RHINOCEROS 4.0 SITE PLAN + ANALYSIS: AUTOCAD + ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR PHYSICAL MODELING: LASER CUT In the downtown West End of Vancouver are people who create an alternative lifestyle within the living conditions of the typical residential block. Out of their own kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms they operate bakeries, design studios, and massage parlors. Our project aimed to foster the growth and proliferation of this kind of independent, entrepreneurial spirit. Live Work Walk proposes to create a development on Haro Street west of Denman Street in Downtown Vancouver that facilitates and generates more spaces for this type of at home atelier. The spaces use connected sight lines and overlapping spatial experiences to closely integrate the relationship between work and life. The existing private enterprises are brought forward to the public sphere.
PHOTOS OF LASERCUT MODEL WIRED WITH LED LIGHTS AND BATTERY PACK
LIVE WORK WALK
SPRING 2014 in collaboration with TEGAN GRESLEY-JONES AND LOUISE LEUNG 3D MODELING: RHINOCEROS 4.0 SITE PLAN + ANALYSIS: AUTOCAD + ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR PHYSICAL MODELING: LASER CUT In the downtown West End of Vancouver are people who create an alternative lifestyle within the living conditions of the typical residential block. Out of their own kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms they operate bakeries, design studios, and massage parlors. Our project aimed to foster the growth and proliferation of this kind of independent, entrepreneurial spirit. Live Work Walk proposes to create a development on Haro Street west of Denman Street in Downtown Vancouver that facilitates and generates more spaces for this type of at home atelier. The spaces use connected sight lines and overlapping spatial experiences to closely integrate the relationship between work and life. The existing private enterprises are brought forward to the public sphere.
PHOTOS OF LASERCUT MODEL WIRED WITH LED LIGHTS AND BATTERY PACK
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PROPOSED STREET LIGHTING NETWORK
In order to facilitate the live/work dynamic interactions, our design intervention links together potential laneway sites through alleys to create a network of entrepreneurial spaces. It takes advantage of interstitial, potentially highly valuable spaces in the urban fabric. Since the majority of vehicular and foot traffic of the residents of downtown travels through these underused alleyways and interstitial spaces, this network provides a safer and more interesting passageway through the urban landscape. It also brings the community closer together by creating more opportunities for neighbors to interact. Taking inspiration from the famous Hongkong and Shanghai night markets, these lighted networks guide people in the downtown core through a succession of open, small atelier shop spaces, invigorating the night life in Vancouver. The added network would also bolster the antiquated street light system that has been made redundant by street trees that have grown up and around existing street lights. These lights are made much less effective in the residential districts of downtown, where there are less lights from late-night commercial sectors.
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LIVE WORK WALK
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For this site, we were inspired by the coziness of medieval towns, where business faced a winding path where every turn offers a new chance to explore or see something new. Open spaces speckle the path to provide business to open their doors, have outdoor displays in good weather and to allow sunlight (always a precious resource in rainy Vancouver) to filter through the urban canopy and reach the occupants of the space.
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LIVE WORK WALK
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
EAST-WEST SECTION
The buildings in this site were designed with openness and flexibility of work and use in mind. We arranged the spaces for maximum circulation efficiency via a split level system. The centralized circulation core reduces the footprint circulation takes up in a limited area. The split level also allowed the building to have more interconnected sight lines, which was critical in the amalgamation of the live/work atmosphere. The particular lane that my group examined for this project was located between a high rise to the east and a low rise to the west. There is significant grade change of 7 feet from the south elevation to the north. These site conditions were critical to
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our design because they determine the two key factors: sunlight and privacy within a limited footprint. Our group leveraged the facade of the building to provide the solution two to resolve these two factors. The buildings are constructed with steel I-beams fitted with standardized triangular panels. The panels could be either transparent, frosted or opaque, lending various degrees of privacy and a high degree of customization, The residential areas, which are on the upper stories farther away from the highly public storefront, have more opaque panels to provide more private spaces and an inward, home oriented perspective.
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LIVE WORK WALK
FILAMENT
WINTER 2012 3D MODEL + RENDERING: SKETCHUP, KERKYTHEA, PHOTOSHOP FLOOR PLAN + ANALYSIS DIAGRAMS: AUTOCAD, ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR Filament is located near the 15th Brigade Artillery Armory on Maple Street and 12th Avenue. The two buildings in this development flank the entrance to the armory (the gabled building in the background) and the overhead walkway provides a grand entryway to the armory through an open courtyard. The building consists of three levels of commercial, industrial and residential spaces.
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Filament is an architectural project that analyses how site conditions can inform the facade of a building and ultimately, the experience of that space. In order to provide sunlight through the buildings, the south and north walls open up to large curtain walls to allow the southern exposure to travel through the buildings. To reduce
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COURTYARD CREATED ALONG DIRECTION OF ACCESS
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the invasive exposure on the east side (towards the armory) and the west side (public street and elementary school), the east and west sides are installed with vertical wooden louvers that can flexibly open or close like shutters to allow more or less privacy. The areas without louvers are circulation paths that mediate the relationship of living inside the building with the outside environment.
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
INCURSIONS OF PRIVACY
HIGHER = RESIDENTIAL
LIGHT TRANSMITTING GLASS FACADE
EAST/WEST FACADE ADAPTATIONS
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FILAMENT
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COMPLETED RENDERING
The requirements of this project were split into three components: Lower Floor Plan Residential 1”:8’ commercial, industrial and residential in addition to the facade. My portion of the project was to cover the facade and residential 0’ 1’ 2’ 4’ 8’ 16’ living. The residential area is split into two open bedroom live/work lofts with spaces to entertain, private bedrooms and balconies to appreciate and enjoy the sunlight and view. Lower Floor Plan Residential 1”:8’
Sectional perspective: Cross Section (E/W) 1”:4’ 0’ 1’
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COMPOSTING TOILETS
SUMMER 2014 in collaboration with ROXY KOCZWARSKI, RACHEL CASTELINO, and NEIL DOBIE Composting Toilets was an international development project I worked on in conjunction with three engineering students from UBC. We traveled to rural Chiapas in Mexico to help address the lack of sanitation facilities due to corrupt and inefficient government spending. Our goals were twofold: we wanted to implement a low-cost sustainable solution that involved the community and we wanted to make the information about this solution more accessible to the public. Therefore, we decided to design and hand draw a 16 page zine in black and white. We chose this format because it would be easy to reproduce and distribute and it has both a grassroots and friendly aesthetic. We kept information simple and clear with minimal text to contrast with existing booklets that are overly inundated with information. The zine contains IKEA style instructions of how to determine if the composting toilets are suitable for your lifestyle, what materials and tools are needed, how to construct and how to maintain the dry toilets.
COVER AND PAGES FROM THE COMPOSTING TOILET ZINE “¿ DONDE ESTÁ MI BAÑO SECO?” COVERPAGE DRAWN BY NEIL DOBIE.
The full zine can be viewed at http://bit.ly/1ySPrlw
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COMPOSTING TOILETS
CONSTRUCTION: DAY 3 The composting toilet is a simple sanitation alternative for a place without an existing sewage infrastructure. A small outhouse is constructed with a waterproof foundation that has two chambers. A toilet with separate receptacles for solid and liquid waste is installed above one chamber and the solid waste receptacle of the toilet is connected to the chamber. The liquid waste receptacle is connected to a jerry can. When using the composting toilet, it is important to ensure that the waste falls into the correct receptacle. The liquid waste
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is emptied every two to three days depending on the number of people using the facility and can be used as fertilizer for trees and corn. Solid waste and toilet paper can go straight into the solid waste receptacle with a little odor absorbing material such as ash or sawdust. After six months, the toilet is removed from above the first chamber and reinstalled above the second chamber. This is because the solid waste needs to remain in the chamber undisturbed for about six months to convert to usable fertilizer. Installing the toilet above the second chamber allows continuous usage of the facility.
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For this project, we constructed the waterproof foundation with cinder blocks and cement, standard 4x4 SPF lumber for studs and rafters and low cost “madera paletta� for sidings. The materials were chosen because of their abundance in the region and for easy construction.
COMPOSTING TOILETS
RESIDENTIAL HOME DESIGN WINTER 2014 at HNPA ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING DRAFTING: AUTOCAD 3D 3D MODELING: SKETCHUP RENDERING: KERKYTHEA
RESIDENTIAL HOME DESIGN WINTER 2014 at HNPA ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING DRAFTING: AUTOCAD 3D 3D MODELING: SKETCHUP RENDERING: KERKYTHEA
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RESIDENTIAL HOME DESIGN
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FLOOR AREA = 1569.235 sqft TOTAL AREA (1ST + 2ND) = 1569.235 + 1170.874 = 2740.109 sqft TOTAL PERMITTED AREA ABOVE GRADE = 2740.9 sqft
RESIDENTIAL HOME DESIGN
APARTMENT 202 SPRING 2014
Cobbled together from over 1000 photographs, this perspectival plan of my apartment serves as a visual record of an integral space in my life. It documents all of the little objects in our lives and all the little ways that our lives intruded upon each others’.
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PROJECT NAME HERE
SKETCHBOOK SUMMER 2014
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SKETCHBOOK
THE BURGER BAR WINTER 2013
If you haven’t checked out the Burger Bar for a while you might be pleasantly surprised. The Burger Bar has embraced a house made and quality philosophy and are always busy improving as many menu items as we can while keeping our great affordable prices!
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A FRESH TAKE 11 am - 9 pm Mon. - Sat. Closed Sunday 604-822-6511
Pit Pub open all summer 3 pm - 10 pm Tues. - Thurs.
Some recent additions include fresh made salsa, guacamole, tortilla chips; new thicker bacon, homemade beef chilli, house made hot sauce and house made Kansas City barbeque sauce. Feel like something new? No problem! The Burger Bar features daily chef’s specials and a “secret menu” that features tasty items like Baja fish tacos and the new Blazing BBQ burger. Come on down to the SUB’s lower level and check us out! New spring deal! Get a pop for only a dollar when you order any chefs special!
When Jack, owner and operator of The Burger Bar, needed to rebrand his business, he came to me with a certain set of ideas and goals in mind. He wanted his business to capture a cleaner, sleeker look that still had solid weight behind it. Inspired by the aesthetic of sports bars, we opted towards a more monochromatic look with some punches of bright colour. We also decided to advertise his product more directly whenever possible, and recreated his menu to feature photos of some of his best selling dishes.
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PROJECT NAME HERE
Arianna Mao
B. Environmental Design UBC 2014