Anh-Tu Nguyen
PORTFOLIO 2018
Table of Contents Design Studio Exploratorium
House of Sources
Downtown YMCA
Barelas Bughouse
IVA Competition
Professional work with FBT Architects
Playhouses Design/Build
Los Alamitos Middle School - Design/Bid/Build
Farmington High School Culinary Lab - CMAR
Elective
Facade Studies
Steamer Box + Sewing Table
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EXPLORATORIUM Bethesda, MD Cultural & Sacred Studio Fall 2017 Walton Critic Studio: Rick Joy
What makes a house a home for a Nobel Prize astrophysicist’s family? On a hill overlooking the Potomac, the highly empirical NASA/NOAA scientists have relocated to nurture their adolescent children in the Waldorf educational style. By promoting curiosity, intellectual extrapolation, and hands-on experimentation the center of the home becomes a laboratory space where they share discussion and discoveries while the bedrooms are pods for individual research. Gradually descending down the hill, the house encourages learning through extending the experience into the natural world around them.
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Overall Floor Plan 1 fabricate 2 study 3 play 4 cook 5 taste 6 research 7 experiment 8 learn 9 share 10 rest 11 swim 12 explore
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HOUSE of SOURCES Takoma, DC Cultural & Sacred Studio Fall 2016 Walton Critic Studio: Prem Chandavarkar
Partner: Madeline Wentzell Metro stop: Takoma A tree The city people wandering Looking for VOCATION The site a hill radiating down the middle the center a disturbance a VOID It breaks reveals unearths The layers The CORE Our inner selves Intrinsic buried Now uncovered Shared with the COMMUNITY
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DOWNTOWN YMCA Albuquerque, NM Design V Studio Fall 2011
An infill project in the downtown district, the proposed YMCA fosters community activity by drawing people into its curving embrace. A lenticular film on the curtain walls reveals fields of visual transparency as one moves past along Central Ave, one of the major thoroughfares of Albuquerque. The smaller building opposite is a residential complex for Albuquerque’s homeless and transient population, a target group of the YMCA’s original mission. It complements the main athletic + recreational facility and creates a plaza space which breaks up the canyon like facades of the adjacent blocks.
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BARELAS BUGHOUSE Albuquerque, NM Design II Studio Spring 2010
Historically established as farm land, Barelas is now a dusty low income neighborhood. On a slim 25’ x 100’ lot between a convenience store and the alley way, the Barelas Bughouse is a live/ work business that nurtures growth and restores the community and its flora by providing gardening, composting, pest control, and pollination assistance to a new wave of urban farmers. Like a butterfly hatching out of the chrysalis, this glass Bughouse/ Nursery emerges out of the dark concrete to open up to the street front.
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A Entry/Shop B Vestibule C Bug house D Darkroom E Greenhouse/Nursery
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Two car garage
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Bedroom
Elevator
Butterfly Nursery
Herb Wall
Stairwell
Worm Enclousure
Blooming Vines
Office
Spider Nursery
Two Car Garage Stairway Lobby
Fruit Tree Nursery Vegetable Garden
IVA COMPETITION Design VI Studio Spring 2012
Every two years Velux holds a worldwide student design competition prompting entrants to explore the theme of daylighting and the “Light of Tomorrow.� In looking forward I chose to critique the past and examine a strategy for how we can improve what we already have. Using a generic mid -century high-rise building as the basis, structural technology will someday come to point where we can carve through the facades and floor slabs to allow light to reach deeper into the rentable floor space providing natural light to a hypothetical open floor plan office.
P L A Y H O U S E S D/B NM Appleseed Rubix 2014, Tree 2015
In 2014, NM Appleseed , a nonprofit organization, approached FBT and other local design firms to contribute to a pool of playhouses that would be auctioned off at a charity gala. I helped with the interior finishing on the Rubix including the flooring and insulated wall panels. We pulled in a lot of favors from our connections for our first playhouse that we chose to simplify our next design in order to maximize profits at auction. I worked on templating and sewing the fabric panels that we anchored with paracord to the steel frame.
COMPOSITE METAL PANEL
BLOCKING AS REQUIRED
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ROOFING MEMBRANE CONTINUOUS UNDER PARAPET AND ONTO FASCIA BACKER AND SEALANT, TYP
FASTENERS AND PLATES @ 6" O.C. MAX.
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EXTERIOR SHEATHING
TPO ROOF MEMBRANE
CONTINUOUS EXTERIOR INSULATION 1/2" CDX PLYWOOD STEEL STUD FRAMING
Parapet Detail - ACM Panel NTS
LOS ALAMITOS MS D/B/B Grants, New Mexico Grants-Cibola County Schools CDs Completed 01/2015 Sub. Completion 09/2016
425 Students • 68,000 SF • $15.7 M I assumed the position of project coordinator for LAMS at 50% Design Development. I quickly learned how to oversee the various aspects of the project from site plans to roofing details. I organized the scheduling and compilation of production drawings and cost estimates from our various consultants which included: Civil, Landscape, Structural, MEPT, Interior design, Kitchen, Acoustical, Roofing, and Performance Assurance. Currently I am assisting our CA with ASIs and submittal reviews.
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Description SLIDE-IN ELECTRIC RANGE BUILT-IN DISHWASHER VENTED RANGE HOOD w/GUARDIAN III FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM REACH-IN FREEZER
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STAINLESS STEEL CABINET
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Manufacturer
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Model
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JS630SFSS GLDA696FSS 433604
TRUE FOOD SERVICE EQUIPMENT, INC. SANDUSKY
STA2F-2S
STAINLESS STEEL CABINET. SEE EQUIPMENT SCHEDULE.
SA2D361842-X X
STAINLESS STEEL WORK TABLE SCHEDULE
Size
3’ - 6”
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1' - 6"
CULINARY EQUIPMENT SCHEDULE
5' - 6" A.F.F.
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FEATURES
GUARDIAN III FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM MODEL #G300-B BY GUARDIAN SAFETY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL, INC (800-786-2178) OR APPROVED EQUIVALENT. UNDER CABINET RANGE HOOD. SEE EQUIPMENT SCHEDULE. STAINLESS STEEL FILLER PANEL.
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FARMINGTON HS CULINARY LAB CMAR Farmington, New Mexico Farmington Municipal Schools CDs Completed 03/2015 Sub. Completion Fall 2016
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48" x 24" 30" x 24" 36" x 24" 60" x 24" 72" x 24"
CASTERS, UNDERSHELF 4" BACKSPLASH, MID SHELF, UNDERSHELF 4" BACKSPLASH, MID SHELF, UNDERSHELF 4" SIDE AND BACKSPLASH, MID SHELF, UNDERSHELF 4" BACKSPLASH, 3 TIER DRAWER STACK, DROP-IN SINK, UNDERSHELF
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1,600 Students • 268,500 SF • $60 M 6 Phases • Phase 1 - 51,317 SF Using my experience with LAMS’s cafeteria kitchen, I developed a schedule for custom furniture and a housing detail for a residential fire suppression system that would hook up through the range hood. The appliances are specific to meet the school district’s existing models, while the custom pieces are generic enough for the contractor to receive competitive price at bid.
Casework Detail - Range Hood NTS
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Palazzo Jacopo da Brescia Rome, Italy circa 1515
FACADE
Revealing Tartans
Windows
STUDIES
Diagram + Redesign Fall 2017
Looking for the uniqueness of a given Roman facade we spent a class period on analysis through hand sketching diagrams. In the second step we used our research to reskin the facade for an open program function. The labels indicate the main focus of each iteration.
Base/Middle/Top
Proportion
Pattern
1 - Upper Structure
2 - Base Structure
4 - Shade
5 - Color/Material
3 - Glass
6 - Slippage (Final)
S T E A M E R
B O X
Furniture + Design Summer 2012
Maple • Cherry (splines) Inspired by a bamboo steamer set, this stackable box is made of maple and has 3 trays and a top. Each tray bottom is made of several slats fitted into a groove. Unglued, the slats leave open space that mimics the perforations necessary for steam to rise to each level.
S E W I N G
T A B L E
Furniture + Design Summer 2012
Walnut • Maple The 24”D x 36”W x 36”H sewing table has a lower shelf that can be capped off when not in use. The table consists of 64 different pieces of maple and walnut and features joinery such as stub mortise and tenon, rabbet joints, mitered overlays, through mortise and tenons, mitered splines, biscuit joints, and dado inlays.
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