Bryan Yang Selected Works
Bryan Yang
Harvard University GSD ‘17 M.Arch I Candidate
Architecture
Artwork
This portfolio highlights selected projects that showcase my design process and technical abilities.
Hybrid Hotel MFA Rare Books Library Science Laboratory Discertized Bacon Screen Under One Roof DIYdock Ball Resistance Tension Shape Blow
Architecture
Hybrid Hotel MFA Rare Books Library Science Laboratory Discertized Bacon Screen Under One Roof DIYdock
Hybrid Hotel
Fall 2014 Site | Phoenix, AZ Critic | Iùaki Abalos Phoenix has unique characteristics for a city of its size: the flatness fo land, the repetitive, low-rise homes and the focus on automotive transportation all converge to create a suburban environment that stifles street life and denies the opportunity for an urban experience. The Hybrid Hotel subverts these local characteristics with the foreign: a dynamic verticality that penetrates through the surface of phoenix’s untouched ground, creating an underground oasis.This foreign insertion into the Phoenician landscape creates a space that breaks the
existing conditions in phoenix while working efficiently with phoenix’s uniquely intense desert climate. The hotel features two cores servicing the mixed hotel, gym, and bath programs. The individual hotel rooms are stepped in order to emphasize verticality, and are stacked to create voids of green walls between them to cool the air entering the center open atrium. This exteriorized hotel thereby takes advantage of the outdoor weather while maintaining self-cooling and self-shading strategies for the hotter summer months.
This page | Greater Phoenix site plan and local site plan Opposite page | Process model
Hotel Rooms
Treatment Rooms Yoga Room
Squash Courts
Training Spinning Room Room
Security Office Offices
Wellness Center
Staff Lockers
Lobby
NW SW
Lockers
Upper Levels
Mid Levels Offices
Gymnasiums
Lobby Offices
Lobby + Reception
Ground Floor
Lockers
NE
Laundry
SE
Restrooms
Storage Cafe
Lap Pool
Business Center
Kitchen
Trash Room
Thermal Break Hotel Rooms
Steam Sauna Room
Placing bath programs that radiate heat on the top of the tower will create a chimney effect that will help ventilate the hotel rooms on the north side
Steam Room Sauna Thermal Baths
Diving Pool
Training Pool
Pool Mech Training Pool
Diving Pool Terraced exterior pools are heated by the southern sunlight
Lap Pool Pool Mech All hotel rooms are to face north and northwest to avoid direct sunlight. A higher density of hotel rooms towards the top allows for self-shading of lower rooms and programs
Lockers
Offices
Lobby
Wind from the open south will flow through the thermal break between the hotels and the bath programs
The local gym program stays close to the ground and is shaded to keep all programs cool
Gymnasiums
Wellness Center Squash Lobby Lockers Spinning Yoga Training Courts Lobby + Reception Room Room Room Business Treatment Rooms Kitchen Cafe RestroomsOffices Laundry Center Security Lobby and cafe faces south towards the Office Offices popular convention center Trash Storage Room Staff Lockers Main circulation goes in a super highway between north and south to bridge the convention center and downtown Phoenix
This Page | Abstract renders showing the building in urban context of Phoenix’s downtown Opposite left | Program Organization diagram based on program adjacencies Opposite right | Preliminary diagrammatic Section based on thermal considerations.
Section - 1/16” = 1’
Basement
Ground floor
Typical Hotel floor
19th floor - Gym
This page | Plans Opposite left | Rendered section showing the selfshading cantilever of the gym and bath programs as well as the atmospheric quality of interior spaces due to the glass bottom pool’s light reflecting into the green outdoor atrium space underneath Opposite right above | Axonometric diagrams showing division of program Opposite right below | Typical stepped hotel room plans
Left | Closeup of entry to hotel room from the exterior wrap-around corridors. The rooms are inward-facing into the green atrium to protect from the sun’s harsh rays, with the voids in between rooms acting as a vertical green wall to cool the interior atrium. Right | View looking up the interior atrium. The hotel rooms that line the atrium look inwards towards each other rather than outwards towards the city. Opposite | Basswood model
MFA Rare Books Library
Spring 2014 Site | Emerald Necklace Conservancy Critic | Renata Sentkiewicz Inspired by a precedent study of Clorindo Testa’s Biblioteca Nacional de la Republica Argentina, this proposal for a rare books library is a systematic attempt in creating programmatically sensitive form through simple formal operations. The library features a large, main reading room volume that is sectionally penetrated by varying program requirements. Working with similar massing divisions from the precedent study, the library uses three key formal operations of elevation, suspension, and a combination of both.
The rare books collection is buried while the main collection is elevated in the center of the library; all auxiliary programs are distributed around a grid, categorized and formally manipulated based on lighting requirements, publicness/privacy, and considerations of views towards the MFA across the pond.
Long section showing the building’s relationship with the lake
Raise southern end of main volume
Simplified view for program manipulation
Place special bookstack + core programs within grid
Elevate and suspend combination programs
Offset grid for program blocks
Elevate programs based on skylighting
Place program blocks within offset grid
Suspend programs based on views
This page | Short section showing the pushing / pulling of individual program blocks Opposite | Operational diagrams of interior spaces
Primary Formal Operations Primary Formal Primary Operations Formal Operations
Secondary Formal Operations Secondary Secondary Formal Operations Formal Operations Program Distribution
Northern Skylighting
Northern Skylighting Northern Skylighting Gallery
Access to Level 1 Bookstacks
Access to Level 1 Bookstacks
Access to Level 1 Bookstacks
Scanners
Offices Program Distribution
Elevated
Elevated
Elevated
Conservation Facilities Gallery
Scanners
Program Distribution Offices Offices
Indirect Southern Light
Indirect Southern LightIndirect Southern Light
Circulatory Platform Space
Circulatory Platform Space Circulatory Platform Space
South-facing views
South-facing views
South-facing views
Hanging
Multipurpose Room Conservation Facilities Gallery
Access to Level 2 Bookstacks
Access to Level 2 Bookstacks
Access to Level 2 Bookstacks
Access to Hanging Programs
Access to Hanging Programs
Access to Hanging Programs
Hanging
Scanners
Offices Offices Bookshop / Cafe Conservation Facilities Multipurpose Room
Hanging
Computer
Offices
Access to Elevated Programs
Access to Elevated Programs
Access to Elevated Programs
Access to Level 2 Bookstacks
Access to Level 2 Bookstacks
Access to Level 2 Bookstacks
Access to Combination Programs
Access to CombinationAccess to Combination Programs Programs
Bookshop / Cafe Multipurpose Room
Computer Book stacks
Bookshop / Cafe
Combination
CombinationCombination
Computer Auditorium Book stacks
Auditorium Book stacks
Auditorium
This page | Rendering of the library looking away from the MFA Opposite | Diagrams explaining the operational process and the effects of each operation
Basement 1’ = 1/16”
1’2’
5’
10’
Basement 2 Rare books collection
20’
Ground Floor 1’ = 1/16”
Basement 1 Entry
1’2’
5’
10’
20’
Hanging Program Plan 1’ = 1/16”
1’2’
5’
10’
20’
Level 1 Suspended Programs
Main Floor 1’ = 1/16”
1’2’
5’
10’
Level 2 Main Reading Room
20’
Second Floor 1’ = 1/16”
1’2’
5’
Level 3 Elevated Programs
10’
Roof Plan 1’ = 1/16”
20’
1’2’
5’
10’
20’
Roof
This page | Plans Opposite | Bird’s eye render of the library facing the MFA
This page | Final model Opposite | Process Models
Science Laboratory Spring 2013 Site | Boston, MA Critic | Jeffry Burchard
In order to distribute 75 cold labs, 75 hot labs, and public / office space with varying thermodynamic considerations, the proposed building uses an interlocking skewed L-shaped loop system wrapped within a tensile skin. The double-thickness loops allows for alternating floors of compact laboratories within the loops and open office / public atrium spaces outside the loops. A tensile skin wraps the building, creating a large tiered atrium that facilities openness between public spaces while still providing privacy within
the exclusive laboratories. Hot laboratories are concentrated within the tower, which allows for increased direct southern sunlight and also allows hot air to naturally rise throughout the space. Cold laboratories are placed along dense corridors within the loops with north-facing glazing and within the basement in order to reduce heating from direct sunlight.
This page | Sectional axonometric showing heat flow up the center tower Opposite | Section model looking down into the main atrium space
Left | Axonometric highlighting programmed uses of the loops Middle | Axonometric highlighting private laboratory spaces within the loops Right | Axonometric highlighting public office spaces outside the loops Opposite | Section
Opposite Left | 4th Floor plan Opposite Right | 8th - 16th Floor plans Above | 1/8 scale basswood sectional model
Elevations with Skin
Elevations with Skin
Elevations without Skin
Elevations without Skin
This page | Simple elevations with and without skin Opposite | 1/8 scale basswood, sectional model
Discertized Bacon
2013 Studio | Projective Representation Critic | Cameron Wu In order to discertized the hyperboloid surface of crispy bacon, I combined two methods of surface panelization. Using secant plane panelization, I was able to model the flexible meaty portions of the bacon. In order to give the model rigidity, I used folded plane panelization to model the thin strips of fat that connect the secant planes.
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Strip of Raw Bacon
Crispy Curves
Strip of Raw Bacon
New Isocurves
New Isocurves
Crispy Curves
Secant Planes
Secant Planes
Combined: Crispy Bacon
Combined: Crispy Bacon
Secant Meat Panelization
Secant Meat Panelization
Original Isocurves
Increase Crispiness (Cage Edit)
Original Isocurves
Increase Crispiness
Folded Plane Fat Panelization
Folding Plane Fat Panelization
Final Discertized Bacon
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Final Discertized Bacon
This page | Operational diagrams
Opposite | Finished bristol bacon model
Screen
Fall 2012 Site | Flatiron Critic | Babak Bryan Restricted by the use of 1 x 8 in photos of the Flatiron, I explored the vertical frame that rendered certain subjects context-less; the objects within a photo lose meaning when its context is cut away by the frame. Reconfiguring panels inspired by Eileen Gray’s Screen, the dynamic screen gives glimpses through slit openings. As the user manipulate the rotating panels, the angle and size of these slits change, producing a range of vertically framed views.
Above | Diagram of recontextualized 1x8 in photographs of the Flatiron building Below | Photo of the screen in normal position Opposite | Close up of frame in adjusted position
This page | Axonometric of Screen Opposite | Elevation with depth gradient shading
Original Plans for RENOVATION Original Plans for RENOVATION
1’ 2’
5’
10’
20’
Basement First Floor
First Floor
Under One Roof Renovation Summer 2014 Site | Bronx, NYC Client | Lady Millard
The Under One Roof project seeks to create a small, international artist residency in the Bronx. Working with the owner of an existing duplex, I proposed the schematic designs for a renovation to include in-house studio space and multiple single-unit rooms with shared living spaces. I worked one on one with the owner to really understand her goals and needs for the space. Under One Roof website | www.undr1roofproject.com
Second Floor
Second Floor
This page | Selection of reference photography that encapsulates the ideas incorporated into the renovation Opposite | Original plans of the duplex
FINAL PLANS for RENOVATION
1’ 2’
5’
Basement
10’
20’
First Floor
1.5 Floor
Second Floor
This page | Final renovation scheme plans Opposite left | Exploded axonometric drawing of the final renovation scheme Opposite top | Material palette Opposite bottom | The project included a challenge of fitting 9 artists into a very small space. I developed an alternating bunk-bed system that saves each room ~20 sq. ft. of space where the beds overlap. This allowed the design to fit in the required number of beds while maintaining the minimum requirement of 80 sq. ft. of space per bedroom.
DRY
dock
DIY
ship | lecture vessel the ship is used as a means of transporting ideas , through lectures, presentations, and the projection of visual material onto its underbelly
vessel + dock guiding forms
dock | studio the more static strucutre provides the foundations upon which studio work can happen at varying degrees of flexibility
frame a frame is built to hold and connect the ship to the existing structure
settling in space
docking and connecting to existing and new structures
the top of the vessel is aligned with existing catwalks . professionals from the rest of the building are able to easily pass through, join, or host a lecture circulatory ramps in the tiered studio promote walking, allowing students to gather inspiration from their peers as they move through the space
DIYdock
Summer 2014 In Collaboration with Cyrus Dahmubed Site | Brooklyn Navy Yards, Brooklyn NY Client | Onelabs The OneLabs design competition sought a proposal for an interdisciplinary studio space that focused on flexibility and collaboration. Centered on the use of cloud networking and digital projections using the site’s wealth of drydocks as both a historical and metaphorical foundation. our proposal sought to foster interdisciplinary work through the immediate projection theproduced inaccessibleby those within the studio onto the ofaccessing the work flooding/pumping of water/ideas provides access to theVessel underbelly ofoverhead, design: floating thereby creating a cloud of interdisciplinary cooperation
creativity that will inspire a cross-fertilization of ideas. As students and factulty download and save their files in the tiered studio spaces below, their work is automatically projected onto the underbelly of the overhead Vessel, which housesflood the lecture of ideashall and exhibition space. The Vessel will therefore bein/out a dynamic representation of a water is pumped of a drydock allowing workers to diversity of creative ideas constantly in flux. The studio access that which is usually inaccessible: the underbelly spaces themselves also encourage interdisciplinary utilization of catwalks as part of the work as their ramps and tiers constantly cause students vessel lecture hall provides and faculty to brush up against integration with the entire building each others’ work, while a consistent flood of lecture materials are projected onto the underbelly of the vessel for inspiration; students can also
the centrally-located, highly-visible lounge, the Slip, functions as a gathering and co-working space. Perturbed by the way in which bookselves too often become dividers in even the most open spaces, DIYdock eschews standard forms of space and thinking to create a space for a future of design without walls.
flood of ideas water is pumped in/out of a drydock allowing workers to access that which is usually inaccessible: the underbelly
accessing the inaccessible
flooding/pumping of water/ideas provides access to the underbelly of design: interdisciplinary cooperation
utilization of catwalks as part of the vessel lecture hall provides integration with the entire building a consistent flood of lecture materials are projected onto the underbelly of the vessel for inspiration; students can also project directly from their stations for review, ideas, and collaboration
mixed information shipping containers are removed from the ship into the dock from where their goods are eventually dispersed
space aside
as on a ship, special spaces are set aside within the larger working space for important programs: offices, fablab, workshop, etc.
contained spaces dispersed through the studios provide flexible space for faculty offices, workshop, fab-lab lounge/kitchen space is located in the lowest studio tier and provides the primary social and coworking space, visible from all student desks and accessible via the studio ramps.
Concept diagrams outlining the scheme’s concept as inspired by the site’s numerous drydocks
Ydock
092 2nd floor plan the vessel
n without walls
office or workshop
office or workshop
office or workshop
office or workshop
office or workshop
office or workshop
additional, internal circulation is provided behind the vessel
top seating tier in the vessel aligns with existing catwalks to facilitate interactivity with other building facilities
the slip lounge
the vessel
a space for ideas flexible and expandable studio space is provided along the tiers
seating cap. 65
1/8" = 1'
1/8" = 1'
1st floor plan the dock
the vessel
a space for ideas
DIYdock
work-ship
1 2
3
the
northwest project section
slip lounge
4 5
092 brooklyn Brooklyn Navynavy Yards
yard
existing drydocks Existing Drydocks project Project Site
site
DIYdock DIYdock
Above | Rendering looking up from the studio at the Vessel above Below | Site Plan Opposite | Plans and Section of final scheme showing the Vessel , the Slip Lounge, and the open tiered Studio spaces below
Artwork
Ball Resistance Tension Shape Blow
Ball
2011 Wire 8 x 8 x 8 inches Ball is a kinetic sculpture that is composed of sixty five forked components. The components form pentagonal units that radiate from nodes of wire joints. Users are able to manipulate the form of Ball by snapping these nodes inward or outward, showcasing the kinetic possibilities of modular wire units.
Tension
2010 Basswood, tape, elastic string 10 x 10 x 10 inches Tension is an abstract geometric model comprised of 200 tensile modules that aggregate geometrically to form a ribbed dodecahedron. The pieces are placed in further tension as they are held together with elastic string, creating a tensile wooden sculpture with a surprising amount of flexibility.
Shape
2011 Sheet Aluminium 2.7 x 3 feet Shape explores the kinetics of lattice. Sheet aluminium was cut into strips and woven together in such a way to allow the piece to change its shape and form. Inspired by the protecting wings of a bird, Shape shelters those who interact with the peice.
Exhibited in Brown Annual Student Show Spring 2012
Resistance
2011 Collaboration with Babatunde Doherty Mixed media installation 4 x 4 feet Resistance features a goldfish swimming peacefully in a fishbowl oblivious to the bowling ball overhead forcing its way through a sheet of vinyl. The piece, as a material exploration of the limits of vinyl through heating and stretching, displays not only the physical resistance of the vinyl to the bowling ball, but also the emotional resistance between ethics and intervention cued by the life at stake.
Exhibited in the Spring Arts Festival Spring 2012
Blow
2011 Styrene 4.5 x 4.5 x 4 feet Inspired by a handkerchief, Blow captures a freeze-frame moment in time as it mimics the flow and elegance of fabric. The piece is composed of twelve individually molded styrene sheets which were heated and handsculpted over a wooden form. The pieces were then assembled together in an explosive composition, giving the piece energy and vitality. Exhibited in Art//Show Spring 2012