Architecture Portfolio - Ilya Bourim - Dec 2014

ILYA BOURIM

ARCHITECTURE

PORTFOLIO

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Guangzhou Science Park Commercial Complex.

Mixed-use Shimao Hangzhou Hua Jia Chi.

19 Xiamen Ding Tai He Center

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25 Shanghai Baoneng Wujiaochang.

15 Super-tall at Nanjing Financial City.

31 Suzhou Zhongnan Center.

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Mixed-use Magnolia Project “P”

51 Private House “M” in West Hollywood.

Section 1/8” = 1’-0”

Zhuhai City Heart Complex.

53 Merton Institute for Contemplative Leadership.

43 Villa XYZ at Wangshen Resort.

55 Design in Tension.

Steel cable, bolts and wood veneer.

47 Half-Life of the Third Skin.

57 Vacuum forming and acrylic. Concepts in material properties.

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GUANGZHOU SCIENCE PARK COMMERCIAL COMPLEX

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: mixed-use workplace serviced-apartment research & development retail

GFA: 291,000 m 2 Status: ACTIVE Location: City of Guangzhou, Guandong Province, China This project is located in the city of Guangzhou, in the new area of development science and technology.

One of the most prominent features of the site is that most of it is located on a hill. The hill creates a elevation change

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of about 20-25 meters from the street level to the top of the hill. This makes the design very challenging, but also brings a fantastic opportunity to create a unique proposal.

Rendering of the aerial view from north-west.

View south, looking down a canal, located on the west side of the site.

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GUANGZHOU SCIENCE PARK COMMERCIAL COMPLEX

ANALYSIS

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Yearly solar radiation exposure with the application of bris-soleil.

Because the climate in south of China is mostly humid and warm, and after doing climate analysis, we decided that natural ventilation is not really an option for this location so we decided to

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focus mostly on solar radiation studies.

What we found interesting that because of the high sun in this latitude, the eastern sides of the buildings will benefit the most from horizontal

EXCAVATION louvers and not vertical fins.

To accomodate the program, including a large number of parking spaces (approx. 2000), we spent a concideradable amount of time trying to figure out how minimize the disturbance to the excisiting hill. We

placed all the building on the perimeter. Below are the diagrams that we used to illustrate to the client the cut-and-fill operations, on one of the three phases of construction.

商业区 - 场地现状

商业区 - B1层 (+20标高)

商业区 - L1层 (+25标高)

retail area - existing site

retail area - b1 (+20)

retail area - level 1 (+25)

Major excavations on the north side of the site. +41

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概念设计-场地开挖策略附录 --

商业区 - L2层 (+31标高)

retail area - level 2 (+31)

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广州箩岗归谷科技园

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中国广州

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN - ExCAvATION STrATEGy ADDENDUm – September 12, 2014 | GuanGzhou GuiGu Science & technoloGy park | GuanGzhou china

+36 +31

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概念设计-场地开挖策略附录 --

商业区 - L4层 (+41标高)

retail area - level 4 (+41)

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广州箩岗归谷科技园

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中国广州

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN - ExCAvATION STrATEGy ADDENDUm – September 12, 2014 | GuanGzhou GuiGu Science & technoloGy park | GuanGzhou china

概念设计-场地开挖策略附录 --

商业区

retail area

2014年09月12日 | 广州箩岗归谷科技园 |

中国广州

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN - ExCAvATION STrATEGy ADDENDUm – September 12, 2014 | GuanGzhou GuiGu Science & technoloGy park | GuanGzhou china

+41 +36

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概念设计-场地开挖策略附录 --

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广州箩岗归谷科技园

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中国广州

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN - ExCAvATION STrATEGy ADDENDUm – September 12, 2014 | GuanGzhou GuiGu Science & technoloGy park | GuanGzhou china

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概念设计-场地开挖策略附录 --

2014年09月12日

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广州箩岗归谷科技园

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中国广州

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN - ExCAvATION STrATEGy ADDENDUm – September 12, 2014 | GuanGzhou GuiGu Science & technoloGy park | GuanGzhou china

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概念设计-场地开挖策略附录 --

2014年09月12日 | 广州箩岗归谷科技园 |

中国广州

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN - ExCAvATION STrATEGy ADDENDUm – September 12, 2014 | GuanGzhou GuiGu Science & technoloGy park | GuanGzhou china

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GUANGZHOU SCIENCE PARK COMMERCIAL COMPLEX

+41

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In the concept behind this scheme we were looking to create links to the site’s unique topography. In order to accommodate all of the client’s retail and parking re-

quirements, almost half of this hill needs to be excavated. We were looking for a way to create the memory of the hill in using continuous shapes that emerged.

Looking from the North side of the site at the retail and the main office Tower.

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SHIMAO HANGZHOU HUA JIA CHI

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: mixed-use workplace serviced-apartment hotel retail

GFA: 84,000 m 2 Status: ACTIVE Location: City of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

The city of Hangzhou is famous for its beautiful West Lake and rolling hillsides. Genshan West road is a very prominent site with great commercial visibility and connectivity to Zhejiang University to the south.

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Beautiful riverside parks and lakes are all within easy walking distance to our development. The team envisioned to create a commercially viable development in harmony with the surrounding context and neighborhood.

View south, looking down one of the future roads that will be right side of the site.

Rendering of the aerial view from north-west.

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SHIMAO HANGZHOU HUA JIA CHI

RETAIL STRATEGY

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Retail component is not the largest part of this program, it is the most important when it comes to human scale. We wanted to create an experience of a small village retail, where the program is broken into smaller parts that are sprinkled

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over the site. The retail loop continues on the outside, creating a small pedestrian street where a mix of retail and small restaurants could create a relaxing atmosphere that could be used by shoppers and by the surrounding community.

Basement

茂杭州华家池地块

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地块 B pLoT B

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DESIGN STRATEGY This project is in city of Hangzhou and is part of a large residential development that is located across the street on the south side of the site. The original program of this part of the development consisted of an office building, a serviced apartment building, a

hotel, and retail. Client wanted to keep all the parts of the program apart from each other so they could sell each building separately to different operators.

The hotel was later dropped from the program due to some municipal restrictions.

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SHIMAO HANGZHOU HUA JIA CHI

WINDOW-WALL FAÇADE

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Window-Wall assembly

After site planning was confirmed by the client, the client became attached to the idea of somehow integrating the idea of distinct luxury into the appearance of the project.

One of our project architects proposed the idea of diamonds. Originally the client loved the diagrid, but eventually they wanted to have a more integrated facade. I wanted to

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see if the rhombus could become more of an expression of the object underneath, rather than just an application or a screen.

In Asian cultures it is not considered auspicious to have an “X” sign on the facade, but when “X” became merely the shape of space between the objects on the facade, client jumped on the idea and asked us to

develop further. Next few months we worked on trying to figure out how the rhombus shaped window-wall system could allow flexible tenants spaces, allow for operable windows as well as

for installation of VRF air-conditioning system on the exterior. The government also limits the use of glass to 50% of the exterior wall.

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NANJING FINANCIAL CITY

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: mixed-use workplace serviced-apartment hotel retail

GFA: 868,000 m 2

Structure on Exterior.

Status: INACTIVE Location: City of Nanjing Jiangsu Province, China Concept: design director at the time, after a visit to Nanjing, was inspired by Yuhua stone. A very beautiful and distinct type of stone, particular to Nanjing area.

Yuhua stone is embedded into the culture, history and spirit of Nanjing. For the main tower, the

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premise was a series of oval shapes stacked on top of each other. The segmented and stacked nature of the design is inspired by the ancient Chinese towers.

As I started sketching, I started to look for a way to stay close to the original idea, while exploring

concept in a more contemporary direction. The higher the building the more structure it requires, affecting the quality of spaces and the amount of available space at the lower levels of tower.

As it has been done in many other tall tower projects, the

structure can be set on the exterior perimeter of the building, becoming part of the exterior envelope. This approach can offer savings in terms of construction materials and also in terms of the leasing space at the lower levels.

Early study models.

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NANJING FINANCIAL CITY

DRAWINGS

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OFFICE

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TOILET SERVICE

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ZONE 4 DIRECT

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OFFICE

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Referencing the works by Calatrava, I was looking at the structure as something that could stand proudly with Architecture.

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Searching if I could make this project so it is not only about shape and image, but beyond that.

I looked at the structure as a way to express the nature of the building.

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OFFICE

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ZONE 4 TRANSFER FLOOR AREA： K=73%

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3650 M2

Transfer Floor Plan

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EQUIPMENT

BANQUET HALL LOBBY

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ZONE 2 SHUTTLE

ZONE 3 SHUTTLE

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ZONE 1

OFFICE LOBBY

ZONE 6 SHUTTLE

ZONE 5 SHUTTLE

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ZONE 4 SHUTTLE

HOTEL LOBBY

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Ground Floor Area： K=68%

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3500 m2

Ground Floor Plan

Final Rendering.

Searching if I could make this project so it is not only about shape and image, but beyond that.

I looked at the structure as a way to express the nature of the building.

Referencing the works by Calatrava, I was looking at the structure as something that could stand proudly with Architecture.

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XIAMEN DING TAI HE CENTER

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: mixed-use workplace serviced-apartment soho retail

GFA: 145,000 m 2 Status: CONSTRUCTION Location: City of Xiamen, Fujian Province, China

This project is located in the Southern part of China, in the city of Xiamen. In the program, client asked for an office building, a SOHO apartment building as well

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as a commercial retail space.

The simple massing of the of the office tower as well as the SOHO apartment were designed per the requirement of the client.

The client asked for a simple shape that could be easily constructed and later sold to different tenants.

Rendering from the North.

Early study models and facade studies.

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The retail was placed along the edge of the site to create a courtyard public space that could be used by the shoppers as well as the members of the community. The opening on the west side, between the office tower and the retail was a way to bring metro users to the site and use it as a pedestrian corridor connecting to other areas of CBD.

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The original contract asked the design team to create references to a dragon in our overall design. Although dragon is an imaginary creature, we tried to find refences to the dragon in other things that designers could relate to. Skins of dragons are usually covered in scales and we took it as a simple way to adress the concept. We experimented with the idea of continuous surface that wraped the massing.

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FAÇADE DESIGN

The desnity of facade is a response to the government requirement of glass-tosolid ratio to be maximum of 50%.

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Through use of wood on the facade on the retail we wanted to try to bring human scale back to the large scale building surrounding the courtyard. The stepped massing of the retail, created space for rooftop amenities such as pool and gym for the residents of the SOHO, as well as a green area for the office occupants to enjoy.

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SHANGHAI BAONENG WUJIAOCHANG

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: mixed-use workplace serviced-apartment soho retail

GFA: 145,000 m 2 Status: CONSTRUCTION Location: City of Shanghai, China Jiangwan - Wujiaochang city sub-center planning makes dramatic changes to the Yangpu District, located in the northeast of Shanghai.

According to the planning vision, Jiangwan-Wujiaochang city sub-center is

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undergoing major transformation. It will become the hub for financial institutes, information communication, shopping experiences, culture events, sport activities, leisure and business offices.

Rendering from the South-East.

Studies Organic Retail podium options.

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A Business Strategy: Each tower has the same efficient office floorplate.

Tower heights increase towards the Class-A Office at the major road intersection.

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A Unique Experience: The retail podium defines a series of plazas that range from a public square, to intimate courtyards, to secured drop-offs.

Urban Context: Office towers are shifted in response to the urban green belt. As a result, each tower has an open passage through the site to the park.

Program Requirements: The design brief calls for 3 office towers with a retail podium. The future underground metro line 17 passes through southwest side of the plot, while the north of the site needs a substation placed somewhere along the edge.

Retail Courtyard

The podium creates two semipublic plazas that open up to the adjacent park. These courtyards condense social activity and complement the retail experience. Together with the public square and park, a series of experiences woven through the site will attract tenants while providing great outdoor spaces and amenities for the office workers.

One of the things the team wanted to avoid was creating space that

would get fenced out, creating an urban island where office workers would simply drive in and out of the property through a gate.

We strongly encouraged the client to preserve the south-east corner as a public square.

The organic retail scheme was a study that looked at how we could playfully respond to the park, while creating interesting spaces, with lots of potential to roof-top restaurants and public areas.

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SHANGHAI BAONENG WUJIAOCHANG

DESIGN STRATEGIES Together with the public square and park, a series of experiences woven through the site will attract tenants while providing great outdoor spaces and amenities for the office workers.

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OFFICE Z: 65.4M FLRS: 14 RETAIL COURTYARD OFFICE Z: 82.2M FLRS: 18 RETAIL FLOORS: 2

CLASS A OFFICE Z: 99.0M FLRS: 21

The floorplate is a 1600 sqm efficient square. The depth brings enough good day lighting

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RETAIL COURTYARD RETAIL FLOORS: 2

URBAN PLAZA

The retail layout is a simple bar of optimal depth at the base of each tower.

The inside space has maximum flexibility, easily divided for most tenant size.

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SUZHOU ZHONGNAN CENTER

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: super-tall mixed-use workplace serviced-apartment hotel retail

GFA: 511,000 m 2 Status: CONSTRUCTION Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

The process of an 800m super high-rise competition is complex--especially when situated in the context of Suzhou in Jiangsu, China. Suzhou is famed

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in Chinese history as a nexus of the silk trade and as a water town of canals and bridges.

The process of an 800m super high-rise competition is complex--especially when situated in the context of Suzhou in Jiangsu, China. Suzhou is famed in Chinese history as a nexus of the silk trade and as a water town of canals and bridges.

In the early concept study models of the Suzhou super-tall tower, I was looking to create a transition-

ing link between the a very tall shape and a very small podium.

I looked at the idea of smaller stepping volumes as a way to approach this.

Inspired by the Guggenheim museum in New York, I looked at another quick study where the ground plane spirals into the sky, creating an urban park.

Early Concept Models

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SUZHOU ZHONGNAN CENTER

DRAWINGS

Typical Floor Plans

The super high-rise will be in the Suzhou Industrial Park. The client hopes it can be an iconic anchor for the future development of Suzhou’s central business district while combining the historical context of the city with the programmatic benefits of the mixed use super high-rise

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MAGNOLIA PROJECT P

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: mixed-use workplace serviced-apartment hotel retail

GFA: 310,000 m 2 Status: ACTIVE Location: Bangkok, Thailand The development area consists of residential, workplace, community mall, public area, Magnolia headquarters, Whizdom recreation club, and sport club for Magnolia. The

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site is located along Sukhumvit, east of the CBD area of Bangkok in an area that is experiencing rapid development growth for both commercial and residential uses.

The site is aggregated from 3 parcels of varying sizes with the total development area of 68,956m2.

Maximum FAR of 5 achievable which allows for maximum programmable area of 344,780m 2 including parking. The three sites are currently in use although certain areas of the sites are disused and have fallen into disrepair. All three sites have occupants with current leases none of which expire concurrently. This will require phasing, and may not all be part of any initial purchase.

Site Restriction Volume

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MAGNOLIA PROJECT P

PHASING

The site is located in a predominantly low rise residential area although some high rise residential development has recently been completed to the north east of the site.

The predominant adjacent areas are of three-four storey residential housing. The site is accessed from the main east west

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Sukhumvit highway, the sites themselves have no address from Sukhumvit as the entire western boundary is lined with 3-4 storey shop houses and only two vehicular access points of the highway afford access to sites 1 & 2 to the south and sites 2 & 3 to the north.

The complex zoning laws of Bangkok created an interesting challenge for both local and international design teams on this masterplan project. With FAR 5, we tried to create plots that would create maximum open space while staying close to the target program area requirements. In the final plan, the residential was placed away from the main road, in a park setting with the front of the site reserved mainly for the multi-level retail, office, and entertainment program.

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ZHUHAI CITY HEART COMPLEX

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: retail

GFA: 80,000 m 2 Status: INACTIVE

Location: City of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China

This project is located in the southern, and one of greenest cities in China - Zhuhai. As part of the larger master plan, the city government mandates most of the new development to be pedestrian

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friendly with lots of public spaces.

One of the major requirements for this retail center is that all of its commercial spaces need to be under ground. The only exceptions were the entrances.

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ZHUHAI CITY HEART COMPLEX

CONCEPTS

In this proposal we were looking at how to create a link between the two large park one on the sea side, the other on the mountain side. I have developed an organic version where I looked at how to bring nature

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into the proposal while also maintaining a viable commercial mall infrastructure. Creating a variety of open spaces that transform the idea of an underground mall into a pleasant shopping experience with links to

The design team was looking to establish a place of civic importance: a gateway into Zhuhai’s city district.; Explore ideas for a place for public gathering. Create a development consistent with and framed under an overall city masterplan; consider a strategy into Phase II and beyond, as well a strategy as an independent site.Create a flexible and successful retail program with a flexibility for expansion into future phases.Establish a model development and hence an identity for Zhuhai’s commitment to sustainability.

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VILLA XYZ AT WANGSHEN RESORT

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: serviced-apartment hotel

GFA: 200 m 2 Status: INACTIVE Location: Suzhou, Province of Jiangsu, China

Mountain 1

“... is it possible to transform traditional concepts into contemporary concepts?” “... is it possible in a fast paced contemporary world to construct a metaphor of poetry, music, calligraphy, and painting in a garden villa for the 21st c.

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“... is it possible to make a place that is conducive to solitude and communal life?”

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The Garden Villa is a family retreat house placed in a clearing in a forest of pine trees and bamboo. The villa will have 3 floors and many rooms each connected to the garden and the mountains.

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VILLA XYZ AT WANGSHEN RESORT

DESIGN BRIEF

Roofplan

Massing Diagrms

A high-end residential villa designed in collaboration with Micheal Rotondi of RoTo Architects. This private residence is part of a large resort was designed to be a place of meditation and serenity. One of the concepts for the design was the idea of duality.

The ground level of the house was placed SCHEME 1

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a level below the ground level with goal to create a secluded area with only the views to the Sky. At the other extreme, the third level balconies, offer an expansive views to the surrounding green spaces and the forest beyond.

SCHEME 1

Axonometric Views

Axonometric Views

VILLA OF WANGSHAN RESORT Su Zhou City Conceptual Design

VILLA OF WANGSHAN RESORT Su Zhou City Conceptual Design

The main house is split in two down the middle making it easy for its occupants to be able to find peace even during a noisy reception. The canyon that is created as a result, adds a unique feature to the house, marking the entrance to the two houses.

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HALF-LIFE OF THE THIRD SKIN

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: community residential

GFA: 15000 m 2 Status: ACTIVE Location: Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine

The project site is located in the abandoned city of Prepyat, found on the path of the radioactive fallout from the nuclear disaster that occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Station in April of 1986.

This young city was evacuated few days

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after the disaster as the levels of radiation became extremely dangerous.

This nature of the environment plays a major role for the location of this project. The extreme hostility of the environment makes it unlivable for humans.

In the last sixty years, Nuclear Power Production has increased substantially as has the research and knowledge base from experience, now is the time to begin an Integrated Nuclear Research Think Tank to further the knowledge on the consequences of nuclear disasters. The events after the earthquake in Japan, make this proposal even more relevant.

With time, lower levels of radiation will allow to inhabit the ground.

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HALF-LIFE OF THE THIRD SKIN

CONCEPT Prepyat

Proposed Site

Chernobyl Reactor

Form changes its mass to respond to radiation fields present in the environment.

The levels of radiation will express themselves in the building form and with time will decompose producing an ever changing space.

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Transformations of inhabited spaces in radiation-contaminated environments where levels of contamination reduce over time.

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PRIVATE HOUSE “M”

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: residential

GFA: 120 m 2 Status: ACTIVE Location: West Hollywood, California, U.S.A. The challenge of this project was to design a private residence on a very narrow lot in West Hollywood.

We approached this design trying to lift the main house functions to the second level, trying to save land

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for the garden and parking. The bedooms were placed along the main stair that also functioned as a library and a multi-purpose space.

By lifting the main building above the ground floor, and opening it up to the sky, we also brought the building out of the narrow canyon that is being created by the two neighboring structures.

The dynamic form was the result of a series of iterative design studies. We have built a large set of sectional positive and negative models and looked for attributes that would benefit our design goals.

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MERTON INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPLATIVE LEADERSHIP

DESIGN BRIEF Project type: resort / retreat hotel

GFA: 2200 m 2 Status: ACTIVE Location: Kentucky U.S.A.

This project is driven by the idea of path as well as the use of our bodies to measure the spacial qualities of a place. It is the goal of this exploration to study the experiential nature of a pathway and how different spacial qualities along the path influence the person who occupies it. What is mostly important

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to me in this project is how people experience the space.

The form is important but it constantly in flux to accommodate the above. I think that the spacial experiences, just like music and art, will trigger thoughts and emotions, provide comfort and provoke.

At the site scale, the site experiences are deeply connected to the natural flows of the site. The pathways relate to low and high spots.

They cross the topography creating steep climbs while in other places, the paths climb slowly, at a small angle to the slope. Abundant growth on the site allows to use trees as a way to play with space and create a variety of spacial

transitions. Trees surround some buildings to isolate them, while the expose the others to welcome visitors.

At the building scale, spacial experiences are emphasized in sections.

A building’s entrance narrow, in attempt to pull the visitor in. The elongated properties of most buildings pull people through emphasizing movement, but also the tempo-

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