BRIAN CHAN
ARCH 132 DESIGN STUDIO WINTER PORTFOLIO
Acknowledgements: Group 204 for pushing me and making me a better student and learner. Angela Bracco for understanding me more and helping me in my development. My brother, Kenneth, for pushing me to seek better and greater aspirations.
Projects: Slipcase, Slosite, Operation Totem, Parasite
BRIAN CHAN California State Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo
Angela Bracco
Winter Quarter
Introduction
BRIAN CHAN
Coming from a construction family background, Brian brings with him a knowledge between design and construction. He plans on expanding his knowledge on material architecture to innovate his design and prepare for the future demands of architecture. He enjoys photography, playing basketball, and traveling whenever he can around Asia. He hopes that being an architect would allow him to create habitable space that people will be able to curiously exprience. As well as the ability to put a stamp on the world, Brian wishes his job allows him to travel around the world and meet different clients and touch every part of the world. He believes that architecture is a profession that requires commitment and passion, both of which he has.
C O N T E N TS
SLIPCASE
S LO S I T E
PA R A S I T E W I T H B I G M O O DY
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SLIPCASE “A Literary Intervention in Site Design” Winter 01
This project will ask you to respond to existing phenomena, to challenge the ideas of “book” while fully addressing the reality of your specific ‘book’. This offers you, the burgeoning designer, the opportunity to build on successes [or failures] from last quarter. It is important to constantly revisit past projects, thoughts, notions, etc, as you add new tools to your toolbox and hone those previously used.
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INTERVENTION Project: (left and right) Slipcase Intervention
Completion: 2015 January 5
BOOK DIGITAL MODEL/DRAFT Project: (left) Slipcase Intervention Digital Model (sketchup model)
Project: (right) Slipcase intervention, ten section drawing (11x24 Vellum)
Completion: 2015 January 12
BOOK CONJOIN Project: Slipcase conjoin, book addition (cover add-on)
Completion: 2015 January 14
Construction
BOOK GRIP/SLIP Project: Slipcase Final, book “sleeve”
Completion: 2015 January 21
REFLECTION
This project was both a learning experience in artisan craftsmanship as well as the understanding of solid vs. form. Along with the idea that the book is a canvas for my ideas and creativity. This is designed to help me think about site and how to intervene with it in a way that is both compositional and meaningful. In a way this is a prelude to Parasite and how we understand how to attach something to a building. Overall this project was not only fun, but it was also highly educational. Slipcase taught me patience, from the time it took to cut all those excavations in the pages to the 3D modeling effort to recreate the book in spatial representation. Not forgetting the actual final slipcase, that itself was time extensive and high in craftsmanship.
SLOSITE An architect’s primary material is space Winter 02
“Space is experienced as a sequence of moments in time, rarely ever as a single whole. Space’s engagement with changing influences, such as the sun, passing clouds, the breeze, the sound of voices, all drastically change our perception of that same space. The boundaries of space may be as specific as “room” or may be implied, yet definitive, as a meandering stream. This project will ask you to discover a space and document it in drawings and photos in an attempt to “capture” its entirety.”
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SITE ANALYSIS Project: Slosite site analysis, and site relationship to body
Completion: 2015 January 24
TIMELASPE PHOTO DOWNTOWN SLO
Project: Slosite analysis and site occupation with timelaspe
Completion: 2015 January 24
Photography by Brian Chan
SITE DRAFT/MAP Project: Slosite as-built drafts, 2 section perspectives + site map
Morro
Higu era
Osos
Chorro
Monterey
Palm
Completion: 2015 January 26
Site: Downtown San Luis Obispo
Downtown San Lu is Obispo
Cal Poly
Plan: Floor Plan, Perspective section cut [A,B]
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scale 1/2” = 1’
FLOOR PLAN M or ro
Higuera
Osos
Chor ro
Montere y
Palm
Downtown Sa n Luis Obispo
Ca l Poly
Project: Slosite as-built drafts, plan view
Completion: 2015 January 26
Site: Downtown San Luis Obispo
Plan: Floor Plan (left)
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scale 1/2” = 1’
1ST SECTION PERSEPCTIVE
Project: Slosite Perspective draft + sloscope add on
Completion: 2015 January 26
Plan: Perspective section cut [A]
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scale 1/2” = 1’
1ST SECTION PERSEPCTIVE
Project: Slosite Perspective draft + sloscope add on
Completion: 2015 January 12
Plan: Perspective Section cut (B)
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scale 1/2” = 1’
SITE MODEL Project: Slosite model of site at 1/2”=1’
Completion: 2015 January 30
PERISCOPE Project: Slosite Urban Periscope, full body prototype that affects users engage of sight, experience or sound.
Completion: 2015 January 30
REFLECTION
Slosite was a project that I felt, personally, wasn’t very thought out enough and that even though it taught us to explore the use of space. It was nothing more than a drafting exercise with a petty side of a site model along with a mediocre persicope requirement. Nontheless, it was still beneficial my development as a drafter and the excess amount of time on this project gave me the oppurtinity to spend more time on the details of the site, for example, the texture of the concrete or the texture of the grass. With these small details the plan and drafts become more and more lively. Overall, the project was thought as a joke between all the studios and the students, including me, would’ve prefered a different project.
PARASITE A physical intervention to our space
Winter 03
The Parasite assignment began in February and was composed of four parts; analysis, design, build, big moody. Parasite was designed to be our first reallife scale project that would physically attach onto our site in the CAED Building. Each portion of the assignments guided our design process and gave us a comprehensive understanding of every small detail. The extensive design process was critical to our final design. It opened up our understanding of material architecture and how to complement it with form.
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SITE PICTURES Project: Parasite site analysis
Completion: 2015 February 5
PHOTO JOINER/ ABSTRACT SYNTHESIS Project: Parasite, Site Analysis
Completion: 2015 February 5
LIGHT ANALYSIS/ DIAGRAM light analysis
Project: Parasite abstract synthesis, diagrams, site analysis
Completion: 2015 February 15
12 pm
1 pm
6 pm Desired circulation
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Project: Parasite, Design Process
Completion: 2015 February 12
STUDY MODEL 1 Project: Parasite, Design Process/Model making Completion: 2015 January 15
STUDY MODEL 2 Project: Parasite, Design Process/Model making Completion: 2015 January 17
FINAL DESIGN Project: Parasite, Design Process/Model making Completion: 2015 January 18
FINAL DESIGN Project: Parasite, Design Process/Model making Completion: 2015 January 18
3D DIGITAL MODEL Project: Parasite, Digital Rendering, 3D model
Completion: 2015 February 18
3D DIGITAL MODEL Project: Parasite, Digital Rendering, 3D model
Completion: 2015 February 18
AS-BUILT DRAFTS Project: Parasite, Drafting (1’:1”)
Completion: 2015 Febraury 21
AXONOMETRIC SECTION OF SITE 204
AS-BUILT DRAFTS Project: Parasite, Drafting (1’:1”)
Completion: 2015 February 15
BUILDING CROSS-SECTION THROUGH FIRST 5 STAIRS
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scale 1 ft. : 1 in.
WITHOUT PARASITE
BUILDING CROSS-SECTION THROUGH FIRST 5 STAIRS
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scale 1 ft. : 1 in.
WITH PARASITE
“IKEA DRAWINGS” Project: Parasite, Connection Drafting
Completion: 2015 January 19
Paracord to fish line connection
Paracord to paracord connection
Axonometric Clamp Connection
Axonometric Wood Connection to Steel Beam
Wooden Support
SHOP/ INSTALL Professionalism and detail Winter 03
Working in the CAED support shop and purposefully operating the tools offered to us benefited us greatly in practice and safety. Everytime we went into the shop, a high level of professionalism was required, not just for the safety of our group, but everyone else around us. Our group perfected the concept of division of labor for maximum efficiency. The shop gave us hands-on experience for creating our parasite and simulated the complications that arose outside of design and during the building process. 90
BIG MOODY A BIG grapite-rendered perspective drawing. Winter 03+1
Unlike conventional computerized rendering, our project involved the use of graphite and/ or charcoal to render a perspective of our site, focusing on the presence of our parasite. Using a tool like charcoal and graphite to render, we were able to let light and mass dictate form instead of clean, fine drawn lines. Different shades of black and texture allowed the recreation of light exposure and emotion. The purpose of this assignment was to create a dramatic view of our parasite in the space that it occupied. Using and charcoal allowed a greater visual presentation. 124
REFLECTION
Parasite was definitely the project of the year and honestly one of the most memorable projects I think I’ll ever have. The amount of work that was put in and to see it all come out into a real-life to scale intervention to our site was definitely rewarding. All the projects we’ve done before up until now have been “learning-the-rope” projects designed to help us understand the world of architecture. But this project was designed to assess everything we’ve learn and apply it to a parasite. The lengthy time alotted for the design process was very beneficial because it allowed my group to overgo many changes that made our parasite better. We created 6 study models each applying what we learned from the previous study model.