Candy H.Y. Chan Portfolio 2015

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9 Are We There Yet? :

: let’s start with a story...

08 _ public intimacy 14 _ all fake

: keep it simple.

20 _ identity 22 _ prime vision 24 _ a day at tsukiji

: art. or science. or neither. or both.

28 _ poetic mechanics 30 _ embracing extremes 32 _ swarm pavilion 34 _ fragility and violence 35 _ the pipe 36 _ the very many

: never for granted.

46 _ less is mall 48 _ living on display

: the magic of things.

58 _ 33 bond 59 _ garden house 60 _ columbia uni. manhattanville mixed-use development 61 _ morgan stanley children’s hospital 62 _ world trade center memorial & museum

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let’s start with a story...

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

Stephen Chbosky - “Perks of being a Wallflower” (1999)

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9 Public Intimacy : Program: Bath-house, Hotel | Site: Old City, Philadelphia | Scale: 40,000 s.f.

• STALK THEM Three people were followed from the site to the first entry to any form of intimate space, public transport infrastructure, or private car. Movements were recorded on an aerial map.

• “PIXELATION” The negative spaces (grounds) of the paths were translated into positive “urban pixels” (figures).

These pixels are then compressed to the ground plane to inform the outline of the building.

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• ACTIVATION These highlights show the space activated by each individuals. Different portions of the building are engaged by different visitors.

user 1: Man using steam therapy

user 2: Kid coming for swimming and community program 1

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user 3: Woman staying in hotel and using bath

user 4: Grad student coming to stay in hotel and use bath

• SEQUENCE A walk-through sequence was generated to study the spatial qualities related to lighting, distance, occupancy and surface effects of pattern mappings.

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• WET AND DRY The wet program (bath) and dry program (hotel) are organized around the high line. They grow from two sides and eventually join and intertwine, forming public space underneath.

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mixed bath female bath hotel steam male bath cafe guest rooms lobby community programs services

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sectional perspective

•WRAPPING A pattern from the metal work of a railing is transformed in scale and context to become the skin of the building. The building is wrapped in a double layer- mechanized water system on the outside and an inverted figure-ground.

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9 All Fake : Photography Project | Brief: Narrative, Fake Identity, Color Photography (No Photoshop)

• MORE FAKE PLEASE _private doings_ : where were you? : where could you have been? _what’s wrong?_ trigger v.1: whenever i feel cold, i take a picture of whatever is on my left hand side. _dummies_ trigger v.2: whenever i feel cold, i take one picture of the sky, then one of the ground. _dress rehearsal_ evidence in context: : an inverted world; : a world without temperature, sound, and air; : maybe also without gravity

• SYNOPSIS She is a fugitive.

Worried about being recognized and caught, she always dresses in black from head to toe, with a hat and a pair of sunglasses. She is forever on the run. She kept running, but she never felt like she had run far enough.

One day she suddenly found herself in this place where proximity and infinity are inverted- the sky is now concrete, the ground faded. There’s no temperature, she couldn’t feel her heart beat, and she wasn’t breathing. And right there she stopped- she felt calm and happy, because she knew she finally escaped.

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keep it simple.

The airline pilot who announces that he is presently anticipating experiencing considerable precipitation wouldn’t think of saying it may rain. The sentence is too simple--- there must be something wrong with it.

William Zinsser - “On Writing Well” (1976)

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9 Identity : Graphic Project | Brief: Identity, Branding, Logo & Stationery

• THE MIDDLE CHILD I’m a middle kid- I have an elder sister and a younger brother, and so i have a certain “dual” aspect in my personality. I want to portray a state of balance between two opposing forces. My initial is CC and I developed two C-shaped curves that have a fluid motion swirling and converging in the middle. In line with the “dual” concept, I want to include elements of both disciplined and spontaneous. Different shades of multiplying green unify the logo as one.

business card front & back

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9 Prime Vision : Drawing Exercises | Brief: Composition, Hierarchy, Solid & Void

Shoes ink on white drawing paper 420 x 594mm

Nude ink on white drawing paper 420 x 594mm

Cubes ink on white drawing paper 420 x 594mm

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Chinese Character and “9-Square”

Chinese Character and “9-Square”

pencil on white drawing paper

pencil on white drawing paper

420 x 594mm

420 x 594mm

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9 A Day at the Tsukiji Market : Graphic Project | Brief: Folding, Research, Information Graphics

• FRONT & BACK-STAGES “A Day at the Tsukiji Market- the Seen and the Unseen” seeks to illustrate the different stages of food processing and production of the tuna trade. Each rectangular unit is about one particular stage, while each triangular unit focuses on the transition between stages.

The white sections are the ones seen and conceived by tourists/ amateurs, while the grey sections are the “backstage” operations understood only by professionals working in the trade. With the shifts in scales and changes in contexts, this illustration reveals the intricate workings of the food supply chain both in global and local scales.

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art. or science. or neither. or both.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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9 Poetic Mechanics : Installation Project | Brief: Poker Cards, Assembly Logic (In collaboration with Andrea Gulyas)

• STRUCTURE & INFILL The atmospheric effect for this project is “sound waves”. The wave pattern is studied and abstracted. It is later translated to a simple “A-B-A-B” pattern, and surface is created when the components are joined together.

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9 Embracing Extremes : Program: Exhibition | Site: Eastern State Penetentiary, Philadelphia

• COMPONENT Seeking to portray the tension between past and future, the patterning process is a series of “cutting-and-pasting” starting from a square. The resulting shape has sharp corners and can fill a non-porous surface. This shape is stretched in the third dimension to form a leaf-like component, which is then arrayed on surfaces to form enclosures.

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test surface rendering

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9 Swarm Pavilion : Program: Exhibition Space, Education Facilities, Bee-Raring | Site: Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

• GESTURE A curve is derived by abstracting the gesture of a swarm of bees.

Programs are allocated along this spine. Conceptual forces are assigned to different programs.

• PATTERNING Pattern from the previous exercise is used to form the structural frame of the roof. There are three types of infill panels- solid, translucent membrane and voids (apiary & queen rearing spaces).

outline surface lift-inside lift-outside forces

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9 Fragility and Violence : “Drawing” Project | Brief: Scripting, Triptych, Color, Embroidery

• SCRIPTED ON PURPOSE

void setup(){ size (360,640); background(255,0,0); noLoop(); smooth(); } void draw(){ translate (-200,700); scale (2); for (int p=10; p<50; p+=10){ float p2=pow(p,1.5); stroke (255,0,0); Aggregate (p,-p2); } } void Aggregate(float a, float b){ pushMatrix(); rotate (radians(random(-5,-35))); translate(a,b);

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for (int w=0; w<5; w++){ Module(random(.8,1.2),width*2); } popMatrix();

void Module(float q, float u){ for (float x=0; x<u; x+=1){ float y= pow(x,q); stroke (255,255,0,125); line (x,y,x,y+random(50,70)); stroke (255,120,0,175); line (x,y,x,y+random(5,11)); strokeWeight (random(.3,1)); } } 34

9 The Pipe : Program: Skate Park, Club | Site: Deptford, London (In collaboration with Janine Sutton)

•THE “COOL” ALTERNATIVE “The Pipe” is to be the first indoor skate park in London. We see skateboarding as the representation of the new wave of alternative culture. Working with parametric modeling, it deals with constraints and requirements of differents users including pedestrians, bikers and professional skateboarders.

Lofting techniques enable smooth transitions between spaces, and the boundary between inside and outside is blurred. This is the next coolest place to be in.

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9 The Very Many : Program: Marine Simulation Laboratory, Aquarium | Site: Lake Texcoco, Mexico City

• ZERO DISCHARGE “The Very Many” is an intervention that seeks to mediate the ecological relationship between Mexico City and the vast rural site of Lake Texcoco. Learning from the collective intelligence of colony formation of phytoplanktons, this colonization can transform and adapt to different environmental conditions. It could serve as an example of how to cope with this essentially empty site by providing a decentralized and openended solution.

land & sunlight

Situated between two existing ponds, this project takes advantage of the readily available land, salt, and water. It adopts a cost effective desalination operation with zero discharge by coupling a solar pond with a thermal desalination system. It is a self-sustaining system that ameliorates water supply and provides salt for industrial production at the same time.

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water

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COLONIES

A big step in evolution was when algae began to live together in colonies. Advantages include being larger than any protozoan, thereby being less likely to be eaten, etc.

• HAIR AND STRUCTURE Microtubules underlying the plasmalemma of Pediastrum and other species have a cytoskeletal function, regulating not only the shape of the zoospore as it becomes a cell of the colony but also the development of prongs and the flattening of cells where they adhere upon contact.

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never for granted.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story… Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Arundhati Roy – “The God of Small Things” (1998)

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9 Less is Mall : Program: Retail | Site: Villanova, Philadelphia | Scale: 200,000 s.f.

(In collaboration with Thabo Lenneiye)

: Do you want more choices?

• WHY MORE IS LESS A typical supermarket carries more than 30,000 items, among which you can find 61 varieties of sunblock, 80 different pain relievers, 40 options for toothpaste,150 lipsticks, 75 eyeliners, and 90 colors of nail polish from one brand alone.

We normally assume that more choices make us happier, but too much choice comes with the burden of confusion, regret of options not taken, and information overload.

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layering + multiplying

translucency + colors

reflection + refraction

irregular surfaces

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shifting

not enough choice

too much choice

diagrammatic plan

illusion of choice (structure)

illusion of choice (visual interest)

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9 Living on Display : Program: Housing, Food Retail | Site: Delaware Riverfront, Philadelphia | Scale: 100,000 s.f.

: Do you keep potatoes in your fridge?

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ENERGY, AWARENESS The refrigerator is the most energy consuming appliance in a typical U.S. household.

The bigger and deeper your fridge is, the more you tend to buy, the more food would go bad at the bottom, and eventually, the more you waste. What if everything is transparent and on display? What if your neighbors can see your rotten tomatoes? What if the takenfor-granted appliance becomes a space you have to LIVE in?

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• SHOPPING & SPECTACLE This project studies and challenges the conventional shopping configuration- it seeks to reverse the action of seeing and being seen, the moving and the static.

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•LAYERING

exploded axonometric

The whole architecture is organized around the constraints of the central refrigerated space and conveyor belt. Structure is simple steel post-and-beam. Microclimate is regulated by refrigeration curtains which are lighter and cheaper than glass, which keeps the interior configuration flexible.

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• PROTOTYPE The siting makes use of the efficiency of the grid system. This proposal is one third of the possible occupation of the site.

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• INTERFACE The “teething” configuration maximizes the surface area between two entities. Air is the interface between the refrigerated warehouse and housing units.

•LIFTING The building is lifted from the ground floor for access and services. One side is for lobbies of residents and visitors, another for loading. typical unit plan 50

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apart-hotel studio 1- bedroom 2- bedroom 3- bedroom 4- bedroom

unit distribution

+63’ roof

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the magic of things. .. And there is the magic of the real, of the physical, of substance, of the things around me that I see and touch, that I smell and hear... Among all the drawings produced by architects, my favorites are the working drawings. Working drawings are detailed and objective... they are free of associative manipulation. They do not try to convince and impress like project drawings. They seem to be saying :”This is exactly how it will look.”

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9 33 Bond : 33 Bond Handel Architects | Brooklyn, New York | 500,000 s.f. | 2013 - present (under construction)

Ground Floor Partial Elevation

Second Floor Plan

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Typical Unit Layout

9 Garden House : Garden House (Single-family Residence) Space Group Architects | London, UK | 1,500 s.f. | Completed

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9 Columbia U. Manhattanville Mixed-use Development : Columbia University Manhattanville Mixed-use Development Davis Brody Bond w/ Renzo Piano Building Workshop | Manhattan, New York | 450,000 s.f. | 2007 - present (under construction)

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Revit Model - Ground Floor Curtain Wall

9 Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital : Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Davis Brody Bond | Manhattan, New York | 35,000 s.f. | Completed

Game Wall Interior Elevation

Nurse Station Plan

Game Wall Interior Elevation

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9 World Trade Center Memorial & Museum : World Trade Center Memorial & Museum Davis Brody Bond | Manhattan, New York | 350,000 s.f. | Completed

Site Plan

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West Vent Structure Plan

Curriculum Vitae CAREER & QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

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Professional licensure (NY State) with 5+ years’ professional experience Proficiency in Revit: 2+ years in large scale projects Worked on world-renowned projects including the World Trade Center Memorial, NYC

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Handel Architects, LLP, NYC / Associate (Feb 2012 – Present) - 33 Bond Street (25-story residential) / NYC

Participated in all project phases from initial client presentation through conceptual design; production of contract documents; coordination with engineers and consultants; development of

interiors, finishes, and specifications; and construction administration 111 Washington Street (40-story residential) / NYC Carried project from concept deisgn through construction documents; worked with clients’ marketing team to define program; was in charge of apartment planning, kitchen and bathroom design Other Projects 400 Park Avenue South (40-story residential) / with Christian de Portzamparc / NYC Journal Squared (54-story residential) / with HWKN / Journal Square, NJ Capitol Place (13-story residential) / Washington DC

• Ismael Leyva Architects, PC, NYC / Intermediate Architect (Nov 2011 – Feb 2012) - Hunter’s Point South (40-story residential) / NYC • Davis Brody Bond, LLP, NYC / Junior Architect (Jul 2010 - Nov 2011) / Intern (Jan - Aug 2007) - Columbia University Manhattanville Mixed-use Development / with Renzo Piano Building Workshop / NYC Managed door schedule in Revit and worked on construction documents Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital / NYC Assisted in construction administration; reviewed shop drawings and responded to RFIs World Trade Center Memorial & Museum / NYC Conducted LEED research, designed bathroom details and produced construction documents

• Space Group Architects, London / Architectural Designer (Sept - Dec 2009) - Garden House (Single family house) / London

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Produced bid drawings, 3D model and renderings, and conducted material research

Aedas Limited, Hong Kong / Intern (Jun - Aug 2009) / Intern (Jun - Dec 2006)

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Civic & Culture Center / Singapore Ocean Heights I (81-story residential) / Dubai

Other Consulting Work / Interior Designer (Oct 2014 - Feb 2015)

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Hotpot Expert (1,500 s.f. restaurant) / Jersey City, NJ

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University of Pennsylvania / Master of Architecture (2010) Architectural Association School of Architecture / London Semester Abroad (2009) University of Hong Kong / Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies (2006)

AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS • • • •

“New School University Center”, Community Design Magazine of Tsinghua University (2014) “Grand Canyon and Crystal Village”, Community Design Magazine of Tsinghua University (2011) Winner, World Architecture Community Awards 3rd Cycle, World Architecture Community (2009) Winner, E. Lewis Dales Travelling Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania (2009)

OTHERS • Computer Skills:

• Language Skills: • Visa Status:

Autodesk Revit Architecture | AutoCAD | Rhinoceros & Grasshopper | Maya | Google Sketchup | Processing | Adobe Creative Suite | Chinese Typing English | Cantonese | Mandarin Permanent Resident (Green Card)

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(left to right) sept 2009, philadelphia; aug 2009, new york city; oct 2009, manchester; nov 2009, amsterdam

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