Zoom In, Zoom Out - Portfolio 2023 by Carolyn Wu

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CAROLYN WU

Architecture + Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2023

This portfolio is an investigation of architecture and landscape architecture through the lens of community and connectivity. It strives to understand the interdependencies between the built environment and the public realm, deconstructing how design can be a catalyst for bringing people together at different scales. Using architecture and landscape architecture as a way of exploring rather than building, the following work zooms in and zooms out between the intimate and the grand, seeking to create places that not only inspire, but also foster a sense of comfort, belonging, and shared experience.

CONTENTS Architecture Resurfaced Bildung Block Highbury Maker’s Market

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Architecture + Landscape Gateway Park Natural Artifice

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Landscape Mountain Valley Park The Missing Third

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Professional 907 Terry Lake Como Gateway

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RESURFACED

Program: Site: Instructor: Collaborator: Duration:

Bathhouse, Community Hall, and Hotel Britannia Beach, BC, Canada Matthew Soules Selina Chau 2021, 4 Months

Emcompassing Local Identity in a Community Space

Britannia Beach used to be home to one of the largest copper mines in the British Empire. The site featured over 240 km of tunnel. Rainwater would collect atop mountains before flowing through the twist and turns of these abandonned shafts before eventually settling into Howe Sound. This project translates Britannia Beach’s rich mining history and identity into a remarkable space, bringing to town a unique bathhouse, community hall, restaurant, and hotel experience for locals and tourists alike. We seek to do this by proposing a series of above ground tunnels and shafts.

Four monumental above ground tunnels will stack and intersect one another to create a bathhouse loop. Much like the phrase, “light at the end of the tunnel,” visitors would travel along narrow linear spaces before eventually arriving at a view. Within the bathhouse, visitors are provided with various options to start, from sauna and steam rooms to spa treatment rooms and relaxation spaces. The tunnels are connected through a series of stairs and ramps and it is imagined that visitors feel disoriented when moving through the tunnels until they reach the ends.

Inside the Tunnel Pools Site Section

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prefabricated concrete tunnels support the bath thouse

steel columns and beams support the community hall

pitched roof to collect rainwater

rainwater collected in regeneration pond rainwater collected in vertical cistern

heated water to pools

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filtered water to ground source heat pump

Structure Diagrams Water Systems Diagram 6

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iv Levels 01-04 Floor Plans - Community Hall and Bath House Heated Pool Emcompassing “Light at the End of the Tunnel” Feeling 7

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North Facade Envelope Detail View of North Facade Interior and Exterior 8

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iv North Facade Perspective View of East Entrance from Parking 9

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start with plain grid structure

split into threes to allow for access and circulation

insert programs into grid structure

push + pull to create upper level public spaces

BILDUNG BLOCK

Program: Site: Advisor: Year:

Arts Production and Coworking Space Vancouver, BC, Canada Joyce Drohan, Caner Oktem, Kari Dow 2018, 4 months

Bringing the Public Realm into the Vertical

The Bildung Block explores the interdependencies of three different urban scales from building to neighbourhood to district. Part of a former industrial area known as False Creek Flats, the Hub hopes to be a model for a diverse mix of working, living and creating for a fluorishing community. Programs in this building include an arts production space, a coworking space, and a food hall. At a confluence of several major public nodes, the building is informed by the Seawall, the future St. Paul’s Hospital, and the Emily Carr University for Art and Design. As people from these nodes would be coming to the space,

it is vital that the amount of public space is maximized to allow for conversation and collaboration amongst different disciplines. The building form itself is inspired by Cedric Price’s Fun Palace, in which space is occupied by a variety of different programs and the space between would function as public space, allowing for more intimate public space where people can relax or can act as extensions of indoor programs. Art Production spaces are on the ground floor so the creation process can be revealed to the public. To circulate users throughout the building, a food market and restaurant are on the top floors.

East Entrance Massing Diagrams

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green roof

entry points

housing food market amenity space restaurant flexible space

circulation coworking arts production retail parking public space

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Building Diagrams, Exploded Program Axonometric Views of Food Market and Arts Production Space 12

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v Building Axonometric Views of Walkways and Pocket Public Spaces in the Building 13

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Access to Surrounding Amenities

Outdoor Rublic Realm

Indoor Public Realm

The Play Room MAIN PLAZA main plazaSPACE PUBLIC ART public art WATER feature FEATURE water

OUTDOORseats SEATING outdoor AMPHITHEATRE amphitheatre CULTURAL space AMENITIES cultural

The Dining Room MARKET ENTRANCE market entry COVERED PLAZA covered plaza COFFEE shops SHOPS coffee

RETAIL shops SHOPS retail ARTS production PRODUCTION arts FEATURE STAIRCASE main staircase

The Porch MAIN ENTRANCE main entry COFFEE shops SHOPS coffee RETAIL SHOPS retail shops

POP-UP SHOPS pop-up shops OUTDOORseating SEATING outdoor SLIDE FEATURE slide feature

The Living Room SECONDARY secondary GATHERING SPACE

gather space POP-UP SPACE FOR pop-up HOLIDAY space EVENTS

OUTDOORseating SEATING outdoor PLANTING FEATURES planting feature RETAIL SHOPS retail shops

The Alleyway shared vehicle SHARED VEHICLE PEDESTRIAN &&pedestrian SIDEWALKS sidewalks

string OVERHEAD STRING LIGHT FEATURE light feature ARTS PRODUCTION arts production

The Garage additional arts ADDITIONAL ART PRODUCTION production SPACE space

LOADING ZONE loading zone FUN STREET MURALS street murals

The Break Room residential RESIDENTIAL ENTRANCE entrance LOUNGING SPACE lounging area

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Public Realm Diagrams Neighbourhood Program Diagram 14

moveable seats MOVEABLE CHAIRS ++ HAMMOCKS hammocks RETAIL SHOPS retail shops

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iv Entrance at The Porch Walkway Through The Play Room 15

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HIGHBURY MAKER’S MARKET

Program: Site: Instructor: Duration:

Retail Market, Cafe, and Food Hall Vancouver, BC, Canada Gregory Johnson 2019, 2 Months

Renovating a Substation and Detailing a Diversity of Uses

The purpose of this project was to develop a set of construction documents for the renovation of a decommissioned electrical substation. The existing building was designed in the 1950s as a simple rectangular concrete building, situated in the southwest corner of the property. There currently exists a main floor at grade, and an upper floor, both with high ceilings.The renovated building should maintain its character and should respect BC building code. The building has been recycled and redesigned as a multipurpose building, featuring programs such as a street food hall on the ground floor,

Level 01 Plan Site Plan

a cafe on the mezzanine level and a retail market for small creators and businesses on the third level. An outdoor patio has also been designed to provide additional seating for both food hall and coffee shop customers, as well as serve as waiting space for the adjacent bus shelter. Architectural drawings as part of this package include floor plans plans, reflected ceiling plans, elevations, sections, kitchen millwork drawings, enclosure details, assembly schedules, and door and window schedules.

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Level 02 Floor Plan 18

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ii Building Sections 19

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asylum-seeker backyard winding path lookout point entrance plaza

tunnel structure train platform asylum-seeker centre city market basketball courts parking

ttc subway train

GATEWAY HUB

Program: Site: Instructor: Collaborators: Duration:

Transit Hub, Asylum Seeker’s Centre, and Market Toronto, ON, Canada Matthew Allen Hasti Mangha + Jaime Ahn 2018, 4 months

Creating Connections Between Locals and Visitors Alike

Gateway Hub is a transit hub proposed to increase connectivity and community between and through the Dundas West neighbourhood. The hub includes multi-season programs such as a city market, an asylum-seekers centre, recreational facilities as well as over seven acres of new public green space. The market, embedded into the side of the hills of the park, encourages passing commuters as well as locals. The first floor of the market mainly caters to commuters, providing programs such as convenience stores and bakeries to grab small bites on the way home. The third floor

has stores to suit those using the park such as ice cream shops and equipment rentals. The asylum-seekers centre, tucked away in the neighbourhood, offers shelter and transitional services to Toronto’s new refugees. The park connects all programs, with areas designed to allow for different activities including a lookout point, meandering paths, and sloped hills for more vigorous hikes. With new connections between the four different modes of transit for locals and visitors alike, Gateway Hub hopes to make travelling into, out of, and within the Dundas West neighbourhood easier.

Illustrated Site Plan Program Axonometric

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Site Plan Site Axonometric 22

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iv Level 03 Plan Section Through Market with Asylum Seeker’s Centre on the Right 23

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Embedded in hill Visitors can enjoy their food on the hill which is connected to market 3

Level 01 1. Intake Offices 2. Health & Mental Wellness Clinic 3. Fitness Centre 4. Staff Room

Entry points market is accessible from trains and recreational facilities

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Level 02 5. Classrooms 6. Computer Lab 7. Career Centre 8. Children’s Day care/Lounge 9. Kitchen 10. Living Room

7 Division of Programs First level suited for commuters; Third level suited for park users 6

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Circulation Egress core connecting market to park parking lot below

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Asylum Seeker’s Centre Diagrams Floor Plans 24

Level 03 11. Lounge 12. Laundry Room 13. Bedrooms

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porthole windows provide discrete outdoor views out while minimizing views in 7 5 2

Level 01 1. Tourist Centre 2. Equipement Rental 3. Art Gallery 4. Market Office 5. Bakery 6. Convenience Store 7. Flower Shop

embedded into hills hill is extention to asylum-Seekers Centre’s courtyard

Level 02 8. Restaurant

housing vs services building split into two ; housing units and service centress

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division of programs programs become more private as people move up floors

Level 03 9. Event Space 10. Cafe 11. Ice Cream Shop 12. Food Shack 13. Candy Store

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NATURAL ARTIFICE

Program: Site: Advisor: Collaborators: Year:

Public Park Toronto, ON, Canada James Huemoeller Selina Chau + Kaiyu Liu 2021, 3 months

Layering Natural and Artificial Histories to Inform Public Landscapes

This project was a submission to the Future of Ontario Place Competition. Our proposal of Ontario Place explores the intersection between Toronto’s natural ravine system and its urban grid. Through a series of multifunctional constructed landscapes over the natural topography of Ontario Place, we hope to transform the currently passive and derelict site into a socially and ecologically productive public landscape, to provide a meaningful space for recreation, environmental education and research as well as social connections to the growing

community. During our design process, we’ve focused our efforts in five major areas. The Woodland will provide an urban tree nursery dedicated to native tree species. The Ravine Plaza will be dedicated to stormwater management. The marina has been transformed into the Wetland, incorporating artificial bird habitats as well as a series of boardwalks. Echo Beach will contain recreation spaces in the form of depressions that will serve as detention basins Lastly, the Garden Plaza will feature community gardening plots and trellises.

Contemporary Arts Spaces in the Woodland Toronto’s Urban Grid Superimposed onto the City’s Ravine System

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Bird Habitats

Wetland and Boardwalk

Biodome

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Site Masterplan of Ontario Place Site Section 28

Research Hub

The Village

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iv The Woodland, the Ravine, Garden Plaza, and the Wetland Plans Artificial Marina turned into a Natural Walkway Through a Wetland 29

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MOUNTAIN VALLEY PARK

Program: Site: Instructors: Collaborators: Year:

Public Park North Vancouver, BC, Canada David Zielnicki + Rachel Lazlo Tait Cecilia Lo + Natasha De Vries 2020, 4 months

Public Realm Experience Inspired by the Journey of Raindrop

Mountain Valley Park embraces North Vancouver’s identity as a place where “the mountain meet the sea.” The project follows the journey of a raindrop as it falls from the sky, onto mountains, down creeks and finally onto the lawns of Waterfront Park. This proposal hopes to change this narrative by showcasing the systems, history and characteristics that draw people to North Vancouver and welcome them back. Our proposal is a condensed mountain to sea transect and its journey imitates the experience of hiking in the mountains. A hike

up the mountain implies movement and fun, so we propose a destination space for both locals and visitors to wander and explore. The hike descending the mountain is calming and relieving knowing your journey is almost done. We want to create spaces that allow users to retreat to and rest in. We recognize Waterfront Park is situated in an area where tidal mudflats and seasonal creeks used to be prominent. Water is unavoidable, so rather than hiding the processes that used to run through the site, we want to make them visible so users can embrace the movement of water.

Illustrated Site Plan Narrative of a Raindrop to Guide our Design

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Circulation and Access is Aligned with Crosswalks and Major Transportation Routes Movement of Water Flows Towards the Wetland in the Center Park Programs Provide Visitors with Experiences of Asceding and Descending a Mountain 32

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v Detailed Site Plan Site Section 33

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Planted Mounds with Seating Embedded Seating Nook Valley Technical Section 34

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Benches in Seating Nook Valley Seating Nook Bench Plan Seating Nook Bench Section

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st. james town

downtown toronto

THE MISSING THIRD

Program: Site: Advisor: Year:

Graduate Thesis - DIY Public Space Toolkit St James Town, Toronto Cynthia Girling 2021, 8 months

Redesigning Public Threshold Spaces to Encourage Social Resilience

During the pandemic, our outdoor public spaces became our solace. It was in these spaces that many social interactions, from fleeting eye contact and exchanges of brief hellos to gatherings with friends, took place. However, the residents of St. James Town, Toronto, Canada, a lower-income marginalized neighbourhood, don’t have the same access to such spaces and lack the resources to push for changes they need. This project proposes spatial strategies for transforming existing threshold spaces - spaces usually seen as intermediary – into spaces of dwelling where residents have the agency to change

their built environments to advocate for permanent change. Focusing on a bottom-up, participatory design approach, this project introduces a toolkit to provide arts and culture, food and drink, and recreation amenities and services into the neighbourhood. The resulting proposal imagines a network of useable spaces that can empower the residents while bringing relief to the systemic inequity of access to public space. Working across four different scales to accommodate various sizes of spaces, these tactics come together to help facilitate social interactions and build social capital amongst community members.

Forecourts for Agriculture Context Map

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parking lots used as pedestrian shortcuts

parking lots

concrete parking lot pedestrian concourse

private paths

road verges

private sidewalks

public vs private open space

forecourts

commercial laneway commercial laneway

mainly serves vehicles; often used as shortcut mainly serves vehicles; often used as shortcut

bisected by fence bisected by fence

busy roads

alongside busy roads

4-6 m wide 4-6 metres wide

8-10 m wide 8-10 metres wide

the road verge

the laneway

surrounded surrounded by residential buildings by residential towers

accessible accessible to to building entrances and/or exits building entrances

entrance to entrance to residentialresidential buildings building large expansive large expansive empty empty space space

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mainly serves vehicles; mainly serves vehicles; often used as shortcut often used as shortcut

sometimes sometimes paved; paved sometimes grass sometimes grass the forecourt

the parking lot

Attributes of the Built Environment - Cataloguing the Threshold Spaces Threshold Space Typologies 38

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st james town west park

abandonned swimming pool

private amenities

instituional buildings

the only community centre soccer field behind school

commercial buildings

the only one grocery store

residential buildings

1. eggsmart

arts/culture

2. butcher shop

3. fried chicken restaurant

food/drink recreation

4. filipino restaurant

6. daycare

5. basketball court

7. wellesley community centre

11. tennis court 9. food basics grocery store 10.st james town community corner

8. wellesley fruit market

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straight bench

hammock

recycled planters

$$$

wavy bench

table

tire swing

oven

topography

$$$

seed bombs

$$$

painted surface

branch hut

ping pong table

large planter

platform

moveable bench

bookcase

small planter

$$$

bean bag

trellis

sound makers

$ $ mostly recycled

arts/culture presenting

food/drink creating

open plaza

recreation growing

communal kitchen

$$$ mostly bought

playing

planting plots

resting

sport court

open grass

large

outdoor stage

eating

$$ half recycled, half bought

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workshop

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dining tables

raised planters

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urban beach

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seating nook

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pollinator planter

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book nook

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benches

planting wall

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streetside games

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swinging seats

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art installation

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art mural

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stumps

seed bomb library

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playground

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hiding alcoves

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music wall

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SJTPN partners with developers and designers

initial workshop to design toolkit

inform public of process

choose threshold spaces

gather + connect

identify needs + program

temporary installation + reappropriation

build project

permanent change

INITIATED AND IN COLLABORATION WITH RESIDENTS

as a way to build responsability and ownership to surroundings

Step 1: What Kind of Threshold Space is Being Redesigned? A. Laneway

Step Two: What Is The Site’s Priority For Third Place Types?

B. Road Verge

1. Mark The Chosen Site On The Map

commercial laneway

2. Circle Furthest From The Site (A)

mainly serves vehicles; often used as shortcut

Arts/Culture recreation Food/Drink playing sport courtRecreation open grass

bisected by fence

arts/culture

food/drink

presenting

creating

outdoor stage arts/culture creating

eating

alongside busy roads

open plaza

communal kitchen

food/drink

eating

4-6 metres wide

growing planting plots

growing

recreation

playing

resting

3. Circle Closest To The Site (B)

8-10 metres wide

open plaza

communal kitchen

planting plots

large

outdoor stage

large

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outdoor stage workshop

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large expansive empty space

open plaza

communal kitchen

open diningplaza tables

creating ■♦● ■♦●○plaza open art installation

pollinator planter

book nookplanter workshop pollinator

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open plaza art installation communalbook kitchen pollinator planter workshop art music wall nook music wall mural

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planting benches plots diningstumps tables art mural

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swinging seats urban beach

seating nook

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recreation playing■♦●○ ■♦●○ ■♦●○

sport court raised planters stumps seed bomb library planting wall

book nook

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open grass

urbanseed beach bomb librarygames streetside playground planting wall

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Process Timeline How to Use the Toolkit

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St. James Town Providers Network (SJTSPN) This project proposes an approach, process, and toolkit for the neighbourhood to encourage as they would negotiate with developers to redesign portions of their land in exchange community members to reappropriate threshold spaces. In doing so they will gain for more beautiful and active public spaces, defacto use and a sense of ownership towards increased personal safety as there would be moreplanting eyes on the streets, and better health their surrounding environment. As residents art installation book nook benches wall streetside games swinging seats and wellbeing for seed residents. The process build not music only their environments but also their stumps wall art mural bomb library playground would unfold over time. The aspiration social capital, they then as a collective can is that these bottom-up resident-initiated use their reappropriated spaces as protests of sorts to mobilize for things that they need interventions would evolve into some more and advocate for permanent change. This permanent and sanctioned change. project would be done in partnership with the small

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sport court seating nook

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sport court

planting plots urban beach

recreation

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communal kitchen planting plots raised planters

eating mainly serves vehicles; often used as shortcut

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dining tables eating

accessible to building entrances and/or exits

arts/culture

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open grass

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largemedium

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sport court

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swing seats swing seats a

book book &+ seed nook seed nook

planting wall planting wall

outdoor stage outdoor stage

seating nook seating nook

pollinator pollinator garden garden c

streetside streetside games games

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small existingexisting small space grassygrassy area

existing parking lot

fenced space

fenced area

arts/culture

communal kitchen

planting plots

wide 8m8mwide laneway laneway

pollinator planter

growing

communal kitchen

planting plots

workshop

playing

resting

sport court

open grass

first priority: arts/culture

playing sport court

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seedgames bomb library streetside

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music wall

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planting plotswall workshop planting

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planting wall

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swinging seats

raised planters book nook seed bomb library

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art mural

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pollinator garden

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pollinator planter

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The toolkit isdining then applied to four sites in the tables raised planters neighbour - one of each threshold space typology. Here is Redrocket Laneway - one of four sites chosen. The program for this laneway is partially determined by access to services within the neighbourhood. In this case, it’s the closest to food amenities, but furthest from arts and ■♦●○ culture amenities; ♦ therefore, this site prioritises arts and culture, raised planters urban beach benches wall recreation, then food and drink. Theplanting Redrocket Laneway will be transformed into an arts and culture focused space, featuring a book and seed bomb library, a hammock space, an outdoor stage, a pollinator garden, as well as a streetside games such as ping pong and giant chess.

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mural

open plaza

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Academic - Landscape

book nook

wall as movie screen

hammock space

outdoor stage with disco ball

tree planters as bollards

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section cc - the planter

trellis for art + lights

wavy bench as planter

painted surface

streetside games

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907 TERRY

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Residential New Building, For Rental Seattle, WA, United States James KM Cheng Architects Conceptual Design, Schematic Design, Drafting, Revit Modelling, Renders, Area Statistics, Unit Layouts, Submission of City of Seattle Early Design Guidance Application

Activating the Public Realm of a Private Rental Building

The proposed tower is a purpose built 39 story residential rental building, with a double height amenity space at the street level and an outdoor amenity space on the rooftop. Our proposed tower aims to participate in Seattle’s Living Building Pilot Program (LBPP) and is designed with the intention to provide access to nature, enhance biophilia and incorporate sustainable schemes such as District Energy Plan. In accordance with the Public Realm Action Plan, the building responds

to the surrounding context and is inspired by the St James Cathedral and the Frye Art Museum. We hope to make a lasting contribution to the public realm and foster a more active, diverse, and sustainable community. Personal contributions include conducting massing and shadow studies, submitting a rezoning booklet to the City of Seattle, creating render graphics, designing residential unit layouts.

View of Terry Avenue Elevation View from Inside Terry Avenue Recess

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LAKE COMO GATEWAY

Program: Site: Employer: Tasks:

Residential Condo Coquitlam, BC, Canada James KM Cheng Architects Design, Drafting (Conceptual, Rezoning, Permit, Unit Layouts), Revit Modelling, Renders, Area Statistics, Client/City Presentations

Addressing “Gateway” at Pedestrian, Vehicular, and Skyline Scales

Lake Como Gateway acts as a gateway at the pedestrian, vehicular, and skyline levels. The project consists of a 44-storey apartment building and one six-story apartment building with 446 units, 24 of which will be below market rental units. The project is designed with arrival plazas, water features and plenty of landscaping to allow for seamless pedestrian connection despite the site having extreme topography. Together with landscaping, these features aim to provide a stronger residential character as part of this new nighbourhood.

The tower design itself is split into three different scales so that visitors do not feel overwhelmed by the height of the tower, yet the top of the building is designed to fit into the beautiful skyline of the Greater Vancouver Area Contributions include developing the facade of the bar building, addressing city concerns about the north facade of the bike storage room, developing the waterfall design and the surrounding plaza, as well as evolving the design of the tower entrance vestibule.

Public Park in a Private Building North Elevation

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iv Exterior Render View of Wiindow Wall Facade Study on Bar Building South Elevation 53

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THANK YOU

carolynjwu@gmail.com (778) 636-2233