Chau Tran Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio_2018 by Chau Tran

Chau Tran

Portfolio

Content

1/ Post Zone Scenarios for Ho Chi Minh City

2/ Masonry Design Competition â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Undisciplined CMU Book

3/ System Infrastructure Blur

4/ Armature Urbanismo â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Schindler Competition

5/ The Thick 2D Indeterminate Futures

6/ Social Activator

7/ Temporary City Nomadic Dwelling

8/ Reclaiming Newark Vacant Lots

9/ Work Experiences

CHAU TRAN

Newark, New Jersey 973-955-3622 chautrancmt26@gmail.com

EDUCATION New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ) Dual Degree: Bachelor in Architecture and Master in Infrastructure and Planning GPA 3.83 2013-May 2018 County College of Morris (Randolph, NJ) Associate in Fine Arts 2010-2012

GPA 3.95

WORK EXPERIENCES OPeRa Studio Internship

Brooklyn, New York 05/2017-08/2017 11/2016-01/2017

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Internship

Manhattan, New York 07/2016-11/2016

LeCavalier R+D Research Assistant

Residential and Commercial Projects at OPeRa Studio - I worked on detailed construction documents, as well as design development, physical model making and site visit. Brooklyn Neighborhood Improvement - I produced research materials for a talk for NY Build Expo - a talk from OPeRa Studio In Our Time_A Year of Architecture in a Day Symposium - I helped the architecture curator Beatrice Galilee with speaker suggestion, material compilation, volunteer organization, contact and administration work. Elements at the Met - Research Project (Afliated with OMA-AMO) - I helped documenting the elements at the Met through the museum’s archive and collection. Roor Garden Installation for Summer 2017 - I helped with reconsidering the flooring pattern and bar design for the artist Adrián Villar Rojas. I helped professor LeCavalier with research project for an article featured in the publication After Belonging: Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit.

Brooklyn, New York 05/2016-07/2016

NJIT CoAD Library Student Assistant

I worked as a student assistant for the front desk office, helped with cataloging books and assisting students with research materials.

Newark, New Jersey 09/2014-03/2018

County College of Morris

I worked as a peer tutor at the Math and Science tutor center at County College of Morris. Subjects: Precalculus, Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III.

Math Tutor

Randolph, New Jersey 09/2010-05/2012

PROFICIENCY

HONORS | AWARDS Schindler Global Award 2017

Honorable Mention

Scholarships

J Frank Peratoni Endowed Scholarship - 2017 KSS Architects Endowed Scholarship - 2016 Parette Somjen Architects Endowed Scholarship - 2015

Exhibitions

with the NJIT’s Infrastructure Planning team

MoMA Young Architects Program 2018 - as part of the team that

helped professor LeCavalier’s proposal Shelf Life Exhibition - Summer 2018 NJIT Design Showcase 2015,2016,2017,2018 Micro-unit Competition - First prize exhibition - 2016 Paterson Artwalk - 2014

Rhinoceros 5.0 Vray AutoCAD Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Autodesk Revit

VOLUNTEER WORKS The Architectural League NY - League Prize 2016 Lecture Alternative Spring Break - 2015, 2016, 2017 FIGMENT NYC 2015 - Art Festival at Governor Island

ESRI-ArcGIS Microsoft Office Suite

Post-zone Scenarios for Ho Chi Minh City Thesis Project, Undergraduate Level Year 5, Spring 2018 Critic / Marcelo Lopez Dinardi

In my architecture thesis, I studies the relationship of trade, infrastructure and manufacturing zones in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and conceive 6 post-zone scenarios for the city. Through understandign the context of trade, infrastructure and zone development in Ho Chi Minh City, the mixture of facts and fictions, realities and predictions, projections and speculations of the dynamic of developments in the city, I thought of six speculations to reconsider the zoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with the frameworks and themes of infrastructure: energy, water, utilities, food production, productive landscape, open space, density, logistics and recycling as ways to rethink the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s territory and locality.

SPECULATION 1- CANAL REPOPULATION AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY Condition: The removal of the canal slum population which makes up of 14,000 families that need to be relocated and provided for economic and social opportunities and relief in the transition period. The scheme is envisioned as a 10-20 years period to help with the transition period for the canal people while they are removed from the canal slums. Eventually, it is envisioned that the people populate the canal will have enough social and economic freedom, and support from the government to move into the permanent housings being constructed along the canal. By moving all canal slum (14,000 families), and making the zone an educational complex, and make part of the riverfront become a tourist zone, it helps generate money and work for students and canal people, and provide economic relief and mobility for them in the transition period.

SPECULATION 2 -WATER AS AN ARMATURE FOR GROWTH Condition: extreme flooding and water pollution issue makes the government decide to deal with water to alleviate environmental issues in the city. Water (river and canal) are channel into the zone, create a system that connect and open it to the neighborhood and surround. Water and landscape system to retain, slow down flood, and has a water treatment facility to treat polluted water. Water provides leisure and civic space, grow fish and food, transports people and goods and activities. The strategy involves diffusing the edges on site, by working with the buildings, open space, the river, and the street grid and a host of operations: step, absorb, cut, stretch, filter, and canopy. Water also infiltrate the self-built houses as a relief zone with play spaces and connect them to the riverfront. The streets now also converted to contain a system of bioswale to further slow down water.

SPECULATION 3 - FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD LOGISTICS AND CANAL ECONOMY This speculation considers productive landscape+food production+ open space and culture as an armature for growing and strengthen local food network and local vendor’s economy. This continues the prospect for canal people’s work in the economic mobility speculation. By employing locals and previous manufacturing workers to work in growing, producing, packaging, logistics in food production, culture and education, the project considers a network of productive landscape that infiltrate the buildings, open space, by the water, the neighborhood and along transport system. An open framework of farms allow for future’s farming needs.

SPECULATION 4 - ENERGY PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE Condition: Paris summit pressure Vietnam for clean energy reform, result in a boom in all new types of energy. The scheme is envisioned to be the future for some fragments in the zone, using utilities, energy and productive landscape as an armature to help remediate the zone and the guide informality growth. by the self-built houses are the supporting infrastructure, as the first step of intervention are telecommunications tower, water tower, and energy hybrid playground. Next to the house density are a complex/system of small data center, greenhouses, which feed fishfarm, telecommunications tower, open space. The zone also contain hybrid of farms, greenhouses and energy production complex, and a solar farm. Along the canal are the recreation and landscape/ walk zone, create a new public park inside the zone. Also along the canal is a system of solar-activated floating water purification system, and a logistics/data hub, using the energy from geothermal energy to heat the data center, whose excess heat further produce heat for the fish farms and greenhouses above.

SPECULATION 5 -LOGISTICS HUB, DATA CENTER AND POST-INDUSTRIAL PLAY-SCAPE Condition: the switch to services economy makes many heavy industry in zone 3 out of operation, turned into industrial park, and a zone of logistics and data center. A transport system serves as an armature that weaves through the whole complex of logistics, data center, playscape and connects people and the movement of goods. Along the transport loop is also a series of platform that connects and go down to the roof of the transport line. Attached to the transport loop is also a series of solar-powered lighting system, and a series of pods serving as hotels for tourists and workers. In the center of the site (fragment), below the data center is also a work-live zone, import/ export zone for goods and produces grown in the new reclaimed lots here. Marsh land system is utilized to revitalize the habitat here, growing different species, food, and serve as flood control. A complex of water treatment treats the contaminated river and canal here. Industrial complex such as thermal power plant and water tanks are also incorporated into the play-scape.

SPECULATION 6 - REMEDIATION, RECYCLE, RESTORE POST-INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE Condition: Pressure from the many stakeholders, especially the Ministry of Natural Resources pressure the government to move the heavy industry out from the zone. The zone is now converted into a system of recycling and remediative operations (waste, energy, trash, etc.), and channel the bio-products, heat and water to feed the productive landscape. Pollution and trash from the river are fed into the water treatment facility to treat the polluted water from the heavy industry on site. Contaminated marsh land is restored, treated and remediated with new technology that also remediate the soil, and harvest water. By channeling water inside to infiltrate the zone, it also allows the opportunity for productive landscape and floating operations on the water: solar farms, wind energy, fish farm, water collection, and green houses.

System Infrastructure: Material Concrete CoAD Masonry Design Competition Year 2, Spring 2015 Critic / Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi Design Team

This competition has two folds: the project and the build. The project asks to design a police station located in Perth Amboy (NJ), with the emphasis on the architectonic of masonry. The project features a connection from lower train station level to Elm street, and the systematic application of CMU on architectural elements through out the whole building. The build, however, is not conceived as a small scale representation, or a partial mockup of the project. CMU - the most common and cheap material in construction, was used as a starting point for architecture investigation into the construction of material, spatial perception, and the complexity and reality of things.

Plans of police station project

Diagram shows how system is applied throughout the building

Plans of police station project

System manifested in space and volume

System Overlaying on Section

System Overlaying on Site

Site

System Operation Diagram

Path for quick passage

Extracting and cutting part of the system to create slope

System Overlaying on Site

Site

System Operation Diagram

Diagrams show system application on geometry and architecture operations

Wall 5/5 Most Complexity

Wall 4/5 Intermediate Complexity Wall 3/5 Least Complexity Wall 2/5 Intermediate Complexity

Build diagram - wall complexity

Wall 1/5 Most Complexity

Build diagram - perception and visibility

Diagrams of the build - show the complexity and spatial perception the CMU walls

Diagram â&#x20AC;&#x201D; CMU Cuts Matrix

Physical Model â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Plexi Glass

The build - full scale (6'x8'x8') at NJIT-CoAD

Close up photos of the build

Undisciplined CMU NJIT CoAD Book Summer 2015 Editors: Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi, Pier Paolo Pala, Chau Tran, Yuliya Veligurskaya Task: Book layout

This book documents the efforts and outcome of the Brick build competition of the Spring 2015 studio. Shifting from the expected representation of the whole building, the focus was given to the exploration of the material parameters and cultural dimension of the project on the given site of a 6’ x 8’ x 8’ volume. The basic CMU was chosen due to its commonplace status in the construction industry stimulating unexpected readings including its cultural implications. The design process was not linear and it required simultaneous exploration and production through digital, physical, and analog methods. Primarily this publication documents the build or mock-up, however, it showcases the individual work of a group of students including the final selection from which this project was based. While the built project is meant to last a year, this book is a long-lasting record of the process that produced it and the varied realities that were provoked through it.

More at: https://issuu.com/marcelolopez-dinardi/docs/un-disciplined_cmuweb/1

System Infrastructure Blur Year 2, Spring 2015 Critic / Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi Final Review

This project is about blurring, a response to the pervasive context of Perth Amboy from the site observation :visual noise. Process of making collages of site analysis, visions for the town and the project, drawing of unit aggregations and linear aggregations provides the starting point for architecture operations to achieve thisâ&#x20AC;?blurâ&#x20AC;?. Strategie were employed: split levels, scattered platforms and programs, weaving paths and system of enclosure to blur: boundary, programs, path, in/out relationship and perception.

Row 1 — Site analysis

Row 2 — City vision

Row 3 — Project vision

Linear Aggregations

Operation: From unit to system to plans

Subtracting and elevating - System flexibility

Plan system

A way to conceive the "blur" - Diagrammatic axon of overlayed plans and sections

A way to conceive the "blur" - Sketch

Diagrammatic plans show multiple split levels, scattered platforms and weaving paths

Diagrammatic sections show split levels and blur enclosure

Diagram showing the flexibility of structure, as related to geometry and system application

Axon showing structural columns

Axon showing flexibility of system, as a variation to include multi-color glass for the enclosure

Part of exploded axon showing scattered platforms, programs and activities

Composite axon showing blur enclosure and activities

Armature Urbanismo The Schindler Global Award | Competition 2016/2017 Year 4, Fall 2016 / Master of Infrastructure Planning Studio Critic / Jesse LeCavalier Contribution: board layout coordinator, designer

The departure of the CEAGESP market is treated as an opportunity to critically examine its assets and their impact, influence, and relationship with the site. The revitalization of the site begins by identifying existing resources, distinctive activities and convergences of energy. A framework of linked strategies induces growth and development during and after the marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transition, and envisions a more dynamic site capable of openly involving its users as active participants in the production of the city. Operating through established socio-political mechanisms and at the infrastructural, architectural, and tactical scale, Armature Urbanism generates an interdependent system of physical, social, and cultural resources. An incrementally evolving infrastructural element, referred to as the Armature, becomes the driver of this new form of urbanism. The Armature is introduced as a conceptual tool, emerging through the connection of vacant lots and decaying properties selected for redevelopment and renovation to stitch together the remaining communities, activities, and assets on the site. At the infrastructural scale, the Armature provides utilities and services throughout the site, ensuring access to all emerging forms of urbanity. At the architectural scale, the Armature incentivizes growth and development of new hybrid programs while strengthening existing activities, and at the tactical scale operates as a framework for development of non-permanent human scaled interventions. The physical outcome of an Armature-based Urbanism is one with ramifications of resiliency for the site, fostering opportunity for growth, involvement, innovation, and cultural exchange through a hybridity of networks and spaces that enables flexibility and adaptability for the unpredictable nature of the city.

POTENTIAL MANIFESTATION OF STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

HYBRID CONDITIONS TO CULTIVATE COEXISTENCE Deploy residential mixed-use structures that host different programs and promote interactivity between various site users. ELEVATED HOTEL The elevated hotel allows for circulation to weave through the site from the opposite side of Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal. The covered plaza under the porous building creates market opportunities for tourists and locals to interact. The elevated hotel features balconies that overlook the Armature and roadway, and serves as an iconic attraction for the site, distinctly visible above the overpass.

Water Management

Electrical Bundle

Porous Pavement

Data Box Water Management

Water Management Electrical Bundle Data Box

URBAN PAVILION

“O” Court Offices

Along Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal, collaborative working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs are instituted, along with the O-Court retail shops and pavilions. The Armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in the vacant land and provide a public square amenity; after investing in a dense area the developers then supply the Armature with a public park for the community.

Umbrella Dates

Lina Bo Mall

Pedestrial Bike Slope Sloped Park

Social Bike Parking

Electrical Bundle Data Box Water Management

EDUCATIONAL PAVILION An educational and recreational hub for the neighbourhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students, ranging from primary school kids to university students. The complex, with its meandering path, encourages activity and interaction while generating a place for gathering. Different scales of interventions provide amenities for both residents on site as well as the surrounding community.

Basketball Arena

Outdoor Game Pavilion

Indoor-Outdoor Educational Pavilion

Playground

Green Lounge

Skatepark

Vines Attack

FEIRA LEOPOLDINA To retain the existing spirit of the market, the integration and renovation of existing buildings is proposed to become absorbed by the Armature. The space is envisioned as a nexus of cultural and social interaction with mixed programs including retail, leisure, restaurants, and transit services.

Bike Share

Ecological Embankment

Food Truck Paradise

Electrical Bundle Data Box Social Interaction

Water Management

WAREHOUSE GYM An existing warehouse employs the skinning strategy and is stripped down to its framework, capable of providing lighting, sound, temporary cover, and other functions. An outdoor field occupies the space, creating a public athletic complex supported by the frameworkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infrastructural capacities and supplied by the Armatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pedestrian population.

Art Wall

Climbing Wall

Warehouse Gym Bike Charging Station

Sculpture Wii Park

Electrical Bundle Data Box Water Management

RIVER CONNECTION + WATER TREATMENT Through the use of an elevated system, the Armature extends across the river and connects to a water treatment facility, encouraging community engagement throughout the dispersed platforms and pockets overlooking the river and adjacent neighbourhoods.as an iconic attraction for the site, distinctly visible above the overpass.

Lookout Pocket

Water Basins

Treatment Platform

Elevated Pathway

Sediment

Rooftop Terrace

VILA BOĂ&#x160;MIA Warehouses are converted into mixed use clusters of locally-owned shops, cafĂŠs, and eateries serving the native artist and designer community. Visitors on the Armature encounter public installations and large artworks on display dotted between galleries and exhibition halls inserted into converted structures, while interspersed plazas and performance spaces create opportunity for spontaneous bursts of activity.

Food Kiosk

Elevated Plaza Outdoor Seating

Public Performance Scenic Overlook Art Roofscape Bike Sharing

Data Box Electrical Bundle Water Management

Pocket Parks

URBAN JUNGLE Located between Armatures, this mixed-use space combines recreation and retail with mid-rise residential. Retail on the ground with services lifted encourages passage through the open public space beneath, inviting a variety of uses.

Pocket Park

Rooftop Oasis

Porous Pavement

Plug-In Frames

LIVE / WORK / COMMUNITY CLUSTER

Tactical Density

Height Utilization

The aggregation of essential services within the site intends to achieve the coordination of systems and the efficiency of new hybrid typologies. The rules and regulations visualized in an Armature Urbanism can be deployed anywhere within the site and require a high degree of cooperation between neighbors and planning agencies of SĂŁo Paulo.

Allowable Street Coverage

Required Community Structure per x Units

Required Open Slots Per x Units

Dual-functioning Infrastructure

STUDENT + SENIOR + FARM COEXISTENCE This framework appropriates Elemental Housing. A frame is constructed, and then half of the spaces are used for living, while residents configure the remaining half for other uses. Next to the hydroponic farm is a community farm that serves the residents and also functions as a gathering space.

Hydroponic Farm

Adaptable Frame

Student and Senior Housing

Bike Charging Station

Agriculture Storage Bike Sharing Service

Community Farm Spring Festival

Student Workspace Drone Port Canopy

URBAN ABSORBER Picnic Patch

The Absorber typology temporarily provides retail and parking space, offsetting the businesses that are displaced by the removal of the CEAGESP market and absorbing the functions of buildings being renovated and moved. They are designed to flexibly accommodate changes in site use and to adapt gradually to the anticipated decline of vehicles, shifting from car sheds to multifunctional public spaces.

Cast Concrete Parking

Volleyball Court

Recreation Lot Social Bike Parking Parking Deck Gallery

Commercial Infill

PARK + BIKE HUB A large bike parking structure with sloped occupiable rooftops supports the increase in bike traffic along the Armature. Connection is available to bus transit for longer distance travels.

Social Bike Parking

Umbrella Date Pavilions

Slope Roof

Bus Stop Bus STop

TACTICAL URBAN INTERVENTIONS Non-permanent human scaled interventions that are easily implementable. These elements are deployed across the armature and provide a framework for development of program, density and activity.

Badminton Playground

Food Trucks

Food Plaza

Bus Library

Pixacao Art Scape

Multimodal Stop

RV Rest Stop

Bridge Overlook

Bike Share Service

Food Truck Paradise

Bridge Catwalk

Multimodal Stop

Algae Skin Office

Ecological Playground

CEAGESP Sports

Greenhouse Conversion

Solar Energy Collector

Bike Charging Station

Silo Residence

Drone Port Canopy

Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market

Water Purification Basin

Water Treatment Overlook

Artist Exchange

Spring Festival

Sculpture Playground

Storm Management

Silo Festival

Silo Gala

Traffic Jelly

Food Cart

Car-Share Lot

Sculpture Park

Cultural Plaza

Rice Paddy Playground

Green Roof Platform

Skinned Warehouses

Zen Exchange

Interior Courtyard

MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS AS ACTIVE CONTRIBUTORS WHITE COLLAR WORKER The site had a strong business presence that needed to be preserved. Villa Lobos office park remained with its existing program. To enhance the commuting experience for the workers, new streets were introduced and transportation was modified to reduce traffic during rush hours.

CULTURAL PLAZA

DRONE PORT CANOPY

BLUE COLLAR WORKER The importance of the blue collar worker cannot be underestimated; this is an essential character for the construction and development of the phases of the site, responsible for maintenance and customer service. To facilitate his daily commute and navigate easily around the site new connections to the adjacent neighbourhoods were created.

BIKE CHARGING

BRIDGE OVERLOOK

ENTREPRENEUR To promote economic growth the site needed to become a resource for raising entrepreneurs, that become a catalyst for SĂŁo Pauloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. To host these activities incubator spaces were designed as individual or collaborative spaces to launch small companies, support warehouses for prototype production, testing and marketing.

CREATIVE DESIGNER

STUDENT

The site currently hosts several creative studios. This activity is enhanced by creating more spaces for design and collaboration between different disciplines. Open spaces in and out of the Armature become support for gathering and interaction.

VISITOR

The proximity to the University of SĂŁo Paulo ensures that students will no longer need to travel to hostels on the outskirts of the city; instead student, professor and senior housing is provided only four minutes away from the university. This ensures the safety of the students and brings life to the site.

SILO FESTIVAL

MULTIMODAL STOP

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BADMINTON PLAYGROUND

SCULPTURE PARK

The site aims to become an attraction for people from different locations of SĂŁo Paulo. Visitors will enjoy the amenities of the site and be part of the new economy that will boost the status of Vila Leopoldina and adjacent areas, promoting new jobs and opportunities for informal pop shops and local businesses.

ATMOSPHERIC SKETCHES The daily life of the city’s people informs and is supported by the infrastructural, architectural, and tactile responses of an Armature Urbanism. ELEVATED HOTEL The elevated hotel allows for circulation to weave through the site from the opposite side of Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal. The covered plaza under the porous building creates market opportunities for tourists and locals to interact. The elevated hotel features balconies that overlook the Armature and roadway, and serves as an iconic attraction for the site, distinctly visible above the overpass.

WAREHOUSE GYM An existing warehouse employs the skinning strategy and is stripped down to its framework, capable of providing lighting, sound, temporary cover, and other functions. An outdoor field occupies the space, creating a public athletic complex supported by the framework’s infrastructural capacities and supplied by the Armature’s pedestrian population.

NESTED INCUBATORS By introducing new housing, this lot is transformed from retail only to a hybrid catalyst that keeps the essence of the location. Incubator spaces for startup companies are nested in the courtyards to create different levels of workspaces that range from individual office modules to small production warehouses.

URBAN PAVILION Along Av. Dr. GastĂŁo Vidigal, collaborative working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs are instituted, along with the O-Court retail shops and pavilions. The Armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in the vacant land and provide a public square amenity; after investing in a dense area the developers then supply the Armature with a public park for the community.

SITE STRATEGY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FRAMEWORK TO GENERATE AN ARMATURE URBANISM INTENSIFY EXISTING RESOURCES Evaluate and prioritize existing resources on the site, strengthen current activity. Designate vacant lots for development.

Promote mixed-use and hybrid typologies to generate resilient urban activity. Facilitate new modes of work, live, and play through diverse, interdependent exchange and interaction.

CATALYZE ARMATURE GROWTH

EXPAND MULTIMODAL MOBILITY

Foster connections between renovated and repurposed structures; incorporate developing areas into evolving infrastructural network.

Connect to existing transit networks, enable newly emerging forms of mobility and establish efficient transportation hubs linked to the armature.

CULTIVATE ADAPTIBILITY

DIFFUSE SITE EDGES

Anticipate varying density scenarios and encourage flexible programming.

Local Worker (1/2 mile radius) Outer Worker

SPONSOR HYBRIDITY

Increase accessibility from Vila Leopoldina by activating street edge program.

SITE STRATEGY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; MULTIMODAL MOBILITY CONNECT TO ADJACENCIES Integrate into the surrounding neighbourhoods to facilitate future growth and root the Armature into the urban fabric.

EXTEND STREET GRID Expand on existing street structure to increase site accessibility.

EXPAND BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN NETWORKS Promote environmentally friendly modes of transportation to reduce vehicular use.

IMPLEMENT CAR SHARING Alleviate traffic by creating opportunities to reduce vehicular use.

MERGE EXISTING AND NEW TRANSIT NETWORKS

OPTIMIZE TRANSIT SWITCH EFFICIENCY

Connect developing modes of transportation, such as an electric shuttle service, to existing city transit systems.

Link interchange points for rapid connection to alternate systems.

SITE STRATEGY — INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT OPPORTUNISTIC GROWTH RECLAIM UNDERUTILIZED LOTS

DEMOLISH UNDERUSED FACILITIES

Redevelopment of the site begins with acquisition of existing vacant lots, which become drivers of all successive site strategies. This initial step targets inactive spaces and proposes new functions and program in order for this fragment of the city to attain greater potential through reintegration of an Armature-based urban fabric. Phases are used to indicate the sequence of development not driven by a strict timelime or fixed-end product.

Vacant areas throughout the site are reclaimed and developed; simultaneous demolition of underused and deteriorating facilities clears the way for future Armature growth and new hybrid typologies, which will serve a multitude of site users.

Demolished Program Existing Program

Existing Program

Vacant Lots

ESTABLISH ARMATURE NODES

AMPLIFY NETWORK

With vacancies repurposed, older structures demolished or renovated, and Absorbers constructed, the Armatures begin to emerge. These bundled systems of infrastructure will provide connectivity between site components and resources, and support a hybrid urbanism. During the early stages of construction, two nodes of the Armature develop at the north and south ends of the site, linking to the Absorbers.

The next phase extends the Armatures toward the core of the site, stitching together renovated structures along the Armature’s route. Buildings are “reskinned” or combined, fusing them with site infrastructure and creating a series of interconnected public spaces throughout the network.

Armature

Emerging Armature

New Construction

Renovated Program

Demolished Program

Existing Program

Vacant Lots

RENOVATE EXISTING RESOURCES

ABSORB AND CREATE URBAN ACTIVITY

Certain structures embedded with local knowledge and tradition are integral to the fundamental steps of site redevelopment and are targeted for upgrades. The concrete plant at the south end of the site is a key resource and will be tapped to contribute its materials to the large scale development of upcoming phases.

The intitial phase continues with the deployment of Urban Absorbers, new facilities that will function initially as large parking structures for expected increase in use. The absorbers are designed to flexibly accommodate changes in site use and to adapt gradually to the anticipated decline of vehicles, shifting from car sheds to multifunctional public spaces.

New Construction Renovated Program

Renovated Program

Demolished Program

Existing Program

Vacant Lots

ACTIVATE GROWTH

DEPLOY MULTI-SCALE ELEMENTS

The Armature network progresses with the extension of the MLP building over the river, allowing residents of nearby Jaguare more convenient access to the site’s expanding resources, while residents within the site’s favelas are relocated to newly built housing in a participatory process. The Armature along the river, coupled with new purification basins within the existing waterway, becomes a crucial element in the preservation and restoration of the riparian landscape.

The final phase of redevelopment introduces large scale hybrid facilities including new housing, schools, civic center extensions, and mixed-use commercial spaces, as well as tactical scale interventions and infr astructural support. The construction and completion of these elements is facilitated by the Armature’s established physical and social infrastructure. Upon culmination of this phase, full site mobility and utilization is expected.

Armature

Emerging Armature

New Construction

Renovated Program

Demolished Program

Existing Program

Vacant Lots

SITE STRATEGY — DIFFUSE SITE EDGES Modifications to the porosity of the existing boundaries expand access to the site’s interior and integrate it with its surroundings.

CONNECT ACROSS RIVER Formerly a dead zone, the river’s edge becomes activated as the MLP Armature extends across its body to the dense neighbourhoods of Jaguare. A new crossing coming in the form of an elevated framework encourages movement to and from the site by bridging over the existing bands of transportation infrastructure on either side of the water. The basin facilities within the river treat the highly polluted water as well as attract visitors and boost awareness of the systems that allow the site to function efficiently. This hybridized edge condition creates social connections and environmentally driven mechanisms.

STITCH NEW AND EXISTING The strategy utilized along Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal at the northeast edge of the site disintegrates the pre-existing barriers which denied Vila Leopoldina residents free circulation in and out of the CEAGESP Market. By extending the existing grid from the old neighbourhood to integrate the site with its context, programmatic interventions are designed to be more edge friendly and provide a high level of site porosity. Many new structures along Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal have been raised in order to create gateways past the perimeter and usher visitors into public spaces.

REVITALIZE CONNECTIONS The shorter edges of the site, along the north and south sides, welcome outlying transit systems and recreation spaces into the area as well as set the stage for potential Armature extensions to other spaces of the city and beyond. At the north end, the existing train station links up with the new shuttle system, extending the reach of public transportation to the core of the site. The south end repeats the patterns of the Parque Estadual Cândido Portinari with the Armature acting as an ecological pathway branching toward the river. The outward crawl of Armature Urbanism extending to the greater São Paulo region begins at the site boundary.

SITE STRATEGY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; CULTIVATE ADAPTABILITY Anticipate varying density scenarios that encourage flexible programming.

Diagram Legend Armature Urban Contributor (Visitor)

STABILITY

FROM INSIDE OUT

The Urban Armature provides varying types of public space for users and acts as a conduit for site transit. Visitors, or urban contributors, utilize the three levels of Armature and foster growth of the local economy through their interactions with program. Clustered living spaces spread throughout the site make it possible for inhabitants to interact with visitors on a regular basis. Population density is high with multiple areas of intensity in and around the Armature with live, work, and play all blending together within a hybridized urban enivronment.

Local businesses build strength and housing expands. The Armature, once filled with open space and site transit, is filled with active shops and offices as resident living quarters take up the surrounding spaces. The site welcomes the return of urban contributors and the rise of socioeconomic prosperity.

URBAN AMPLIFICATION

CRISIS! POTENTIAL DOWNTURN

The Armature proves itself as an economic driver as the site experiences a greater number of visitors therefore accumulating higher income. This rise in economic well-being creates a larger workforce and work areas intensitfy in density and productivity. Inhabitants maintain their locations on site and also experience a rise in population.

BOOM! ECONOMIC UPSURGE The intensity of program is lost as densities and functions saturate the site. The armature is still defined by its high level of visitor activity and new dynamics are produced as hybrids blend even further. Population density is well beyond that of SĂŁo Paulo but the area still functions smoothly due to the flexibility of program and expandability of structures.

The natural flux in local and global economy coupled with any number of socio-political frictions puts Armature Urbanism to the test as unemployment rates rise and site tourism evaporates. Small clusters of work and living spaces maintain some of their integrity but as the environment deteriorates, conditions become unstable.

REGENERATION From economic driver to residential provider, the Armature makes a shift in function and program just before an economic recession. The structure and resources built into this urban anchor allows for the restructuring of communities within the site. The depletion of site visitors and the major decline in business activity leaves residents with very little. The infrastructure and connectivity of the Armature pulls locals together and breeds new housing typologies along with small, locally supported businesses within its periphery.

Urban Inhabitant (Local Urban Producer (Worker)

Organizational Bias â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Models

Physical Models to test different scenarios and frameworks: 1. Armature, 2. Culture agency, 3. Mass migration, 4. Hybridity and armature, 5. Tech Incubators and entrepreneurs, 6. Multimodal connection

Physical Models to test different scenarios and frameworks: 7. Mass migration, 8. Hybrid and armature, 9. Neoliberal development,, 10: developer undertake, 11. Centralized water system, 12. Student housing adaptive reuse

Organizational Bias Year 4, Fall 2016 Critic / Jesse LeCavalier Assignment 4: Crisis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Multiple Agencies Group work of 5| Duration: 2 weeks

In this phrase, agencies/organizations get together and develop a scheme that addresses the priorities of all agencies, together with the premise: climate change. Taking into account issues such as food shortage, energy shortage, and new modes of working, living, and recreation in 2040, the projects propose hybrid conditions of working, living, moving, and production of food. Ecological layers are also conceived to tie the hybrid fields together.

Existing Site Conditions

Residential Towers

Office Pods

Retails and

Housing

Markets Housing Pods

Elevated Housing

Hydroponic Farms

Recreational Pavilions On The Water

Housing On the Water Utility Facilities

First Iteration of Model showing vertical farms, cultural centers, mat housing, river and river recreational facilities, worker spaces, water and utility tower, and market halls.

Water Towers

Residential Towers

Office and Retail

Utility Facilities Housing and

Housing

Office Pods

Framework

Elevated Transportation

Housing

Algae Skin Office

Electric Tram Cultural Facilities Electric Charging Station

Existing

Cultural Facilities

Train Station

Commericial Spine

Second Iterations of the model showing hybrid conditions to promote co-existence such as living, working, utilities, transportation, cultural facilities, commerical facilities, etc.

Social Activator Homogeneous Dwelling Year 3, Fall 2015 Critic / Anthony Schuman Assignment 2 (Group of two): Horizontal Aggregation of 100 Micro-Units on an Acre

This project takes each unit and elaborate on the potential of each, by making one a housing unit, and another public program unit. The housing units are about compact living, and are arranged in a horizontal manner. The public program units are plugged in between to activate the spaces in between, to accommodate for different social needs and life style needs. By these different activities/ programs that bring people outside and create an interacting community, the larger ambition is to transform how people live together and with each other.

Physical Modelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pavilions

Physical Modelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;without Pavilions

Dwelling Unit

Sectional Perspectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Interactions and Activities

Dwelling Unitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rolling Door Mechanism

Bathing Area Cooking Area

Eating Area Socializing Area

Painting Area

Sleep

Public Program Unit

Storage

Public Program Unitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Spatial Transformation

Ground Floor Plan

Ground Floor Planâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Circulation

Cross Section

Second Floor Plan

Second Floor Planâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Circulation

Longitudinal Section

Sketchesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pavilion Programs

The Thick 2D Indeterminate Futures Year 5, Fall 2018 Critic / Thomas Navin Final Project: Staten Island Site - Trash Talk!

The anaerobic facility and waste management site is situated in Fresh Kills, Staten Island, and explores the principles of landscape urbanism as an organizational system for the evolution of the agrarian culture and the hybrid programs. With proposition "from trash to food", the site is conceived as an extension of James Corner's Fresh Kills Park's design, with productive landscape lies at the heart of the programs. The landscape serves as an organizer for the site hybrid programs, proximity, relationships, and the determinacy/indeterminacy of its programs,and considers the phasing strategy, degree of indeterminacy in the landscape evolution. The project and programs grow over time to accomodate, grow and absorb future functions. In a large scale, the site will become part of the network of organic waste treatment, energy production, as well as site of food production and recreation.

Macro Scale

Macro Scale — Site Program, Stakeholders, and Input/Output Anaerobic Process

INPUT & OUTPUT IN RELATION TO CONTRIBUTORS FRESH KILLS, STATEN ISLAND

WORKERS’ FACILITIES

EMPLOY LOCAL WOKRERS WORKERS FRESH KILLS RESOURCE COLLECTION FOR COMPOST

EDUCATION

RECREATION

VISITORS

EXCESS/BIO PRODUCT

ACTIVITES INTEGRATED WITH FRESH KILLS PARK

LOCAL FARMS

FERTILIZER ANAEROBIC OPERATIONS ON-SITE FARMS TRAVIS NEIGHBORHOOD

RESTAURANTS FOOD

FARMER MARKET ELECTRICITY

NYC NEIGHBORS

Stakeholders and Input/Output Relationship

GRID

Site and Land Use

Stakeholders â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Who Uses the Space?

Macro Scale — Site Landscape as Organizer of Programs in Time

Future Site Activities — Pedestrian path, anaerobic facility, hydroponic farms, platform farms, green houses, energy production

Future Site Activities — Remediation landscape, anaerobic facility, train yard, wind energy, platform farms, wooded area, and depestrian path

Site Phasing Strategy

PHASE 1: Layout nature structure, path and nature patches Add anaerobic facility and truck path.

PHASE 2: Start forming bike path to link farms. Farms: horizontal farm, large nature area, ecological patches. Start create platform farms (Agronica) structures. Create compost facility for farms.

PHASE 3: Create land form for recreation by water, major intersections, and within farms. Start some small recreation by water and planting by the river. Start farm and cooking, educational programs to attract people to site.

Site Plan Strategy

PHASE 4: Start operate energy generator facility and energy field. Farm: create stepping platform farms, expand platform farms, and green houses. Initiate "bosch" parking for cars.

PHASE 5: Create spaces for large festivals and events. Create water scapes and recreational activities by water. Restaurants operate by using organic food grown in farms. Start converting trash transfer train to carry, bring and distribute compost, food, and organic waste to the neighborhood.

PHASE 6: Grow hydroponic farm and algae culture by the water. Add more recreational nodes along pedestrian path. Expand pedestrian paths to link farms to recreational spaces. Create the Department of Sanitation of New York Loop educational programs.

Meso Scale — Building as Landform

Anaerobic Facility — Building Plans

Ground Floor Anaerobic Facility — Building Elevations

Section AA

5 4 C

First Floor Plan

Roof Plan

1. Staff Lounge

6. Visitor Conference Room

1. Foodscape

5. Public Pool

2. Staff Bathroom

7. Operation Room

2. Landscape

6. Landscape

3. Staff Office

8. Digester Lab

3. Public Roof

7. Ecological Picnic Area

4. Staff Conference

9. Public Lobby

4. Sunken Seating

8. Rainwater Retention

5. Visitor Bathroom

10. Public Engagement Area

Section BB

Meso Scale â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Building as Landform

Micro+Meso+Macro Scales as Related to Time

Hybrid program evolution in phases. Hybrid programs includes: anaerobic digestion facility, educational programs, productive landscape, transportation, recreation and park, and energy and compost production.

Temporary City Nomadic Dwelling Year 3, Fall 2015 Critic / Anthony Schuman Assignment 4: Hybrid - FAR 20 - Micro Units Duration: 5 weeks

This project explores the temporary nature of live, work, and play, and how to accommodates for multiple interpretations of these functions. Micro-unit provides a starting point for high density living (FAR20) in 2040, and allows for flexibility and adaptability of uses, in which residents can inhabit, adapt and move on as they wish. Maker spaces are provided to accommodate for the shifting nature of workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gig economy, and recreational spaces are provided to create social groupings, or multi-level associations within high density living. Specifically, the project ponders on these questions: How long do people like to live in micro-units? Will people work from home more in the future? Do they keep moving around depends on work conditions and commissions? How do we accommodate for interactions and create social groupings within high density living? How dense is too dense?

Micro Unit Plan

Micro Unit Section

Site Analysis Collage Journal Square—History and Development

Site Analysis Collage Journal Square—Revival of Art and Culture

Diagram of Micro Unit—Rotated Walls and Enclosure

Site Analysis Collage Journal Square—Positive Changes

Ground Floor Plan

Unit Complex Floor Plan

0' 10' 25'

45'

Section AA

10'

25'

Section BB

45'

Section AAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Detail

Section BBâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Detail

Work Experiences & Internship

Elements At the Met Summer Work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Summer 2016 Research Project Assisting the Architecture Curator — Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

This research follows an initiative by Beatrice Galilee - the architecture curator at the Met. The project appropriates The 14th International Architecture Exhibition directed by Rem Koolhaas with the chosen theme Fundamentals, which dedicated to the celebration of the contemporary, and looks at histories and tries to reconstruct how architecture finds itself in its current situation, and speculates on its future. The research provides an introspection into the Met's collection with the elements' various time frames, scales, materials, and cultural meanings, and aims to showcase the Met in its plethora of architecture collections.

ca. 2630–2611 B.C

ca. 1417–1379 B.C

ca. 560–75

650–750

A.H. 755/A.D. 1354–55

ca. 1319

1581

16th century

ca. 1600

ca. 1711–56

ca. 2150–2010 B.C.

5th–6th century

second half 17th century

18th century

ca. 1780

19th century

probably 19th century

19th century

19th–20th century

ca. 1184–1153 B.C.

ca. 6th–7th century A.D.

15th century style

second half 16th century

last quarter of 16th century

ca. 1675

1600–1700

18th century

18th or 19th century

ca. 1800

ca. 2458–2446 B.C.

ca. 2446–2389 B.C.

ca. 2353–2323 B.C.

ca. 2289–2255 B.C.

ca. 1981–1550 B.C.

ca. 5th century B.C.

380–362 B.C.

380–343 B.C.

332–30 B.C.

ca. 300 B.C.

ca. 2381–2323 B.C.

completed by 10 B.C.

dated A.H. 1119/A.D. 1707

ca. 1478–82

1506–15

ca. 1547–48

1680

ca. 1682–84

1695–1700

ca. 1720 or later

Timeline of the Elements — Walls, Doors, Windows, Columns, Period Rooms

1801

1804

ca. 1810–18

19th century

ca. 1905–15

1931

1933

1991

late 19th century

late 19th–early 20th century

1910

1915

ca. 1923

1935–43

1933

1969–71

1989, printed 1991

1882–84

second half 19th century

19th–20th century

late 19th–early 20th century

1900

ca. 1905

1908–9

1915

1930–31

1931

dated 533–43

ca. 6th century

late 10th century

1350–1400

early 15th or 19th century

Qianlong period (1736–95)

1765–67

1879–82

1905

2013

1748

ca. 1768–72, with later additions

1765–66, remodeled 1769–71

1763–71

1766–69

ca. 1774, with later additions

ca. 1785, with later additions

ca. 1810

1912–15

1989

Breaking the Diagram Winter Intership at OPerA Studio, Brooklyn | 2016 Task: research stage, design development and graphic visualization for the project reconsidering the new zoning law and policy in East New York, Brooklyn.

The project takes East New York's upzoning event as a starting point to reconsider what can be done better in East New York. Beginning with studying the new massing and facades along Myrtle avenue and Fourth avenue in Brooklyn, outlining different variations that zoning law can take shape in East New York. My role in this project is identifying the typology, problems associating with building massing that adheres to zoning law, and ideas of how to take advantage of the zoning guidelines into something more exciting and socially integrated.

East New York Location

Building Form Study

Streetscape and Facade Study

Initial Concept: New Typology with Work and Live Integration

Zoning Diagram

Block Variations in Relation to Zoning Law

Strategy A Block

Strategy B Strip

St. Mark House Summer Internship at OPeraA Studio, Brooklyn, New York Summer 2017 Type of Project: Residential Renovation Task: Model Making, 3D Modelling, Graphic

The project involves a complete renovation of a house in Brooklyn. The house features a double wall core which allows for the rest of the space to flow freely, and a rooftop space with garden. In this project, I mostly involves in making the physical model, 3d modelling for physical model making, and graphic visualization.

Residential Renovation Summer Internship at OPeraA Studio, Brooklyn, New York Summer 2017 Type of Project: Residential Renovation - Construction Document

I envolved in making and refining the DOB Set for the Wyckoff Project to be submitted to the Department of Building in New York City. The project invovles site survey, remodelling the existing conditions, as well as adding new features for renovation.

Research

Reclaiming Newark Vacant Lots MIP 652 - GIS

Year 3, Fall 2015 Professor / Megan Marini Group work of two

Currently, Newark only has 11 farms, which can feed 0.074% of Newark food demand. This research projects asks questions about self-sufficiency in urban farming in Newark: what happen if we turn 50% or 100% of all vacant lots in Newark into farms, what are the economic yields and capacity of these farms, and what are the social dimensions they facilitate. By this exploration the project aims to understand about resiliency of urban farming, the network of farms and facilities that support it, the interrelated transportation network, potential human resources and economic values yield when implementing this model.

Covege of Existing Farms

Vacant Lots and Existing Farms in Newark

Framework

Research Pill Logistics Arch 534 - History of Architecture Technology Year 3, Spring 2016 Professor / Jesse LeCavalier Group work of two: Graphic Layout, Writing

This paper looks at pills as concentrated pieces of technology. The understanding of their physical attributes, designs, packaging and logistics of production and distribution, policy and procedures, as well as their illegal economic strata help us understand how pharmaceutical contents are designed, manipulated, and packaged to become familiar, standardized and attested objects that assimilate into our daily lives. The range of exploration includes, but is not limited to: pharmaceutical marketing, advertisement, color theory, tablet design, and consumption. With these findings, we aim to understand how its consumption affects our interactions and perceptions of our environment...

Full Article http://issuu.com/chautran6/docs/01_tran_veligurskaya_final_paper_pi/1

Matrix| lCapsules Capsulesand andTablets Tablets as as aa Logistical Logistical Pharmaceutical Matrix PharmacueticalMicrotechnology: Microtechnology:

Oval

Diamond

5,6 & 8 side

Rectangle

Round

Square

Triangle

52 James Street Year 2, Spring 2015 Critic / Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi Two student group project

This project asks to design a front and back faรงade for 52 James Street. Taken from the context of surrounding row houses, defamiliarization was employed as a strategy to reconfigure and recombine familiar elements such as color patterns, textures, opening capacities and bay windows. Surrounding facades were drawn, and then overlapped, to provide the defamliarized openings for the studied faรงades. Color and texture were also taken into consideration, to provide the faรงade with both smooth and rough surfaces. These elements, when combined, serve as a collage which is both familiar and unfamiliar.

Front facade

Defamiliarizing row house context - by laying surrounding facades, and gradually lowering image quality to study familiar colors and textures

Back facade

Facades of surrounding row houses

Study of opening capacities of surrounding row houses, and defamiliarizing by overlaying them in different positions

Picking front and back facades based on 40% - 60% rule asked by the assignment, 40% opening for the front facade, and 60% opening for the back facade

Drawings and Sketches

1. Still Life (pencil) 2. Still Life 2 (charcoal) 3. Still Life 3 (pencil) 4. Sleepy (pencil) 5. Art Class (pencil)