Dustin Chan
Selected Works
Portfolio Inventory Resume A Personal Statement B Selected Visual Works: C
Sponge Project M: LightHouse Balance Embrace Gateway Multi-Story Container Home
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. . . . . Project Programming, Analytical Research, Render Spring 2012 . Arch 201 . 4 Weeks . Instructor: Luis Longhi. . . . . . . Digital & Physical Model building, Render Fall 2012 . Arch 321 . 1 Week . Instructor: Kris Palagi . . . . . . . Design Thinking: Material Use &Investigation Design Thinking: Natural Ventilation Fall 2012 . Arch 341 . 4 Weeks . Instructor: Judith Stilgenbauer . . . . . . Spring 2014 . Arch 342 . 3 Weeks . Instructor: Mirelle Turin . . . . . . Energy Generation, Project Programming Spring 2015 . Arch 692 . 1 Week . Instructor: Martin Despang . . Leadership Role & Coordination, Render, Model Building Fall 2014
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Instructor: Amy Anderson
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University of Hawaii: Campus Housing Operations, Intern Architect, 2014 - 2015
University of Hawai'i, Manoa, 2008 - 2012 School of Architecture, 2010 - 2012, 2014 - Present Bachelor of Environmental Design Doctor of Architecture Degree Candidate
Production of as-built drawing sets and 3D models for restoration & renovation, site measurements etc. Field work includes but not limited to measurements, picture cataloging, and scheduling.
Maryknoll High School, 2004 - 2008
University of Washington: Campus Engineering, Intern Architect, 2013 Production of as-built drawing set for restoration & renovation, site measurements etc. Field work includes but not limited to logging ballards, light posts, and storm drains in the database.
First Hawaiian Bank, Money Processor, 2009 - 2012 Count and verify customer transactions which include large cash amounts and confidential information handling using judgment and discretion while maintaining an efficient, quick, and accurate pace.
Resume
University of Washington, 2013, winter - fall
Skills & Certifications Chinese (Spoken) Architectural Programs Rhino Revit 3DS Max AutoCAD Microsoft suite (Incl. Visio) Model-making Management 230, U.Wash
Adobe Photoshop Indesign Illustrator Data Organization HURRIPLAN Resilient Building Design for Coastal Communities
A References Dana Yoshimura, Assistant Director of Housing at the University of Hawaii, 808-551-
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Berg, Facilities Architect at University of Washington, 206-396-4775 James Kaneshiro, Manager at Hawaiian Bank Money Processing Center, 844-3881
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2733 Dow St, Honolulu, HI 96817 (808) 398 - 1680 Dustin3@hawaii.edu
"Describe a place you have visited, lived or worked in that has inspired your interest in architecture, and explain why." There is not a singular piece of architecture that inspires me to create. I am not one of those people who has defining moments. The "moment" that directed my pursuit of architecture is a composition of multiple thoughts and events in my life. At an early age I realized Hawaii's outlook is very conservative. Hawaii does not show interest in modern architecture, most of the houses are plantation style or have replicated plans. I would like to take my ideas that I learn from UW and develop, as the next 50 years will require the intercommunication between the United States and Asia. Escaping the conservative thinking of Hawaii to seize an opportunity in expanding my horizons in the world would trickle down to my architecture. For everything is relative; everyone and everything is connected on some level. In the 5th grade I attended a class sleepover at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, after hours we were given a tour of the museum but I distinctly remember the structural nature of the Hawaiian huts. The height of the hut was catered to trap as much cool air as possible, yet leave enough space left to allow swift airflow across the columned structure; following the principle: cool air sinks and hot air rises. The essence of the final project for Arch 201 was to create a house complementing an assigned case study, Casa de Blas by Alberto Campo Baeza, a Spanish architect famous for his essentialist architecture. Architect Baeza uses the idea of hut and cave or covered and enclosed structure to create space. Reminiscing on feeling from the hut from my field trip, I designed LightHouse, my final project for Arch 201, which sat on a hill, but was supported by columns, that cool the ground floor, emulating the hut.
Personal Statement
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With Aurora I imagined a place opposite of Hawaii, thus I chose the frozen sanctuary of Denmark. A polar extremity of Hawaii, Aurora challenged me to think of problems from how the design can succeed by complimenting or contrasting in this environment to the necessity of a pocket between the glass as an insulation tool. Finally I returned to Hawaii with Embrace, which is a theatre located in Manoa Valley, near the University. Embrace emulates interlocking hands, captured from the moment two people touch for the first time. The canopy has openings in the steel that allows the heat to escape from the building through a heat vacuum known as the stack effect. Emulating Hawaii's strong sense of community, Embrace gathers, reminds, and refreshes the community of those emotions first moments hands touch. Eventually I will start my own firm, but that is just one future that I am aiming for. Architecture is not just a job, it is a passion. Following the examples set by master craftsmen, like Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies Van Der Rohe, is not enough, their ideas must be redesigned to fit the current market. Creativity changes with each generation, but ultimately creativity is accepting the redefining of rules that have been set by society to build something greater. So if someone asked me for the defining moment where I knew I wanted to do architecture, I could not safely say there is one sole inspiration for architecture. It is culmination of growing on the past and looking towards the future that is yet to be built.
Selected Visual Works
Sponge
Interior rendering of midrise units.
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I headed the electronic model building on Revit, rendered in Rhino, and pieced together half the renders with Vray and Photoshop, and built the basswood model. Located at 550 Makapu'u Ave, Honolulu, Sponge is a product of the University of Hawai'i mixresident faculty housing. Sponge greets users with the mid-rise units, diffused by a porous elevation. Guided by refracted air and light, Sponge enables its porous theme with checkered residencies and vegetation & plantscapes. Porosity continues towards the residents, folding University subsidized and market rate residents emulating housing in Finland and Denmark. Perspective rendering of Sponge.
Interior rendering overlooking Waikiki at night.
Stemming from an educational facility, Sponge also takes on challenges such as water reclamation, sewage reformatting, and bio-gas as renewable systems. In Hawaii, average cost $.20 per kwh (family of 3 $150-October) and $4.034.86 per 1,000 Gallons up to 30,000 (an average family of 3 uses 13,000 Gallons locally, ~$75/ month). Having on-site sewage and water treatment greatly reduces the toll on the island's water supply. Estimating from Energy Star, we need about 40 ft 2 per unit. Bio-gas harvesting is funded compost and food waste from the Community College's culinary school to fuel the bio-gas plant used for cooking.
Midrise 1st floor
Water reclamation is enabled through the collection of sewage in a digester, filtered through constructed plantscapes, then a secondary drip system filter, for reuse either as potable water or as irrigation, car washing, or collected in a pond. Residents lead by example, garbage is divided into compost, recyclables, and trash.
Perspective linework of typ. Midrise unit group
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Project M: LightHouse Project M is a case study on Alberto Campo Baeza's Casa de Blas in southern Barcelona, Spain. Alberto Campo Baeza views light as the determining factor in the Architecture. LightHouse emulates the interplay of light and gravity of Casa de Blas. The gaps running through the side and center of the house intensifies the light depending on the time of day. Emulating Baeza's idea of "cave & hut� architecture, the main mass becomes the cave, and the top and bottom floors becomes a hut. A cave has a minimum of one entry/exit with select openings for light to filter through much like the cave in LightHouse. A hut has a minimum of one "wall" which creates a shelter; the top floor uses the floor as that wall while the bottom uses the mass's floor and the ground itself as the "wall".
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Elevation Render
Project M: LightHouse
View from rooftop terrace.
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The rooftop terrace provides an entrancing view of the surrounding Australian islands. the meditation room at the front uses the support beams to partition the light as if a pair of hands are supporting the upper level. Light and shadow flirt within the white interior. The carpark is encased in the six beams that support the front of the house while the landscape clenches the rear in place. Openings in the ceiling, floor, and walls intensify light as it reflects off the white interior.
Materials: Museum board: White, Black, Gray (Textured) Plexiglas
Varying intensities of light concentrated through center strip.
Exterior view of meditation room.
Perspective view of meditation room.
Tension-Compression Diagram
Balance
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As opposed to all other classmates who used concrete to anchor a lighter cantilever, Balance uses the concrete as a counter weight to a wood anchor behind the arm. Balance tests the principles compression and tension in rigid materials. The concrete up front is a weight and utilizes compression in wood to support the concrete and a frame to hold the cantilever to express tension. The frame is further supported by wires and cables through tension to hold the front block in place.
Materials: Wood Cement 1/4" Threaded Metal Rod Fishing Wire
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Concept: Interlocking fingers
Perspective Render of stage and leisure area.
Embrace
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Embrace emerged from the moment hands are about to interlock. The brief moments that allow people to experience the first moments. Coupled with the freedom emulating a park, Embrace advertises itself as not only a theatre extension but an extension of the community. Embrace not only calls for communal gatherings, but the structure holding the canopy that emulates fingers also serves as a system to release heat known as the "Stack" effect. Stack Effect Diagrammatic Section.
Energy Storage Battery Private:
Residential Hotel
Concept Commercial: Office Public:
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Wind Flow Diagram
Gateway Gateway stretches the boundaries of typical skyscrapers and modern uses of heating and cooling systems because there are no exterior windows. Surrounding towers are also energy HUBs, energy is stored and shared with the community to nullify the brawl in increasing prices for energy. Gateway utilizes the layout of neighboring buildings to absorb and maximize airflow; the relatively symmetrical footprint is contrasted by its organic layout.
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Gap utilizes Venturi effect by having small openings where wind enters the building and larger openings for interior spaces.
3” Electric frosted glass to maintain privacy for interior users
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Lazer light technology saves 70% energy consumed by LEDs and can be disposed of in the rubbish safely.
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X/Y Axis Rotation Glass planted into floor to resist against hurricane transported debris in case louvers and mesh fail.
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Louver Detail 3-Axis louvers close when winds get too strong or during hurricane.
Interior Section Typ. Ventilation Diagram.
Ceiling openings as windows to cool units and building down.
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HOW GATEWAY STAYS COOL: Gateway uses three methods to control airflow, 0 32 64 128 the first is 0 its kinetic louvers, which moves on x,y, & z axis', allowing full closure during high winds. Second, a bamboo kevlar mesh that stands between the louvers and curtain walls. Last, a curtain wall directs wind up to a gap between the ceiling and the next level above (see interior sky window detail, left).
Inspired by thermo electric flashlight (left).
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Solar Heat is absorbed from the sun.
Conduction pieces convert the differencial between temperatures into energy Wind Cooling to increase the difference Interconnect of positive (hot) in temperature, and negative (cool) generating energy
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Thermo Electric Peltier Panel Generator Shade Section. Heat - Cool = Temperature Difference Energy
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HOW GATEWAY GENERATES POWER: The solar shade also acts as a primary energy generating source. Peltier panels absorb heat from solar radiation and convert the differential in temperature between the hot and cool sides (see section-diagram, left). With the advancement in technology the panels are able to out generate solar panels, thus providing more energy per panel.
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Multi-Story Container Home
Night Shot of 1':1/4" Model.
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The multi-Story container homes were designed to be a quickly constructible solution to the growing Honolulu population. Each floor can be taken apart and utilized elsewhere. As part of the model building team, I led the team in designing accessible walkways such as stairs, elevator shafts, and accessible paths. After completing the walkways, I proceeded to work with other Doctorate students to stain and assemble three models, 1":100', 1":1/4", and 1":1/2". By selecting my teammates, we completed all three models within a week.
Ecoshade was used as an alternative to a roof beceause it could be opened under normal circumstances and closed under heavy rain and wind conditions, such as in a storm. Ecoshade rendering.
Simplified stairs on the model.
Multi-Story Container Home
Rendering interior space of one floor.
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The interior render (top) shows the cooperation between an extended family. The renderings were made in Revit and finished in photoshop. The 1/2� scale model was created to grasp scale on the physical plane. The exterior single floor unit was solely done in Revit. It shows the ability of the container homes to be moved and have a Ecoshade roof structure added if the users choose to.
Materials: Basswood MDF
Rendering of a single floor.
1':1/2" scale model
Selected Creative Media These examples consist of are compositions of extra ingredients that I combined to put a new spin on known dishes. These dishes were inspired by projects that substitute or reuse a material to create something different yet equally appealing.
Lemon-Sochu Sashimi Swordfish 1 shot Sochu 1/3 Lemon, Juiced Sesame Oil
After an eventful night, I had some leftover Sochu (Korean Vodka). It was usesd to sanitize and flavor the fish.
Kimchi Corned-Beef Sandwhich 3 Slices Corned-Beef Homemade Kimchi 2 Slices, Toasted Garlic Wheat bread Swiss chese Russian Sauce
After trying my hand in pickling, and no access to suaerkraut, This is asian twist to a classic Ruben.
Pig Belly Benedict 4 slices Pig Belly w/ Crispy Fat 2 Poached eggs w/ Cayenne Pepper Mixed Nalo Greens 1 Slice Wheat bread 2 Mini golden potatoes
This dish uses leftover stewed pig's belly instead of Salmon or Crab.
Berry Glazed Lemonbar
Poundcake Ice Cream Sandwich
French Toast Poundcake
Berry Glaze Pureed Blue, Rasberries Sugar
1 Toasted Slice Poundcake 1 Tbl. Spoon Mint-Oreo Ice Cream
3 slices Poundcake 1 Egg, beaten Cinnamon, to taste
Lemon Filling 3 Lemons, Juiced Crust Flour Margrine or Butter