PORTFOLIO 2017 Daniel Chen
To My Reader
My name is Daniel Chen and I am a senior studying architecture at Northeastern University. This portfolio is meant to serve as a reflection of my experiences in school and professionally. Over the five years of my architectural career I have become deeply fascinated by the ecological nature of architecture and landscape. Fundamentally, architecture and landscape architecture are practices in changing the spaces we inhabit, which ultimately influence our relationship and perception of the environment and of our own culture. These primary layers of ecology, the enviornmental and the social, are the dynamics that drive my designs and passion for architecture. Design is not only a process of creation but also a process of understanding. The work you will see in my portfolio will reveal the methods in which I try to understand complex ecologies and try to design buildings and landscapes that fortify, adapt, and integrate with existing environmental and social systems.
Selected Work
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Boston Seaport Housing
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Maverick Mills Urbanism
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Berlin Baugruppe
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Dewey Square Analysis
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Urban Neighborhood Study
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Fire Regime Shift
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Selected Works from Goody Clancy
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Site Photo
01 Boston Seaport Housing Addressing Urban Segregation and Housing Inequality Live - Learn - Work Historically the Seaport district of South Boston has served as a platform for both indsutry and shipping. This carries with it generations of primarily working class households and some middle class households. With the anticipation of General Electric’s Headquarters moving to the Seaport district in Boston, the neighborhood has witnessed a rise in luxury condominiums and hotels along it’s northern waterfront. The rise of new housing necessitates a democratic distribution of affordable housing in order to eliminate the consequences of classist urban segregation. This project explores the potential of a mixed- use, live/work housing typology to create an architecture that self-subsidizes its units, empowers residents of lower economic standing, and provides an environment for existing and new communities to coexist. The project is not only a study in an architectural manifestation but it is also an exploration of an operational framework for the architecture to benefit the neighborhood and its community.
Boston Seaport Housing
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Land Use Conversion
Parcel Location
The designated site is a large surface parking lot in the Seaport District. Given the hard and barren condition of the site the design must convert it into an iniviting landscape
The parcel for the design is at the heart of the site and comes with a unique set of conditions and responsibilities.
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Pathways
Views
The parcel is hugged by two major streets: Summer St. and Congress St. Both present programmatic opportunities as the former is raised two stories and the latter is not.
The main views that this parcel has to offer are of the harbor, the ICA, downtown Boston, and south boston.
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Understanding the Nature of the Site The parcel must negotiate two busy streets and act as the heart of the site. It is both a connector and a destination.
The first move is to redirect the flow of pedestrian traffic on Congrees St. into the parcel by creating an open courtyard framed by the building’s mass.
The second move is to extend the raised plane of Summer St. into the parcel to create another active platform for street program.
The third move is to connect the two street levels. This is facilitated by splitting the building and creating a path through the heart of the site, integrating the building with the function of the landscape.
The result is a two tower building that is integrated with the landscape to create inviting public spaces and increase pedestrian mobility. 8
An Active Footprint The challenge of negotiating two streets of different levels presented an opportunity to create multiple streefronts on Congress and Summer St. to house local businesses, community learning spaces, and “startup incubators” like the Cambridge Innovation Center. The underpass of Summer St. also provided the perfect space for a fabrication center dedicated to local craftsmen like the Artisan’s Asylum in Sommerville. Incorporated into the underpass is an event space with retail stalls for pop-up festivals and markets. 9
812 SF
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Housing for All Although the floor plans could have been designed to be more dense with smaller apartments, a micro-unit approach to housing only accommodates the needs of transiet populations. This project instead has a wide range of apartment units in order to accommadte households of different sizes. This will foster a diverse community of long term residents for the Seaport district.
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Socially Responsible Architecture The result is an architecture that accomodates the needs of constituents from various socio-economic standing while also enabling them to be active memebers of the Seaport community. The operational framework for the building is to allow profits from retail, office, and industrial spaces to subsidize the residential units while maintaining a minimum of 50% market rate units. With the current market the building would still generate a revenue stream of at least $10 million a year while growing the human and cultural capital of the Seaport neighborhood.
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02 Maverick Mills Urbanism Designing Environmentally Reslient and Sustainable Communities The site for this study is a 12 acre lot located in East Boston. The site was located in a unique position between two important bodies of water, Constitution Beach and the Chelsea River. On the site is the first reinforced concrete building ever constructed in Massachusetts. The building formerly operated as a cotton mill. Today it is a repurposed warehouse space for a Planet Fitness and other various retail stores. The rest of the site is left as surface parking. The site’s proximity to the water leaves it exposed and vulnerable to flooding. Given this condition the imperative of this project was to study how water could drive the design of a small, dense, urban community. Elements of the design are inspired by local ecologies and landscapes that interact with flooding and provide platforms for human activity. Ultimately the project is an exploration in terraced landscapes as a strategy for urban waterfront neighborhoods.
Maverick Mills Urbanism
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CHARLES RIVER ESPLAN
Scenic Waterway Cultural and social significa
REGIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE GREATER BOSTON AREA
SITE
Charles River Esplanade WATER MANAGEMENT AND RELATIONSHIP
FLOOD ANALYSIS OF EAST BOSTON
Low Tide High Tide 2.5’ Flood
REGIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE GREATER BOSTON AREA
5’ Flood
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WATER MANAGEMENT AND RELATIONSHIP BACK BAY FENS Water Collector Geese HQ
Back Bay Fens
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Industrial Landscape
Example A shows how an industrial landscape in East Boston is not prepared for a 5’ flood. In this case, the flat zone will be inundated with water, despite being on a steep ridge on the edge of the river
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BELLE ISLE MARSH Water Absorber Wildlife Habitat
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Ecological Landscape
Example B shows how an ecological landscape (salt marsh) in East Boston
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absorbs incoming water and prevents further spread.
BACK BAY FENS Water Collector Geese HQ
CHARLES RIVER ESPLANADE BELLE ISLE MARSH Water Absorber Wildlife Habitat
Belle Isle Marsh
Low Tide
High Tide
Scenic Waterway Cultural and social significance
Common Species Great Blue Heron Snowy Egret Glossy Ibes Mosquitos Mice FLOOD ANALYSIS OF EAST BOSTON Coyotes Humans Salt Water Cordgrass Saltmarsh Rush Low Tide Glasswort CHARLES RIVER ESPLANADE Scenic Waterway High Tide Mussels Cultural and social significance Oysters 2.5’ Flood Blue Crab 5’ Flood Striped Bass Diamondback Terrapin Worms
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Landscape FLOOD ANALYSIS OF EAST BOSTON
5’ Flood Zones Large Scale Hydrological Zones Site of Intervention Flora Fauna
Gradient of Hydrological Systems Like all cities, Boston is host to a gradient of different water management systems with varying scales, flows, and functions. The three primary hydrologic conditions that inspired this study were the Back Bay Fens, the Esplanade, and Belle Isle Marsh. Each of these showcases the capacity of constructed and natural landscapes to manage water, provide spaces for habitat and recreation, and form civic identity.
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Reconnect
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Proposed
Translating Site Strategies The goal of this masterplan is to allow water to infiltrate the site by converting the landscape into a terraced topography. This would allow better management of storm water runoff and gradual sea level rise. To ensure the success of the terraced landscape, several tactics were deployed in order to transform the site into a vibrant community that celebrates the resources provided by water. These tactics primarily included the preservation of historic architecture, reconfiguring site circulation, and reprogramming open spaces. 19
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Constructing Topography The practice of cut and fill is deeply embedded in the landform history of East Boston. The proposal for this site is to cut into low areas of the site and deliberately introduce water into the site. Simultaneously the material displaced from digging into the site will be utilized to reconstruct the topography, creating terracing pathways down to the water and elevating the periphery to protect surrounding neighborhoods.
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Integrated Program While the landscape can absorb rising sea levels and provide outdoor activities ranging from fishing in the summer to ice skating in the winter, the building program must also serve the community. One program that is central to this urban scheme is to repurpose the industrial maverick mills into a learning center/ gallery/research facility. This is intended to enlighten the community about their unique relationship with the water and house research on productive, ecological landscapes used for urban settings. 21
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20-50 year 5 foot flood condition Future landscape in 100+ years
100yr, 10 Foot flood Condition Future landscape in 200+ years
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Communion of Landscape and Building The architecture is designed to be rooted within the terraced landscape. This is manifested in different ways. At the core of the design the building has a sacrifical level that can absorb an extreme 100 year storm event or be given up to waterscape if sea levels continue to rise for the next 200 years. Besides anticipating changing environmental conditions, the buildings are massed in a way to frame the landscape and open up to the terracing platforms, creating a continuity between interior and exterior space. 23
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03 Berlin Baugruppe (Co-Housing) Modern Housing in a Historic Urban Neighborhood The “baugruppe� is a housing typology that is common in Berlin and other parts of Europe. The baugruppe is no different than the typical dense apartment building typology in physical terms. Rather the baugruppe is an architectural manifestation of a social phenomenon when a community of individuals coalesce to create a home that caters to their unique lifestyles and needs. This is accomplished by incorporating spaces to accomodate community gatherings, family businesses, and shared outdoor space. The site for this project is set in Pankow Berlin, an area that suffered little from WWII and still embodies the urban and architectural legacy of the Hobrecht plan from the 19th century. After learning of baugruppe typology the goal of this project was to provide a community complex that would accomodate a set of diverse residents while responding to the historical urban context of Berlin. Sustainability was also incorporated into the design of the building. Inspired by the passive house trend in Berlin and studies in building lifecycle analysis some considerations were made in the structure of the building. A structural system was designed with specific materials in order to lower the building’s embodied energy without compromising its thermal performance.
Berlin Baugruppe (Co-Housing)
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During the initial massing phase my colleague and I developed a simple massing strategy to complete the urban corner then adjusted the building forms to refine the definition of space and movement through the site while also engaging the two building masses with one another.
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Framing Urban Space After establishing the initial building mass and location my partner and I dedicated ourselves to an individual building to develop independently. Given the nature of the program and the adjacency to an active street, I used this as an opportunty for the architecture to create an inviting urban space for the residents and neighborhood community to share.
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Site Photo: Federal Reserve Bank
04 Dewey Square - Revealing the Strata Architectural Representation The focus of this exercise was to hone my graphic skills in representing architectural information. The site I chose to analyze is Dewey Square due to the unique adjacencies of program above and below ground.
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Site Photo: Jamaica Pond
05 Urban Neighborhood Study A Case Study of Jamaica Plain and the Consequences of Urban Development on Existing Communities Originally an essay, the following graphics attempt to illustrate a summary of the paper and provide a reference for discussing the consequences of contemporary urban development practices and what can be improved. The following is an abstract and excerpt from my essay. Abstract: “The narrative of urban growth and decline is one that reflects the migration of people in and around a metroplitan region. The issues that stem from gentrification, processes by which one population or group displaces another, have been reiterated throughout time. Boston is an old city that has gone through many phases of evoultion. Today it is a complex web of indivudally unique neighborhoods that all contribute to the character of Boston. Each of these neighborhoods have experienced some sort of population migration due to different urban forces. One neighborhood in particular, Jamaica Plain, is in a critical point of urban development with many projects on the drawing board.” Excerpt: “Perhaps it is possible to design a neighborhood that promotes the mutual ownership and participation in urban space so that different groups can coalesce in a shared identity of belonging within that community.”
Urban Neighborhood Study
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27%
$4,000.00/month
of households make more than 100k a year and can afford to live in Boston comfortably.
$3,500.00/month $3,000.00/month $2,500.00/month
$2,000.00/month of households make less than $1,500.00/month 100k a year and can’t afford to live in Boston The median annual income in Jamaica Plain is around $55,000.00. This sustainably
makes sense since 54% of Boston’s total population (suffolk county) makes less than 60k a year. This level of income, however, is not nearly enough to sustainably afford living in Jamaica Plain. An annual income of 55k can only sustain $16,500.00 in housing costs a year, or $1,375/month in paying rent. According to these numbers, 54% of Bostons population can realisitically only afford to live in Mattapan.
$4,000/mth $3,600/mth $3,200/mth
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Back Bay
Beacon Hill
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Allston
Brighton
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Jamaica Plain
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In the same year the average rent in Jamaica Plain was $2,214.00/month for a 2.2 bed/unit. At this rate a household in that neighborhood must have had an annual income of around $88,000.00 in order to sustainably afford $26,568.00 of housing costs over the course of the year. Despite having 1/6th of its housing stock dedicated to affordable housing, Jamaica Plain is becoming more and more expensive to live in. Charlestown
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Mission Hill
$1,600/mth
Longwood
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Living Finances in Boston
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Jamaica Plain Housing Stock Approximately 17,000 units
100 Units
Avg. $2,250.00/mth
Subsidized
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In the same year the average rent in Jamaica Plain was $2,214.00/month for a 2.2 bed/unit. At this rate a household in that neighborhood must have had an annual income of around $88,000.00 in order to sustainably afford $26,568.00 of housing costs over the course of the year. Despite having 1/6th of its housing stock dedicated to affordable housing, Jamaica Plain is becoming more and more expensive to live in.
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Longwood
Allston
Brighton
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Hyde Park
Dorchester
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Mattapan
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The median annual income in Jamaica Plain is around $55,000.00. This makes sense since 54% of Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total population (suffolk county) makes less than 60k a year. This level of income, however, is not nearly enough to sustainably afford living in Jamaica Plain. An annual income of 55k can only sustain $16,500.00 in housing costs a year, or $1,375/month in paying rent. According to these numbers, 54% of Bostons population can realisitically only afford to live in Mattapan.
$4,000/mth $3,600/mth $3,200/mth $2,800/mth $2,400/mth $2,000/mth $1,600/mth
55k affordability line
$1,200/mth $800/mth
Recipe for Vibrant Urban Neighborhoods $400/mth
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Chinatown
Leather District
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Beacon Hill
North End
West End
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Fenway
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Mission Hill
Longwood
Allston
Brighton
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Roxbury
Hyde Park
Roslindale
Dorchester
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Mattapan
The most desirable attributes of Jamaica Plain are its most democratic features, namely its abundant amount of park space and its access to public transit that leads directly to downtown. These are the main selling points developers use to sell their new housing projects. Such projects, like Olmsted Place and Serenity, both depend on the democratic urban landscape for their marketability, yet contribute little to their social surroundings and instead create conditions for exclusivity. This is antithetical to the nature of (Rents based on 2012 averages for a 2.2 bedroom apartment) these urban features for they are intended to serve the populous indiscriminately.
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Firefighters Fighting Wildfire in Hawaii
06 Fire Regime Shift Reclaiming Ground and Fortifying Fire Resilience in Hawaiiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lowlands This was an ecological study in the fire regime history of the Big Island of Hawaii. Though a landform created volcanic activity the endemic plant species of the island have lost most, if not all, ancestral characteristics that would make them resilient to regular fires. By the time Westerners had come to the island, Polynesians had already converted the dry lowland forests into seas of grasslands for agricultural production. Since then, these grasslands have been obtained by Parker Ranch and used as pastures for grazing cattle. Wildfires are now common in these areas and are hazardous to human health and encroach on critical habitat zones that harbor unique ecologies. Many fires are started by humans and can be traced back to locations along highways. By locating the moment of incidence one can address and design to the problem. The proposal is to target areas of transportation where humans and grasslands intersect to create ecological buffers that eliminate fire distribution. This first line of defense is necessary for the conversion of the grasslands into more, ecologically rich, dry lowland forests.
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Network Diagram: Pre-Human Settlement Ecology
Volcanic Activity
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Vehicular Circualtion
Rainfall Averages
Solar Radiation Ranges
Agriculture/ Pastures
Non/Perennial Streams
High Fire Risk Areas
Birds
Wind
Rain
Sun
Seeds Alpine Zone Subalpine Zone Volcanoes
Landscape
Montane Mesic Zone
Climate Zone Variation
Lowland Mesic Zone Lowland Dry Zone Infrequent Lava Flow
Fire
Vegetated Ecological Habitat
Proliferation of endemic plant species that are adapted to concentrated small fires and long fire rotations.
Dead Organic Matter
Soil and Nutrients
Plant seeding and Germination
Mapping Ecological Networks In order to address the artificial fire regime on the Big Island an exercise of understanding the ecological systems was conducted. This page highlights historical network of the Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formation and development of habitat. The following page maps the regime shift of the dry lowlands into a fire ecology. It also provides tactics that can be deployed to suppress the current conditions reconvert the dry lowlands back to forests instead of grasslands. 45
Network Diagram: Historic Ecological Evolution and Proposed Intervention
Volcanic Activity
Polynesian Settlement
Agriculture
Sustainable Grazing Rotation
Cattle Ranching
American Colonization
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Nonnative Grasses
Fountain Grass (Pennisetum Setaceum) Broomsedge (Andropogon Virginicus) Molasses Grass (Melinis Minutiflora)
Controlled Fuel Loads
Green Highway Fire Breaks
Accident Limited Human Access
Increased Fuel Bed and Deadto-Live Biomass
Rapid Seeding and Sprouting
Prescribed
Birds
Wind
Rain
Sun
Seeds Alpine Zone Subalpine Zone Volcanoes
Landscape
Montane Mesic Zone
Climate Zone Variation
Lowland Mesic Zone Lowland Dry Zone Infrequent Lava Flow
Fire
Existing Plant Ecological Habitat
Dead Organic Matter
Soil and Nutrients
Return of endemic species and decreased fire potential in lowland dry zones. New productive landscape for agriculture and timber
Managed Recovery after Historic Fire Damage
Ecosystem Population Equalization
Productive landscape
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Timeline of Ecological Change Through a series of phases controlled ecological succession can occur and a desired landscape can be created. Just as the fire-prone grassland is a human construct, so too can the former dry lowland forest be recreated. There is an excess of pasture land for the cattle industry to rotate grazing schedules. Utilizing land in critical areas intiates the transformation the landscape back to a dry forest. This creates a more diverse and ecologically productive landscape, creating conditions for critical habitat and timber harvesting. 49
Water Corridor
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Photo of Goody Clancy Team during Canstruction: Photo by Todd Symonds
07 Selected Works from Goody Clancy Fall 2016 Co-op/Internship Goody Clancy is an award winning architecture firm located in downtown Boston. Their work specializes in historic preservation and renovation. Also within their repertoire is urban and campus masterplanning along with new construction design. It is a mid-sized firm of 70 employees. The most important quality in my experience of this firm however was its strong and supportive office community that encouraged and enabled everyone to work their best and succeed. During my time at Goody Clancy I had the opportunity to work with amazing teams of architects and designers who are dedicated to process of design and openly provide insight in the tradition of sharing and teaching information and skills. Most of my time consisted of working in Revit for the St. Elizabeths project in which the the Department of Homeland Security is relocating offices. Though most of the revit drawings I produced in SD and DD are classified, the process models and study sketches are public information. I also worked directly with two principals and an architect in the development of universal room and floor prototypes for the conversion of historic buildings into Community Living Centers for housing veterans. Besides the two primary roles I played I also assisted in a few design proposals, one of which Goody Clancy won for University of Virginia Brandon Avenue Housing.
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During my time at Goody Clancy a majority of my work focused on the space planning design of office program and MEP uitilities in historic buildings. I would often create sketches in studying optimal locations for shafts and equipment rooms and how these organizations would be expressed in the building through plan, elevation, and perspective. Here is a collage showcasing my process of design through thoughtful sketching. Often I would create a detailed base drawing on top of which layers upon layers of trace would be used to develop different iterations. After meeting with supervisors these would then be translated into Revit.
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Communicating through Models The base for this model had be constructed by interns preceeding myself. However after many trips down to DC the model was in need of repairs. A new and final iteration of the proposed building design had also been completed and I was tasked with repairing the site model along with crafting a new insert model with the new design and a topo that slid into the larger context model. Goody Clancy presented this model to the prestigious Commision of Fine Arts for the final review and approval of design. This model will be on display at the National Building Museum in DC. 57
DANIEL CHEN 49 Priesing Street, Jamaica Plain MA 02130 danyuming88@hotmail.com - 808.747.9765
Education 2017
Northeastern University | Boston
Graduate May
Candidate for B.S. in Architecture Minors in Urban Studies and Urban Landscape Studies GPA: 3.843 - Dean’s List - NURISE Presenter
2015
Humboldt Universitat | Berlin
Jan - May
Berlin Study Abroad - Architecture
Professional Experience 2016
Goody Clancy | Boston | Architecture, Planning, Preservation
July - Dec Intern
St. Elizabeth’s West Campus Renovation - Washington D.C. MD - GSF Worked with the digital lead in updating/editing the Revit model for the project. Developed area plan studies for program fits and MEP coordination. Conducted elevational and perspective studies for different design options. Crafted a physical model for a presention to the Commission of Fine Arts. National Institute of Building Sciences/Veterans Affairs Developed universal room and floor prototypes that can be used in the conversion of existing buildings into Community Living Centers. UVA Student Housing Proposal - Charlottesville, Virginia - GSF Created a quick 3D sketchup model for sketching perspective hand renderings over. Was responsible for diagramming plan and section drawings and editing the presentation.
2014
Ann Beha Architects | Boston | Higher Ed, Civic
July - Dec Intern
MIT Main Building Renovation - Cambridge, MA - 97,000 GSF Conducted field measurements and updated floor plans, RCP’s, and interior elevations in Revit during CA. East Asian Library Renovation - Washington University, St. Louis - 8,060 GSF Designed the interior furniture layout for the renovation of the East Asian Library in Washington University’s January Hall. United States Embassy - Athens, Greece - 240,650 GSF Created a detailed 3D SketchUp site model along with the three embassy buildings for conducting massing, circulation, and enclosure studies. Coordinated with consultants to compile research into a single report.
Skills AutoCad
References Goody Clancy
SketchUp
Goody Clancy Principal zsuzsanna.gaspar@goodyclancy.com 617.850.6566
Revit
ABA
Photoshop Indesign
Biking Guitar Book Binding Photography
Ann Beha Architects (formerly) MSR Architecture (current) Project Architect ian@msrdesign.com 612.359.3253
Ann Beha Architects Project Architect jm@annbeha.com 617.216.1610
Model Making
Cooking
Ian Ford
Jackie Mossman
Drawing
Interests
Goody Clancy Project Manager jim.clifford@goodyclancy.com 617.850.6551
Zsuzsanna Gaspar
Rhino
Illustrator
Jim Clifford
NEU
Sam Choi
Northeastern University Professor/Faculty sa.choi@neu.edu 857.756.3504
Dan Adams
Northeastern University Associate Professor da.adams@neu.edu DanielAdams@Landing-Studio.com 617.955.4569