Winston Yuen Architecture Portfolio 2019

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Winston Yuen

Yale School of Architecture Design Portfolio


Résumé

Winston Gee Kong Yuen MArch, BHSc, EDAC

winston.yuen@yale.edu (475)449-0082

Education

2016 - Present

2011 - 2016

Work Experience 2017

2017 - Present

Yale University, New Haven, CT

Yale School of Architecture, Masters of Architecture

University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

Faculty of Medicine, Bachelor of Health Science (Hons.) Faculty of Environmental Design, Minor in Architecture

Student Architect, GEC Architecture, Calgary, AB Construction documents, 3D modeling, diagramming, rendering, and competition work Social Media Assistant, Yale University , New Haven, CT Promoted social standing of YSoA and increased school’s Instagram account to 50.0k followers

2014 - 2015

Student Researcher, Morris Lab, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB Investigated novel biological medications with implications to treating multiple myeloma patients with less invasive and more effective therapy

2012 - 2014

Student Researcher, Waterhouse Lab, Snyder Institute For Chronic Disease, Calgary, AB Identification and elucidation of rare disease-causing genetic disorder. Research results presented at multiple symposiums, in addition to internal medicine clinicians at the the Alberta Children’s Hospital

Certifications 2015

Airborne Infections Control Course, Cambridge, MA T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University Evidence-Based Design Accreditation Certification (EDAC), Concord, CA The Center for Health Design

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Teaching Experience 2019

Teaching Fellow, Systems Integration, Yale University Professors: Martin Finio, Pierce Reynoldson et al.

2018

Teaching Fellow, Visualizaion III, Yale University Professors: Brennan Buck + Michael Szivos Teaching Assistant, Intro to Commercial Real Estate, Yale University Professor: Kevin Gray

2017

Publications/ Project Features

Competitions/ Honors

Skills

Teaching Assistant, Computation Analysis Fabrication, Yale University Professor: Amir Karimpour

Issue Co-Editor, Paprika! Vol 4, Issue 11 - Just What the Doctor Ordered: Health and Architecture, 2019 Project Feature, YSoA Retrospecta 41 Student Journal, 2017 Project Features, YSoA Retrospecta 40 Student Journal, 2016

Arts Graduate Scholarship, 2017 Emerging Young Architects and Planners Competition, Edmonton, AB—1st Place, 2016 O'Brien Continuing Scholarship, 2014 Markin USRP Research Studentship, 2012 University of Calgary Dean’s List, 2011-2016 Rhino, SketchUp, Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, Revit Grasshopper, Processing, Arduino Real Estate Due Diligence, Pro-Forma Scientific Research and Writing

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Contents


Contents

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RĂŠsumĂŠ

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Design Projects 1 Clason Point Ferry Terminal

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Ohne Leitbild Bushwick Branch Library Yale Building Project Barn(E): The Electric Barn

Drawing/Visualization 6 Paprika!: Just What the Doctor Ordered

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Architectural Drawing Formal Analysis Rome: Continuity and Change Systems Integration

Office 11 Ti'nu Affordable Housing Computation/Fabrication 12 Plutonian Wall

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Pneumatic Wall Kaleidoscopic Transformations

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Design Projects


Design Projects

A collection of studio projects at Yale University with a variety of program, typology, and scale from urban schemes to temporary installations. Built collaborative projects include the 2017 Yale Building Project, a prefabricated two-family residence, and Barn(E), a design/build parklet competition.

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Design Projects

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Clason Point Ferry Terminal The Bronx, NY

Studio III, Yale University Critic: Emily Abruzzo Fall 2017

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Clason Point Ferry Terminal

Design Brief

With Bill De Blasio stepping in as the mayor of New York City, municipal transporation networks aim to add ferry services to all five buroughs. In the South Bronx, the location chosen at Clason Point. With its proximity to Hunts Point, the terminal market and food distribution hub of

NYC, there was a secondary desire to create not only a ferry terminal, but a food market that will act as an economic stimulus to the South Bronx. In addition to the ferry terminal, the building contains food start-up incubators, a storage warehouse, and a market.

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Design Projects Economy

Community Site

Park

Water

Site Plan

Barrier and Isolation The community of Soundview at Clason Point in the Bronx was not always this isolated. This particular site enjoyed a rich history, once having a ferris wheel and boardwalk, to having a boating club. These have all been replaced with a cookiecutter housing project that epitomizes isolation.

Each built element provides a barrier for the community to access to parks, access to the water, access to stores, and access to people. As such, the project aimed to remedy through program, circulation, and architecture, reconnecting the community.

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Clason Point Ferry Terminal

Sketch Models

Connectivity Through Architectural Form

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Design Projects

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Ground Floor Plan

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Clason Point Ferry Terminal

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Loading Dock Warehouse Lobby Office Warehouse Refrigerated Storage Retail Oculus Library Classroom Incubator Kitchens Break Space Restaurant Demonstration Kitchen Meeting Room Grocery Rooftop Patio Second Floor Plan

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Design Projects

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Third Floor Plan

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Clason Point Ferry Terminal

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Loading Dock Warehouse Lobby Office Warehouse Refrigerated Storage Retail Oculus Library Classroom Incubator Kitchens Break Space Restaurant Demonstration Kitchen Meeting Room Grocery Rooftop Patio Fourth Floor Plan

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Design Projects

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Clason Point Ferry Terminal

West Section

East Elevation

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Design Projects

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Clason Point Ferry Terminal

South Section Perspective

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Design Projects

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Clason Point Ferry Terminal

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Design Projects

02 Ohne Leitbild New Haven, CT

Adavanced Studio, Yale University Critics: Peter Eisenman and Anthony Gagliardi With Minquan Wang Fall 2018

Design Brief This studio takes on the unification of a site with two disparate grids from the New Haven 9-square, and the finer grain of The Hill neighborhood in addition to an Urban Renewal-era highway bisecting the site. Adrono’s text on Ohne Leitbild aided the philosophical project of debilitating strong architectural models, in this instance, O.M. Unger’s idea of the ‘dialectic city’, to localize to the New Haven context.

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Ohne Leitbild

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Design Projects

OM Ungers, Lichterfelde, 1974

Spine + Ribs

Buildings

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Amenities


Ohne Leitbild

Building Merge

Building Scaling

Grid Scaling

Grid Shifting

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Design Projects

Church Street South as Connector

Placement of Spine + Ribs from Existing Roads

Shifting Around Buildings

Modularized Building Grid

Generic 48'x48' Buildings

Contextualization

Site Operations to Place OM Unger’s Lichterfelde in New Haven

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Ohne Leitbild

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Design Projects

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Ohne Leitbild

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Design Projects

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Ohne Leitbild

Northern Mall and Office Zone

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Design Projects

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Ohne Leitbild

Middle Zone Shopping, Office, and Housing

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Design Projects

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Ohne Leitbild

South Housing Zone

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Design Projects

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Ohne Leitbild

Final Model

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Design Projects

Final Model Detailed Views

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Ohne Leitbild

Exploded Axon of Spine and Rib in South Neighborhood

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Design Projects

03 Bushwick Branch Library Brooklyn, NY

Studio I, Yale University Critic: Michael Szivos Fall 2016

A Library Serviced by Robots and Drones How can drones, robots and machine learning change how we understand and use libraries? In a world where browsing books are often experienced through computers, the possibility of rapid drone delivery reconnects the library to the neighborhood and questions the notion that libraries are mere storage buildings for books. This project then rethinks the way in which libraries can be used. Robots can rapidly rearrange books, and provide suggestions based on user profiles, and even anticipate books that these users might browse before they enter the library. Thus, a more efficient library system is achieved. Library Looking Towards Manhattan

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Bushwick Branch Library

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Design Projects

NYC Branch Libraries Distribution from Bushwick

Overlook to Manhattan

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Bushwick Branch Library

Technology and Distribution With the advent of machine learning and predictive algorithms based on a user’s previous browsing history, it may be possible to predict the library needs of a user before they enter the library. Thus, drones can pre-emptively deliver books to the library. These books then get rearranged by robots in the general vicinity of

a user as they walk through the library. All the while, these books are tracked through RFID tags, reliquishing the need for a hierarchical organization system. Thus, technology alleviates the need for architectural organization, leaving the plan of the building to facilitate serendipitious interactions with the books themselves.

Hub and Spoke Network

Point to Point Network

Drone Delivery

Robotic Sorting

RFID Tag

Machine Learning

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Design Projects

Structural System the of Library Towers

Robot Gaskets + Drone Vestibule

Structural Space Frame

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Shelving


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Third Floor

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Lobby Circulation Desk Library Stacks Tiered Seating Performance Area

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Digital Media Lab Cafe Meeting Rooms Washrooms Elevators


Design Projects

North Section

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Bushwick Branch Library

West Elevation

Library Towers and Staircases

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Design Projects

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Bushwick Branch Library

View Through the Library Drone Tower

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Design Projects

04 Yale Building Project New Haven, CT

Studio II, Yale University Critic: Alan Organschi + Andrew Benner Wuh Lani Barry, Sunny Cui, Zelig Fok, Jennifer Lai, Vivian Tsai, Dan Whitcombe, Ray Wu, Ethan Zisson Spring 2017

A Home for the Houseless The Jim Vlock First-Year Building Project is a design-build studio at Yale University’s first year spring semester. This year was the 50thth year of the project saw the completion of a 1000-squarefoot house for the homeless. Clad in cedar with standing-seam metal roof and several window-seat deep gables, the prefabricated structure contains one studio and a two-bedroom apartment with abundant built-in storage. Columbus House, a New Haven based nonprofit organization, will identify and provide additional support for the tenants.

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Yale Building Project

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Design Projects

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Co lum bu sH ou se

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Site Model

Site Model

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Yale Building Project

Two Units Under One Roof

Bar Reaches Over Breezeway to Connect Units

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Design Projects

15 mm Aluminium Standing Seam Roof

0.5 “ Plywood Sheathing 3x LDL Ridge Beam 2x6 Rafters 5 “ Structural Insulated Panels 2x4 Stud Wall Construction 2x10 Floor Panels

2x6 Wall Panels

Foundation Slab

Construction and Panelization

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Yale Building Project

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Design Projects

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Shared Breezeway Washroom Kitchen Living Space

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Kid's Bedroom Master BedroomCafe Nook Balcony

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First Floor

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Yale Building Project

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Longitudinal Section Perspective

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Second Floor

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Design Projects

Assymetrical Roof Covering the Walkway to the Breezeway

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Yale Building Project

Stair Leading to Bedroom Bar

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Design Projects

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Yale Building Project

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Design Projects

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Barn(E): The Electric Barn Edmonton, AB

Winner of the inaugural URBPRK competition With Daniel Szymanski, Cody Jew, and Ivan Au Summer 2016

Refuge in the City Barn(E) is the winning design in the 2016 URB PRK design competition sponsored by CafĂŠ Mosaics in Edmonton, Alberta. It was installed along the parking lanes of Whyte Avenue, East of 109st during the months of July and August 2016. The space was used as a parklet space that also hosted a concert series once a week throughout the summer. The cladding was made of cedar wood stripped from a 90-yearold barn, all donated to Habitat for Humanity ReStore at the end of its lifecycle, creating an

entirely sustainable design. The Edmonton Native Plant Group donated and maintained plants for the structure and reclaimed them at the end of the summer. Another feature of the parklet was an electric bike generator made by Jan Przysiezniak from the Edmonton Bicycle Commuter Society. The bike was used to charge the user’s phone, as well as power LED lights that were strung throughout the structure timed to light up for one hour a night.

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Barn(E): The Electric Barn

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Design Projects

Slat System Provides Shade and Protection From the Street

90 Year Old Barn Lumber

Native Alberta Plant Species

Pre-Occupancy

Saturday Concert Series

Hand Built Bike Generator

Occupancy

LEDs Powered by Bike Generator

Wood Donated to Habitat for Humanity

Post-Occupancy

Community Centered Design The design concept aimed to maximize community involvement in both the process and final built space. Thus, the donation of the barn lumber was the starting point to the design. Monolithically framed triangles undulate to adjust for sightlines, shade, blocking vehicle noise and to create the amphitheatre for performances. The

wooden slats rotate to achieve a porosity gradient across the surface. Simultaneously, these allow for the LED lights to spill out of the structure and light up the area. The design opens into the operable spaces of Cafe Mosaics, and can be understood as reaching into the cafe.

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Barn(E): The Electric Barn

North Elevation

South Elevation

Plan

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Design Projects

Exploded Construction Diagram

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Barn(E): The Electric Barn

Build System Built off-site, the parklet required an extremely rigorous and documented build system that could be rapidly transported and erected. All wood cladding was labeled, and framing was disassembled as to separate into five pieces and able to be slotted into a transport truck.

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Design Projects

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Barn(E): The Electric Barn

Night View with LEDs Powered by Bike Generator

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Drawing/ Visualization


Drawing/Visualization

This series of projects demonstrate capacity in manual drafting, hand drawing, mixed digital and manual drawing, and 3D software assisted modeling and representation.

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Drawing/Visualization

06 Just What the Doctor Ordered: Health and Architecture Paprika! Vol 4, Issue 11. Student Publication Issue Editors: Winston Yuen & Kate Altmann Graphic Designers: Orysia Zabeida & Tuan Quoc Pham Published Feb 7, 2019

Issue Statement Separated by a five-minute walk down York Street, the enclaves of medicine and architecture sit quarantined. These worlds remain isolated, save for the medical buildings by Robert Venturi and Frank Gehry that will never be visited by architecture students. Yet the connection between disease-vectors and Illustrator vectors couldn’t be more intertwined. This landscape of health and wellness is both physical and immaterial, somatic and psychological, political and borderless. As

architects and designers, our fingerprints are all over the built environment and milieu in which public and private health can thrive or fail. From cell to city, this issue of Paprika! puts the issues of health and wellness in architecture under the microscope. We have invited participants to examine the behemoth multibillion-dollar hospital construction industry, the design of communities with access to nutrition and medical care, mental health and the city, inclusive design standards, medical devices,

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Paprika! - Just What The Doctor Ordered

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Drawing/Visualization

Health Hazards of YSoA Drawing: Winston Yuen & Christopher Tritt Model: Jack Lipson

01 Spray paint fumes 02 Becoming a target 03 Self-esteem issues 04 Getting dropped from a keg stand 05 Toxic masculinity 06 Vitamin D deficiency on the bridge 07 Anything on the undergraduate balcony 08 Lack of sleep 09 Casting resin in studio 10 Overheating on the fifth floor 11 Stress-induced smoking 12 Making friends with the mice 13 Coming late to bob’s class 14 Angry email from Phil Bernstein 15 Bumping your head on the stairs 16 Getting locked out 17 Mushroom cocktails 18 When your TF doesn’t bail you out in Formal analysis 19 Getting caught by Richard bringing coffee into Hastings 20 Carbon fiber experiments 21 breathing Wood dust 22 Breathing concrete and plaster dust 23 Poor lifting technique 24 Getting caught not wearing protective eyewear 25 Sharp objects in the shop

26 Returning too many library books at once 27 Awkward small talk at Career Fair 28 Getting your next statement from the financial office 29 Catching the flu 30 Only drinking Soylent for a week 31 Ending up with the dungeon desk 32 Spraining ankle/stepping on pins during badminton 33 Forgetting to save your work 34 Laser cutter offgassing 35 Getting lost in the matrix of screens 36 Getting supervised at 6 on 7 37 Eating too much bread at the Bauhaus party 38 Haunting by the ghost of Paul Rudolph 39 Sitting in a Gehry chair for more than 10 minutes 40 Foam Cutter Fumes 41 Freezing on the seventh floor 42 3-d printer fumes 43 Food poisoning from eating moldy food 44 Attempting to use the bathrooms the weekend before finals 45 Scalded by near-boiling water

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Paprika! - Just What The Doctor Ordered

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Drawing/Visualization

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Architectural Drawing Visualization I-IV, Yale University Fall 2016-Summer 2017

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Architectural Drawing

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Drawing/Visualization

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Architectural Drawing

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Drawing/Visualization

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Formal Analysis Yale University Critics: Peter Eisenman + Elisa Iturbe Fall 2016

Santa Maria in Montesanto, Carlo Rinaldi and Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Gian Lorenzo Bernini Scenographically, the twin churches of the Piazza del Popolo appear exactly the same. However, upon examining the plans, the Santa Maria dei Miracoli is elongated, with an dome. Furthermore, the composition of these two churches is much more than a simple elongation of one to generate the forms of the other. What is striking is that Bernini’s Santa Maria in Montesanto is intended

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Formal Analysis

to act in a Greek-cross plan, whereas the simple elongation in Rinaldi’s Santa Maria dei Miracoli creates a basilica plan. Thus, subtle details are revealed in the interiors of the churches that give rise to these observations. Double columns frame only one axis in the Santa Maria dei Miracoli, whereas double columns frame an additional cross-axis in Bernini’s church. This second axis is further reinforced by pedimenting the frieze.

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Drawing/Visualization

Nolli Map, Giambattista Nolli and Campo Marzio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi Where Nolli scientifically creates a map of figure and ground, Piranesi’s plans for the Campo Marzio excavates and invents a fanciful and provacative recreation of Rome. This is not to say that Piranesi had no method. By excavating the modern obelisks of Rome in the Campo Marzio, we can see that pre-existing axes were used as the organizational principles that have other buildings proliferate from. Though compositionally, the Nolli Map and Piranesi’s Campo Marzio are very different, their understandings of the city are the same. That is that, axes will act as organizationl factors that frame blocks of space, which can be excavated in their own right, creating an architectural poche at the scale of the city.

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Formal Analysis

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Drawing/Visualization

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Rome: Continuity and Change Yale University, Università Roma Tre, American Academy in Rome Critics: George Knight, Miroslava Brooks, Kyle Dugdale, Stephen Harby, Alexander Purves Summer 2018 The Rome: Continuity and Change seminar focused on developing observation and hand drawing skills in the context of the ever-changing fabric of the Eternal City. The course culminated in a final drawing done on-site over the course of five days. Reviews were held in the American Academy in Rome, and L’Università Roma Tre.

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Rome: Continuity and Change

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Drawing/Visualization

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Rome: Continuity and Change

Dualities and Multiplicities Sant’Agnese in Agone Sant’Agnese in Piazza Navona represents one of the most intense urban sites in Rome. The Greek Cross church is fitted into the urban poché of the former Stadium of Domitian, with the church designed by Rainaldi and later finished by Borromini. The composition of the church displays an internal tension, with peculiar columns completly disengaged from the walls, resolving in an extremely wide cornice. From the exterior, Borromini’s exterior is confronted by Bernini’s Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, placed not in front of the church, but diagonally in alignment with another urban passage. This drawing explores these complex relations using a hybrid bird’s eye and worm’s eye section axonometric. between the interiority and exteriority of the church, the relationship of the church to the urban site.

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Drawing/Visualization

10 Systems Integration The Bronx, NY

Systems Integration, Yale University Consultants: Celia Toche, Adam Tojanowski, John Jacobson Teammates: Kerry Garikes, Millie Yoshida Project Design: Alejandro Duran Spring 2018

Design Brief BIM and Revit workflow was approached in this course by systematically developing and resolving the preliminary design proposal of another student’s studio project. Structural form and detail, environmental systems, envelope design, construction sequencing, egress, and accessability were detailed to complement and reinforce the original architectural intent of the project.

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Systems Integration

Project Parti: Bar with Attachments Courtesy: Alejandro Duran

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Systems Integration

Ground Floor Plan

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Spring 2018

First Floor Plan

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Systems Integration

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Spring 2018

Cross Section

Longitudinal Section

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Systems Integration

Curtain Wall Structure and Detail

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Spring 2018

Revit Model

Structural Skeleton

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Office


Office

Architectural office experience including design development, competition work, and schematic design.

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Office

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Firm: GEC Architecture City: Calgary, AB Position: Student Architect Duration: June - August 2017

Ti’nu Afforable Housing Banff, AB

Roles: Competition work, design development schematic design Ti’nu is a $23.8 million 132-unit affordable housing project that tucks into the mountainside back lane, with an underground parkade, common social area, and 4 separate buildings all under one roof. A-frame cabins are employed to economically fill the remainder of the site’s steep terrain.

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Ti'nu Affordable Housing

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Office

Elevations

Unit Types

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Ti'nu Affordable Housing

Site Plan and 1st Floor

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Computation/ Fabrication


Computation/Fabrication

This section comprises a series of projects that experiment and use CAD/CAM tools to iterate quickly, process environmental data, push material properties. Computational tools used include Grasshopper, Python coding, Arduino, Processing. Fabrication tools include CNC mills, 3D printing, laser cutting, and vacuum forming.

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Computation/Fabrication

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Plutonian Wall Graphics II, University of Calgary Critics: Jody James, Matthew Knapik With 8 students Spring 2016

Design Brief Given an image of the surface of Pluto, the idea was to use parametric software tools of Grasshopper to digitally extract image data and fabricate a 8’ by 4’ wall panel using the logics of

the image. When combined with the panels of neighboring wall panels, the image of the Pluto sunset should appear from the collective, yet disparate image extractions of all 5 teams.

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Plutonian Wall

Point Cloud Based on Image of Pluto

Delaunay Triangulation

Scale

Fillet

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Computation/Fabrication

Screws

Painted Polyplastic Melted Against Frame 1/2” Plywood 1/4” Plywood Assembled Module Structural Strapping Full Frame

Construction Logic

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Plutonian Wall

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Computation/Fabrication

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Pneumatic Wall Design Computation, Yale University Critic: Michael Szivos With Olisa Agulue Spring 2017

Design Brief The Design Computaiton course seeked to apply the creative application of programming and digital tools for applications in architecture. The Pneumatic Wall project aimed to convert analog and environmental processes into a digitally responsive wall. Using computer vision and blob detection libraries in Processing, a colored object is detected and displayed on a computer

interface. This data is used to activate a wall of computer fans arrayed in a 4x4 grid. These fans, controlled by an Arduino through a series of relays activate and inflate a baloon once the coresponding square is activated on the screen. This proof of concept serves as a model that can be scaled up to larger applications.

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Pneumatic Wall 1

Computer Vision Object Detection

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Processing Generated User Interface

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Arduino Controlled Responsive Wall

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Kaleidoscopic Transformations Graphics I, University of Calgary Critic: Jason Johnson Fall 2015

Design Brief This exercise looked at using digital tools to manipulate geometry. Extracting a chunk from UN Studio's Mobius House, this served as a base geometry for the manipulations in this exercise. Using Grasshopper, the geometry was

used to performi a series of simple Euclidean transformations about the center of the object to achieve variation and difference throughout the set. In the end, one object was selected for 3D powder printing.

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Kaleidoscopic Transformations

3D Printed Model

Polar Array About Origin

Adjust Array Radius

Copy and Serially Adjust

Rotate Whole About the Origin

Variations Produced by Parametric Script

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