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THE HUB — FILM PRODUCTION STUDIO
CONTENTS
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Architecture Design — Level - Up: Affordable Timber Housing
Architecture Design — Interdisciplinary Transit-Oriented Design + Development Studio
03 THE HUB — FILM PRODUCTION STUDIO
Architecture Design — A Creative Production Center in Los Angeles
04 OBSERVING, EXPLORING & SHARING — DESIGNING NEW SCHOOL MODELS
Architecture Design — Learn Better: A New Model Of School And Education Design
05 A CITY WITHIN CITY — RE-IMAGINING URBAN CONTEXT USING MOUNTAINS
Urban Design — Deep Sectional Urbanism: An Alternative Proposal For Pier 70 In San Francisco
06 SUBTRACTION METHOD — SHIFT WITH STEP
Architecture Design — Museum Design By Using Ten View Containers
07 ADDITION METHOD — WONDERLAND
Architecture Design — Adventure Playground Design By Using Ten View Containers
08 SKILLS & PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
Energy Simulation of Eames House Professional Project - Shajing Blueway Service Center Professional Project - Huairou Science City Living Room
UC Berkeley 2022 Fall Architecture Design Studio
Level - Up: Affordable Timber Housing Instructor : Simon Schleicher
Site : 530-540 Taylor St, San Francisco Group Work
This project is a renovation project in San Francisco. To ensure longterm use of the building in the future, the owner would like to transform a garage into a commercial and residential building. The plan calls for the existing two floors of the garage to be transformed into a chocolate factory for a small-batch bean-to-bar craft chocolate maker that wants to offer factory tours and a special shopping experience. The program required for this place includes an espresso bar, a chocolate salon, as well as retail, chocolate production space, offices, and storage areas. In addition to the chocolate factory, the building is planned to be expanded on the floors above with a mass timber construction to create housing units. The height limit for this lot is 80ft. Our concept is based on the program. The chocolate factory and the residence are entirely different programs, but we want to combine them. The goal we want to achieve is that each program has its characteristics, but they could have some features and facilities to share as well. Like the result of shifting, the volume has more surface area exposed to the outside. And at the same time, overlapping occurs.
Shifting brings us many benefits. At the chocolate factory, it brought us a meandering visiting tour line on the first floor and the different floor heights in the salon area on the second floor. In terms of the housing above, it brings us the corner window and the personal balcony of each unit. The overlapping helped us arrange the building plumbing and HVAC system. In terms of the program, we have our espresso bar facing Taylor street, which is very convenient for the passengers to get a drink. The chocolate factory’s main production space is arranged continuously from Taylor street to post street. Visitors can follow the tour line and see the chocolate production process through transparent glass. The retail space facing Post street is at the end of the tour line.
First, we follow the rule of only using 60% of the site footprint.
Then, we split the whole volume into four parts so that each volume is at a reasonable size of a unit.
Then, we shrink the whole massing volume according to its distance to the surrounding building so that the housing units can get the sunshine as much as possible.
Next, we change the volume to different heights, so the parts on the west and the north are higher, and the volumes in between are lower. In this way, the sunlight will not be blocked by the two chunks in the middle.
60%
SPLIT
23 ft SURROUNGDING BUILDING
14 ft 9.1 ft 9.1 ft
HIGHER & LOWER VERTICAL SHIFTING HORIZONTAL SHIFTING
For environmental design, we proposed three roof gardens shared by the residents. Almost every unit has its balcony. There are solar panels on the roof to power the entire building. The skylights in the housing volume and the dining area on the second floor could bring light to the interior.
For the housing units, we have two-bedroom units at both ends, facing the streets. There is a studio and a 3b unit around the lightwell. The east volume has a studio and a 1b unit. Considering the structure and the requirements of the housing unit numbers, the arrangement of the upper and lower units of the same volume is the same. However, because we have horizontally shifted the volume of each floor, the layout of the different units of the upper and lower layers is different.
In consideration of sunlight, stairs and elevators are arranged in the inner corners of the L-shaped plot. For the circulation, we have 2 egress staircases, 2 elevators for the residential, 1 freight elevator, and 1 customer elevator for the chocolate factory. The second floor is the salon and office area. The office and staff lounge area are located on the plot’s north side. We have double-height space on the south side so that people in the salon can look down and look at the chocolate production process. And there is an outdoor garden for the salon.
