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emilie chien 320 Pennsylvania Ave. Apt.22 San Francisco, CA 94107 , USA e_ emiliechien@hootmail.com m_ 415 373 7965
Profile
emilie chien experience Mochen Architects & Engineers Interior Design Intern
Bejing, China_ Summer 2013
- One of the largest architecture firm in China, with 200 + designers - Developed a design plan and interior alyout to renovate a hundred years of historical church that include a library, cage, and exhibition space for the public
skills 2D Drafting CAD Revit
3D and Renderings Rhino Sketch UP Grasshopper 3ds Max /Vray
Fabrication CNC Mill Lascer Cut 3D print
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Language
Foam Wood Acrylic Casting Fabric, Nylon Plaster Concrete
Additional
English_ Fluent Mandarin_z Native Microsoft Office Suite Quick Time Pro
Graphics Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign
education Califoranica College of the Arts Bachelor of Interior Design, Expected Spring 2015 Dickinson College Bachelor of Fine Arts
San Francisco, CA _ 2012-Present Calirlse, PA_ 2010-2012
honors + awards California College of the Arts_ Spring 2014 Jury Prize Nominee Nominated project: White Aperture & Black Enclosure Studio Practice 3
Interior Design Young Designer Exhibit Exhibited project: Color Perception
Museum of Craft and Design_ Spring 2013
Materaility and Space Studio 2
interests Ceramics, Egyptian Art, Installation of Art, Historical Preservation, Theatrical Strage Design , Floral Design
muni boulevard
reimagine the public bus transporation — muni With the limitation of Muni moving 8 mph, this project aims to blend the joyful walking experience from the pedestrian with the experience of taking a muni bus ride by leveling the interior Muni platform with the street sidewalk.
Hand rail
High Signal bell + Charging HighTable
Low Signal bell + Charging Low Table High Arm Rest High Seating Low Arm Rest Low Seating Foot Rest
High Hand Rail
Arm Rest + Hanger Side Hand Rail + Back Support Low Hand Rail + Bicycle Rack Arm Rest Seatings
Learning from the design of San Francisco Cable Car, there are two exterior spaces created to allow people from the sidewalk to hub in and out of the bus easily. People who sit in the exterior part of the bus can also have a causal conversation with the people walking on the road. The whole bus in divided into five different time zones to accommodate short term, intermediate, and relatively long term ridership. One side of the bus is covered with transparent glass panel and is completely open to the street which allows people to observe and have the shared pedestrian experience. On the other side of the bus, there are smaller openings for individual people who need to focus on their task at hand for work. This project uses line to generate the seating and standing arrangement that can support people in different body position. For example, a person ride the Muni for 15 mins can lean their back against one of the standing pole. A college student can quickly brainstorm the outline of the paper when sitting in the long term working zone, where it provide seating and working surface for the public.
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Motion Censor Payment system: Concept Diagram
The price of the ridership is closerly realted to the amount of time passanger spend on the bus. The interior is more expensive than the exterior zone because it provides more comfortable seatins arrangment. `
Friendly Alert Bell on all the standing Pole
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Foldable seatings
Foldable seatings
Foldable seatings Foldable seatings
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Personalized Foot Rest Area
sky bart
reimagine the public bart transporation The Sky Bart is designed to make the users feel constantly within the city rather than a enclosed, compressed transportation. The interior consist of stainless steel seating and flooring in lower part of Bart and two way transparent and reflective mirror glass to cover the interior. The transparent and reflective quality of the mirror glass allows the interior of Bart to the visible horizon line of San Francisco cityscape. The characteristic of the two way mirror also creates different lighting condition throughout a day. When inside a dark underground tunnel, the mirror become more reflective. When Sky Bart is above ground in day time , the reflectivity of the mirror is reduced and users are able to observe the surrounding cityscape while in transition. The Sky Bart adopts movable and adjustable furniture chairble� for the users to move them in three positions to support their body position. A student can simply snap the charible in the highest position to form a standing work surface in her last 15 mins of the ride to finish a paper. A couple can snap the chairble to form seats and a mini table for them to see each other face to face.
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Body Orientation + Adjustable Seating / Table
Standing facing window + Standing facing interior
Sitting facing the short section + Standing
Sitting facing interior + Standing facing the short section
sitting facing interior+ standing facing interior
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white aperture&black enclosure photography studio
A three stories photography studio that consists of white media media/ print center on first floor, black retailed and gallery space on the second floor and white studio spaces on third floor. The photography studio is designed to allow three different artists to work and show their work at the same time, connecting the public audience and the artists by allowing the general public to learn and witness how a piece of artwork is made while the artists are able to showcase their work as an end product.Since it is a black and white studio, the circulation within the building, the stairs are also intentionally design to direct people from floor to floor. Since it is a black and white studio, the ciruclation within the building, the stairs are also speciallity design to direct people from floor to floor.
Second floor dark gallery and exhibition space
White Aperture & Black Enclosure
First Floor Media Center
White Aperture & Black Enclosure
Third Floor Artists Studio
White Aperture & Black Enclosure
Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Section a -a
White Aperture & Black Enclosure
Third Floor Plan
Section b -b
White Aperture & Black Enclosure
Solid Void Diagarm
Spatial Planning Strategy
Stair Design Strategy
White Aperture & Black Enclosure
Conceptual Programmatic Diagram Architecture _Light Diagram
Programmatic Diagram
COLOR PERCEPTION MATERIALITY STUDIO 2
This project explore the relationship between visual perception and color in space with investigation on glycerin as modeling material. The interior space is made of series of different sizes of cubes connecting with each other to form a big and a small opening on two different sides of the cube. By using a gradient of a single color blue, the interior space is able to visually becomes a flat graphic than a 3D space.
Spatial Gradient Diagram
Color Perception
milie Chien agram: Gradient Pattern II S2
Gradient Effect Looking from large opening
Interior View _White Model
milie Chien agram: Gradient Pattern I S2
Gradient Effect Looking from large opening
Interior View _White Model
Color Perception
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Pouring 14 Layers Diagram Emilie Chien TT2 Pouring Volume Diagram
Model Photo
Color Perception
Acrylic Mode
Color Perception
Final Model
Final Model_Close Up View
Color Perception
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Interior View looking from a small opening
Color Perception
Interior View looking from a big opening
Pouring 3 parts Layer Diagram
PERFORATION CEILING TOOLS &TECHNOLOGY STUDIO 3
Using Grasshopper to created a perforated ceiling structure that has differnet sizes and depth of opening to allow light filter into the interior space. Thus, creating intersting light effect through different time of a day.
Perforation ceiling
Perforation Ceiling
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Inteior Rendering at 8 am
Inteior Rendering at 12pm
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Perforation Ceiling
Inteior Rendering at 6 pm
TRIANGULAR PAVILION MATERIALITY STUDIO 3
This project uses Rhino and CNC router to create a continuouscontinious triangular typology that can be turned into a pavilion for people to use above and underneath the pavilion.
Triangular Pavilion
Triangular Pavilion
Close Up Model photo
Triangular Pavilion
Upper Level Seating & walking zone
lower Level View
Lower Level
Triangular Pavilion
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