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EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley B.A. Architecture ‘15
Diablo Valley College
A.S. Architectural Design ‘13
EXPERIENCE
intern, SDG Architects summer 2013 - spring 2015
competitor, Cal Poly Design Village spring 2013
coordinator, Diablo Valley Architecture Lecture Series
PAST EMPLOYMENT
winter 2012 - spring 2013
barista, Starbucks Coffee Co. Antioch, CA
May 2011 - May 2013
barista, Jazzed Espresso Cafe Brentwood, CA August 2009 - May 2011
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Rhino Sketch-Up AutoCAD Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Laser Cutting Microsoft Office
TA B L E O F C ONT E NT S p o t r e r o h i l l l i b ra ry
g o o d f ood cen ter
e ur e k a a rt g a l l ery
“ t he k i t e”
capstone studio
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P OTRERO HILL BRA NCH LIBRA RY instructor rudabeh pakravan
Sited in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, this branch library proposal occupies a modest foot print but offers broad views towards downtown. In order to take full advantage of the site’s panoramic orientation, patrons circulate along ramped floors, through book-lined halls that frame views of the iconic SOMA. The formal progression results in a south facade with limited sun exposure, but a north facade that is almost completely glazed.
FORM AL PART I
S U B T R AC T ED V O ID S c h ild r e n ’s a r ea , c o m m u n i t y m eet i n g r o o m
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GO O D FO O D C E N T E R instructor michelle chang
Located in San Francisco’s SOMA, the “good food center” transforms an old warehous lot into a culinary destination. The center’s complex program includes food research laboratories, classrooms, a roof-top garden for on-site agriculture, a large community cafeteria, and an auditorium. Two major light wells formed by skewing the auditorium mass allow all aspects of the program the benefit of natural daylight.
STRUCTURE
RADIANT HEATING
only in consistently occupied spaces
OPERABILITY
SHADING
FOURTH FLOOR 1’ = 1/8”
GALLERY FLOOR 1’ = 1/8”
THIRD FLOOR 1’ = 1/8”
SECOND FLOOR 1’ = 1/8”
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INTERIOR RENDERING - ATRIUM
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UNFOLDED ELEVATION 1’ = 1/8”
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INTERIOR RENDERING - FOOD HALL
FOURTH FLOOR +47’
GALLERY FLOOR +36’
THIRD FLOOR +26’
SECOND FLOOR +15’
GROUND FLOOR +3’
LONGITUDINAL SECTION, A-A 1’ = 3/16”
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
GOOD FOOD CENTER - CONCEPTUAL MODEL
SECTIONAL MODEL
INSIDE THE SUN STUDY MODEL
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E URE K A A RT GA LLERY
prof. gail brager, prof. stefano schiavon A fundamental part of gallery, the environment is finely sustainable design involves tuned to provide the best light making the sun work in your favor. exposure for the art and those Light is scaleless and its effects viewing it. In addition to physical can be rapidly modeled. In this modeling, Ecotect software formally basic design for an art facilitated the design process. 41 N South Shade Requirements Design B, Combination
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EXPLODED AXON - SUN CONTROL ELEMENTS
ECOTECT SHADE REQUIREMENTS
SITE - POLY CANYON
C AL POLY D ESIGN VILLA GE COMP ET I T I O N In the spring of 2013, 27 groups of 2-6 members headed to San Luis Obispo to compete in the annual design village competition. My team of four built “The Kite,” a temporary shelter that exploits tensegral forces in order to create a light-weight, transformable structure. During the day, “The
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Kite” stood in its open position, for maximum shade and occupancy. At night, the structure was pulled into its closed position for privacy and shelter. Being that the competition’s theme was “Make. Move. Play.” we adapted one of our canvas panels into a removable, functioning kite.
TIME ZONES
0.005 KM
“LENGTH OF THE PACIFIC” MAP
CAPSTONE STUDIO professor raveevarn choksombatchai
An alternative to two semesters of traditional studio, architecture majors may choose to take the design research track, which spans students’ entire senior year. Essentially, the studio runs like a graduate thesis; each student captains their own project, sets up parameters and determines a personal work schedule. This year, the studio’s theme is “water.” Specific to my project was an investigation of water and time- how time can be measured or registered via water, how water might distort our perception of time, and how water’s effects over time manifest themselves physically. In the studio’s first semester, our exercises included drawing an abstract map of the Pacific Ocean, composing an image essay, creating five objects, and, finally, presenting our work in the form of an installation. In the second half, I was tasked with building “Drip Tick”- a machine that synthesizes my studies thus far.
FIRST SEMESTER FINAL PRESENTATION
IMAGE ESSAY
WATER CLOCK The Water Clock displaces water from an upper reservoir to a lower one. Within the lower reservoir is a float that raises as water is added. Because the float takes an inordinate amount of time to begin to lift off of the bottom of the reservoir and because the water pressure through the perforation in the upper reservoir is variable, the clock tells time against an irregular scale.
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WATER GLASS The Water Glasses also produce a visual output. Liquid, slowed by its own viscosity and layers of encumbering wire mesh, drips slowly within the bounds of two water glasses adhered to each other at their mouths. Inverting the glass resets the dripping process.
DRIPPER The Dripper is an apparatus that drips water at a range of rates, determined by a valve. Though it is versatile in its potential applications, it served primarily to demonstrate the process of erosion by dripping onto a block of plaster over the course of a couple months. The resulting plaster artifact exhibited an organic, sensual appeal, as the water’s subtraction of the material carved an inimitable pattern out of the block.
TURBULENCE INDICATOR The Turbulence Indicator produces small plates on which disturbed water splashes and leaves its mark. Meant to fit within a car’s cup holder, the Indicator records bumps that the vehicle encounters during its trip; the bumpier the trip, the more water is splashed onto the plate.
DRIP TICK Water is a medium by which the passage of time may be visualized. Over half of this design-research studio has been devoted to studies on how water registers this passage via water displacement, water staining, erosion and similar phenomena. In light of these explorations, I propose a machine, Drip Tick, which exploits water and gravity to produce a drawn representation of time. Drip Tick tells time across a scale of its own. Drawings of each recorded period read against each other, recounting the duration of and speed at which each was drawn. Each drawing is unique, which speaks to the inimitable nature of water’s behavior. Drip Tick determines its own time scale and refuses the usage of traditional units- seconds, minutes, and hours.
Approx. 8’ DRIP TICK // section @ 1” = 1/8”