SELECTED WORKS Ethan Gan R. A. M. Arch ganyihui@gmail.com
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520 MATEO
CO-HUB
1st High-rise propoosed in the Arts District, LA
Co-Living & Co-Working Community
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Hill site urban infill in 30 years
Hybrid Housing, living with urban farm
VICTORIA PLACE
SILICON BEACH
Front row ocean view condominium
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DIAMOND ST Program Residential Location San Francisco, CA Phase Involved Entitlement - CD (WIP) Duplex Single Family House Parking
20 UNITS 4 HOUSES 32 SPACES
Role Project Designer BIM Manager Job Captain Consultant coordination Floor plan studies Facade design Construction Documents
Being the first development in the neighborhood for over 30 years, the project is a collaboration among multiple parties including the designer, developer, the city and the communities. As housing issue being a pressing topic in the city, the design tries to balance the collateral interests involved, address social-economical concerns as well as carefully evaluate the environmental conditions, so as to provide a contextualized housing solution. The buildings adapt to the topography, creating an undulating look that adds to the unique characteristics of Diamond Heights and the Upper Noe Valley. The added public viewing platform also give an open space back to the neighborhood. DIAMOND STREET VIEW, SAN FRANCISCO
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520 MATEO Program Location Phase
Office, Residential Los Angeles, CA DD, CD
Office 110,000 GSF Residential 530,000 GSF 457 UNITS Role Construction Documents Design studies BIM Manager Structural Coordination Job Captain
First high-rise building proposed for the Arts District in Los Angeles, 520 Mateo is a re-imagination of the honest utilitarian framework buildings of the neighborhood. As a contextual response, the grid is expressed throughout the site. The grid shifts/slides/ breaks at moments where varied program requirements or amenity spaces occur, but the texture remains legible at the scale of the paseo, the office, and the tower. The two main structures share the parking podium with an actively programmed roof terraces for the occupants. The project also has a landscaped pedestrian alley that connects to neighborhood fabric. THE ARTS DISTRICT, LOS ANGELES
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VICTORIA PLACE Program Condominium Location Honolulu, HI Phase Involved CA Residential 346 units 413,380 SF 41 FL Role Construction administration Coordination
AMENITY DECK
ENTRY COURTYARD AND LOBBY
VIEW FROM WARD VILLAGE PARK, HONOLULU
PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE
Victoria Place is a 400’ tall front row tower with unobstructed views of the ocean. It is defined by a terraced podium with gardens climbing up from the adjacent park, and a generous amenity deck on top of the podium featuring sunrise and sunset lanais. The aesthetic and function of the tower are represented by the mid century Hawaiian notion of the Kama’aina Club, an amenity space which translates to ‘for members of the Hawaii community.’ The notion is one of inclusion, co-habitation, relaxation, and enjoyment. The warmth inherent in this concept represents the highest aspirations of the development, namely the strong desire to provide a quality of warmth typically exclusive to lowerscale residential projects in an urban high-rise.
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CENTRALIZED MASSING Libraries are typically organized in centralized manner, in which one big
building houses all MASSING the programs, aiming for maximized efficiency. However, it CENTRALIZED also neglects diverse program needs, restricts the connection between the building and the site.
SONGDO INT'L CITY LIBRARY Program Public Library Location Songdo City, KR Phase Involved Competition Team Uju Oh Woei Lou Yiren Weng BUILDING AREA LANDSCAPE
86,000 SF 14,400 SF
DE-CENTRALIZED SPACES
FRONT ENTRY
The front side of the building remains the quiet side of the porject, providing more privacy toward the residential towers across the street
By recognizing the spatial requirements of the proposed programs, the design de-centralized the massing into a space matrix of great varieties. Each program was classified based on the publicity, tendency, size, and intensity. The result of the investigation showed cases of a wide range of diversity within the duality spetrums.
DECENTRALIZED SPACES
ROLE Concept Massing Design Building Programming Facade Design Team Coordination
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CONSOLIDATING THE PROGRAM
CONSOLIDATING PROGRAM Greatly informed by the program duality spetrum, the programs placements are taking
advantages of the site conditions at different orientations, such as circulation, view, open space as well as adjacent land use. Active spaces were placed toward the ocean, maximizing the view while creating an open courtyard that enhances the interaction of library; quiet space forges the urban interface on the north side while consolidating the program into an articulated place.
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FUTURE LIBRARY: FROM LEANER TO CREATOR The design explores the new definition of library in the fast-changing information landscape. Public library has evolved and expanded its functions throughout the time from content-housing archive to user-oriented knowledge infrastructure. Library has evolved into an incubator of ideas. The library users switch roles between learner and creator constantly in the new-age knowledge circle, driving the library towards an active platform that provides the public with the information, service, and tools that they need to practice and utilize the knowledge. The future library would be defined by the learning, creating and collaborating.
OCEAN SIDE
The back side of the project features carefully-angled spaces with terraces that extends the program from interior to exterior ADAPTION AND CONNECTION ADAPT AND CONNECT
Following the movements of the artifitial skyline as well as the green corridor extension, the building adapts itself on the site, terracing into a man-made landscape that opens up to the public and ocean, connecting itself to the greater urban network and celebrating the
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Office 888,000 SF 28 FL Role Facade development Geometry studies BIM modeling
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TYPICAL CURTAIN WALL - NORTH The Project’s form is an act of welding together the urban fabric of Oakland: a series of seams bond the different scales of the surrounding buildings into a super-scale that works on the skyline as well as street level; at each intersection, terraces open out onto the vistas of the City and greater Bay and reinforce the untraditional nature of the Project.
STREET VIEW
CORNER RETAIL
The Project is the first commercial office tower of its scale to enter the Oakland market, but its lasting effect is the wholeness of the design’s faithfulness to it’s original guiding principal: to place the act of making at the center of each major design decision, culminating in the public art piece marking the main entry. The sculptured curtain wall elements are direct results of site-specific design.
PROFESSIONAL / UNSTUDIO
WAFRA TOWER Program Residential Location Qatar Phase Involved DD
Role Design Alternative Studies Detailed Modeling Geometry Delivery Representational Materials
The extensive balcony of Wafra Tower has an unique identity for the building
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Female Toilet, Changing Rooms, Lockers
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Male Toilet, Changing Rooms, Lockers
Accessible Toilet
GYM Access
Pool Cafe
The vision for Wafra Tower is to create an intelligent, healthy, flexible and sustainable living environment that responds to the changing demands of today’s resident and capitalizes on the unique setting of the Lusail Marina District. The design investigates ideas of vertical living; a composition of the advantages of living at an urban center with high quality demands. The tower incorporates comfortable living spaces, landscaped gardens and an array of in-house amenities for residents.
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RABOBANK OFFICE Program Office Location Eindhoven, NL Phase Involved DD
Role Building Massing Facade Design / Scripting Analysis Diagrams Modeling / Rendering
MAIN ENTRY
The new entrance opens up the building and connect to the urban fabric
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The project aims to concatenate the existing fragmented office masses into a continuous office landscape that will enable users to ‘connect’. Particularly by connecting to important loops and creating visual relationships with the public domain at specific locations. With a subtle mass articulation, the building is opened to its surroundings in strategic positions.
ACADEMIC/ UPENN
Commercial in the bottom Office in the middle Hotel at the top
Buffer zone in between, providing common space for both programs
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CO-HUB Program Office, Residential Location New York, NY Teammate David Zhewei Feng Instructor Hina Jamelle Structural Consultant ARUP_Daniel Brodkin Matt Jackson
RE-ARRANGING THE PROGRAM
Corporate Office
Hotel Suites Corporate Office Workspace: Hot desks Hotel Apartments
Small Office
Dormitory Home Office
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FLEXIBLE SPACES FOR WORK AND LIVE
Meeting Room Exhibition Spaces
Bar / Pantry Ball Room Gym / Auditorium Conference Room Restaurant Cafe/ Retail
COMMON SPACE AS CATALYST
CHALLENGING HIGH-RISE TYPOLOGY
As a response to the clustering of creative industries in West SOHO, NY, the design proposes a mixed-use tower with co-working and co-living space for the young professionals in the neighborhood. The building challenges the traditional high-rise typology by fusing different programs on the same level, fostering a new work-life style horizontally in the vertical community. The building provides a wide range of flexible space for targeted user groups with various needs throughout the day.
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TYPICAL FLOOR PLANS Interior space, following the facade differentiations, transits from public to private. Moving inside the building, the changes of space indicate the switching of modes between working, leisure and living. PHYSICAL STRUCTURAL MODEL 1: 50 Structure is integrated into the envelope systems to create a column-free interior space.
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ACADEMIC/ UPENN
HYBRID WILDNESS Program Residential, Vertical Farming Address New York Instructor Justin Korhammer
The design learns from the nature of symbiosis and explores hybrid model of dwelling, farming and nature. Behind the formal biomimicry, the project translates the generative logic into building formation and organization. Designed to be an open-ended project, the proposal is searching for a balance between built environment and the nature, private and public, consumption and supply.
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400 CARROLL ST, GOWANUS CANAL, NY Reduced footprint of the building allows more interactions between the building and the canal, also provides more public space for the neighborhood, integrating itself into the community.
Derived from the interactions of the mutual beneficial symbiosis between hermit crab and sea anemone, the design identifies: the hard program the fixed and inflexible portion of the building structure; the soft Program - flexible, indeterminate program that is dependent to the hard program; and the third program that mismatching condition of the two entities also invites as indeterminate component.
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CLUSTER DIFFERENTIATION Capacity alignment
Green Market Entrance EXPOSURE NEGOTIATION Boundary adjustment
MIS-MATCHING ADAPTION Nature occupancy
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ORGANIZATION STRATEGY From the biological studies, the design translates the formal and functional notions of the symbiosis model into the building organization. It identifies soft, hard programs that carry different building functions: the hard program represents more constraint space such as kitchen and bathrooms; the soft programs are flex spaces such as living space and further, public space. The dwelling components grows outwards to maximize street-exposure while transitioning from hard to soft programs; the farms extend upwards to maximize light exposure, shifting from mechanical space to indoor farming to daylight farming. The mis-matching notion, the “gap”, generates the third spaces that open up to the nature occupancies, allowing the co-existence of man-made and nature.
BUILDING DISSECTION By optimizing the orientations, both living and farming space get maximum exposure to view and sunlight. The symbiosis mechanism turns the building into a habitat and became part of the Gowanus Canal ecosystem.
ACADEMIC/ UPENN
SILICON BEACH HYBRID CAMPUS Program Mixed-use urban development Location Los Angeles, CA Teammate Joanne Meng | Taeseo Park Instructor Thom Mayne Silicon Beach Hybrid Campus consolidates and expands existing collaboration between tech startups and content producers in Los Angeles - enhancing Los Angeles as one of the Top 4 dominant tech startup ecosystems in the U.S. The project reclaims the air space of the Santa Monica Highway for re-development so as to sustain the growth of Santa Monica in facing of space shortage. The campus purports the cross-pollination of tech startups directly with creative content production industry in the collaborative work space. The scheme recognizes the urban forces that shapes the built environments and guides the distribution of the proposed open space, housing and office to contextualize itself and restitch the city that is separated by the highway.
Content + Demand
Hybrid Campus
Affordability+Capacity
Start-up+ Creative Industries Sustainable Neighborhood
Cooperative Workspace
Auxilary Cultural Platforms
Integrated Community CAMPUS [hybrid]
Cultural Program Film, Music, Tourism
Sustainability
SANTA MONICA FREEWAY, SANTA MONICA, CA Hybrid campus stitches the gap of the city and connects the urban tissue to the coastal line of Santa Monica.
Neighboorhood Commercial
Housing Mixed-Income Housing
Idiosyncratic Community
Program Correlation The proposed campus integrated housing, office, cultural and educational programs to create a dynamic urban complex.
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Restitching City realization of abstraction The proposal extends from the beach to the north-east end where the current office park of Santa Monica is located. It restitches the city with a linear, multi-layer infrastructure that integrates transportation, open space, community space urban housing and work spaces.
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Recognizing the urban forces that shape the city, the design identifies the hot spots and corridors with higher connectivities and more commercial activities, and creates a new campus center that acts as a catalyze to connect the two sides of the highway. Different clusters of buildings also create another layer of conflux points on the network.
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Hotel 5
2%
180,000
Amphitheater 6
3%
235,000
Open Space 7
24%
1,800,000
Infrastrucure
4%
350,000
Parking
8%
650,000
3 1
5
4
Car Path 8 Pedestrian+Bike 9
3 2
Total
1
1 Visitor center 2 Amphitheater 3 Hotel 4-6 Housing 7-8 Office 9-12 Collaborative office Education campus 13-16 Housing 17 Office park
To fill the gap creating by the highway, the main difficulty is to contextualize the design into the existing fabric. Through a series surveys of transportation, land use, open space and other urban systems, the programmatic diagrams highlights the strategies for program distribution so as to integrate the design into the existing urban system. The diagram identify the adjacent office campus that host most of the creative companies as a major incentives for office program. In addition, the existing commercial corridors, open space and public access points also shape the formation of the scheme. Zones suitable for different programs according to the urban analysis
Programmatic Diagram
Hybrid Campus Master Plan
7,800,000 sqft
Based on the research, the projected 2 million SF housing and 2 million SF office space are equipped with supporting programs, such as open space, transportation, educational and cultural program. The mixed distribution of the program is a progressive effort to fill the gap of the city.
PROFESSIONAL
OTHER WORKS
MARINA
1050 LA CIENEGA
Mixed-use Development Work with UNStudio
High-rise Residential Work with SCB
AMSTERDAM CAMPUS
BUS MODERNIZATION
Mixed-use, residential, hotel, office Work with UNStudio
High-rise Residential Work with SCB
DRIVETRAIN II
DESERT SUNSET
High-rise Residential Work with SCB
Low-rise Residential Work with SCB
Ethan Gan R. A. M. Arch ganyihui@gmail.com